haunt
Maker of Noise
I'm starting this thread because of Ride's 1990 album Nowhere. Last year it was reissued as a "20th anniversary remaster edition" and aside from the bonus content I'm disgusted. The original [even CD] was probably as pristine and perfect as any I've heard and has always served me as a good reference point of sonic excellence.
This got me thinking about the practice of modern remasters of releases from what I consider the pinnacle of the analog recording era. All it does is effectively remove much of what I consider to be historical context and cheapen its legacy by saying "you may have loved this but it didn't measure up to today's shitty standards". While it may give the material an audience of new ears, I don't agree with the methodology, or the newfound assumption that the volume knob is the enemy of the people.
This got me thinking about the practice of modern remasters of releases from what I consider the pinnacle of the analog recording era. All it does is effectively remove much of what I consider to be historical context and cheapen its legacy by saying "you may have loved this but it didn't measure up to today's shitty standards". While it may give the material an audience of new ears, I don't agree with the methodology, or the newfound assumption that the volume knob is the enemy of the people.