What new releases are you looking forward to?
Posted by: Voltaire on 02 May 2009
I'll start the ball rolling...
robert_h posted:LP9 from Radiohead on Sunday; 2 more sleeps, then at 7pm the downloading will begin.
The single "Burn the Witch" is great.
Waiting for the LP download, though.
The album on the bottom left as you look at the screen is the Mark Kolezek album. There are also a bunch of Jazz sets coming out and a lot of vinyl.
ewemon posted:
The album on the bottom left as you look at the screen is the Mark Kolezek album. There are also a bunch of Jazz sets coming out and a lot of vinyl.
Interesting to see old early Floyd Ewen, are they just reissues and will that be extended to include CD's?
Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:
The album on the bottom left as you look at the screen is the Mark Kolezek album. There are also a bunch of Jazz sets coming out and a lot of vinyl.
Interesting to see old early Floyd Ewen, are they just reissues and will that be extended to include CD's?
Only on vinyl as far as I am aware but not certain.
OK thanks.
Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:
Interesting to see old early Floyd Ewen, are they just reissues and will that be extended to include CD's?
Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
Hi Randy, thanks for the update, I should have gone to the PF site myself. I imagine they are reissuing the vinyl in part to cater for the growing recent demand for vinyl, I would have been very surprised if yet another remaster had been done but then again PF do enjoying squeezing the last drops of value from their music, The Endless River...
Stevee_S posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
Hi Randy, thanks for the update, I should have gone to the PF site myself. I imagine they are reissuing the vinyl in part to cater for the growing recent demand for vinyl, I would have been very surprised if yet another remaster had been done but then again PF do enjoying squeezing the last drops of value from their music, The Endless River...
Steve,
The big one for me in this current series will be the remaster of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". I've got both the original LP and CD and despite the fantastic music both have a hopelessly thick and muddied SQ. It will be interesting to see if Guthrie, Plante, and Grundman can breathe more air into their version. Or maybe that sound is inherent in the master tapes.
joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
Hi Randy, thanks for the update, I should have gone to the PF site myself. I imagine they are reissuing the vinyl in part to cater for the growing recent demand for vinyl, I would have been very surprised if yet another remaster had been done but then again PF do enjoying squeezing the last drops of value from their music, The Endless River...
Steve,
The big one for me in this current series will be the remaster of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". I've got both the original LP and CD and despite the fantastic music both have a hopelessly thick and muddied SQ. It will be interesting to see if Guthrie, Plante, and Grundman can breathe more air into their version. Or maybe that sound is inherent in the master tapes.
Thanks Randy, that's very interesting I think I'll wait until there have been a few reviews regarding the SQ rather than just chasing more Floyd releases (again), as you say providing the original master tapes are not inherently muddy then AMLOR might spring into new life with some sympathetic remastering.
The first cover is Tery Allen Juarez cd. The box set is The Allman Brothers
The first cover is Zappa, Second is an old Delaney and Bonnie titles that was only released in Japan. The first box set is a vinyl issue of John Mellencamps best titles and the one next to it is U2 Live in Paris
The Feat titles are vinyl and the Gabiriel is part of a 3 title set of vinyl which includes So and Up. The cover next to the Rilf Pichard album set is for those who don't know the album Peter Green In the Skies.
joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
Hi Randy, thanks for the update, I should have gone to the PF site myself. I imagine they are reissuing the vinyl in part to cater for the growing recent demand for vinyl, I would have been very surprised if yet another remaster had been done but then again PF do enjoying squeezing the last drops of value from their music, The Endless River...
Steve,
The big one for me in this current series will be the remaster of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". I've got both the original LP and CD and despite the fantastic music both have a hopelessly thick and muddied SQ. It will be interesting to see if Guthrie, Plante, and Grundman can breathe more air into their version. Or maybe that sound is inherent in the master tapes.
