Titles that need to be reissued on Audiophile Labels

I'd like to see the following (which I've mentioned in other threads in the past):
Fleetwood Mac-Then Play On
Quicksilver Messenger Service-Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service-Happy Trails

 

Would love to see some of the classic Yes catalog given some TLC on an audiophile CD label:

The Yes Album
Fragile
CTTE
Topographic Oceans
Relayer
Going For The One

 

Heart - Dog & Butterfly

 

Big Country: "The Crossing" (Fantastic album that has never had a decent sounding release in any format)
The Moody Blues: "This Is The Moody Blues" (remixed songs so individual tracks for a home made compilation culled from the individual albums won't do. I'm hoping it will be released on SACD, but frankly I doubt it will be.)
Linda Ronstadt:"Hasten Down the Wind"; "Prisoner In Disguise"; "Simple Dreams"; "Heart Like A Wheel" (I realize this last title was just just realized on vinyl - a CD issue as well would be nice).

 

The first 7 ELO albums.

Head East - Flat As A Pancake

All Steely Dan albums

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown


I'm sure I'll think of others.

 

Wasn't "Fragile" just released by MFSL on CD and by AP on vinyl?

 

All on top quality mastered and cut vinyl...

Meatloaf - Bat out of hell II
Prefab Sprout - Jordan the comeback
Hothouse flowers - Songs from the rain
Richard Hawley - first three albums (including Lowedges which was on rather noisy vinyl)
John Legend - once again (sounds very warm like classic 70's soul. Would love a good release of this on vinyl)
Rodgrigo & Gabriela - Re:foc
RHCP - Californication & By the way
Talk Talk - Spirit of eden & laughing Stock
Fleetwood mac - Rumours...WB....Steve??
Andrea Bocelli's stuff(although probably not worth transferring to vinyl)
Abba - Voulez vous
Aphex twin ambient works II
Pulp - Different class
The prayerboat - Polichinelle(Irish band. I know I'll never see this one
Big Star - #1 & radio city
Ibrahim Ferreir
Deadcan dance - Into the labyrinth ( I don't need it now but think it would be a good idea to release this again)
Everything but the girl - walking wounded
Los Lobos - Chico
Gipsy kings - all albums IF they can be improved
Kylie Minogue - last few albums with bonus err artwork
Magnetic fields - get lost & 69 love songs
Hush - Lifetime (Danish alt-country band....gorgeous stuff)
Oasis - first two albums
Stevie wonder - all his classic albums
The flaming lips - yoshimi
the hidden cameras - the smell of our own
If U2 could be made sound better all of their stuff...
The kilers - hot fuss
razorlight - razorlight
The mavericks and raul malo albums
tom russell's recent albums
The stone roses - the stone roses


to name but a few

R

 

Both Jellyfish albums

The XTC catalog

The Black Crowes catalog (Lions strictly optional!)

Audiophile LPs of McCartney/Wings solo

New Doors LPs (I know about the DCCs, but they're shy a couple and the rest are REALLY expensive!)

Prince

Springsteen

U2

maybe Sting/Police

Van Halen

The rest of the early Yes catalog (still haven't heard the AF Fragile -- it was backordered!)

-mk

 

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Todd Rundgren-Hermit of Mink Hollow....I find this to be even stronger than his much-loved "Something/Anything" plus the sonics are so clear for a Todd album. None of his trademark warped, wonky EQ's. If Steve Hoffman got his hands (and ears) on this 35 minute nugget...mmmmmmmm....PARADISE!


Dusty Springfield-Cameo...This overlooked gem (that describes 98 percent of Dusty output, actually) would be a brilliant outlet for an audiophile label. Steve's intoxicating 'breath of life' added to an already intoxicating album would make this more potent than any naughty, illegal chemical.

 

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IIRC, the general consensus on the SH Forum in the past has been that the MFSL "Sundown" album is a mild disappointment and not an advancement over the original vinyl. (Not that it sounds terrible, but slightly better EQ choices could have been made.)

"Sundown" is one of my favourite records and I would like to see it re-mastered and re-pressed, perhaps by this new WB audiophile division.

 

Mobile Fidelity didn't do a great job on the Sinatra box set. Wrong tapes on about 1/2 the albums, bad Eq (on most - though not all - of the records), etc. It's also not the whole catalog. I wish it was the ultimate, but it's not even close, even though a few records turned out pretty well in there.

 

How about the original MCA CD's done by Roger Nichols? While maybe not quite "audiophile" CD pressings, they are flat transfers, somewhat cheap & readily available, & sound pretty damned good to me. They compare VERY favorably to the few original vinyl pressings that I own.

 

Ditto! The treatment Steve did for the Nat albums on Sinatra's catalog would be amazing!

 

Jellyfish Spilt Milk

Jellyfish Bellybutton

Paul McCartney Tug Of War

The complete mono Beatles catalog!!!!!!!!!


Chris

 

Capitol just released the a 2 CD set of Linda's solo Capitol albums which includes Heart Like a Wheel so if an indie reissue label were to license Heart Like a Wheel for CD, it would compete with their product, but if MFSL were to license this one for gold disc, it wouldn't compete with their issue.

 

I am planning to, but I have not purchased that Capitol set, yet. So, I have not heard the sound quality of this latest release of "Heart of a Wheel". It would be nice to have the album (alone) on an audiophile CD.

 

The part about the wrong tapes is news to me-- I'll have to look into that. And MoFi didn't own an EQ at that time, so that's news to me too. I think the set is great, and it's better by an order of magnitude than anything else that's out there. You're right about it being incomplete, though-- I wish it weren't. But it's all the best, since it's only missing the show stuff IIRC.

 

All of the mono only albums in that set, except for Songs For Young Lovers/Swing Easy and Look to Your Heart (a compilation), come from early 1960's dubs Capitol made (marked MASTER) that were Eq'd and had added echo. The stereo albums come from the 2-track stereo mixed masters.

The Eqing I speak of in the MoFi set is independent from what was on the tapes they used. If Mobile Fidelity didn't have an equalizer, how did they Eq The Beatles box, which was done before the Sinatra box? Even Stan has admitted that set was Eq'd, and not to his liking (at IIRC Gary Giorgi's request).

 

Steve Miller's first three albums...

Aaron

 

Stan's claim that the Beatles tapes were EQ'd is false, according to Gregg Schnitzer, and the beginnings of all that bad blood go back to his and Gary's disagreements over ownership in the company. Note Stan has never made these claims in print.

 

That only took FOUR pages. I resisted the temptation, but wholeheartedly agree!
-mk

 

Well, I don't need to get between personal issues, but the Eqing is audible. I'm not opposed to judicious Eq that well serves the music & recordings, but this doesn't to my ear. Not trying to spoil your enjoyment of the set - enjoy!

BTW - I have seen printed interviews with Stan with these claims regarding The Beatles MoFi box set. Something about The Beatles he did being overzingy.