TFP Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Blues Traveler albums were pressed last year. There was a comical thread about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 SD & BT were repressed this year. Gonna add Collective Soul: S/T to your list. I know those two were repressed. Everyone is just trying to figure out why. I forgot how much I loved that CC S/T album. It was/is my dad's favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksuwdboots Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 SD & BT were repressed this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hecollec+or Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 ksuwdboots 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgdesign Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 I know those two were repressed. Everyone is just trying to figure out why. I forgot how much I loved that CC S/T album. It was/is my dad's favorite. I'd add Toad the Wet Sprocket to that list too. Couting Crow's S/T is available on Soundstagedirect.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I'd add Toad the Wet Sprocket to that list too. Couting Crow's S/T is available on Soundstagedirect.com Collective Soul. I screwed up and put CC. I agree with Toad and let's not forget Friction, Baby by BTE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc32137 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Collective Soul has a new album out in a few months so a repress of their back catalog wouldn't be surprising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ight Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The feels. My uncle bought me Now 2 for Christmas one year. I listened to Father of Mine and bought So Much For the Afterglow. Everclear was my first 'favorite' band. The Feels were ruined by that price tag. Especially since I still have those original CDs in good condition (including a random bootleg I unknowingly bought from the local record shop). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnstypls Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I'm disappointed that we don't have SFAAM Vol 1 & 2 on wax yet. Hope those are coming. sergeantscruffy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panicchuck Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 LOCAL H - As Good As Dead!! Never pressed so maybe this fits. I wonder if they are doing submissions/requests for consideration like MOV. Already preordered both of these as well. Sparkle and Fade was one of those "soundtracks to a summer" albums for me. So glad I got outbid at the last second a few weeks ago on a copy. Saved me $75! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinylfilmaholic Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The details about the packaging, being pressed at RTI and mastered by Kevin Gray are making me feel like the price might be worth it. I might be wrong in the end but if I had more money currently I would order them right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billynomates Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I'm disappointed that we don't have SFAAM Vol 1 & 2 on wax yet. Hope those are coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS1BadBird Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Was disappointed with the label when I saw the prices. Was disappointed with myself when I remembered I already paid $55 for Afterglow on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endserenading Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 That price tag absoltely turned me off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannibal Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 The details about the packaging, being pressed at RTI and mastered by Kevin Gray are making me feel like the price might be worth it. I might be wrong in the end but if I had more money currently I would order them right now.Nice details. I was trying to edit my old post, but I deleted it instead. Great Mastering engineer, good plant, and nice jackets. Sucks it's $35, but that's just where we are right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noalarmplanet Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I'd need a new life just to afford this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endserenading Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I'd need a new life just to afford this. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantscruffy Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I'm disappointed that we don't have SFAAM Vol 1 & 2 on wax yet. Hope those are coming. THIS. Loved those albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burntwolf Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 they aren't that expensive relatively to anything else getting reissued jeez... i'll pass on those but i'm really curious what else he is getting lined up for that imprint... i would've checked out a world of noise reissue done by kevin gray at coherent. his jazz music matters reissues are frickin' great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derby625 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I'll most likely pick up So Much for the Afterglow when the price drops. Luckily I snagged a UK pressing of Sparkle and Fade a few years back for cheap. And I'm excited to see what else this label does. There are a lot of great 90's albums (like Local H mentioned already) missing vinyl releases or have been long out of print. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmoney Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 You can now order these at Amazon for ummmm $58.98. So Much For The Afterglow Sparkle and Fade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 You can now order these at Amazon for ummmm $58.98. So Much For The Afterglow Sparkle and Fade WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 I found this... IR’s singular mission is to create archive-quality LPs with every release, and its trademark will be its extremist-level dedication to sonic purity and lavishly restored album art. Only the best available sources will be used, and whenever possible that means analog master tapes with 100% analog mastering. The best sources still require the most transparent mastering chain, so IR’s mastering partner is Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. Cohearent’s mastering chain with Kevin at the helm extracts the best possible quality from both analog and digital masters and gets every bit of what’s on the master into the grooves. Intervention’s LPs will be 180-grams and dead quiet, plated and pressed at R.T.I. in Camarillo, CA, under Intervention’s direct supervision. IR’s album art will be faithfully restored by the very gifted and exacting artist Tom Vadakan, whose work has been seen most recently on the exquisite album jackets of Music Matters Jazz’s longrunning series of Blue Note reissues. All of IR’s jackets will be "old-style" deluxe jackets with film-lamination on heavy stock and will be printed by Stoughton Printing Co, purveyor of the finest album jackets available. Does that mean we may not be getting the original art? