Yea, i need Orphans. I am glad that is happening mostly.

These remasters are available on Spotify

Edit: No Real Gone though, and not sure about Orphans, it does say (Remastered) Mule Variations, Blood Money & Alice have the original and the remastered available, but Orphans only the remastered.

was it McP that hated the mastering and mixing of GLitter and Doom? I believe so. McP, get your hands in there and tell us if there is any improvement.

I also hated it, and you're right the remastered version is there too.

Yea i wasn't much of a fan. Sounds quite muddy on vinyl.

I understand nothing about recording process, but somehow listening to that album makes me feel distant, like I am not in the audience but watching the gig from the lobby or something. It sounds like they'd placed one mic somewhere in the back of the room, there's just too much "space" in the sound. And the Tom tales could have been between the songs. I do love the version of Dirt In The Ground though.

Fannin Street is fantastic

What a great song.

Yeah there are some lovely songs and performances, my problem is just with the sound. Falling Down

I can't weigh in on Glitter & Doom as I've still never listened to it. But I like all the studio versions of the songs we're talking about.

What is this, now? Exsqueeze me? baking powder?

I just like having something saved up. I binged his catalog so quickly that it's nice to know there's something out there of his that I haven't consumed.

Yea i wasn't much of a fan. Sounds quite muddy on vinyl.

Unfortunately, the entire album sounds like it was bootlegged by an audience member. Tom's vocals are so flat and full of low end as to be unintelligible and, at times, distorted. As for the rest of the band, I can't bring myself to believe that the instruments were actually tracked seperately, as they bleed into each other so heavily you often can't discern anything more than the general harmonic structure of the tune. When anyone solos, it only makes what's already a piss poor job all the more painstakingly obvious. In fact, the applause and shouts of the audience often sound clearer and more distinct than the music itself, to the extent of sometimes drowning it out, lending even more credence to my impression that the show was recorded by an external source rather than a direct soundboard.