Right, Bob.  I might be repeating myself, but to
paraphrase a famous quote from Todd Rundgren:

I'd rather hear a crappy production of a great song
than a pristine production of a crappy song.

--- bob <segarini@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> We must have gotten two different versions of the
> CD...mine is a HUGE
> improvement over the previous release and
> boots...not only that, but
> bringing the sound up to date proves how timeless
> the music is, (there is a
> difference, you know, between the quality of the
> sound of a record and the
> quality of the music and songs contained therein),
> and will undoubtedly turn
> yet another generation onto how good pop music can
> be.
> Now if they only had the technoligy to improve the
> MATERIAL on a lot of
> today's great SOUNDING records...
> 
> bob
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Frank Padellaro"
> <kingradio@pumpingstation.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:18 PM
> Subject: Let it be. busted.
> 
> 
> > I've just got my hands on Nekkid and let me tell
> you, I am really bummed
> out.  Let me start by saying that I was really
> looking forward to this
> release, and I, like most others I know, was under
> the impression that Phil
> wrecked a great record, blah blah blah.
> >
> > Well, I prefer his overproduced version to this,
> that's for sure.  To
> begin with, the mix just sounds messed up.  The
> drums sound doubly
> compressed, and the cymbals are all hashy and really
> offensive sounding to
> me.  The best thing about the mixes is how present
> and wonderful Billy
> Preston sounds.  But otherwise I have nothing good
> to say about them.  The
> drums are louder and more clear, but the warm mushy
> drums of the old version
> are far more pleasing to the ear than the perfectly
> rendered current drum
> mix, which lets you hear just how dead and awful
> that drum kit was for those
> sessions.  The vocals have a really crummy sounding
> reverb, which is a
> marked difference from the pleasant reverb of the
> original versions.
> >
> > Lastly, I was absolutely horrified when listening
> to "Two of Us" to hear
> one of the McCartney lines clearly pitch corrected
> with auto-tune.  This was
> such a foreign sound in a Beatles song, and it
> chilled me right to my core.
> It sounded like some modern rock radio song for a
> split second.  With my
> ears tuned in, I heard several other moments of
> auto-tune clearly on other
> parts of the record as well.
> >
> > One of my favorite things about the Beatles is how
> well McCartney and
> Lennon, though not always perfectly in tune, always
> manage to sound
> together.  Now they've ruined that.
> >
> > This album is an abortion and I hate it!
> >
> > Anyone who is really interested in hearing the
> original recordings as
> intended should grab one of the many various boots
> that are available of
> Glynn Johns' original mixes.  They are much richer
> and pleasing to my ear,
> and will give you the same nice feeling of hearing
> Paul sing The Long and
> Winding Road without a ton of Spectarian crap piled
> on top of it.
> >
> > What a Bummer,
> > Frank.
> >
> 


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