Jesus fuck. Talk about bunting instead of reissuing grand slams.
Sure, each reissue contains at least one new unreleased thing, but undoes the goodness with fucking something else up...
Ministry Early Trax: No "Cold Life"? That was a perfectly great slab of funk with sorta gothish vocals. It's no less embarrassing than any of the other early singles. On the flip, it's great to hear some of the unreleased Twitch demo tracks like "Move" (which apparently WAS intended for Al via Adrian Sherwood, but was rejected I guess, so Tackhead/Keith LeBlanc released it instead.).. the rest of the unreleased stuff is eh.
MORAL OF THE REISSUE: don't sell back your Twelve Inch Singles CD.
Ministry Side Trax: this collects the Pailhead, 1000 Homo DJs, Acid Horse, and PTP tracks. It's cool to hear the unreleased PTP song that was used on Robocop, BUT... they still used the fucked up mastering of "Man Should Surrender" that chops off the first few seconds.. also they use the weaker Trent version of "Supernaut" instead of the louder Al version from the original EP.
MORAL OF THE REISSUE: Don't sell back your 1000 Homo DJs CD-single.
Revolting Cocks Big Sexy Land: So, they added that "Tv Mind" remix famous for being sampled by Meat Beat Manifesto for "Helter Skelter".. fine.. cool... WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BENIGN VERSION OF "YOU OFTEN FORGET"? It's Revco's best ever song, easily, and it's still not on here. Asswipes! At least you can now sell off the original.
Revolting Cocks Live, You Goddamn Son Of A Bitch!: I never liked this live release that much, and always preferred the originals, but anyway.. they made this a double CD for what reason? So they can add a new live track here and there and add two live b-sides from the "Beers Steers and Queers" CD-single. and make each CD a whopping 42 minutes each on the average. Very efficient. And of course, the cover of "Public Image" is missing the band doing the "Over The Hills and Far Away" licks at the beginning of the track... brave.
MORAL OF THE REISSUE: don't sell back your "Beers Steers and Queers" CD-single.
Revolting Cocks Beers, Steers, and Queers: probably the least fucked up of the reissues. They add the studio version of "Cattle Grind" here, and, sadly, it's weaker than the live version, which is really saying something. But we get some other surrounding single stuff as well, added. Also, the track listing is reordered, for some reason. Also, Ogre gets ZERO credits for his vocals on "Get Down", which is Revco's other greatest song ever.
All in all... the remastering is eh. Maybe I shouldn't sell back any of the Wax Trax! versions to be honest. Very sad.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)
I like how, even on the
Early Trax reissue, all the reissues feature all these photo montages of Al Jourgensen during his "bad ass" phase.. and all have that, um, appetizing rusty color.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago)
along with his bad ass friends, of course. And also, all the stickers mention the lineup and end with "..and Bill Rieflin, NOW OF REM!". OF COURSE.. this is exactly what is needed to pull that silent majority that is the REM/Ministry crossover crowd.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)
The only one I bought was
Side Trax, and I was disappointed by how weak (and fuzzy) the Pailhead stuff (which was all I bought it for) sounded. I was hoping it would be crash-bang superloud, but it really wasn't. I might have to convert my old cassette version to CD.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)
Well, the original stuff always sounded kinda tinny.. and it's possible the remastering made it even tinnier, but I didn't notice it sounding that much worse. (although I can compare tonight) It's just hilarious that they didn't fix the mastering goof on "Man Should Surrender". It's all intact on the vinyl.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)
one month passes...