Rating: - THE EMPEROR'S NEW, AND ONLY PARTIALLY-REMASTERED, CLOTHING
Polygram ceased production of its portion of Van-The-Man's catalog, resulting in 29 titles, two-thirds of his entire recorded output, remaining frustratingly unavailable for the past several years. Even more regrettably, sixteen of those OOP titles had been fabulously remastered and re-released in 1998. Accordingly, prices for these had soared, especially for the remastered titles.
Then, in late 2007, The Announcement! All 29 OOP titles would be re-released in 2008! With new remastering! Extra tracks! Even mini-sleeve editions from Japan!
Rating: - Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison
I really like this album. The songs and presentation are soothing to the soul. It is Van Morrison at his best.
Rating: - Wonderfully re-mastered.
This CD by Van Morrison was re-mastered beautifully.
If you once owned the LP of this CD, and wish to add the CD version to your CD Library, then this re-mastered version is just great.
I recommend it.
Even if this re-mastered version may cost a bit more than the regular stereo version, I recommend spending the extra dollar or so more and getting this re-mastered version of TUPELO HONEY.
Rating: - A+
If you own the original classic, this is worth rebuying for the extra tracks. The alternate "Wild Night" sounds like a long version of the original but probably chopped for AM radio at the time. The long version is very cool and better than the original version. "Down By the Riverside" also is cool. The song's anti-war line probably kept it off the original LP to avoid controversy with Vietnam most likely. Very cool. Buy it!
Rating: - Amazing alternate take of Wild Night makes this essential!
I was focused on the sound quality of this before hand. Wondering if it would be "loud" and compressed to the point of ruining the actual dynamic range of the recordings, as many people are finding with many newly mastered cds (granted if you only listen on your ipod or on a car's auto sound system this is not as evident).
But thankfully the sound is not so loud and compressed as to be unenjoyable (at least for me, though there are moments when I was annoyed with the lack of a truely natural sonic field), and this allowed me to listen through the regular cuts and arrive at the miraculous version ... Read More
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