Hi Steve/Randy
All of the albums apart from DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall (as well as Endless River and the reissued Division Bell) have been out print on vinyl for two decades, and this is the reason for these reissues. There is definitely a market, especially amongst younger people who don't have originals.
AFAIK they are sourced from hi-res digital files (though this hasn't been 100% confirmed) but the involvement of Guthrie, Plante and (most intriguingly) Grundman at least indicate that they will be done sympathetically.
The first two albums will be the stereo versions only, which is a pity as the mono is superior in both cases. As Randy says, Piper was re-released in mono (on CD) in 2007, and is readily available. There was also a mono LP reissue in 1997, but this was, AFAIK, sourced from a digital file. You can pick up one of these for £40-£50 (it was also part of the 1997 vinyl box set). Book value of a minty original is upwards of £300 of course.
The mono Saucer is impossibly rare - I saw a rather battered-looking one in Brighton a couple of months ago for £350.
Ther are persistent rumours that at the end of this year, the Floyd organisation will be releasing an "early years" box which will contain early singles, some outtakes, the 1965 recordings that were issued on EP at the end of 2015, etc. I know from a friend, an old Floyd associate, that Gilmour and Mason have been buying up stuff over the past 12-13 years (he should know, they bought some film and an early [1966] studio tape he owned from him!).
What most fans are hoping for is more unreleased stuff. The group's official line has always been that there isn't anything in the vaults, but time and time again this has proven to be complete crap. There is a lot of fabulous stuff around (plus some more that even bootleggers don't know about).
The Floyd now own their own music (it's just distributed/marketed/licenced by Parlophone/Warners) so they can do what they want - the problem is lies with the Floyd's internal politics, which are still very complex; there is still an ongoing (if rather low-key) struggle as to who controls the legacy, and how the music is presented. Gilmour in particular is a complete perfectionist/control freak (as bad as Waters) and apparently is uneasy about releasing any demos/outtakes/live recordings that are not absolutely perfect, particularly with regard to SQ [I heard rumours, not substantiated BTW, that he wanted "More" deleted from the catalogue for this reason].
BTW, this reissue programme will not include live albums Is There Anybody Out There?, Pulse or Delicate Sound of Thunder (though they may eventually come out) or compilations Relics and A Collection of Great Dance Songs. I do hope ITAOT does come out on vinyl as it is the only album never to have been released on the black stuff.
DSOTM, The Wall and WYWH will all be included, but it looks like they are the 2011-12 masterings, and will just appear on the new Pink Floyd Records imprint.
As for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Gilmour did make an attempt a few years back to "redo" it, especially the drums, as he felt the SQ wasn't up to scratch and felt that a lot of the sounds were too 1980s and had dated vary badly. He and Mason gave up, partly because they lost interest, and because they presumably felt that there was no commercial demand for what was quite a time-consuming and difficult project.
The problem with AMLOR is that it's a stinker. A turd. By far the worst album in the PF catalogue, and no amount of tinkering with SQ can rescue it. The only halfway decent thing on it is "Sorrow". As an album it is is symptomatic of 1980s technological overkill and coke bloat: terrible drums, muddled MIDI, slap-bass shenanigans, turgid power ballads, awful digital synths, mullet haircuts, middle-aged guts hidden under shiny suits and And the lyrics are awful. Just embarrassingly dire. I have to hide behind the sofa in terror whenever I hear them.
Come on Randy, what would you rather have? A soundboard tape from the 1977 tour, a clean version of the 1975 "Extraction tapes" (different versions of "SOYCD", "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have A Cigar"), the stunning 1969 Amsterdam show, some of those great Peel sessions... or that dog in new clothes?
You can't, as they say, polish a turd.
Kevin-W posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
Hi Randy, thanks for the update, I should have gone to the PF site myself. I imagine they are reissuing the vinyl in part to cater for the growing recent demand for vinyl, I would have been very surprised if yet another remaster had been done but then again PF do enjoying squeezing the last drops of value from their music, The Endless River...
