leamanc. I have the 85 boxset, I cannot see anything about 'remixed AND remastered', so can't comment. Which versions of those reissues do you mean?leamanc wrote: But the 1985 reissues of all three original LPs state that they were remixed AND remastered in the liner notes.
As noted above, I do like the '85 mix of the 3rd album, but the first album '85 mix sounds awful to me. (And the liner notes state that the remix was done "under the supervision of Tom Wilson"!) I first heard this mix on the CD from that era, and chalked up the awful sound to crappy CD mastering techniques of the day, but the '85 vinyl I picked up last year sounds just as bad. For example, "All Tomorrow's Parties" has the vocals cranked up really high, then the instrumental passages are way quieter... and "murkier". That's the best way I can describe it.
Continuing on my side tangent on mixes of the first album...I swear allegiance to vinyl, but my all-time fave version of that album is now the mono mix in the 45th anniversary CD set. It hits you in the gut with its sheer force, yet you can make out all the instruments clearly. Wow! Before that, the 1997 MFSL CD was the best to my ears.
With regards to "under the supervision of Tom Wilson", all copies of VU&N back to the original '67 ones say that. That's the way it was made. Aside from that, Tom Wilson died in 1978 so had no hand in any reissues in the 80s!
Yes, I agree about the 2012 mono of VU&N, but I don't have an original mono LP, only rips.
