A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: goon525 on August 12, 2020, 04:15:08 PM
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Just had an email announcing these issues at the beginning of October. No mention of whether a remastering is involved, nor whether any high res downloads may be available.
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Maybe the timing of the announcement is intended as a 71st birthday present? I suspect he doesn’t much care!
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sooooooo boring. no extra's, just repackaged in a box. really sad record company effort.
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Mark is gifting the fans the day of his birthday ;D
We knew that the company that owns the rights as well as Mark were in discussion to release some recordings due to the pressure of the fans, now I'm honestly waiting for the live recordings in official version.
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sooooooo boring. no extra's, just repackaged in a box. really sad record company effort.
Agree, again and again, They're going to milk the cow as much as they can...
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sooooooo boring. no extra's, just repackaged in a box. really sad record company effort.
A missed opportunity to name the box set "Money For Nothing" lol. Yes, absolutely zero thrill news. Yet another box set, allright. As if "Dire Straits – The Studio Albums 1978 - 1991" box set from 2013 wasn't enough. Sigh...
Or wait a minute... It's the same exact thing! Only 7 years later.
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
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sooooooo boring. no extra's, just repackaged in a box. really sad record company effort.
Boring is a very kind way to put it.
For me it's more like 'extremely pissed off' than 'bored' for what has been released in the last 25-30 years
and what could have been released
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sooooooo boring. no extra's, just repackaged in a box. really sad record company effort.
Boring is a very kind way to put it.
For me it's more like 'extremely pissed off' than 'bored' for what has been released in the last 25-30 years
and what could have been released
They also released a 100% playback Live version of Rüdiger and want us to celebrate Mark’s birthday with it. These two news combined it’s as if they decided to give fans a royal middle finger :disbelief
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
Another reason not to buy from the tax dodgers.
The vinyl box is around £110 while the cd one is around £20.
https://townsendmusic.store/cart/product.php?id=67809
The only interesting thing,for me at least,is that the cd boxset promises an album poster with each cd.I've always wanted a Communique poster!
The vinyl boxset is a repress of the 2013 release.
Neither of these releases will stop further discussions regarding a BIA boxset(according to my local record store.)
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Maybe MFSL remasters from last year are more worth it then buying this.
Why release same stuff... Bring something new!!
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Same $hit, new wrapping.
This is aimed at fans, who already have at least one version of all the albums. And then they dare sell us the same stuff again, without any extras or goodies. Really? A total joke.
Edit: OK, didn't see this: "Each album will include a poster with the original sleeve artwork, including lyrics and credits." The posters would be nice to put in frames, I'll give them that. Still, though. Some more music, please!
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As far as the CDs are concerned, anyone know if it’ll be the original transfers or the mid 90s remastering?
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Same $hit, new wrapping.
This is aimed at fans, who already have at least one version of all the albums. And then they dare sell us the same stuff again, without any extras or goodies. Really? A total joke.
Edit: OK, didn't see this: "Each album will include a poster with the original sleeve artwork, including lyrics and credits." The posters would be nice to put in frames, I'll give them that. Still, though. Some more music, please!
The posters idea reminds me... Here in Russia we once had an ad of a real estate agency that said: "Buy an apartment and get a baseball cap for free". I mean that if you want to make a poster, you can scan one and print it, download and print it, no need to buy an expensive collection of albums... Let alone the idea of selling CD's in the year 2020. I don't own a single piece of tech that can play CD's for the last 10 years or so! Why music industry is so damn slow?
You have so many choices, put out an awesome HD collection in 96 kHz albums on a USB-C thumb drive, SSD or something, make something like guitar-shaped USB-stick like they did on tour, make something like The Beatles with their Apple-shaped thumb drive with all albums in mono and stereo. So many ideas, yet they settle on boring CD and vinyl collection. That's not old-school, that's lazy as :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief :disbelief.
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As far as the CDs are concerned, anyone know if it’ll be the original transfers or the mid 90s remastering?
It'll be from the 2013 masters which,to be fair,were good.
The MOFI editions sound great,but I'm not sure they are worth £50(£30 for the sacd) per album so perhaps these cheaper represses are the way to go.
