2013 Street Legal Remaster + Shot Of Love
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chickyfornia — 12 years ago(December 02, 2013 07:20 PM)
I wasn't sure where else to ask about this, but does anyone have any thoughts on the Street Legal remaster that was included in The Complte Album Collection vs. the version released in 2004, also remastered? Apparantly the album was remastered in 1999 by the original producer after years of sounding terrible (I can't claim to have ever heard the original). I noticed it was the only CD in The Complete Album Collection that had been remastered for the 2nd time. I'm not sure which version sounds better, but I'm thinking it's the old one (1999/2004). The songs on that album are underrated in my opinin, it's a solid album, just not sure which one I should be listening to.
Also-Shot Of Love is the only album that was apparantly not remastered for the series, that should have been. Odd that it wasn't, because it's one of Dylan's personal favorites as I understand it.
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MurderInc2014 — 12 years ago(December 03, 2013 08:23 PM)
Who knows? I have the remastered Street Legal from 2004. It sounds pretty dam n good to me. How much more remastered can they do on an album? I bought the box set that came out in 2004 with about 12 CDs remastered in SACD or something like that with original artwork etc. Etc..I thought that was the be all and end all for complete sound on Dylan's albums. Now they come out with this. I'm no technical sound wizard by many means but I have a feeling a lot of this is gimmicky bs just to get people to buy the same stuff over and over. It's a great collection but I won't be shelling out anymore dough for the back catalog any more. What I have already sounds good enough and clear enough to me.
As for Shot of Love, good question. It wasn't included in the 2004 box either. Definitely an underrated gem IMHO. Should have gotten the clean up treatment as well. -
turkeycat — 12 years ago(December 04, 2013 12:03 PM)
I can't say about
Shot of Love
because I have only ever heard it on the original un-mastered CD.
However
Street Legal
has always been a favourite Dylan album of mine which I had on LP (vinyl) and then on the un-mastered CD. When the first remaster of
Street Legal
came out I bought a copy and was amazed at the difference. The new version revealed that there were instruments and arrangements on some of the songs that I had never heard or noticed before. Previously it had been muddy and murky but now on the remaster you could hear conga drums, extra guitar and mandolin parts, etc. It was a real revelation.
However, I can't really see what difference a new remastering will do - the one from the early 2000s was really a great step forward. -
MurderInc2014 — 12 years ago(December 04, 2013 05:30 PM)
Right. I understand and can here the difference in remastering of the Street Legal album compared to it's first release on cd. But beyond the remastering that's already been done on these albums, how much of a difference can this new complete box set be from the remasters done a few years ago? Im thinking there's not much difference especially to laymen like me.
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CasseroleWorshipper — 12 years ago(December 08, 2013 03:27 AM)
Of STREET-LEGAL there exists the original mix, 1999 mix and 2004 remaster of the 1999 mix. The recent Complete Album Collection has the original mix, but the best-sounding version of it. Especially if you compare it to the original vinyl which sounds AWFUL. So if you're used to the Don DeVito remaster you might be shocked when you hear it.
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streetlegal — 12 years ago(December 08, 2013 12:29 PM)
From what I've read about the recording of Shot Of Love it seems as if the 'rough' sound of the album was intentional. Dylan's co-producer Chuck Plotkin would apparently work on the rough mixes in an attempt to clean up the sound only for Dylan to reject them for sounding too slick. Dylan almost always prefers a live in the studio raw sound over a more polished, carefully crafted mix-the approach backfired somewhat on Street Legal because he was working with a bigger band than normal so the end result was muddy and rather ill-defined. I quite like the sound of the original album but it clearly wasn't what Dylan intended.
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CasseroleWorshipper — 12 years ago(December 08, 2013 01:34 PM)
And critics would have definitely been kinder to it had it sounded better in the first place. I've heard the original vinyl and it's almost unlistenable.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.