Rage Against The Machine: "Evil Empire" SACD mastered by SH on Audio Fidelity coming

I am looking forward to hearing "Year of the Boomerang" on the SACD. I love the song, but it sounds horrible compared to the rest of the album on the original CD. Luckily, the "Higher Learning" soundtrack has a good sounding version.

 

Can we order it hard & ballsy?

 

Bullmoose has it for $25

 

Wooooooooo! Thank you AF

 

I agree. I think it's probably due to different mixes of that particular song. I remember the "Higher Learning" soundtrack coming out months before "Evil Empire." Brendan O'Brien did the soundtrack mix and since Andy Wallace was called in to mix all of "Evil Empire," he might have remixed "Year of the Boomerang" to sound more consistent with the rest of the album. Both sound great but I prefer the soundtrack mix.

 

Interesting. I never knew any of the tracks appeared elsewhere. I'll have to track down the soundtrack mix and see what I think.

 

Yep, they were different. Higher Learning was released in 1994 I recall and the song was named "Year of the Boomerang" while on the album it is "Year of tha Boomerang".
Same can be applied to "Darkness of Greed", originally from RATM Demo from 1991 and a re-recorded version from 1993 for The Crow OST and appearing as "Darkness" there.


P.S. I wish Sony issued Evil Empire boxset with the remeastered demos from 1995...

 

Not authoritative, of course, but the Wiki page for the Higher Learning soundtrack indicates the RATM was later re-recorded for the Evil Empire album. So its not just a different mix, according to that.

Higher Learning (soundtrack) - Wikipedia »

 

Yep, and I remember I read somewhere that Tire Me was featured in the movie too while being a different mix.

 

Interesting, I am going to have to listen to both versions again.

 

Cant wait to buy this. I wonder if Battle of LA will come next?

 

@Steve Hoffman I seem to recall you mentioning for the debut you weren't allowed to show a pic of the tapes...same rules with this one?

 

Preordered on Bullmoose, $27.97 shipped.

I can't believe we are getting another RATM SACD. The self titled SACD was the first CD I have bought in over 10 years, and it was totally worth it. I even bought a used SACD player just for the CD.
Can't wait to hear what they do with this one. Bring on BoLA!

 

How very strange. I wonder what their reasoning is for this. Is there something secretive on a tape box?

 

Thanks Steve and AF for taking on this album! This was one of my faves and I played it a ton back in the day. I'll get the AF and I'm looking forward to hearing the improvements!

 

Sweetbejesus, I didn't think this would get the SACD treatment! My favourite Rage album, I really want this. Any idea what's the best way to order this for delivery to the UK?
If 'Battle of Los Angeles' and 'Renegades' get the SACD treatment I'll plump for those too, rarely listen to those CDs due to the terrible brickwalling!

 

I order almost all my AF cd's from importcds.com. I found this to be the cheapest route.

 

man I cant wait to hear how it turns out!

 

Not up on there yet (as far as I can see, their search isn't working great). I'll keep my eyes out.

 

Wait a week or two and it will be up for preorder. Amazon works too but usually 5-10$ more expensive.

 

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