The cd boxset is now available for £15 which is great value if you don't have the 2013 editions.Unfortunately this probably means the posters will be a little disappointing:(
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
That's not the release price of the vinyl box. That's the price of a box of the first release, that happened two or three (maybe more) years ago and got out of print, hence that price.
The new release, which is a reissue of that box would be around 100 pounds.
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sad that they couldnt release Alchemy, On The Night and Live At The BBC on vinyl also especially On The Night and BBC they are hard to find and expensive so they need a reissue in fact. and when will we see whole Alchemy with all the songs. hope they will release something more funny live so we dont need these bootlegs with Oslo gig, Basel, San Francisco for the 100000000000000. time
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sad that they couldnt release Alchemy, On The Night and Live At The BBC on vinyl also especially On The Night and BBC they are hard to find and expensive so they need a reissue in fact. and when will we see whole Alchemy with all the songs. hope they will release something more funny live so we dont need these bootlegs with Oslo gig, Basel, San Francisco for the 100000000000000. time
They won't never leave a fan doing the job so what can we hope for ?
I am almost 100% pessimistic about both Alchemy and On The Night being extended with unreleased stuff.
Most probable unreleased stuff to see the light will be TV and/or radio recording. But before that, the rights have to been cleared and sometimes you never reach the deal.
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sooooooo boring. no extra's, just repackaged in a box. really sad record company effort.
Agree, again and again, They're going to milk the cow as much as they can...
That old cow, she wasn’t milkin’ anyhow...
The original 80s cds sound best and can be bought cheap second hand.
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
That's not the release price of the vinyl box. That's the price of a box of the first release, that happened two or three (maybe more) years ago and got out of print, hence that price.
The new release, which is a reissue of that box would be around 100 pounds.
Thanks Jbaent, I realised that shortly afterwards.
Still seems a lot of cash for 6 albums that I already own in multiple formats including vinyl!
I went on discogs and priced up the albums individually in mint condition and you could buy all 6 on 180gsm vinyl for about £70.
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I have a question. How come the video footage of the Basel concert isn’t up on youtube? How??
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I have a question. How come the video footage of the Basel concert isn’t up on youtube? How??
Simple... It was blocked. We had this bootleg on our channel Mark Knopfler Russia, but it got blocked permanently. Nimes, however, is not blocked :lol A lot of videos get blocked, that's the reality of it. And it's actually not a bad thing, as long as the team working on it do a great job. Team working with Mark makes sure to clean up all the internet of all the unofficial uploads and replace it with uploads on Mark's official youtube channel. But since Basel is technically a bootleg, not an official release, it just got blocked.
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basel was a tv recording, so not more unofficial then any of the others no?
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I have a question. How come the video footage of the Basel concert isn’t up on youtube? How??
Simple... It was blocked. We had this bootleg on our channel Mark Knopfler Russia, but it got blocked permanently. Nimes, however, is not blocked :lol A lot of videos get blocked, that's the reality of it. And it's actually not a bad thing, as long as the team working on it do a great job. Team working with Mark makes sure to clean up all the internet of all the unofficial uploads and replace it with uploads on Mark's official youtube channel. But since Basel is technically a bootleg, not an official release, it just got blocked.
There is something more... It got blocked because apparently "Eagle rock" has the rights of DS BAsel 92.... Eagle Rock has released a lot of dvds of many artists like The Rolling Stones, Toto, Eric Clapton and many many more ( https://www.eagle-rock.com/artists ). The strange thing is that DS is not in their artists list. but when Unlimited tried to upload the "IA" version of Basel 92 to youtube it got blocked saying Eagle Rock had the rights of it.
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
That's not the release price of the vinyl box. That's the price of a box of the first release, that happened two or three (maybe more) years ago and got out of print, hence that price.
The new release, which is a reissue of that box would be around 100 pounds.
Thanks Jbaent, I realised that shortly afterwards.
Still seems a lot of cash for 6 albums that I already own in multiple formats including vinyl!
I went on discogs and priced up the albums individually in mint condition and you could buy all 6 on 180gsm vinyl for about £70.
