so with all these remade/remixed/remastered reissues coming out what would you like to see them do to some of your old favorites?

on the reissue thread its mentioned that 13th floor elevators live album is coming out with reduced crowd noise. cuz it was a faux live release to begin with. i mentioned that they should release a version with zoo animal noises replacing the crowd noise. i'd buy one!

the beatles remasters digitally make instruments/sounds louder in the mix then they were originally. i kinda hope they put out fab four editions where you get a special RINGO version of abbey road where the drums are the loudest thing on the album. then they could do a GEORGE edition which is all guitar action. oh, the possibilities are endless.

that robert johnson remaster thing is probably cool, but what about an edition with added drum machine for the kids?

if you are making new things out of old stuff you might as well have fun with the technology, right?

i should mention that i'm a fan of those 70's dead hendrix records that alan douglas made. great article on that stuff in the new ugly things.

They should just release the individual pre-mix master tracks of every album.

I'm sure that, in the wake of the current plethora/popularity of isolated tracks on Youtube, we'll be seeing interactive versions of classic albums in the near future, where the listener (YOU!) will be able to separate the various tracks, pump up different instruments, add samples, mix and match, etc.

Feels a little like sacrilege, but I'd like old soul classics to get a sprucing up. It's not fair when I put 'River Deep, Mountain High' on a mixtape next to Amy Winehouse and it's the latter leaps out of the speakers.

there is a locked groove at the end of side one of lindsey buckingham's go insane album and i kinda want to put out a cd of that groove that is the same length as the album and call it *GO INSANE - SPECIAL EDITION*.

Seconded with the instrumental and acapella tracks. Acapellas bring out so much of the vocal layers that get buried in the instrumentation.

superfreak acapella is something. hearing him slurp etc.

best a capellas are by dmx. worth owning all his 12 inch singles for those.

It's not fair when I put 'River Deep, Mountain High' on a mixtape next to Amy Winehouse and it's the latter leaps out of the speakers.

Well, if you're making an actual cassette, you could just adjust the levels to match. If you're talking about MP3s, use MP3Gain to even out the levels across your entire library:
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/index.php

I remember reading an interview w/Jay Bennett where he claimed like 75% of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was played by him, so it'd be interesting to hear a "Bennett-less" mix of the album, which I bet Tweedy has stashed somewhere @ WilcoHQ.

I would love them to make stereo remixes of whatever is possible to make them from out of The Kinks' 60s catalogue. I am aware it just wasn't possible with their 1965 work (thus, the deluxe editions of their two 1965 albums are all mono except for a previously released "wimpy" pre-overdubs version of "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion"). However, hopefully the release of "Face To Face" this summer will contain one stereo disc and one mono disc, with stereo versions of more or less everything they released in 1966. (Same about "Something Else" although the album tracks have already been available on CD in stereo.)

i feel adding some auto-tune to re-issues of sinatra records would benefit all involved

Always wanted to hear the Lungfish catalog remastered by someone like Hull or Plotkin. That band is so immense and awesome, but the production on those albums is so tinny and Dischord-y.

Current music has left me so far behind that remix projects of old faves is one of the few things that gets me excited. I don't know if anyone else liked Laswell's Panthalassa thing on electric Miles, but I would enjoy more projects like that. Hearing the original mix of Aoxomoxoa for the first time a couple of days ago really blew my mind. I guess the first time I ever really became conscious of the possibilities in a new mix was hearing Zappa's 1987 remix of Hot Rats for the first time.

Most records Spot was ever involved with need looking at.

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Cool guy for sure but either had poor taste in studios, esoteric ideas about mixing or plain old cloth ears.

24bit wavs of John Martyn - Solid Air please.

i'd upgrade my stereo for that.

How about running Shane MacGowan's vocals tracks on all 80s Pogues albums through Autotune?

Reinstating the bagpipe recordings that were dropped from the final mixes of that pink MBV album and the Joy Division, Smiths, Sisters Of Mercy and Cure albums.

Reinstating the bagpipe recordings that were dropped from the final mixes of that pink MBV album and the Joy Division, Smiths, Sisters Of Mercy and Cure albums.

only submitted that once, but it was during that damned daily outage :-(