Marillion "Fugazi" Deluxe Sets

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by The Hud, Jul 5, 2021.

  1. Norco74

    Norco74 For the good and the not so good…

    :wtf:

    An obi is a strip that is looped over one side or folded over the top or bottom of jackets, books, cd and dvd cases, and video games.
     
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  2. walrus

    walrus Staring into nothing

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    i like the new mix of Script , just not the mastering. :cry:
     
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  3. AdrianSoundchaser

    AdrianSoundchaser Forum Resident

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    I know. I was being humourous.
     
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  4. MrCJF

    MrCJF Best served with coffee and cake.

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    Only you can save us (from badly mastered CDs) Obi-Wan
     
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  5. JulesRules

    JulesRules Weaponized, Deranged Warthog Thug

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    Germany
    Obi is also the name of a hardware store in Germany.
     
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  6. ytserush

    ytserush Forum Resident

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    Northeast US
    Yes. It's definitely a mixed bag on the proper album. But I got this for the live show and the doc so I'm considering this another gift.
     
  7. Arjan

    Arjan Senior Member

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    We got great gigs through these boxes. Montreal 1984, Utrecht 1985 and Edinburgh 1987. I love these boxes. The price is also great.
     
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  8. moomoomoomoo

    moomoomoomoo WhoNeedsRealityWhenThere'sMoreSleepToLookForwardTo

    I really enjoy the concerts also. Just not the 24 bit mastering of the original remastered albums which was a huge disappointment to me.
     
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  9. Eric Weinraub

    Eric Weinraub Forum Resident

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    The new mix of Fugazi is fantastic. Based on the interview about the band's disappointment and slow sales upon its original release, I feel they finally got it right
     
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  10. Hawkmoon

    Hawkmoon Eternal Champion, Master of the Universe

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    Surrey, UK
    Anyone else finding the new mix/mastering on this Fugazi box set of the original album overly bright? Some of Steven Rothery's guitar solos make my ears hurt they are so bright. I found the same with the boxset remaster of Script tbh.
     
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  11. JulesRules

    JulesRules Weaponized, Deranged Warthog Thug

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    I just read that in a couple of Amazon reviews too. After I didn't like the Clutching remix and skipped on Script, I'm not too hot on pulling the trigger on this one.
     
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  12. Hawkmoon

    Hawkmoon Eternal Champion, Master of the Universe

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    Surrey, UK
    I mean it could partly be system dependent - I have a fairly bright system built around Cyrus class D amplification which tends towards bright, but this takes it to a whole new level of bright
     
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  13. RockAddict

    RockAddict Sanity is an illusion, just like democracy

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    Fugazi 2021 is definitely on the bright side. If I didn't have a warmish sounding system, it would be a difficult listen (putting mixing / mastering matters to one side as separate debating points).
     
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  14. J_Surround

    J_Surround Forum Resident

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    I actually found it less harsh than the original mix, but the compressed dynamics make it a frustrating listen.
     
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  15. krimson

    krimson Forum Resident

    I’m pretty sure this album was recorded and mixed bright. No mastering will fix that. In Assassing when Steve’s guitar comes in, it is recorded bright and thin. Steven Wilson in an interview recently said that these bright mixes are what is called in the industry ‘cocaine mixes’. Apparently when you are high on cocaine, you crank the treble more because it sounds exciting when high on it.

    I just recently picked up a copy of Fugazi on a early German press vinyl and it sounds really nice. Very punchy. I will have to compare it to my 80’s CD master.
     
  16. moomoomoomoo

    moomoomoomoo WhoNeedsRealityWhenThere'sMoreSleepToLookForwardTo

    Yes. I feel that way about the entire series.
     
  17. moomoomoomoo

    moomoomoomoo WhoNeedsRealityWhenThere'sMoreSleepToLookForwardTo

    My system is voiced warm, & I find the series bright.
     
  18. M2225

    M2225 Nebulus 7 intergalaxy eclipse

    Location:
    Helsinki, Finland
    I have the original EMI CD + the 1999 24 bit remaster CD and used to have the UK vinyl, all versions did always sound very bright in any version compared to e.g. "Script" or "Clutching". I have always experienced Fugazi to be a somewhat "bright hi-fi" recording. It just sounds cold/clinical
     
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  19. KDubATX

    KDubATX A Darby Man Never Says When

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    Austin
    I still need to get this but I’m still mostly ambivalent for this album on the whole and feel minimal urgency.
     
  20. Eric_Generic

    Eric_Generic Enigma

    Location:
    Berkshire
    It looks great next to all the others :)

    Still need to find time to properly indulge in this set, it was the album which really made me aware of the band (I bought the Assassing 7") even though I didn't start buying their albums until Clutching came out.

    Never owned Fugazi or anything other than the 1998 2-disc set so have little to compare the new mix with.

    EG.
     
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  21. head_unit

    head_unit Senior Member

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    ...which I really really liked! This is my favorite album, biting in a way that should have gotten Fish hired into Pink Floyd to fill Roger Waters' shoes ha ha.

    Can some UK Forumite expand about Punch and Judy? I know it's a puppet show, but feel there is some inner meaning to the lyrics that will escape foreigners. Is Judy always pranking Punch, like Lucy taking away the football from Charlie Brown? I'm especially referencing
    Propping up a bar, family car
    Sweating out a mortgage as a balding clerk
    World war three, suburbanshee
    Just slip her these pills and I'll be free​
    The lyrics are just so great, I never appreciated them before looking them up in detail. My second favorite Marillion song after "Assassing"; and I just love the 1-2 punch of those songs together.
    Washing machine, pinstripe dream
    Stripped the gloss from a beauty queen
    Found our nest, in the Daily Express
    Met the vicar in a holy vest
    Brought up the children Church of E
    Now I vegetate with a colour TV
    Worst ever thing that ever happened to me
    Oh, for D.I.V.O.R.C.E., oh Judy​
     
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  22. JulesRules

    JulesRules Weaponized, Deranged Warthog Thug

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    Germany
    I see what you did there ;)
    I'm not from the UK but I think the main connection is that Punch & Judy are depicted as a quarreling couple. Punch and Judy - Wikipedia
    What Fish did when he was writing that lyric was imagining how hellish marriage must be. He later conceded that he was probably exaggerating. :laugh:
     
  23. RockAddict

    RockAddict Sanity is an illusion, just like democracy

    Location:
    UK
    Was that before or after marrying for the third time? :)
     
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  24. head_unit

    head_unit Senior Member

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    Los Angeles CA USA
    Heh, judging by some of Fish's personal posts on his website, he later later probably decided he was not acerbic enough! :eek:
     
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  25. JulesRules

    JulesRules Weaponized, Deranged Warthog Thug

    Location:
    Germany
    I confess I don't know the date of that quote offhand - I'm sure I read it in eclipsed but it's possible they may have quoted from an interview he already did in the late 80s.

    Still, AFAIK Fish never worked as a clerk and I don't think he has ever murdered a partner either :p
     

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