These are 180 gr vinyls, remastered from the masters. BIA and OES come as double vinyl set, so what you did on discogs doesn't apply as comparation.
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
That's not the release price of the vinyl box. That's the price of a box of the first release, that happened two or three (maybe more) years ago and got out of print, hence that price.
The new release, which is a reissue of that box would be around 100 pounds.
Thanks Jbaent, I realised that shortly afterwards.
Still seems a lot of cash for 6 albums that I already own in multiple formats including vinyl!
I went on discogs and priced up the albums individually in mint condition and you could buy all 6 on 180gsm vinyl for about £70.
These are 180 gr vinyls, remastered from the masters. BIA and OES come as double vinyl set, so what you did on discogs doesn't apply as comparation.
Sorry but you're incorrect.
These are the remasters.
All 6 remastered albums are available through discogs on 180 gram vinyl including the double versions of BIA and OES in mint condition for £73 including p&p.
You seem to have missed my point, given that many of us have these already if you're after just one or 2 of the albums on high quality vinyl then this is a far better way to get them rather than shelling out for something many of us already own multiple times.
If there was anything rare, new, or unreleased in the box then it would be a completely different discussion and well worth having. In fact I've bought all of Marks solo box sets as there worth it from a collector's point of view. This 'new' box set, it's just a money making exercise....
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Sorry but you're incorrect.
These are the remasters.
All 6 remastered albums are available through discogs on 180 gram vinyl including the double versions of BIA and OES in mint condition for £73 including p&p.
You seem to have missed my point, given that many of us have these already if you're after just one or 2 of the albums on high quality vinyl then this is a far better way to get them rather than shelling out for something many of us already own multiple times.
If there was anything rare, new, or unreleased in the box then it would be a completely different discussion and well worth having. In fact I've bought all of Marks solo box sets as there worth it from a collector's point of view. This 'new' box set, it's just a money making exercise....
From my experience, boxes like that usually go out as a gift to "somebody" who loves music or possibly showed affection towards MK's music one day, of course, that's not a thing for a fan. Or is it? I'm a fan, and all I own is a Tracker box set which was gifted to me, the vinyl version of The Ragpicker's Dream, a signed CD version of Sailing to Philadelphia which was a gift and a vinyl version of Dire Straits debut album, which I bought to test my vinyl player. So for a guy like me, this box set may be tempting, as long as I was an audiophile or a record collector. Which I'm not.
So yeah, posters.
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
That's not the release price of the vinyl box. That's the price of a box of the first release, that happened two or three (maybe more) years ago and got out of print, hence that price.
The new release, which is a reissue of that box would be around 100 pounds.
Thanks Jbaent, I realised that shortly afterwards.
Still seems a lot of cash for 6 albums that I already own in multiple formats including vinyl!
I went on discogs and priced up the albums individually in mint condition and you could buy all 6 on 180gsm vinyl for about £70.
These are 180 gr vinyls, remastered from the masters. BIA and OES come as double vinyl set, so what you did on discogs doesn't apply as comparation.
Sorry but you're incorrect.
These are the remasters.
All 6 remastered albums are available through discogs on 180 gram vinyl including the double versions of BIA and OES in mint condition for £73 including p&p.
You seem to have missed my point, given that many of us have these already if you're after just one or 2 of the albums on high quality vinyl then this is a far better way to get them rather than shelling out for something many of us already own multiple times.
If there was anything rare, new, or unreleased in the box then it would be a completely different discussion and well worth having. In fact I've bought all of Marks solo box sets as there worth it from a collector's point of view. This 'new' box set, it's just a money making exercise....
Sorry, you are right.
Actually the only thing they do is to pack all of them in a nice box, but without any other content. It is just something for collectors really, or to people who doesn't have any of the vinyls and here they have their chance.
I rather have an extra vinyl with aditional material, but... that's "what it is" ;D
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I have a question. How come the video footage of the Basel concert isn’t up on youtube? How??