Steve,
The big one for me in this current series will be the remaster of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". I've got both the original LP and CD and despite the fantastic music both have a hopelessly thick and muddied SQ. It will be interesting to see if Guthrie, Plante, and Grundman can breathe more air into their version. Or maybe that sound is inherent in the master tapes.
Hi Steve/Randy
All of the albums apart from DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall (as well as Endless River and the reissued Division Bell) have been out print on vinyl for two decades, and this is the reason for these reissues. There is definitely a market, especially amongst younger people who don't have originals.
AFAIK they are sourced from hi-res digital files (though this hasn't been 100% confirmed) but the involvement of Guthrie, Plante and (most intriguingly) Grundman at least indicate that they will be done sympathetically.
The first two albums will be the stereo versions only, which is a pity as the mono is superior in both cases. As Randy says, Piper was re-released in mono (on CD) in 2007, and is readily available. There was also a mono LP reissue in 1997, but this was, AFAIK, sourced from a digital file. You can pick up one of these for £40-£50 (it was also part of the 1997 vinyl box set). Book value of a minty original is upwards of £300 of course.
The mono Saucer is impossibly rare - I saw a rather battered-looking one in Brighton a couple of months ago for £350.
Ther are persistent rumours that at the end of this year, the Floyd organisation will be releasing an "early years" box which will contain early singles, some outtakes, the 1965 recordings that were issued on EP at the end of 2015, etc. I know from a friend, an old Floyd associate, that Gilmour and Mason have been buying up stuff over the past 12-13 years (he should know, they bought some film and an early [1966] studio tape he owned from him!).
What most fans are hoping for is more unreleased stuff. The group's official line has always been that there isn't anything in the vaults, but time and time again this has proven to be complete crap. There is a lot of fabulous stuff around (plus some more that even bootleggers don't know about).
The Floyd now own their own music (it's just distributed/marketed/licenced by Parlophone/Warners) so they can do what they want - the problem is lies with the Floyd's internal politics, which are still very complex; there is still an ongoing (if rather low-key) struggle as to who controls the legacy, and how the music is presented. Gilmour in particular is a complete perfectionist/control freak (as bad as Waters) and apparently is uneasy about releasing any demos/outtakes/live recordings that are not absolutely perfect, particularly with regard to SQ [I heard rumours, not substantiated BTW, that he wanted "More" deleted from the catalogue for this reason].
BTW, this reissue programme will not include live albums Is There Anybody Out There?, Pulse or Delicate Sound of Thunder (though they may eventually come out) or compilations Relics and A Collection of Great Dance Songs. I do hope ITAOT does come out on vinyl as it is the only album never to have been released on the black stuff.
DSOTM, The Wall and WYWH will all be included, but it looks like they are the 2011-12 masterings, and will just appear on the new Pink Floyd Records imprint.
As for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Gilmour did make an attempt a few years back to "redo" it, especially the drums, as he felt the SQ wasn't up to scratch and felt that a lot of the sounds were too 1980s and had dated vary badly. He and Mason gave up, partly because they lost interest, and because they presumably felt that there was no commercial demand for what was quite a time-consuming and difficult project.
The problem with AMLOR is that it's a stinker. A turd. By far the worst album in the PF catalogue, and no amount of tinkering with SQ can rescue it. The only halfway decent thing on it is "Sorrow". As an album it is is symptomatic of 1980s technological overkill and coke bloat: terrible drums, muddled MIDI, slap-bass shenanigans, turgid power ballads, awful digital synths, mullet haircuts, middle-aged guts hidden under shiny suits and And the lyrics are awful. Just embarrassingly dire. I have to hide behind the sofa in terror whenever I hear them.
Come on Randy, what would you rather have? A soundboard tape from the 1977 tour, a clean version of the 1975 "Extraction tapes" (different versions of "SOYCD", "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have A Cigar"), the stunning 1969 Amsterdam show, some of those great Peel sessions... or that dog in new clothes?
