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 Post subject: [2012-03-27] Chicago "Hot Streets" expanded remaster of 1978 album (Friday Music)
PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:15 pm 
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Glenn S. wrote:
Invisible Pedestrian wrote:
This description from Amazon.com is a bit much!

Remastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso from the original Chicago Records tapes with the supervision of the legendary Lee Loughnane of Chicago, Hot Streets (Expanded & Remastered) is a truly one of the most important albums in their highly enduring catalog of classic rock releases. Filled with smash singles like "Alive Again," "No Tell Lover," "Hot Streets" and "Little Miss Lovin'" which features The Bee Gees. This album has been out of print in the physical format for quite some time, but in usual Friday Music fashion, the great CD will include a bonus track, original artwork, & impeccable sound.


Good Lord! Can we say hype? This album was where I got off the Chicago bandwagon but clearly it has some fans. For their sake, I hope this reissue is as great as the description above would imply.


I mean, I love it-one of my favorite Chicago albums, but the description of the album, the "imepccably" remastered music and "impeccable sound" and the "usual Friday Music fashion" are hilarious. Also, there were 2 hit singles, not 4 (a 3rd barely charted and it wasn't one of the ones they mentioned!).
The bonus track is the same as before as well.
But, seeing as Lee Loughnane is supposedly involved hopefully the remaining albums get the treatment or the ones that already did have something compelling to buy again.

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 Post subject: [2012-03-27] Chicago "Hot Streets" expanded remaster of 1978 album (Friday Music)
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:09 am 
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Of course, Lee was directly involved with the Rhino remasters too, so I'm not sure that fact adds viability to this project. Perhaps someone here can do an A/B comparison between the two remasters? I would find that interesting, though I'm content with just having the Rhino version. The only thing I'm sure about is that both these versions are better than the muddy-sounding Columbia CD.

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 Post subject: [2012-03-27] Chicago "Hot Streets" expanded remaster of 1978 album (Friday Music)
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:10 pm 
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Not a huge fan of Hot Streets, and I bought all the Rhino reissues when they came out, so I probably won't be picking this one up; but I would love to see a do-over on Chicago 16 and 17, and quality reissues of 18 (my favorite of their 80s albums), 19, and 21. I'm not that familiar with Friday - I only have their Hall & Oates CDs, which were fine, but nothing special in my view.

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