Simple... It was blocked. We had this bootleg on our channel Mark Knopfler Russia, but it got blocked permanently. Nimes, however, is not blocked :lol A lot of videos get blocked, that's the reality of it. And it's actually not a bad thing, as long as the team working on it do a great job. Team working with Mark makes sure to clean up all the internet of all the unofficial uploads and replace it with uploads on Mark's official youtube channel. But since Basel is technically a bootleg, not an official release, it just got blocked.
There is something more... It got blocked because apparently "Eagle rock" has the rights of DS BAsel 92.... Eagle Rock has released a lot of dvds of many artists like The Rolling Stones, Toto, Eric Clapton and many many more ( https://www.eagle-rock.com/artists ). The strange thing is that DS is not in their artists list. but when Unlimited tried to upload the "IA" version of Basel 92 to youtube it got blocked saying Eagle Rock had the rights of it.
Eagle Rock Entertainment is the world-leading producer and distributor of music documentary and concert films. Founded in 1997, our multi-award-winning company creates over 50 productions a year and distributes over 2,000 hours of music programming. [...] Eagle is a Universal Music Group company, and is headquartered in London.
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I have a question. How come the video footage of the Basel concert isn’t up on youtube? How??
Simple... It was blocked. We had this bootleg on our channel Mark Knopfler Russia, but it got blocked permanently. Nimes, however, is not blocked :lol A lot of videos get blocked, that's the reality of it. And it's actually not a bad thing, as long as the team working on it do a great job. Team working with Mark makes sure to clean up all the internet of all the unofficial uploads and replace it with uploads on Mark's official youtube channel. But since Basel is technically a bootleg, not an official release, it just got blocked.
There is something more... It got blocked because apparently "Eagle rock" has the rights of DS BAsel 92.... Eagle Rock has released a lot of dvds of many artists like The Rolling Stones, Toto, Eric Clapton and many many more ( https://www.eagle-rock.com/artists ). The strange thing is that DS is not in their artists list. but when Unlimited tried to upload the "IA" version of Basel 92 to youtube it got blocked saying Eagle Rock had the rights of it.
Eagle Rock Entertainment is the world-leading producer and distributor of music documentary and concert films. Founded in 1997, our multi-award-winning company creates over 50 productions a year and distributes over 2,000 hours of music programming. [...] Eagle is a Universal Music Group company, and is headquartered in London.
I encourage someone to rewatch the show, maybe it has a part of a song that was really owned by "Eagle rock"? I remember on one of the bootlegs in the intro there was a song which was not DS, kind of like the Alchemy with The Drifters. So "Eagle rock" could block the video because of that. If somewhere, even for a one second, there's a Blocker's Song, the video will be blocked.
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I have a question. How come the video footage of the Basel concert isn’t up on youtube? How??
Simple... It was blocked. We had this bootleg on our channel Mark Knopfler Russia, but it got blocked permanently. Nimes, however, is not blocked :lol A lot of videos get blocked, that's the reality of it. And it's actually not a bad thing, as long as the team working on it do a great job. Team working with Mark makes sure to clean up all the internet of all the unofficial uploads and replace it with uploads on Mark's official youtube channel. But since Basel is technically a bootleg, not an official release, it just got blocked.
There is something more... It got blocked because apparently "Eagle rock" has the rights of DS BAsel 92.... Eagle Rock has released a lot of dvds of many artists like The Rolling Stones, Toto, Eric Clapton and many many more ( https://www.eagle-rock.com/artists ). The strange thing is that DS is not in their artists list. but when Unlimited tried to upload the "IA" version of Basel 92 to youtube it got blocked saying Eagle Rock had the rights of it.
Eagle Rock Entertainment is the world-leading producer and distributor of music documentary and concert films. Founded in 1997, our multi-award-winning company creates over 50 productions a year and distributes over 2,000 hours of music programming. [...] Eagle is a Universal Music Group company, and is headquartered in London.
I encourage someone to rewatch the show, maybe it has a part of a song that was really owned by "Eagle rock"? I remember on one of the bootlegs in the intro there was a song which was not DS, kind of like the Alchemy with The Drifters. So "Eagle rock" could block the video because of that. If somewhere, even for a one second, there's a Blocker's Song, the video will be blocked.
