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Poll Question: Which have the best packaging/sound in their reissues?
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Of the choices given I would say the YES remasters are the best. Although I think the MOODY BLUES, KLAUS SCHULZE, and HAWKWIND have had the best remasters in recent years. 
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Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:


 out of this list the best remasters are those by JT and VDGG, at least as far as bonus material is concerned. I'd also like to add the Caravan remasters, which are probably the best around.
 
ClapClapClap, speaking of Jethro Tull and Van der Graaf Generator remasters.
 
I haven't yet Caravan remasters though... Hopefully I'll get them sometime... as well as Peter Hammill solo remasters...
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I would defintely go for the KC remasters. The press articles  are really interesting  and the dics sound aweome too. I also like the VDGG remasters because of the sound which benefits the most from this series of the remastering process. The packaging of the Yes remasters are obviously the best, containing lots os info and pictures but the bonus tracks are not essential and the sound of their previous remaster series is sometimes even better ; previous versions of tracks are good to hear once but I never give it a second spin... The Genesis and PF remasters are allright but there's no bonus tracks or bonus  information whatsoever...
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Tull!
 
Yes are a close second. Then Floyd.
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How can Yes be winning? Some of their bonus tracks are pretty bad. Tulls remasters are miles above the rest. Tulls remasters are full of many many bonus tracks of very high quality. My only disappointment is that the 1971 songs from LITP were not included on the Aqualung remaster, while Broadsword did not include 8 additional bonus tracks(It could have had a total of 26 songs). Other songs such as Blues instrumental and Bungle in the jungle remix were also missing from remasters.
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Originally posted by kermit the prog kermit the prog wrote:

How can Yes be winning? Some of their bonus tracks are pretty bad. Tulls remasters are miles above the rest. Tulls remasters are full of many many bonus tracks of very high quality. My only disappointment is that the 1971 songs from LITP were not included on the Aqualung remaster, while Broadsword did not include 8 additional bonus tracks(It could have had a total of 26 songs). Other songs such as Blues instrumental and Bungle in the jungle remix were also missing from remasters.
 
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Originally posted by Chameleon Chameleon wrote:

 
Dude. Your name owns.
 
what does it own? ;)
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The only Yes remasters which are worth making a deal over are the Tormato and Drama ones. They have a good amount of bonus tracks. But half of those tracks do sound pretty unfinished and Jons voice sounds pretty bad in some. Ouch



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I love the KC remasters, almoust all my KC cds are remastered...
And I absolutly dont like the Jethro Tull remasters...there are more bonus tracks that the actual album songs...Confused
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YES are well done with great liner notes. The worst remasters ar the Floyd ones my old vinyls sound better.
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Yes shoyld not be winning, if only for the TFTO remaster. Why would they have 75% of the actual album on disc one and only 25% on disc two? They could have easily put one of the bonus tracks on disc one and the other on disc two. It almost ruins the flow of the album.

I voted for VDGG, BTW.


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Van Der Graaf Generator (exept Godbluff's two very annoying bootleg sounding bonus tracks) and Caravan. Great sound and some fantastic unreleased stuff.

Klaus Schulze's bonus tracks on the (and Jethro Tull, but I'm not an obsessive fan) remasters look very interesting, though.
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VdGG remasters are the best IMO.
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1. VDGG
2. YES
3. KING CRIMSON
4. ELP
5. JETHRO TULL
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I have to go with VDGG, they have lots of cool extras tracks as well as the album itself.
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Have to go with the Yes Rhino re-masters - they did justice to the original art-work (within the constraints of the CD format!), included some interesting blog,  the re-mastering was 1st rate, and the bonus tracks, although mostly for completionists, did include a few gems.
 
Worst re-masters are ELP's - my big complaint being that different peices were run into one track on a CD (eg Emo's piano concerto in 3 movements becomes 1 single track); Tarkus live on Welcome back - including Aquatarkus - ditto - which is a real pain sometimes.
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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

I love the KC remasters, almoust all my KC cds are remastered...
And I absolutly dont like the Jethro Tull remasters...there are more bonus tracks that the actual album songs...Confused
 
that's why you get remasters because of bonus tracks. The sound difference on remasters is barely noticeable unless you have bionic ears. All the bands do is turn up the high and low frequencies a bit, but I can do that with Nero and burn it like that too. Would you rather Three of a perfect pair with it's several dance mixes of sleepless(which is a crappy song anyway) or would you want a Warchild remaster with 7 bonus tracks which are all better songs than most of the original 10 tracks. Big smile


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I have listened to Fragile and Closer to the Edge on my studio headphones, and the quality is amazing.  The livliness of the albums beats albums that have came out in the last year.  YES remastered is brilliant.
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I vote for the Genesis remasters. They really improved the sound.
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