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| From | Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: wynn tribs dion universal |
| Date | Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:10:20 -0600 |
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At 01:45 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, Stewart Mason wrote:
>Yeah, but most of the available Kinks LPs and CDs, to put it mildly, suck
>ass fidelity-wise. Their early records were pretty sloppily recorded --
>because everything Shel Talmy ever did was sloppy, and that was a huge part
>of his charm -- but that wouldn't be a problem if the CDs weren't so badly
>done. They're hissy, they're thin-sounding, and they're mastered at an
>absurdly low volume. They're not as horrible sounding as the Marble Arch
>LPs from the '70s, or even worse, those Spanish LPs from the 80s that for
>years were the only Pye-era Kinks records you could find, but I can't think
>of a major group whose back catalogue has been so shoddily served.
Stewart, everything you said about the pre-RCA Kinks *US* CDs is true, but
the remastered ones that came out on Castle in the '90s are excellent
IMO. And at least at one point were widely available on these shores,
though they're all saying "OOP" at Amazon now.
Heck, the '80s UK CDs of those same albums smoked the Warner Brothers US
ones, and it sounds like the latter is what you're talking about.. On the
quieter parts of the Warner Brothers US CD of VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION
SOCIETY like "Phenomenal Cat," the tape hiss was louder than the song!
later,
Miles
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