I remember there is Eric Idle's "look on the bright side of life" at the end of the concert, maybe that's the reason ? :think
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I've just checked the price of the vinyl box on Amazon and they're asking £400 pre order!
I think I'll stick with what I've got.
Very disappointing....
That's not the release price of the vinyl box. That's the price of a box of the first release, that happened two or three (maybe more) years ago and got out of print, hence that price.
The new release, which is a reissue of that box would be around 100 pounds.
Thanks Jbaent, I realised that shortly afterwards.
Still seems a lot of cash for 6 albums that I already own in multiple formats including vinyl!
I went on discogs and priced up the albums individually in mint condition and you could buy all 6 on 180gsm vinyl for about £70.
These are 180 gr vinyls, remastered from the masters. BIA and OES come as double vinyl set, so what you did on discogs doesn't apply as comparation.
Sorry but you're incorrect.
These are the remasters.
All 6 remastered albums are available through discogs on 180 gram vinyl including the double versions of BIA and OES in mint condition for £73 including p&p.
You seem to have missed my point, given that many of us have these already if you're after just one or 2 of the albums on high quality vinyl then this is a far better way to get them rather than shelling out for something many of us already own multiple times.
If there was anything rare, new, or unreleased in the box then it would be a completely different discussion and well worth having. In fact I've bought all of Marks solo box sets as there worth it from a collector's point of view. This 'new' box set, it's just a money making exercise....
Sorry, you are right.
Actually the only thing they do is to pack all of them in a nice box, but without any other content. It is just something for collectors really, or to people who doesn't have any of the vinyls and here they have their chance.
I rather have an extra vinyl with aditional material, but... that's "what it is" ;D
Yep 😀
The couple of mk albums I would pay good money for are stp (never released), gh (never released) and Shangri la (currently changing hands for £300-400!). Put them in a box set and I'd bite someone's arm off for them 😀!
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They are out now
I am surprised that for this box they didn't delete 1-2 songs for each album
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Are the CDs the 1996 remaster or a newer version? Any better?
I’ve all the cds already though often just listen via Spotify these days, but for £20 if they have all been updated I guess I would contribute to Mark’s pension.
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Same than 1996.
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CD and vinyl for 2020, nice. Music industry is nuts! Give me a downloadable hi-res audio, give me a cool usb-c drive to listen to the music. CD... Pathetic. They moan that nobody buys records anymore, but can’t even offer an alternative.
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Selling or more properly, selling off the entire discography, live apart, for a few pennies does not honor to one of the greatest rock bands in the world.
I don't think anything like this is made for bands like Pink Floyd or even Duran Duran.
They could study something better, they had to do something better....
dIRE sTRAITS objectively deserved a better ending.
Sad.
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Selling or more properly, selling off the entire discography, live apart, for a few pennies does not honor to one of the greatest rock bands in the world.
I don't think anything like this is made for bands like Pink Floyd or even Duran Duran.
They could study something better, they had to do something better....
dIRE sTRAITS objectively deserved a better ending.
Sad.
I agree, especially when you consider that DS live stuff is stunning, often better than studio versions and with so many different live versions, lots of stuff could be released
instead you don't even get a full live concert, tragic really
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Yep 😀
The couple of mk albums I would pay good money for are stp (never released), gh (never released) and Shangri la (currently changing hands for £300-400!). Put them in a box set and I'd bite someone's arm off for them 😀!
I think a re-pressed ExtendanceEP (inc. Badges) would make a fantastic Record Store Day release one day.
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Or Comfort And Joy:)
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I just received my box today and I'm a little bit disappointed because for any unknown reason, it comes without the bonus track cd!!!!!!
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I just received my box today and I'm a little bit disappointed because for any unknown reason, it comes without the bonus track cd!!!!!!
:lol :lol :lol
I received mine this morning
wonder why all CD are black (different from 96 remasters) and only BIA has the national guitar colors
they could have done each CD fiting with the album cover
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For some unknown reason they used the wrong font for the OES-cover. The right font is OCR-B. See the difference:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Bv9gpW9D/OES-cover.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/SndCQvKN)
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That's a pretty drastic font difference, very strange indeed. Well, at least they did Love Over Gold right, right?