You can't, as they say, polish a turd.
More information on these reissues here > http://www.analogplanet.com/co...#eiDVzcKlmLvIUHdm.97
Graham.
Quad 33 posted:Kevin-W posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:joerand posted:Stevee_S posted:ewemon posted:Steve,
Every news release I've read reiterates the same information found on PF's site - the band's entire catalog will be released on vinyl this year starting with these four LPs mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. No mention of whether their first two albums will be in mono or stereo. The site goes on to say " In the meantime, all Pink Floyd records are now available on CD". The entire PF catalog was remastered yet again on CD in 2011, so I doubt there will be any updated CD release.
FWIW - I've got a 2007 CD of Piper, 40th anniversary edition that has both a mono and stereo CD. Fun one to listen to and I've grown to prefer the mono version both for speaker and HP listening. I see it listed used for $12 online which is what I paid several years ago. Brilliant album.
Hi Randy, thanks for the update, I should have gone to the PF site myself. I imagine they are reissuing the vinyl in part to cater for the growing recent demand for vinyl, I would have been very surprised if yet another remaster had been done but then again PF do enjoying squeezing the last drops of value from their music, The Endless River...
Steve,
The big one for me in this current series will be the remaster of "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason". I've got both the original LP and CD and despite the fantastic music both have a hopelessly thick and muddied SQ. It will be interesting to see if Guthrie, Plante, and Grundman can breathe more air into their version. Or maybe that sound is inherent in the master tapes.
Hi Steve/Randy
All of the albums apart from DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall (as well as Endless River and the reissued Division Bell) have been out print on vinyl for two decades, and this is the reason for these reissues. There is definitely a market, especially amongst younger people who don't have originals.
AFAIK they are sourced from hi-res digital files (though this hasn't been 100% confirmed) but the involvement of Guthrie, Plante and (most intriguingly) Grundman at least indicate that they will be done sympathetically.
The first two albums will be the stereo versions only, which is a pity as the mono is superior in both cases. As Randy says, Piper was re-released in mono (on CD) in 2007, and is readily available. There was also a mono LP reissue in 1997, but this was, AFAIK, sourced from a digital file. You can pick up one of these for £40-£50 (it was also part of the 1997 vinyl box set). Book value of a minty original is upwards of £300 of course.
The mono Saucer is impossibly rare - I saw a rather battered-looking one in Brighton a couple of months ago for £350.
Ther are persistent rumours that at the end of this year, the Floyd organisation will be releasing an "early years" box which will contain early singles, some outtakes, the 1965 recordings that were issued on EP at the end of 2015, etc. I know from a friend, an old Floyd associate, that Gilmour and Mason have been buying up stuff over the past 12-13 years (he should know, they bought some film and an early [1966] studio tape he owned from him!).
What most fans are hoping for is more unreleased stuff. The group's official line has always been that there isn't anything in the vaults, but time and time again this has proven to be complete crap. There is a lot of fabulous stuff around (plus some more that even bootleggers don't know about).
The Floyd now own their own music (it's just distributed/marketed/licenced by Parlophone/Warners) so they can do what they want - the problem is lies with the Floyd's internal politics, which are still very complex; there is still an ongoing (if rather low-key) struggle as to who controls the legacy, and how the music is presented. Gilmour in particular is a complete perfectionist/control freak (as bad as Waters) and apparently is uneasy about releasing any demos/outtakes/live recordings that are not absolutely perfect, particularly with regard to SQ [I heard rumours, not substantiated BTW, that he wanted "More" deleted from the catalogue for this reason].
BTW, this reissue programme will not include live albums Is There Anybody Out There?, Pulse or Delicate Sound of Thunder (though they may eventually come out) or compilations Relics and A Collection of Great Dance Songs. I do hope ITAOT does come out on vinyl as it is the only album never to have been released on the black stuff.
