Rolling Stones Reissues

DForeman
DForeman Posts: 468
edited May 2009 in Music & Movies
Anyone have the new Stones reissues out this month?

The post 1971 albums are being reissued and so far Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup, Black and Blue, and It's Only Rock and Roll are out.

Would like to know if sound quality has improved since the 1994 issues.

Couldn't find anything categorically stating they were newly remastered.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2009
    DForeman,

    Or any Stones fan. Does anyone know WHAT SONG....the lyrics 'we all need someone we can lean on..." come from? I've been trying to figure out what the song is and what album it's on for months?

    Thanks
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited May 2009
    Let it Bleed

    Well we all need someone to lean on
    And if you want it, well you can lean on me
    Well, we all need someone we can lean on
    And if you want it, well you can lean on me


    I have most of the Stones original LPs, including Sticky Fingers with the Warhol cover.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2009
    Thanks man...

    I tried listening to Amazon clips, I think I listened to that album as well, but at 30 seconds you don't get to what you might remember.....A must buy!

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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    Just popped over to my local over-priced record store. These new Stones reissues don't appear to be any different than the 1994 ones. I stress didn't "appear" different (couldn't open one up of course). There was a sticker on the front stating "remaster" but the back of the CD looked identical to the old ones.
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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    cnh

    The 2002 DSD remaster of Let It Bleed sounds great! The redbook layer as well.
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  • anton.chigurh
    anton.chigurh Posts: 239
    edited May 2009
    I picked up sticky fingers on Tues. From the reviews I read on amazon it was remastered and improved, but I don't have the '94 to compare. I think it kicks ****, as do Let it Bleed and Beggars in DSD.

    I'm rockin out to dead flowers and some killer guitar licks at this very moment
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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    anton.chigurh wrote: »
    I picked up sticky fingers on Tues. From the reviews I read on amazon it was remastered and improved, but I don't have the '94 to compare. I think it kicks ****, as do Let it Bleed and Beggars in DSD.

    Anton,

    Good to know. I'll order Sticky Fingers and Black and Blue tonight.
    thanks
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited May 2009
    Around 1967, Sears had a sale on Stones albums. For one Saturday only, every Stones album in stock was 69 cents, no returns, all sales final. I hurried my little **** up to Sears on Saturday morning, and came home with the first ten or twelve, from Englands Newest Hitmakers, to Flowers or Aftermath. On the way home I got to looking at them. Every one was mono. I was pretty bummed out because I was basically a "stereo" type of guy by that time. I never played any of them. I kept them for my whole life (almost), and didn't trade them in to the Princeton Record Exchange until around the mid to late 80's, after I had bought them all on cd. I made a few bucks when I traded them in. Do you have any idea what those babies are worth NOW? Almost brings a tear to my eye.
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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    George Grand wrote: »
    . I kept them for my whole life (almost), and didn't trade them in to the Princeton Record Exchange until around the mid to late 80's, after I had bought them all on cd. I made a few bucks when I traded them in. Do you have any idea what those babies are worth NOW? Almost brings a tear to my eye.

    Ouch.

    My lost opportunity vinyl story:

    Was living in a condo in the 90's and had a storage locker in the basement of the building. I had 3 or 4 milk cartons of albums I just couldn't bring myself to throw out (even though I never played them) so stored them there. I went down there one day some years later to get something only to find the whole locker had been flooded. I lost all my albums.

    Not sure if I would have kept them all these years but they would have been worth a bundle if I had.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited May 2009
    If all of the LPs in my collection are worth 3 bucks each, I am well into the 5 figure range. I'll never have time to listen to all of them.
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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    Polkersince,

    If you dont' mind me asking, what is the genre % breakdown of your LP collection (just curious).
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited May 2009
    Double G,, reading your post got me motivated, so I dug around the closet and came up with these,, got a few more,but wanted to post these,, they are some of the "British" imports that I kept after we closed our record shop in the seventies,, found a couple of Floyd LP's and Are You Exp in mono,,here you go,these are sealed,never played.
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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    This review does not speak highly of the remasters:

    http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,957780,1067157,page=41
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited May 2009
    DForeman wrote: »

    what is the genre % breakdown of your LP collection

    Roughly:

    5% Bluegrass
    15% Country
    20% Jazz
    15% Blues
    20% Classical / Big Band
    20% Rock
    5% Other
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited May 2009
    That's gold George, pure gold. Mono, sealed Experienced? Gold.

    Is that the 3-d cover you posted, or the flat image TSMR? That's a find too.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    edited May 2009
    Hmmm....more victims of the loudness wars. Pass!
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    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited May 2009
    George Grand wrote: »
    That's gold George, pure gold. Mono, sealed Experienced? Gold.

    Is that the 3-d cover you posted, or the flat image TSMR? That's a find too.

    It's a pic of the lp(in an album frame),still has the "loose" shrink wrap around it,never opened,, also came across "Beggars Banquet",,think I'll give it a spin tonight.

    nope,, saw one on e-pay,, 7.99,zero bids,2 days left.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2009
    DForeman wrote: »
    Just popped over to my local over-priced record store. These new Stones reissues don't appear to be any different than the 1994 ones. I stress didn't "appear" different (couldn't open one up of course). There was a sticker on the front stating "remaster" but the back of the CD looked identical to the old ones.

    Thanks again DForeman,

    Just picked up that CD today and the remaster 'helps'...listening to it as I type this. A classic Stones album!

    cnh
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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited May 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    Hmmm....more victims of the loudness wars. Pass!

    F1nut,

    Yeah, I know what you are saying. What I love about this hobby though is how it drives you crazy wondering "if it can sound better" -- be it a new component, a new cable, or even a new remaster.

    I am going to buy the Stones remasters sound unheard. I will always wonder otherwise. I hope they are not simply "louder", that would be disappointing.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    edited May 2009
    DForeman,

    I can tell you for certain that the Stones SACD's are not victims of the loudness wars. I only wish they would have released Sticky Fingers on SACD as it's my favorite Stones album. I have SF on a Japanese issued CD and it's much better than the US issued versions. Let me know what you think about the redbook remasters.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited May 2009
    Good to know Jesse. I'm planning on picking up some of the Stones SACD's before to much longer.

    Do you know if they have a box set with all of their SACD's? I haven't been able to find one.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    edited May 2009
    Not that I'm aware of.
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