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That's a pretty drastic font difference, very strange indeed. Well, at least they did Love Over Gold right, right?
Well, it kind of worked, I didn't noticed, and I guess that many others won't, like me...
Good observation Lars!
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I just received my box today and I'm a little bit disappointed because for any unknown reason, it comes without the bonus track cd!!!!!!
:lol :lol :lol
I received mine this morning
wonder why all CD are black (different from 96 remasters) and only BIA has the national guitar colors
they could have done each CD fiting with the album cover
But wasn't BIA the only LP featuring a dedicated label ?
And doing multicolor is more expensive than a monochrome.
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I just received my box today and I'm a little bit disappointed because for any unknown reason, it comes without the bonus track cd!!!!!!
:lol :lol :lol
I received mine this morning
wonder why all CD are black (different from 96 remasters) and only BIA has the national guitar colors
they could have done each CD fiting with the album cover
But wasn't BIA the only LP featuring a dedicated label ?
And doing multicolor is more expensive than a monochrome.
yes but at least they could have done the same labels as remasters from 96 : the label color is the same as the sleeve
but maybe you are right, they wanted to reproduce the LP apparence...
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https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/dire-straits-first-uk-album-top-ten-22-years/
:clap
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Cheap price for the CDs if you are in the UK:
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/dire-straits-the-studio-albums-1978-1991-cd-boxset-ps1355-delivered-with-code-at-chalkys-ebay-3643935
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Everyone will like this one.
Rhino are releasing/have just released (via their "Start Your Ear Off Right" campaign)limited vinyl editions of all the studio Dire Straits albums.Of course there are no extra tracks.
All are single 180g discs except BIA and OES which are double discs.Prices are between£20-£30.
In the past,releases from this campaign have led to deluxe versions of albums that same year so we are obviously in for a real treat at some point in 2021 :o
Having said that I have been told by my local record store that a deluxe version of BIA is coming this year.What with the documentary and the books this year must be a great time to finally release some deluxe items.
Obviously Mark has spent many hours of lockdown being interviewed for the deluxe versions so plenty of enlightenment will soon be ours :thumbsup
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I don’t really understand how these are any different to the existing 180g editions you can buy in any record shop?
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Just read the news BIA and LH will be released on vinyl half speed. :o Awesome! Another vinyl release, again... I think we have 293746120837 vinyl versions of BIA right now. When do we expect the MK solo albums to be remastered and released on vinyl? :think
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Just read the news BIA and LH will be released on vinyl half speed. :o Awesome! Another vinyl release, again... I think we have 293746120837 vinyl versions of BIA right now. When do we expect the MK solo albums to be remastered and released on vinyl? :think
Going on previous sensible business decisions by MK and PCM... never.
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Yet another amazing reissue!
A must not have
:smack
Altough it seems quite fair that they release something on half speed. That is something that PCM and MK's marketing people actually can relate to.
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Cant quite believe yet another remaster is coming out. It's kind of crazy. I can think of 4 remastered versions of BIA on vinyl from recent years
I wont hold my breath for a deluxe version of BIA, although would be great
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I'll buy the Local Hero one, but the BIA, I already have the vinyl box...
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I'll buy the Local Hero one, but the BIA, I already have the vinyl box...
I'll wait for the quarter speed remastered vinyl.
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I'll buy the Local Hero one, but the BIA, I already have the vinyl box...
I'll wait for the quarter speed remastered vinyl.
Here's another thought. Is remastered better? I would suggest you check out this little page here: http://dr.loudness-war.info
It will show you that the dynamic range of remastered albums is generally lower than of the originals. This happens because of people's listening habits. The best Dire Straits albums to buy are the originals from the 80s. BiA is brilliantly mastered in the original, HUGE dynamic range. You cannot top that!
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Technical stuff
https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/interview/dire-straits-and-mark-knopfler-half-speed-mastering-details-revealed/
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Technical stuff
https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/interview/dire-straits-and-mark-knopfler-half-speed-mastering-details-revealed/
I was thinking to the buyers of the high priced MoFi release that will have to get another copy of BIA LPs again...
