I was talking about my original mono lps...

The last batch of UK cds were very good. The US issues lacked most if not all of
the bonus cuts. I can't see them doing another set of reissues anytime soon. I
think the flood of bogus reissues dating back to the early 70's and continuing
up to today have flooded the market.

RS

Miles Goosens wrote:

> 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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