Remaster Wishlist

[Christopher__BA]

Which recordings are you just itching to have remastered?

my top 3..............

3. Dio - The Last In Line
2. Black Sabbath - Born Again (I know it's been done, but actually I really want the original members to just get together and redo it.......that album had lots of potential)
1. Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin

 

[Hawkeye]

Are you talking remastering a poorly recorded album, or remastering into surround? If surround then---

The entire Pink Floyd catalog
The Alan Parsons Project catalog
ELO - Time
King Crimson (oh wait Steven Wilson is already doing that)
Kraftwerk - most all of it
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Some more Steely Dan
The Beatles - White Album
Todd Rundren/Utopia - Ra

That would be enough to keep me in the poor house for a while.

 

[Christopher__BA]

I was thinking more along the lines of poorly recorded, but I dig what your sayin' too. Agree with most of your picks...especially Floyd (but maybe not Kraftwerk). Hendrix's stuff would be cool in 5.1.

 

[djreef]

The Metallica catalog from the 80's
Bruce Springsteen's catalog through Born in the USA (get on with it already!)

DJ

 

[skizzerflake]

A long time wish for remastered Beatles. I hear that it's about to be released and the promises are that we will hear things we never heard before. Some of the early ones were mixed to mono and even Sgt Peppers was done with fairly primitive techniques, but supposedly the new ones will really sound great.

 

[caupina]

The entire Pat Metheny and Pat Metheny Group catalog of the ECM label, (and if they were released as SACD or DVD-A that would be even better. I know "Imaginary Day" is the only MCH release available)

 

[audiofox]

Are you talking remastering a poorly recorded album, or remastering into surround? If surround then---

The entire Pink Floyd catalog
The Alan Parsons Project catalog
ELO - Time
King Crimson (oh wait Steven Wilson is already doing that)
Kraftwerk - most all of it
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Some more Steely Dan
The Beatles - White Album
Todd Rundren/Utopia - Ra

That would be enough to keep me in the poor house for a while.

Some of the Alan Parsons discography is already available in remastered hi-rez/multichannel from Classic Records-I Robot, Turn of a Friendly Card and Eye in the Sky. I think these are already out of print, but a quick Google search showed a few vendors still with stock. I'd love for Classic (or someone else equally good) to reissue the rest of his early catalog, especially Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Pyramid and Eve.

 

[Hawkeye]

Some of the Alan Parsons discography is already available in remastered hi-rez/multichannel from Classic Records-I Robot, Turn of a Friendly Card and Eye in the Sky.

Actually I Robot, Turn of a Friendly Card, and Eye in the Sky are all on hi-rez format - HDAD - 2 channel only, 24/192. I have them, (they're all available again btw). The only Parsons material "officially" released in surround are a couple of his post-Project albums, "On Air" and "A Valid Path" though both are in lossy format - 5.1 DTS I believe. From a surround perspective they are excellent. I really like his surround implementation ideas (methods?) based on the above two, plus the 4.0 version of Dark Side of the Moon he did years ago.

Here's a link to the HDAD of I Robot -
http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/13394/The_Alan_Parsons_Project-I_Robot-HDAD_2496_24192

I consider the HDAD of I Robot to be the definitive version of that album, and is actually one of the best, if not the best, sounding recordings I own.

 

[audiofox]

Actually I Robot, Turn of a Friendly Card, and Eye in the Sky are all on hi-rez format - HDAD - 2 channel only, 24/192. I have them, (they're all available again btw). The only Parsons material "officially" released in surround are a couple of his post-Project albums, "On Air" and "A Valid Path" though both are in lossy format - 5.1 DTS I believe. From a surround perspective they are excellent. I really like his surround implementation ideas (methods?) based on the above two, plus the 4.0 version of Dark Side of the Moon he did years ago.

Here's a link to the HDAD of I Robot -
http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/13394/The_Alan_Parsons_Project-I_Robot-HDAD_2496_24192

I consider the HDAD of I Robot to be the definitive version of that album, and is actually one of the best, if not the best, sounding recordings I own.

You are absolutely correct-I must have had the receiver on multichannel playback when I last played the 24/96 side, which I could have sworn was multichannel.

BTW, I agree with you on the HDAD version of "I, Robot"-I have the original MoFi aluminum CD (very rare), the MoFi regular and UHQR vinyl pressings (also hard to find) and the HDAD. The HDAD is heads and tails above the rest, although I occasionally pull out the UHQR pressing for old time's sake.

 

[johndoe]

Are you talking remastering a poorly recorded album, or remastering into surround? If surround then---

The entire Pink Floyd catalog
The Alan Parsons Project catalog
ELO - Time
King Crimson (oh wait Steven Wilson is already doing that)
Kraftwerk - most all of it
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Some more Steely Dan
The Beatles - White Album
Todd Rundren/Utopia - Ra

That would be enough to keep me in the poor house for a while.

King Crimson is releasing remasters AGAIN?? I have some of the 30th or 35th anniversary remasters in HDCD - Court of the Crimson King, Wake of Poseidon, Larks Tongues, Red, Discipline. I think they sound pretty nice in stereo. Huge dynamic range, pretty clear mix... The one that could benefit from multichannel I think is THRAK, with each member on a channel of his own (we'd need 6.1 or 7.1). If SW does Power to Believe, I'll try it.