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Ha. I wonder if any of them could tell the difference.
I know I couldn’t.
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An interesting article here:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/miles-showell-abbey-road-dire-straits-mark-knopfler-remasters-interview/
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An interesting article here:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/miles-showell-abbey-road-dire-straits-mark-knopfler-remasters-interview/
Ha. I wonder if any of them could tell the difference.
I know I couldn’t.
Still, to me, the only remaster that was better than the original was the remastered version of The Doors' debut album, which was mastered slower, and remaster fixed that and changed the actual music. All other remasters are basically the same thing and milking the same cow for money. Amazing how they do it for like a million times!
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From my point of view the important thing with all these releases is not the whole 'remastered' thing as let's face it, unless you've got a £3000 record player you won't notice a huge difference. Its the opportunity to have them on better quality vinyl.
Without doubt 180gsm vinyl is far more durable.
Its interesting to compare my original copy of on the night (20 plus years old and played heavily) with say the get lucky heavier vinyls (13 and counting - can you believe that!). They have stood up much better and despite lots of use still sound as good as the day I bought them.
Oh and a little tip. Don't let your 5 year old near your record collection!
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An interesting article here:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/miles-showell-abbey-road-dire-straits-mark-knopfler-remasters-interview/
Ha. I wonder if any of them could tell the difference.
I know I couldn’t.
Still, to me, the only remaster that was better than the original was the remastered version of The Doors' debut album, which was mastered slower, and remaster fixed that and changed the actual music. All other remasters are basically the same thing and milking the same cow for money. Amazing how they do it for like a million times!
Actually, much the same happened with the most famous jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue, where a speed error was corrected in a digital remastering to good effect.
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It’s interesting that we’ve now had serious new masterings of all the DS studio albums for vinyl (why not Alchemy?) but there has been no attempt at a high res digital remastering, for which I suspect there would be considerable interest. The last remastering was in the mid 90s, I think, since when digital technology has moved on quite a bit.
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It’s interesting that we’ve now had serious new masterings of all the DS studio albums for vinyl (why not Alchemy?) but there has been no attempt at a high res digital remastering, for which I suspect there would be considerable interest. The last remastering was in the mid 90s, I think, since when digital technology has moved on quite a bit.
There have been Mofi remasters since then, I don’t know if they do hi-res.
As for Alchemy, I guess it’s because these products are aimed at “audiophiles” and it’s acknowledged that there are limitations to Alchemy as a truly live recording, buzzing etc.
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Universal have done the same for all of the Bob Marley albums including the two live albums. The second of the two live albums I have bought on half speed repress and the quality is astounding, feels like you are at the concert even on my entry level seperates sound system. It is remastered by the same mastering engineer as BIA and Local Hero. I guess we can expect another batch of half speeds coming up soon.
I think a repress of Alchemy is long overdue on vinyl. I am not a fan of re-buying things for the sake of it but I would consider purchasing this, as my copy is an OK second hand one.
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Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms 2x12" half speed remaster (http://"https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-2x12-half-speed-remaster.1053983/page-4#post-26531473")
Somebody over at Steve Hoffman did clips of the new BiA vs MoFi.
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Well sales wise they failed miserably in the UK failing to reach the top 100.
Even the public are now fed up with the same old shit being released time after time.
At least Guy thought they were the greatest sounding versions-he is one of the few to have heard them :lol
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Well sales wise they failed miserably in the UK failing to reach the top 100.
Even the public are now fed up with the same old shit being released time after time.
At least Guy thought they were the greatest sounding versions-he is one of the few to have heard them :lol
When die hard fans on here aren't remotely interested in these remasters it should perhaps tell them something.
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Well sales wise they failed miserably in the UK failing to reach the top 100.
Even the public are now fed up with the same old shit being released time after time.
At least Guy thought they were the greatest sounding versions-he is one of the few to have heard them :lol
When die hard fans on here aren't remotely interested in these remasters it should perhaps tell them something.
Yes.
Half speed remastered of something re released N times is not enough.
Go for the quarter half remastered!