DSOTM, The Wall and WYWH will all be included, but it looks like they are the 2011-12 masterings, and will just appear on the new Pink Floyd Records imprint.
As for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Gilmour did make an attempt a few years back to "redo" it, especially the drums, as he felt the SQ wasn't up to scratch and felt that a lot of the sounds were too 1980s and had dated vary badly. He and Mason gave up, partly because they lost interest, and because they presumably felt that there was no commercial demand for what was quite a time-consuming and difficult project.
The problem with AMLOR is that it's a stinker. A turd. By far the worst album in the PF catalogue, and no amount of tinkering with SQ can rescue it. The only halfway decent thing on it is "Sorrow". As an album it is is symptomatic of 1980s technological overkill and coke bloat: terrible drums, muddled MIDI, slap-bass shenanigans, turgid power ballads, awful digital synths, mullet haircuts, middle-aged guts hidden under shiny suits and And the lyrics are awful. Just embarrassingly dire. I have to hide behind the sofa in terror whenever I hear them.
Come on Randy, what would you rather have? A soundboard tape from the 1977 tour, a clean version of the 1975 "Extraction tapes" (different versions of "SOYCD", "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have A Cigar"), the stunning 1969 Amsterdam show, some of those great Peel sessions... or that dog in new clothes?
You can't, as they say, polish a turd.
More information on these reissues here > http://www.analogplanet.com/co...#eiDVzcKlmLvIUHdm.97
Graham.
Kevin thanks very much for your comprehensive breakdown of what's to be expected from the various album re-issues and releases etc. your response was well beyond the call of duty and very much appreciated. I am only a CD buyer/ripper/streamer nowadays and I doubt that I will be rushing out to buy any more copies of PF albums unless any of them are spectacularly well reviewed.
Graham, thanks for chipping in with the analogue planet link which like Kevin's summary made for interesting reading.
Steve
Blind Pilot "and then like lions", US release August 12, 2016
Jeff Anderson posted:
Blind Pilot "and then like lions", US release August 12, 2016
Cant say I know much about them but the first trax off the album that they have released sounds quite good.
10th June
ewemon posted:Jeff Anderson posted:Blind Pilot "and then like lions", US release August 12, 2016
Cant say I know much about them but the first trax off the album that they have released sounds quite good.
Hi Ewen, Although Blind Pilot is a "local" band, I first learned of them on the forum from Denis A quite a few years ago. The new one will be their third release. Nothing ground-breaking but good solid rock/pop with some interesting instrumentation at times. They go about this whole musical thing with quiet understated patience. It has been nearly five years since their second release. On the Letterman Show video below it is about one minute in before the band appears.
regards, Jeff A
The collection as a two "disc" package & also the individual albums Vol 1 & Vol 2 is being released today.
Its a new (2016) HD 24/192 (also 24/96) remaster taken from the 2007 release
I've been waiting for this for ages, my vinyl is so worn ............
Mike-B posted:The collection as a two "disc" package & also the individual albums Vol 1 & Vol 2 is being released today.
Its a new (2016) HD 24/192 (also 24/96) remaster taken from the 2007 release
I've been waiting for this for ages, my vinyl is so worn ............
Mike,
I'm glad to see this band getting some renewed attention. I've got the 2007 "The Traveling Wilburys Collection" - two HDCDs with a DVD. I also have Volume 1 on vinyl and have to say it's a rare case where the digital may trump the LP. Hope the download sounds great for you.
Well I've crammed the Wibury gang & some other ol' country boys into the little black box & they sure make some fine music.
For UK (Europe - sorry I have not checked the Euro prices but it looks like the same madness) watch out for the pricing as its all over the place. The best for the individual albums (Vol-1 & Vol-3) is £14 each from HighResAudio & their copy of the combined (both albums) 25 track "Collection" is £24 ................ Qobuz have the individual albums at £17.31 each but the Collection is £18.88. Both HRA & Qobuz have 96kHz & 192kHz at the same price. HDTracks are not at the races.