Yeah, Frosting on the Beater really needs a quality reissue. Wrong by Nomeansno is pretty tough to find and could be an absolute stunner. Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World and San Francisco Days Wire - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154. Spectacular sounding albums, too.
I recently purchased Stealer's Wheel S/T - never heard it sound so good - even Mrs Q commented that it sounded wonderful (and she is not easily impressed). Looking forward to the Joe Jackson reissues!
Reissue suggestion - the first few Hold Steady albums are out of print and command a high price on the used market. Maybe IR records could take a crack at 'em?
@IR Shane Suggestion: Our Lady Peace - Clumsy. No vinyl release yet. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville. Also rare on vinyl
@IR Shane Re: So Much for the Afterglow I got this title last weekend and it is great! It was the first album I ever bought on CD and I was happy to have it be the first record I played on my new turntable as an adult. I think it sounds great! But there is a little controversy among hardcore Everclear fans because there is some extra material not heard on the original CD. I asked around if this material was on the original blue vinyl release, but the response seems to be that no, it wasn't there. The extra material comes before El Distorto de Melodica and after it. There's an extra intro to the following song, Amphetamine as well. Do you remember anything about this discrepancy? The passages in question can be heard here: http://www.hungryandhollow.com/downloads/SMFTA-Record-Sample.mp3 I haven't listened with headphones, which might reveal some more differences, but there seems to be a different mix of the vocal intro to the record. There's one extra vocal melody right before the band kicks in, compared to the CD. So it seems that Universal sent a different version than the one that was released in 1997. Any info on this?
Hey there Alex- let me make sure I understand- you're saying that my LP has some material that's not on the CD? If this is so it wouldn't surprise me. These two albums were recorded to analog tape never fully assembled in the analog domain, and there were lots of tapes with lots of versions of songs and I think multiple versions of these clips. This is why we couldn't master direct from analog- we'd have had to bounce tape at least twice to create a new master- copy all the tapes to copies and then copy the final mixes to a new tape to create an assembled master. The most direct route to the source was using high-res digital on these. We got a bunch of digital files ripped flat from the tapes and pictures of the tape box legends to match them up, but we still had to listen and listen for hours to compile the high-res masters we were given in the right order with the right sound effects clips where required on SMFTA. We had the original LP to compare and compile. My original LP is black vinyl not blue. I couldn't get your link to open to hear the clip. Beyond that, those files are not available to Kevin or me anymore so if there's a question I'm afraid I can't answer definitively. But I can compare my LP to the original LP I have and see if they're the same.
It's nice to see a label that plans to focus on worthy albums that HAVEN'T been reissued a million times. I hope they have good luck in prying loose some good titles...
Yes, it's extra material. I'm glad nothing is missing and I'm glad it's not a remix with a bunch of previously unheard elements like they did for the DVD-A. In the case of the El Distorto - Amphetamine songs, it's extra material before and inbetween the songs. The spoken dialog before and after as well as the synthesized swooshes are not on the original CD, neither is the guitar intro of Amphetamine where it's delayed in stereo. In the case of the title track, it's just a voice not heard on the original, it's not like a section of music that was cut out, so a mixing difference. I don't believe the difference could be to the compression used for the cd or the advanced resolution. That's the one true mixing difference I heard. Please do check your original. I might have seen a black vinyl every now and then on ebay (I assumed it was an import?), but I think the blue one was more available or more well known among Everclear fans. It would be quite a revelation if there was a variation of the album that Everclear fans generally didn't know about.
Some other members are asking for Sheryl Crow titles on vinyl. Her self titled is an AAD CD so assuming it was recorded to tape this might be a title that would interest Intervention Records. Her catalogue has strangely never had any releases on the lp format though 7" singles exist.
The question is never so much as me being interested in reissuing an artist, but rather the artist or label being interested in licensing to me! Great call out though!
We are having to wade through a lot of off-topic stuff on the Joe Jackson/IR thread that I thought a thread dedicated to IR is in order. Shane has been very forthright & gracious in his participation in the forum & has promised me he'd continue to be involved. Let's discuss: Current releases Future releases Wish lists
Wish list: The Elvis Costello catalog from the Warner Bros. years on, in the pressings they deserve Tom Waits - the Island albums The first two Aimee Mann albums The Public Image Ltd. catalog from Metal Box/Second Edition on k.d. lang - Ingenue Any of Dan Bern's albums, but especially New American Language Love the work Shane and the Intervention crew are doing. It's so refreshing to find a label with such good taste and such a devotion to quality.
Good idea. That Joe Jackson thread was getting a little off course with all of the suggestions, many if which I would also like to see pressed truth be told. I'm glad to hear they're tackling some good Erasure titles--I'll buy 'em all.
MoFi did one Bunnymen album(Heaven Up Here) on Vinyl. I was hoping that they would do these, but if not then maybe IR will do them. Crocodiles Porcupine Ocean Rain Evergreen Also, if the upcoming Cure releases of 17 Seconds, Faith & Pornography, this Summer on Vinyl are not that good in Mastering & Pressing, it would be great if IR also did those albums. Although, there is a MoV version of 17 Seconds. Why do these better labels(MoFi, MoV, etc.) only do 1 album from these artists' classic time periods? Maybe MoFi will complete The Cars catalog(especially 'Panorama') including on SACD. Two more requests-The entire Talking Heads & Magazine Catalogs Please.