Heartland

Matt Rowe's MysicTap SACD/ DVD-Audio site is compiling a wish list of classic albums fans would like to see released in either SACD or DVD-A 5.1 surround sound.

http://www.musictap.net/

Got me thinking how unbelievable Floodland would be remastered in 5.1
audio, just listen to Floyds DSOTM in 5.1 and you'll hear what I mean.

Forget a new album Spig, just get into the studio with James Guthrie
and the Floodland tapes.

Vox.

agreed- but id have to say that they should re-re- master falaa as well- as well as they can of course

I don't really hold with these new-fangled format thingies. Don't really see the point, surround in the cinema has never really appealed either.

Far better would be re-releasing the proper original mixes of FALAA (which were far better), getting the WEA singles B sides out on CD properly, and getting off their bums and releasing some new stuff.

Of course, the first two will probably never happen now.

mh wrote:I don't really hold with these new-fangled format thingies. Don't really see the point, surround in the cinema has never really appealed either.

Maybe Von should just re-release FALAA on 8-track cartridge and instead of the rumoured DVD, just release something live on Betamax?

I think certain types of music lend themselves better to an immersive experience like 5.1 (or 6.1). I don't feel any need to hear Vision Thing in 5.1 since it's a self-proclaimed 2-D album. However like The Floyd who painted vast soundscapes in DSOTM I think Von with Floodland gave us an incredibly vast and boundless opus.

There's a lot of space on Floodland, a lot of the time not very much is happening and you can say a lot with space, you don't need a guitar playing over every bar. Floodland sounds like a hammer smashing through a sheet of ethereal glass, ever shard resonates but between each shard is a lot of space which makes the album sound huge.

You can't tell me you wouldn't enjoy listening to the beginning of This Corrosion in 5.1?

Vox

FALAA in 5.1 would just highlight how bady it was recorded in the first place.

Doesn't anyone else think that the record companies are massively peed off by the lack of copy-protection in the official red-book CD specs, and as a result are merely using SACD/DVD Audio/etc to get it in through the back door? Plus to make us buy all our old albums all over again. Again.

I just listened to my old FALAA original mixes on vinyl last night, and it sounded mighty fine. The mixes everyone knows from the CD release, granted, have crap sound quality. But they are not the same as what was on the original vinyl. Maybe this is a strategy of Von's to perpetuate the myth that the original band were crap.

Sorry. Pet hate.

but wouldnt the record company have the say in that?

ryan_w_0000 wrote:but wouldnt the record company have the say in that?

It's a bit of "give and take" really. Actually, it's more like "take and take", but then knew that already.