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fondfarewell Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Does that mean we may not be getting the original art? I think it just means they'll go back to original source files (if they still exist) and properly scale it up, rather than just blowing up the CD-size artwork (which I think many years-later vinyl reissues do). In any case, tip-on jackets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russtcb Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 This article, some of which is posted above, makes me look forward to these: http://www.stereophile.com/content/welcome-intervention-records#wxqx8lxOAYp2W9rR.97 Welcome, Intervention Records By Jason Victor Serinus • Posted: Aug 11, 2015 There's a new audiophile-quality vinyl reissue endeavor on the scene: Intervention Records (IR). Dedicated to reissuing recordings that are "entirely new to the vinyl reissue market, particularly titles that never saw a vinyl release at all or only saw very limited release," Intervention Records' titles are sourced from the best available sources, primarily analog master tapes, and are mastered in the analog domain by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. IR's 180-gram pressings are manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA. Original album art is restored by Tom Vadakan, who currently works on the Music Matters Blue Note jazz reissues. Jackets are pledged to be "old-style" deluxe, with film-lamination on heavy stock and printing by Stoughton Printing Co. Intervention Records currently has seven titles in the making. The four currently available for pre-order, and promised for delivery by the end of 2015, include two titles from Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan's Stealer's Wheel: their calling card introduction, Stealer's Wheel, whose track "Stuck in the Middle (With You)" was immortalized in movie director Quentin Tarantino's debut film, Reservoir Dogs, and their follow-up, Fergusie Park. From IR's (Lost) '90s Series are due Seattle's Everclear's breakout CD, Sparkle and Fade, and its double-platinum sophomore effort, So Much for the Afterglow. Track titles such as "Heroin Girl," "Heartspark Dollarsign," "Everything to Everyone," and "I Will Buy You a New Life" suggest that this music will not be heard at Presidential Campaign rallies. Michael Fremer's advance review of Fergusie Park for AnalogPlanet.com, made possible by a test pressing that promises to sound identical to the final issue, can be found here. Mikey notes that while the original issue was mastered by Bob Ludwig at Sterling Sound, the reissue sounds far better, in part because it is not dynamically limited. Insider EffortIntervention Records is the brainchild of almost 17-year industry veteran Shane Buettner (above right, with Kevin Gray left), who currently manages Marketing and Business Development for Vandersteen Audio worldwide. Buettner's previous credits include web editor for the Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, Editor-In-Chief of Home Theater Magazine, and VP of Communication for AudioQuest. But perhaps more important than all that, the boy loves music. Buettner expects that IRS will span eras and genres, with rock and pop the main focus. Think especially new wave, alt rock, and music from the 1980s to today. While IR's first titles are from Universal Music Group (UMG), other titles are anticipated from Warner, Sony, and smaller indie labels. So far, classical has not entered the picture, but several jazz titles are currently under consideration. In a lively phone conversation, Buettner told Stereophile, "I think that the reissue market has been ready for a little bit of disruption. The same titles and artists get reissued over and over again. Jimi Hendrix is such a prolific artist; he's been releasing albums for decades after passing away. Nor has death hurt Johnny Cash's recording career one bit. There's just too much great music out there that should be on premium vinyl." In other words, if you're longing for yet another reissue of Dark Side of the Moon or Kind of Blue, look elsewhere. But if you're looking for music you just can't find, or unfamiliar music that may in fact bring you unexpected pleasure (and isn't recommended by a soul-less computer program), Intervention may just be your ticket to bliss. Why the title, Intervention Records? "If you love music and you're not listening to your favorite records from your favorite bands on vinyl, someone needs to subject you to an intervention where you can come to grips with the wonderful truth that vinyl is the best way to experience the emotional drug that is great music!" says Buettner. "The flip side of this coin," says the man who played the hell out of his beloved Everclear records in the '90s, "is that once listening to vinyl gets a hold of you, someone might have to hold an intervention to get you stop spending your very last dime chasing down records all over the globe, and filling your house with them. That's kind of what I'm working to prevent at my place these days." Yes, Buettner has very strong feelings about vinyl. So strong that, while he expects that most of his reissues will be of analog recordings, he contends that IR's vinyl reissues of digital recordings will sound better than the original digital issues. Asked to expound on the explanation posted to IR's website, he said, "I believe that hi-rez digital files always sound better when they're transferred to/cut to LP and played back over LP. Obviously, I'm not an engineer, and I don't even play one on TV. But my speculative answer as to why is that digital playback in real time is highly complicated. There is lots of digital filtering and processing that happens in real time, while you're listening to the music. Your brain has to do a lot of work to turn those discreet digital samples into something that approximates a waveform. "In a way, it's analogous to the way 24 discrete frames of film, due to persistence of vision, look like a living motion picture to us when we watch a movie. However, converting digitally recorded music to analog, and playing it back in analog in real time is a much simpler and benign process. Because it's free of the high amount of processing required of your brain to listen to digital via a digital-to-analog converter, listening on analog becomes a much more involving experience." Among the processing efforts that Buettner feels digital playback requires of the brain is dealing with pre-ringing. In pre-ringing, he says, you actually hear an artifact of the transient before you hear the transient itself. "Think about how unnatural a process that is. In nature and in music, you would never actually hear a distortion of a musical note before the note is played. In digital, it happens all the time. There are only two or three companies that are sophisticated enough to avoid pre-ringing. The ones I'm aware of are Ayre Acoustics and Meridian, but I would not doubt that dCS is one of them as well. If you take those companies out of the equation, every person everywhere who listens to digital audio hears these artifacts. It's perfect sound forever in the sense that those distortions are perfectly preserved and will be heard by everyone all the time." Put that in your pipe and smoke it! (It's legal in Washington, from which state both Buettner and now Serinus hail.) And, while you do, be sure to check out regular updates on Intervention Records issues at the company's Facebook page. There, you'll also learn more about Buettner's analog sightings and irrepressible musical loves. Fun. Read more at http://www.stereophile.com/content/welcome-intervention-records#u3MrY7HwX1WzUSuF.99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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