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You Got Your Cloud In My Silver Lining
Jun. 1st, 2007 11:21 pmYou know what sucks?
For my birthday, my lovely and amazing wife bought for me four of the five most recent re-releases of Genesis's studio material. These five are from the "middle" period, 1977-1982 or thereabouts, and cover the years immediately following Peter Gabriel's departure from the group. The rest, the Peter Gabriel years and the mega-hit years will follow in two flights closer to the end of the year. They're all CDs, packaged with DVDs and the DVDs feature a lot of cool video material (all their music videos, interviews, and such), but also, as the centerpiece of the whole thing, offer Dolby digital 5.1 surround remasters of every studio track.
I am ruined, forever, on my current digital versions. Ruined. And I've only been listening to the newest remasters on a crappy, ten year old set of Labtec headphones. If I ever get a really nice set of headphones, or a nice home theater rig to listen to them on? I'll be proper wrecked. For good. Nothing else will do.
Bugger.
Seriously, the remasters are so fantastic, so nuanced, I've been trying to figure out how to convert them into digital and still manage to preserve all that amazing nuance. I don't care if it's 1GB a bleeping song.
Man, I'm gushing.
Anyway, a bit of trivia: According to Phil Collins, when they were writing and recording demos for DUKE, the fourth of the post-Gabriel albums, he swears that he played "In the Air Tonight" for the other two guys in the band. At that time, the song was just a demo track for what would become his breakout debut solo album, FACE VALUE. Tony Banks, keyboardist and songwriter, swears Phil never did, because it was such a great song and he would have begged for it to be recorded by the band.
For my birthday, my lovely and amazing wife bought for me four of the five most recent re-releases of Genesis's studio material. These five are from the "middle" period, 1977-1982 or thereabouts, and cover the years immediately following Peter Gabriel's departure from the group. The rest, the Peter Gabriel years and the mega-hit years will follow in two flights closer to the end of the year. They're all CDs, packaged with DVDs and the DVDs feature a lot of cool video material (all their music videos, interviews, and such), but also, as the centerpiece of the whole thing, offer Dolby digital 5.1 surround remasters of every studio track.
I am ruined, forever, on my current digital versions. Ruined. And I've only been listening to the newest remasters on a crappy, ten year old set of Labtec headphones. If I ever get a really nice set of headphones, or a nice home theater rig to listen to them on? I'll be proper wrecked. For good. Nothing else will do.
Bugger.
Seriously, the remasters are so fantastic, so nuanced, I've been trying to figure out how to convert them into digital and still manage to preserve all that amazing nuance. I don't care if it's 1GB a bleeping song.
Man, I'm gushing.
Anyway, a bit of trivia: According to Phil Collins, when they were writing and recording demos for DUKE, the fourth of the post-Gabriel albums, he swears that he played "In the Air Tonight" for the other two guys in the band. At that time, the song was just a demo track for what would become his breakout debut solo album, FACE VALUE. Tony Banks, keyboardist and songwriter, swears Phil never did, because it was such a great song and he would have begged for it to be recorded by the band.