Heartland

paint it black wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 19:10 How do you do a rolling round in the floor pissing myself emoji

To be fair Gift never pulled the birds in the same way as Floodland did.

Pista wrote: ↑13 Jan 2021, 21:19 Problem with remasters these days is that most of them are well & truly ruined. Brick walled into oblivion by someone who thinks it should be louder.
There was nothing really wrong with Gift at all in terms of mastering. It'd be hard to improve it to be fair.

Swinnow wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 20:01 The thought of Von "knocking one out" has put me right off my socially distanced snow ball fight.

Swinnow wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 20:01 The thought of Von "knocking one out" has put me right off my socially distanced snow ball fight.

Wilkstein wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 18:37 Was going to make the same point, what is there to re-master? It sounds fine as it is. It'll just end up being overcooked.

Pat wrote: ↑15 Jan 2021, 21:19 @QB I did a rip for Mr Blast, did he send you a copy?

It was tweaked to suit his taste. Lot's of kick from the drums, big bass and the soundstage opened up.

@MF All clicks had been removed so if it sounds like a vinyl transfer it's not mine.

Swinnow wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 19:36

paint it black wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 19:10 How do you do a rolling round in the floor pissing myself emoji

To be fair Gift never pulled the birds in the same way as Floodland did.

So now we know, it was all done as a favour to attract feathered snacks for Spiggy.

paint it black wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 00:00 I meant me, and was musing Gift is quite a difficult listen for an outsider to the scene, when compared to the hit (in more than one way) laden Floodland.

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑19 Jan 2021, 19:30 And if you dont own gift on vinyl and cd already thats nobodies fault but own. its 35 years old ffs

EDIT: listening to a cd-r of a .flac needledrop of the vinly and there is NOTHING to improve on. go on thee of little faith and play it at a DECENT FUCKING VOLUME ands tell me that the intro to Rain From Heaven isn't second only the intro to "kiss the carpet".

DJElectricDaddy wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 04:39

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑19 Jan 2021, 19:30 And if you dont own gift on vinyl and cd already thats nobodies fault but own. its 35 years old ffs

EDIT: listening to a cd-r of a .flac needledrop of the vinly and there is NOTHING to improve on. go on thee of little faith and play it at a DECENT FUCKING VOLUME ands tell me that the intro to Rain From Heaven isn't second only the intro to "kiss the carpet".

Bollocks. So unless you were there in 1985 to buy an original you can f**k right off? That rules out an entire generation of new listeners.

Elitist snobbery mate. Got no time or patience for that kind of nonsense

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 05:21

DJElectricDaddy wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 04:39

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑19 Jan 2021, 19:30 And if you dont own gift on vinyl and cd already thats nobodies fault but own. its 35 years old ffs

EDIT: listening to a cd-r of a .flac needledrop of the vinly and there is NOTHING to improve on. go on thee of little faith and play it at a DECENT FUCKING VOLUME ands tell me that the intro to Rain From Heaven isn't second only the intro to "kiss the carpet".

Bollocks. So unless you were there in 1985 to buy an original you can f**k right off? That rules out an entire generation of new listeners.

Elitist snobbery mate. Got no time or patience for that kind of nonsense

not at all. i bought a vinyl copy the day it came it out but like most of my (mostly well looked after) vinyl i was forced to buy a second copy years later.
and i didn't even own a CD player until i moved off the road around 2006/7. in fact i didnt buy Gift on CD until a couple of years ago. my actual point (for those who didn't read my post in full before throwing their teddies against the wall in response to an out of context part of it) is that marketing this -probably non-existatnt- reissue as something new is at best an irrelevance and at worst a trick. by all means it should be reissued if the demand is there (like in the old days when LP's were constantly being reissued due to an ongoing demand that exceeded the original number of copies pressed) and i for one would rather be able to buy a new copy in either format without having to dig up all the Nazi art treasures my Swiss uncle Toby Lerone left me but their is no need for remnixing or remastering .....unlesss the original masters are actually lost.

Swinnow wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 00:08

paint it black wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 00:00 I meant me, and was musing Gift is quite a difficult listen for an outsider to the scene, when compared to the hit (in more than one way) laden Floodland.

Aha, a bit asking 'Do you like my Etchings?' and putting Stop The World on the stereo

paint it black wrote: ↑20 Jan 2021, 17:48 The good old days where crushed velvet and black tower was all the girl needed. Not with you on Stop the World though surely that was a guilty pleasure