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Old Dec 27th, 2003, 12:06 AM        Re-Releases of Albums That Are Still Produced
Okay, so, today, I bought The Beatles' "Let it Be...Naked" which is basically just a re-release of Let it Be with a new cover and another CD that talks about life in the recording studio during recording of the album. Aside from that, it's exactly like any other copy of Let it Be that's been under production for the past 30 years.

Now, this is all well and good if you're like me and didn't own Let it Be to begin with, but why bother re-releasing it at all if Let it Be is still being produced normally? Why couldn't they just stick the extra CD in with new copies of Let it Be without going to the trouble of making an entirely new album?

Same thing goes for Pink Floyd's recent 30th anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon. My point is that this seems kind of stupid to me. Is it just companies bastardizing great classics for a bigger profit or is there actually some kind of point to it I'm not picking up?
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Old Dec 27th, 2003, 12:32 AM       
I thought the Let it Be reissue was supposed to be a de-Spectorized version, and I believe DSotM was released for the new SACD format. I haven't heard what SACD sounds like, but it's supposed to be fucking phenomenal.
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Old Dec 27th, 2003, 11:23 AM       
They produce it DSotM on vinyl, too. I saw one in the record store yesterday. I was tempted to buy it, but 30 bucks, no way.
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Old Dec 27th, 2003, 12:48 PM       
1. Emu, you are an idiot. First of all, the Let it Be is a different mix completely; it sounds like shit, and they took the majority of the strings and backing vocals off. Second, the fucking track listing is different! How fucking obvious can it get? Let It Be, opens withs Two of Us, new Let It Be Naked, opens with Get Back. Let It Be Naked is disturbingly bad; just listen to Dig a Pony, the mastering is so shitty that Ringos drums sound like grenades going off. Absolutely horrid.

2. Emu, get your ears check. The reason that Dark Side of the Moon was re-released again is a little thing called remastering and improved sound quality. A lot of the original CD releases did not properly recreate the sound of the album, so bands release a second version to correct the problems with the first. DSotM is a different case, since it had already been remastered. The new version is again remastered, and has a Super Audio CD layer for anyone with a SACD player; those with the player will notice a large improvement over CD. Both Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones have released several CD/SACD 'hybrids' (with both versions on one disc), that sound excellent and are much better than the original CDs from the late 1980s.

"Now, this is all well and good if you're like me and didn't own Let it Be to begin with, but why bother re-releasing it at all if Let it Be is still being produced normally?"

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1) Take your Let It Be Naked
2) Throw it in the garbage
3) Go to the store
4) Buy the original Let It Be
5) Play it, so you can hear a fucking great album that didn't need to be fucked up the ass so dumb-asses, such as yourself, would mistake it for the original, brilliant version.
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Old Dec 27th, 2003, 01:36 PM       
Wow, calm down there. It's not THAT big a deal.
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Old Dec 27th, 2003, 01:50 PM       
Yeah, it is!
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Old Dec 28th, 2003, 12:08 AM       
I thought Let it Be was kinda bad...
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Old Dec 28th, 2003, 12:13 AM       
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Old Dec 28th, 2003, 12:58 AM       
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I thought Let it Be was kinda bad...
Let It Be is a classic. All Beatles albums are great.
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Old Dec 28th, 2003, 02:13 AM       
I wouldn't say that either. They were kind of a generic pop band until about "Rubber Soul" and that one had its dull moments too. They didn't become a truly great band until "Revolver."
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Old Dec 28th, 2003, 05:06 AM       
Back then there really wasn't a generic 'pop' band, just a whole lotta Beatle clones.
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Old Dec 28th, 2003, 12:47 PM       
Exactly. Their first 4 or 5 albums feel kind of done-before because everyone else did it after. It's like watching Citizen Kane; yeah, the script is cliche and so are some of the techniques, but that's because everyone else ripped it off after it came out.


And all the early Beatles albums are great anyway. Beatles For Sale has lots of excellent songs, including I'm a Loser and Eight Days a Week. And Help! is really good, so is Hard Day's Night. A Rubber Soul is an undeniable masterpiece; Revolver is better, but to say tht Rubber Soul wasn't the shit is wrong.
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