[kj] Some thoughts on the remasters

[melinda grant]

havnt you got those earlier peel sessions yet paul? i thought you would of been one of the first,take it from me there great,as i  DO have them ;P!!
 
milinda ps nice review of yours however ;)


Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:37:37 +0000From: paul.rangecroft at gmail.comTo: gathering at misera.netSubject: [kj] Some thoughts on the remastersPicked them up on Saturday. Nice to see them mid-price, and of course pleasing that they were dedicated to Raven. A timely reminder of how much he enriched our lives. At first I thought maybe including OTG was a bit inappropriate, but then I thought what a perfect way to bring that episode to a close.Let's hope Heath Ledger is the only joker to die this year.Sound quality is excellent on all of them. (Slight echo on FIRE DANCES, though?) Highlights for me are the bonus tracks, especially the Jensen sessions in all their glory for the first time, and the FD Peel session. Good that we now have the mix of BTaTS that the band intended (not sure why the original album went out with the Mendelsohn mixes if it wasn't what the band wanted, however – or have I misunderstood?). Better still they left the extended mix of 'Stay One Jump Ahead' off OTG! Poor JC001. OTG surprised me the most, actually, in terms of how much I liked it (I expected to like the others). I know he was cracking up in a quite spectacular way at the time, but Jaz is an amazing musician and this still shines through. (If anyone's curious as to what he's saying in the backwards part at the start of the early version of 'Obsession' it's, er, "obsession" fascinatingly enough.)All in all they have left me once again of the opinion that this band kacked on all others from a towering height higher than a thousand suns.What a shame they didn't include the earlier Peel sessions from their respective remasters, though.
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