Otto Kitsinger ([email protected])
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:59:04 -0700
I managed to get my hands on an advanced copy of the GH Cds today. Woohoo!
Here's what I can share with you:
The track listing in Prarit's news page is correct for both the A sides CD
and the B sides CD.
The rumor is true - October is on the same track as All I Want Is You,
after almost a minute of silence.
I don't have a booklet or case with them, and the artwork on the CDs is
minimalist to say the least - not much more than the titles and run times
of the songs, so I can't share scans or anything, sorry.
While I've got a good chunk of an audio degree (and thus am semi-educated
in sound) and know these songs really really well (and thus am throughly
educated in the music) I wasn't involved in the release of these discs, so
I can't say this with any true authority. BUT...
It absolutely, positively sounds to me like most if not all of the tracks
on the A-Sides CD have been remastered. I've listened to all of these
songs anywhere between dozens and hundreds of times on their original CDs
and I would swear they have never sounded this rich, deep or clear. If I
get the chance this weekend, I'll do a side-by-side comparison, playing the
originals and the GH back to back and see if I can confirm it. But for the
first pass through the player, they sure sounds great! If I'm not just ...
um ... hearing things, this is a good piece of news, since it adds a great
deal of value for all of us who are getting exactly ONE new version of a
song out of this deal, and that'll be on a single we can get as an import.
Yesterday someone named either Jason or Ellis posted:
> Subj: digitally remastered GH?
>
> Dear Wirelings,
>
> Perhaps I've just missed this bit of information in all the posts,
> but is the new GH album supposed to be digitally remastered? If so, it
> really would be worth having...
>
> Let me know if you know when you know that you know so I know...
Well, I'm letting you know I know you now know as much as I know now.
Later,
otto
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