Matt Bowers

I'm sure I'll get blasted by the music snobs on this board for my choices but I don't really give a ****.

CHEAP TRICK - ONE on ONE
CHEAP TRICK - NEXT POISTION PLEASE
CHEAP TRICK - STANDING on the EDGE
CHEAP TRICK - THE DOCTOR
CHEAP TRICK - LAP of LUXURY
DURAN DURAN - NOTORIOUS
DURAN DURAN - BIG THING
DURAN DURAN - LIBERTY
DURAN DURAN - DURAN DURAN (aka the Wedding Album)
ARCADIA - SO RED the ROSE
MEN at WORK - TWO HEARTS
CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY
CURE - JAPANESE WHISPERS
CURE - DISINTEGRATION
CURE - MIXED UP
CURE - WISH
ADAM ANT - MANNERS & PHYSIQUE
TEARS for FEARS - ELEMENTAL
FLEETWOOD MAC - MIRAGE
FLEETWOOD MAC - TANGO in the NIGHT
THOMPSON TWINS - All of their albums except for QUICK STEP & SIDE KICK which was recently remastered.
HEART - All of their albums after BEBE le STRANGE up to their last cd.
CONCRETE BLONDE - All of their albums except for the last 3 (I know their first two have been remastered but they sound terrible.)
MADONNA - WHO'S THAT GIRL through EXOTICA at the very least.
BERLIN - PLEASURE VICTIM
BERLIN - LOVE LIFE
BERLIN - COUNT THREE and PRAY
TERRI NUNN - MOMENT of TRUTH
HOWARD JONES - All of his albums up to PEOPLE.

I could go one because there is a ton of music from the 80's and 90's that hasn't been remastered yet.

Rocketdog2000

All of Cheap Trick's Epic/Sony catalog was remastered about 4 years ago. Unfortunately it was only for the Japanese market, and most of them are out of print now. You should still be able to get Standing On The Edge and The Doctor, though. Check CD Japan , or E-bay. Incidentally, they sound better than the US versions that have been re-mastered, too.

Hiro11

I dunno, that album was expressly mixed and mastered to sound a very specific way. I'm not saying it couldn't be improved, just that any changes would have to be very carefully done.

Matt Bowers

Yeah, I know but I don't want to pay $30 if they'll eventually be released in the U.S. Of course if they do sound better than the U.S. versions then it might be worth the extra dough.

Supermallet

Rhino is currently working on The Cure remasters, and we're getting all the original studio albums, so Disintegration and Wish are on the table and coming soon.

And most of the songs on those compilations are available either on the bonus discs for the remasters, or the 4-disc B-sides box set Rhino released a few years back.

dvduser6

IIRC, they will NOT be doing a remaster for Boys Don't Cry since it was technically a repackaged version of Three Imaginary Boys with some different tracks for the US market. Also, Japanese Whispers was more of a ollection of the singles released during the 1984 period. Most of those tracks have already been remastered on the "Join the Dots" boxset.

gjamesm

Every Kate Bush Album from The Kick Inside to The Sensual World, not including Hounds of Love as that has already been done. They were supposed to do them all but only did Hounds.

hawk

REO Speedwagon-You Get What You Play For

Rocketdog2000

Oh they may be...someday. The first 4 Cheap Trick albums got the re-master treatment in '98, and it took them until last year to do the last two (three if you count the online only Next Position Please) - so if you go by Sony/BMG's erratic release schedule, it could be many, many years. Which, is a damn shame. Lastly, it is very much worth the extra dough to get the Japanese versions.

Here's another site you might try - CD Quest .

JPRaup

Nothing

Supermallet

I never said they were remastering Boys Don't Cry. I said they were remastering the original studio albums and the remaining tracks were generally spread across the bonus discs or in the box set.

Matt Bowers

I know that both BOYS DON'T CRY and JAPANESE WHISPERS weren't actual studio albums and that most of the songs have been remastered and released on other discs. Unfortunately, some of my favorite CURE singles were only on these 2 albums and as such have not been remastered yet. Specifically:

BOYS DON'T CRY
JUMPING SOMEONE ELSE'S TRAIN
KILLING AN ARAB
the LOVECATS
LET'S GO TO BED
the WALK

Anyway, I actually like the artwork on both of these albums and would just like to own a remastered version of them. There is an import version of BOYS DON'T CRY on Amazon from 2006 but it does say if it's remastered or not.

I'm happy to hear that both DISINTIGRATION and WISH are both going to be remastered and re-released in the near future.

TripWire

Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Dammit I can't crank this when Corgan's vocals are way louder than the rest of the mix

filmmusicfan

A hearty SECOND on this !

It is a shame that after all of these CD years we still have those horrible
cd issues !

Supermallet

Considering Rhino went to the trouble of remastering all of the Cure's b-sides, I'm sure we'll see Staring At The Sea or some equivalent singles collection also come out with all remastered tracks.

cultshock

Yeah, a remastered "Standing on a Beach" would be nice (done like the original cassette version, with all the singles plus b-sides too)

Lipid

Just about everything that was produced by Phil Spector.

filmmusicfan

I am currently in the middle of reading Mick Brown's current bio "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound", I took out the box set for a casual listen...and I have to agree the sound is sub-standard, even for the time it was released...but also they sounded so dated to me, aesthetically.

Interestingly the exception was the Teddy Bear's "To Know Him Is To Love Him"...which to me, it has some kind of timeless quality. I was really disappointed with "He's A Rebel"...my favorite.

There has to be something that can be done about it, but I guess it's all up to Mr. Klein and not so much Mr. Spector, and I don't see any release now, in the middle of his trial.

In addition, because he was generally, to say the least, not well liked in the industry, there will be no one with the fortitude, these days, to show the respect he should be accorded.

This is a case where it helps to have friends, and for him they have all but disappeared, his undeniable Talent eclipsed by his current problems.

Maybe someday !

Matt Bowers

The only reason I didn't put the BEATLES on my list is because I read recently that all of their albums are being remastered right now to be released in late 2007 or 2008. I even sold all of my BEATLES cd's in anticipation of this event. I would've waited until they were actually scheduled but I needed the money and I've got them all on my iPOD and backed up on my iTUNES.

SUPERMALLET, a remastered STANDING ON THE BEACH would be brilliant. I hadn't even thought about that. That was the tape that originally introduced me to so many great CURE tunes.

Supermallet

It was cultshock who mentioned Standing On The Beach.

Matt Bowers

Oops, my bad.

Anyone else hear anything about BEATLES remasters?

Also, anyone know if INXS plan on remastering their albums that came out before KICK? The remastered INXS cd's that have come out so far have been really well done. I want the rest a.s.a.p!

Egon's Ghost

Why? One of the best-sounding CDs of the 1990s.

Why Slayer? The remasters are earbleeders, and the originals put out by Def Jam (South of heaven mastered by Barry Diament) are fantastic. If anything, the original CD masters should replace the awful remasters.

If you've ever heard the original Megaforce CD (not Elektra) of Kill 'em All, that is a masterpiece.

Snowmaker

I was listening to some of Faith No More - The Real Thing today thinking it could use a remaster.

MTRodaba2468

The entire Beatles catalog. I know the remasters will be coming soon, but I'm counting it.

It's the only reason I haven't bought any of the CDs released; settling for rips of my dad's copies.

Buttmunker

Really?! I've looked online but have seen no evidence of this great news!