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- From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
- Subject: Re: We're Only In It For The Money... remixed?
- Message-ID: <17506@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:37:24 GMT
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Lines: 44
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- > Vinksu Chandrasekhar writes:
- >
- > I only know the CD version. I would like to know, in detail if possible,
- > WHAT
- > was removed from the original? What was changed? And I would like to know,
- > why everyone thinks the CD version sounds bad compared to the original. It
- > would be logical to think that drums & bass sound better...
- >
- > To be honest, the early MOI don't play too good. And the recording
- > technology
- > of 60's is nothing worth of conserving. Would you listen to, say,
- > Beethoven's
- > 5th recorded in 30's? There's nothing wrong to rerecord the music, if you
- > do it
- > with good taste. (In general FZ has good taste.)
- >
- > The sound quality is, whether we like it or not, one of the most important
- > things when listening to music. That's why I like 'Jazz From Hell' so
- > much...
- > Everything must be as clear as possible. Everything must be close to
- > perfect.
- >
-
-
- I am really appalled by this message. I suppose you would throw the Mona Lisa
- in the garbage because the colors are faded, the paint is a bit cracked, and
- a computer-enhanced version of the same thing would probably look better?
- (Not that I am claiming We're Only In It... is one of the great works of
- Western civilization.)
-
- Perhaps we should throw the originals of this album in the garbage and redo
- the whole thing on the Synclavier?
-
- I like this album in its original form because that's the way I've been
- listening to it for about 25 years. It's unfortunate that the bass and drum
- lines got screwed up, but I don't think the decision to add modern sounding
- replacements is a satisfactory solution to the problem. Surely it would be
- possible to take a near-pristine copy of the album (the original) and use
- today's technology to remove the distortion and surface noise. (Anyway, I
- hear that it may be reissued, perhaps from a long-lost tape??)
-
- By the way, I think the reissue of Hot Rats really sucks too. I haven't
- bought the one of Ruben and the Jets, since I have 2 copies of the original,
- both very scratchy (but that adds to the "feel")...
-