Original Producer
John Leckie & Ian Brown put in some really hard work on this one. There is so much more bass to this thing now it's unreal. This was one of the first albums I learned on bass & I've had a great time over the last two days playing along with the bass parts while recovering from eye surgery. My neighbors might disagree.
After getting used to the new sound, the next thing I noticed was that
Elephant Stone was missing from the album. After snooping around the information superhighway a bit I found out that it was tacked on to the initial US release but never on the original UK track list. This is one of those albums I usually listen to front to back, so the updated track list will take some getting used to. If you have
The Complete Stone Roses already then you have nothing to fear as Elephant Stone shows up there.
Disk two is full of demos, in various stages of production. The main thing you notice is that they had their shit together very early on in terms of songwriting. It's all here, minus some of the atmosphere that Leckie brought into the mix. Not really something you'll miss if you opt for the single disk version, the one unreleased track
Pearl Bastard sounds like a slowed down version of
Sugar Spun Sister. It's easy to see why it hasn't shown up anywhere until now.
The DVD has all of their videos plus a live show from Blackpool. The videos reinforce my theory that Ian Brown must have worn that money shirt for at least a year straight during the early nineties. Watching John Squire during the live show just blows me away. That dude is one hell of a guitar player.
All in all it holds up very well 20 years later. If only
Second Coming had been worth the wait....
Update: The
official site also lists an uber box set with a 3rd CD full of remastered b-sides, all the audio on vinyl, and a USB key with all the audio + other goodies. Very tempting.
- Coop
My eyeballs are starting to work right. There's a new bottle of bourbon on the countertop. Life is good.
Original Producer John Leckie & Ian Brown put in some really hard work on this one. There is so much more bass to this thing now it's unreal. This was one of the first albums I learned on bass & I've had a great time over the last two days playing along with the bass parts while recovering from eye surgery. My neighbors might disagree.
The DVD has all of their videos plus a live show from Blackpool. The videos reinforce my theory that Ian Brown must have worn that money shirt for at least a year straight during the early nineties. Watching John Squire during the live show just blows me away. That dude is one hell of a guitar player.
Inglourious Basterds was a good flick, don't get me wrong, but the trailers are pretty misleading. You'd think you're getting 2+ hours of Brad Pitt & the temp from The Office killing Nazis. In truth you get about 30 minutes of that, the rest of it is a revenge story that isn't featured at all in any of the promo stuff floating around.
Fucking finally. Robert posted an update about the Disintegration reissue. The short story is you get a 3 CD set with the remastered album, bonus demos & unreleased stuff, AND...... an expanded version of Entreat which has been out of print forever.
1. I always wondered why some of the songs featured vocals that sounded higher pitched than usual. The first thing I assumed was that the entire track was sped up, but that would knock all of the instruments out of key, which they aren't. Turns out they recorded the vocals for several tracks at a much slower speed, that way when you play it back the vocals have a higher pitch but maintain the correct key. Ah, the joys of analog.
