Thermionic Dude
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I have been revisiting some favorite cassettes from my high school days and had forgotten how GREAT these bands are. I am now looking to replace a few of the aging casettes and am hoping you can point me to the best-sounding releases.
The Mission: "God's Own Medicine" and "Children"-there appears to be several available CD releases of these albums. I am intrigued by the recent (2002-2003 IIRC) UK remasters of these albums, but see that US and Japanese remasters also appear to be available. Any comments on the sound quality of any of these releases would be appreciated.
Midnight Oil: "Place Without a Postcard", "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1", and "Red Sails in the Sunset"-without a doubt, their best albums, but unfortunately appear to be long out-of-print in the US (only "Diesel and Dust" and "Blue Sky Mining" appear to be in-print and just happen to be the only albums I already have on CD!). The only releases I can find (cdconnection.com) of the former is an Aussie-release boxed set that contains all three albums. If the CD sound quality is definitively superior to the cassette releases (not at all a given in my experience with 80's Alt Rock-I can think of several examples where the cassette sounds superior), I will order the boxed set.
Bauhaus: "In the Flat Field" and "Mask"-appears to be several remastered versions available but I really don't know anything about sound quality, any insight any of you can provide would be appreciated.
Oh yeah, since this is a post about 80's music I have to ask: are there ANY good-sounding CD releases of Depeche Mode "Black Celebration" or "Music for the Masses"? I have the original US CD releases of both of these albums (these were actually some of the first CDs I bought after getting my first CDP) and the overall sound quality is 100% 80s "digital" in the WORST WAY-literally every cliché we use on these boards to describe bad digital sound is present in spades on these releases. It's a travesty that such musical greatness can be so uncerimoniously neutered by the abysmal quality of the recording/mastering process.
I had originally posted this to another audio-related board, but have received very few responses. The demographic here at HeadFi is somewhat different in terms of musical preferences, so I thought I might have more luck with this question here.
Cheers
The Mission: "God's Own Medicine" and "Children"-there appears to be several available CD releases of these albums. I am intrigued by the recent (2002-2003 IIRC) UK remasters of these albums, but see that US and Japanese remasters also appear to be available. Any comments on the sound quality of any of these releases would be appreciated.
Midnight Oil: "Place Without a Postcard", "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1", and "Red Sails in the Sunset"-without a doubt, their best albums, but unfortunately appear to be long out-of-print in the US (only "Diesel and Dust" and "Blue Sky Mining" appear to be in-print and just happen to be the only albums I already have on CD!). The only releases I can find (cdconnection.com) of the former is an Aussie-release boxed set that contains all three albums. If the CD sound quality is definitively superior to the cassette releases (not at all a given in my experience with 80's Alt Rock-I can think of several examples where the cassette sounds superior), I will order the boxed set.
Bauhaus: "In the Flat Field" and "Mask"-appears to be several remastered versions available but I really don't know anything about sound quality, any insight any of you can provide would be appreciated.
Oh yeah, since this is a post about 80's music I have to ask: are there ANY good-sounding CD releases of Depeche Mode "Black Celebration" or "Music for the Masses"? I have the original US CD releases of both of these albums (these were actually some of the first CDs I bought after getting my first CDP) and the overall sound quality is 100% 80s "digital" in the WORST WAY-literally every cliché we use on these boards to describe bad digital sound is present in spades on these releases. It's a travesty that such musical greatness can be so uncerimoniously neutered by the abysmal quality of the recording/mastering process.
I had originally posted this to another audio-related board, but have received very few responses. The demographic here at HeadFi is somewhat different in terms of musical preferences, so I thought I might have more luck with this question here.
Cheers