siouxsie remasters: bad as they say?

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are these really as terrible as the amazon.co.uk reviews would have me believe? audio drop outs in various channels, wrong fades, general crappiness?

― akm (akmonday), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

wondering because a fair number of them are on ebay, and I impulsively bought kaleidoscope, then went and read that it sounds awful. so i'm not sure if i should get rid of my geffen pressing.

― akm (akmonday), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I still only have the double-disc The Scream from these but that sounded perfectly fine to me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The single-disc Scream: clipping galore.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

is there a difference b/w the single and the double disc editions?

― akm (akmonday), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Definitely

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

This won't give you the full effect, but it should give you an indication. Samples:

"Metal Postcard" [from the single-disc remaster]

"Metal Postcard" [from the two-disc remaster]

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

This won't give you the full effect, but it should give you an indication. Samples:

"Metal Postcard" [from the single-disc remaster]
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=50:0hdkykkjxp9b~T

"Metal Postcard" [from the two-disc remaster]
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=50:qtf5z3o2eh3k~T

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, those error messages meant nothing.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

that's weird that they'd be different. why are they different?

― akm (akmonday), Saturday, 9 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

my single disc Scream remaster sounds loud and distorted. I am not impressed.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Are there problems with any of the others or is it just the single-disc Scream?

― telephonething (telephonething), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i would really like to hear/have the 12" mix of peep show sometime soon. hint hint.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 10 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the amazon.co.uk reviews of all the remasters so far are fairly negative and point out problems like dropped audio and incorrect fades.

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm really surprised that bands allow this kind of thing to happen. I mean in theory aren't severin and siouxsie listening to these and okaying them before they go out? do they really not know their own music well enough (or care enough) that things are fading out in the wrong place, etc? or are the negative reviews just by overzealous mastering engineers with much better ears than anyone else?

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, kaleidoscope finally arrived and it sounds great. no clipping or distortion.

― akm (akmonday), Friday, 22 December 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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