Re-record which album?

-Trespass
-A Saucerful Of Secrets
-the KC bootleg Live At the Zoom Club (I know it's not a real album but it has some amazing tracks including a 45 minute long improv track, but the sound quality just blows)
-any of the first era VdGG albums (excluding Aerosol)

vapor trails

First 2 Beefheart albums, as the retard producer dated them with phasing effects.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure the version I have is the one with all the extra tracks, and the interview with Anderson. If that's the remaster... I can't imagine what the original sounded like! It's one of the few CD's I have in which I have to literally crank the volume to even hear anything!

As far as Metallica goes, ...And Justice For All needs re-doing more than anything they've ever done. Not only is it the closest they ever came to progressive songs or arrangements, but the album LITERALLY has no bass guitar.

 

I also agree about Aqualung. It surprises me that other Tull albums have such warm sounds and pristine, lovely re-master packaging - whilst Aqualung, the album most heralded as the Tull album to own (Of course, that SHOULD be Heavy Horses), hasn't a decent sound or special crazy anniversary edition or anything. Maybe it does and I'm just not aware.

 

I also think the SONG Going For the One could be much better sounding.

Duncan wrote: The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other. Not so much TODAY - or for 'modern technology' - but the material could have been handled much better by the band a year or so later. Oh, and the stereo mixing is absolutely appalling.

I'VE PURCHASED THE REMASTERED VERSION OF THE LEAST... AND YOU MUST BUY IT MY FRIEND BECAUSE IT'S DEFINITELY A ANOTHER ALBUM WITH THE REMASTER. THE VOICE OF PETER SOUND SO CLEAR AND LOUD. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO ALL VDGG FANS LIKE US!

Flip_Stone wrote: Rerecording may not be the best approach anyway.  The sound quality might be better and more modern, but some of the nuances and characteristics that give older prog. a classic sound would be lost.

Not to mention that the artists are probably not in the same mindframe as they were 30 or so years ago, and much of the intensity and freshness of the original albums may be lost.

However, I've always thought that the performances on TFTO by Yes were flat, and the band made fairly interesting compositions sound absolutely boring.  I wouldn't mind hearing a new recording of that.  Plus, the band is supposedly still around with the same personnel.

Leave them all alone. I like listening to the music as was presented at the time regardless of production flaws and lack of equipment. I even like listening to poorly recorded albums such as Earthbound or Bring Me the Head Of Yuri Gagarian by Hawkwind. All you younger guys have been spoiled by all this new technology which in many cases takes away a lot from the old anolog recordings when remastered. Hell, I still have my Micro Seiki turntable which I bought in 1979 and love listening to my old vinyl.

The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other.

Not so much TODAY - or for 'modern technology' - but the material could have been handled much better by the band a year or so later. Oh, and the stereo mixing is absolutely appalling.

I think there is a certain charm to the production of the early Genesis cd's that was unique to the time.  Having said that they could sound much better and would love to hear some remasters. Re-recording something implyes that there is osmething wrong with the musicans or equipment.   The only one I think i would like to hear re-recorded is Kansas first Album.  They didn't even get to use their own amps and the guitars were run through small fender studio amps and they sound like it.  (The producer was still living in the sixties) and the tape was cleaned off to reuse for some other project so no re-master is ever going to make it that much better.