Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 12:05
All black disc? I'm IN!
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Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 12:21
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 13:25
I've got cassette and all that already but have ordered this anyway.
Will it now be available on Spotify for my listening convenience?
Will it now be available on Spotify for my listening convenience?
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 17:50
Well why didnt they just say that from the start!
its only the bootlegged cds that call him Alan Vela...deckard303 wrote: â02 Dec 2022, 15:02 Look closely and you will spot a personnel change on rear sleeve of this Cadiz release - looks like they've replaced legendary 1986 band member Alan Vela with some bloke called Alan Vega
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 17:53
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 18:10
I was hoping for digital. Canât beat a 5Âź inch floppy disk.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Dec 2022, 19:14
If that were true, I'd expect the label to include that in their promo. "Remastered from the original master tapes", etc.paint it black wrote: â03 Dec 2022, 10:30It is supposedly coming from the master tapes at least. I know that much as I know who found them
Then again, the term "master tape" has a very loose definition. The original CD is mastered from the original master tape!
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 06:29
Cassettes just about show the lack of vision of Cadiz to go with their lack of promise fulfillment. So i have already got 2 vinyl copies of Gift (1 in mint cond that i bought on the day of its release in 1986 and a 2nd hand copythat i got for 50p) a CD rip CD-r; a vinyl needledrop CD-r; a .FLAC CD-r & the officially released CD. oh and the Giving Ground 7". so theres fucck all of interst for me here.....AS PREDICTED.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 12:04
I'm a bit dubious that they're calling the album version of Giving Ground the "extended mix of the first single".
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 13:06
the entire project, from day one, has reeked of some half-arsed cowboy outfit. that it has come to any kind of fruition is to me totally fucking astounding; but any outfit who's end result is such a shoddy version of their stated goal -but that they are not embarrassed to put forward as their end result - begins to look utterly inept. IMO.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 13:48
All Cadiz can do now is make the packaging interesting. A group photo would seal the deal... lol
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 14:00
I think that they just didn't know what it would be like dealing with Eldritch, I think they were full of hope and sunshine and then it was slowly sucked from their souls by the lack of enthusiasm from Eldritch, as to him its a means to an end from years ago.eastmidswhizzkid wrote: â05 Dec 2022, 13:06 the entire project, from day one, has reeked of some half-arsed cowboy outfit. that it has come to any kind of fruition is to me totally fucking astounding; but any outfit who's end result is such a shoddy version of their stated goal -but that they are not embarrassed to put forward as their end result - begins to look utterly inept. IMO.
It must do their heads in if they were thinking that they were gonna make a shed load of cash from it as it appears that Eldo's childrens books are making him enough dough to live off of
I dunno what other stuff they have released but I bet it was easier to do than this
Definitely up for the Bullseye "Look what you could have won" award.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 14:31
Yeah, one to consign to the dumper of "what might have been". The prospect of a reissue with at least the Giving Ground single versions and some This Corrosion demos, only to be left with the best hope being that the remastering doesn't suck.
There's probably a book to be written about this, at least as intriguing as the original Sisterhood escapade. Or maybe not. I find it difficult to be angry at Cadiz about it; they seem to have gone into it in good faith and the worst they can be faulted on is that their communication to us could have been better. Otherwise I feel somewhat sorry for them, waiting for Eldritch to pull the finger out, the slow realization dawning that it's not going to happen, then having to make the decision to release what they can to try at least salvage something from a project that must have started as a labour of love.
There's probably a book to be written about this, at least as intriguing as the original Sisterhood escapade. Or maybe not. I find it difficult to be angry at Cadiz about it; they seem to have gone into it in good faith and the worst they can be faulted on is that their communication to us could have been better. Otherwise I feel somewhat sorry for them, waiting for Eldritch to pull the finger out, the slow realization dawning that it's not going to happen, then having to make the decision to release what they can to try at least salvage something from a project that must have started as a labour of love.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 15:34
âEldo couldnât be botheredâ wouldnât make a very long bookmh wrote: â05 Dec 2022, 14:31 Yeah, one to consign to the dumper of "what might have been". The prospect of a reissue with at least the Giving Ground single versions and some This Corrosion demos, only to be left with the best hope being that the remastering doesn't suck.
There's probably a book to be written about this, at least as intriguing as the original Sisterhood escapade. Or maybe not. I find it difficult to be angry at Cadiz about it; they seem to have gone into it in good faith and the worst they can be faulted on is that their communication to us could have been better. Otherwise I feel somewhat sorry for them, waiting for Eldritch to pull the finger out, the slow realization dawning that it's not going to happen, then having to make the decision to release what they can to try at least salvage something from a project that must have started as a labour of love.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 16:46
i'm not angry at Cadiz hehe i didnt get excited about it in the first place! seemed like a pile of pants from the go.
a shame for those who did excited.
a shame for those who did excited.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 17:53
But think of all the times he couldn't be bothered!sultan2075 wrote: â05 Dec 2022, 15:34âEldo couldnât be botheredâ wouldnât make a very long bookmh wrote: â05 Dec 2022, 14:31 Yeah, one to consign to the dumper of "what might have been". The prospect of a reissue with at least the Giving Ground single versions and some This Corrosion demos, only to be left with the best hope being that the remastering doesn't suck.
There's probably a book to be written about this, at least as intriguing as the original Sisterhood escapade. Or maybe not. I find it difficult to be angry at Cadiz about it; they seem to have gone into it in good faith and the worst they can be faulted on is that their communication to us could have been better. Otherwise I feel somewhat sorry for them, waiting for Eldritch to pull the finger out, the slow realization dawning that it's not going to happen, then having to make the decision to release what they can to try at least salvage something from a project that must have started as a labour of love.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 05 Dec 2022, 19:37
I got quite excited when I read it was "A Mercyful release in conduction with..." back in 2019.eastmidswhizzkid wrote: â05 Dec 2022, 16:46 i'm not angry at Cadiz hehe i didnt get excited about it in the first place! seemed like a pile of pants from the go.
a shame for those who did excited.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 06 Dec 2022, 01:33
" a sort after classic " really? Maybe the cd version, but you couldn't give the vinyl away on eBay for most of the last thirty years. And a cassette? What the fook for? It will be nice to have it on Spotify so I don't have to drag the lp out of the vault though.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 06 Dec 2022, 11:20
The younglings like cassettes. Loads of bands/labels churning them out these days. Retro bollocks if you ask me. But then, maybe I'm just bitter because of ye olde Walkman giving me tinnitus. 
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 13 Dec 2022, 12:26
Strange - ordered mine from Amazon nl last week.. and received it today.
Release date was 27 january 2023?
Release date was 27 january 2023?
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 13 Dec 2022, 19:54
I have the original LP. I am always skeptical regarding digital remasters played on an analog format, they usually are all volume and lacking the dynamic of the original press- Just saying.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 15:13
So has anyone got it? Does it sounds any different to the original?
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 16:17
Mine arrived this morning. It's a digi pak as expected. The CD is all black (no silver side) and plays ok in my 25 year old CD player. It comes with a postcard with the album cover on one side and lyrics from Giving Ground on the other. Hard to tell the difference in sound quality as it has been mastered louder. Sounds as good as it ever did.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 16:31
Timings on the tracks are also different. Original is 8.17, 8.03, 7.31, 8.17, and 6.44. New version is 8.13, 8.11, 7.32, 8.16 and 7.55. Rain From Heaven has an extra minute and ends sharply rather than fading out.
Re: Gift reissue plus extras
Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 17:45
Cool, so we get the RFH extended bangin' hyper-mix that had been rumoured for all these years.