There was an indexing error on "Crazy On You". The intro was indexed as a separate track. 4 Way Street was released in 1992, well after the others. I remember getting an advance copy from a WEA rep. that I sold a car to. Sounds fine as is.

The Bruce Springsteen catlg was remastered with 20 BIT SBM for limited Japanese release only back my gosh, more than 10 years already. I paid a hefty price for them back then but turned out ot be a wise investment due to the non-reissue(s).

Rick A.

I own it. Sound is better then the US cd's.

i know they are very expensive and hard to come by, but if you ever get the chanced to get the MFSL "bridge of sighs", grab it!

sounds wonderful.

renny

i think it was the first three or four cars CD's that were redone in HDCD, maybe someone can help me on this.

renny

I'll add:

Christopher Cross' 1st Album

George Benson's In Flight, Weekend In LA, Livin' Inside Your Love, Give Me The Night. They did an awesome remaster with killer bonus tracks on Breezin', then stopped dead cold.

Herbie Hancock's Man-Child

Twice Removed reissue - amen to that brother! Amazed that Trower has never been given the box set (anthology or otherwise) treatment.

Joe Gastwirt remastered the first three Cars titles in HDCD. I don't think the later ones were redone.
Chip

Why do I always forget this? I would like deluxe editions like the first one, with the artwork restored.

I'd like to add these to the list of CD's that need to be remastered;
Prince (WB catalog from 1978 thru 1995)
Van Morrison - ("Astral Weeks" & "Moondance")
Weather Report - (post "Heavy Weather" CDs thru 1986)
Santana - ("Borboletta", "Amigos", "Festival")
Isley Bros. - (post "Harvest for the World" CDs thru 1983)
Earth, Wind & Fire - ("Faces", "Raise" & "Powerlight")

And how could I forget these;
Stevie Wonder- 'In Square Circle' & 'Characters'
Parliament-'Funkentelechy' & 'Motor Booty Affair'
Janet Jackson-'Control', 'Rhythm Nation' & 'Janet'
Public Enemy- first four CDs - 'Yo Bum Rush The Show', 'Nation of Millions', 'Fear of a Black Planet' & 'Apocalpyse 91'
Yes- 'Big Generator'
Gentle Giant- first four CDs - 'Gentle Giant', Acquiring the Taste', 'Three Friends' & 'Octopus'

Also agree that the Springsteen & U2 catalogs need to be done again (the recent upgrades of 'Joshua Tree' and 'Born To Run' show how good these albums can sound on CD).

I have several remastered Sting CDs, but I think the remasters were only issued in the EU.

davis,

deluxe editions of what?

renny

chip,

thanks, i knew they didn't do all of them in HDCD, i just didn't know where they stopped. the rest were supposed to be done, but we all know how that goes.

renny

Hi Renny,
I have the MOFI of Bridge of Sighs. It stands tall next to my other two reissues of the album. LOL! I picked it up back when I was down in Santa Clara for 5 months back in 1996-1997 for a much needed break from everything.
Hey Eddie, nice call on the Santana titles. I'd like to see those as well.
Now, concerning Mr. Springsteen, I hope he actually gets around to doing his catalog before the industry completes it's implosion. I've brought this up int he past, but he has the opportunity to get things right sonically. Plus, with Sony having signed him to a deal where he is supposed to put out a lot more product, he could offer the fans more options as well. I've said this before, but he has got to do something with The River album which will please everybody. There has to one version of it made with best original mix that we all go used to back when it first came out. Then, another one could be made that is a remix because I know for a fact that a lot of people do not like the mix on it. Or, he could combine the two into one package. Imagine, if you will, a box set of those two combined with undoctored outtakes, alternates and unreleased that were not on tracks.
Springsteen also needs to release an official bootleg series. Honest to God! He's got so many unreleased songs which have been documented and a likely ton more that we all have never heard about whick could be utilized for all of the studio albums.
You guys, over the years, have also heard me throw out my idea about a Deluxe Edition of Nebraska which would include the "Electric Nebraska" sessions. You've also heard me mention about Tunnel of Love and how that one could have been a perfect 5.1 album because it was a DDD recording. You could also throw in the sessions Bruce cut with J.D. Maness (sp?) and Chris Hillman from the Tunnel Era into the mix.
For the Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ album, you could throw in the Hammond Demos and unreleased ditties from the sessions on that one. For The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle, you could throw in unreleased session material as well as material from all of the great radio broadcasts that Bruce did in '73 and '74 with truncated versions of the E-Street Band when they were doing sit-down interviews.
It goes without saying how fabulous Darkness On The Edge of Town could be. I've been screaming about it for longer than I can remember.
Born In The USA has so many home demos and studio material that a 3 disc set would not be out of the question. The Born In The USA shows could be used for a bootleg series.
For all of the other albums after Tunnel, Bruce has another glutton's delight of unreleased tracks and even full unreleased albums which could be released.
Sadly, I'm convinced that Bruce and Jon Landau's egos do not allow for something along these lines.

Blood Sweat & Tears 3 got the Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recording treatment in 2004 and I think is still available if you want to plunk down thirty bucks.
Blood Sweat & Tears 4 was remastered through the Columbia Legacy gang, Bob Irwin in charge, in 1996 (my gosh that's 12 years ago!) and I believe that version is currently out of print, although you can find it used in the usual places.

I'd like to see Todd Rundgren's catalog get an overhaul. Considering Rhino's passion for his work, I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet....

Twin Sons of Different Mothers by Fogelberg/Weisberg
Animal Notes, Safety in Numbers, and Live Sky by Crack the Sky
All of the BeBop Deluxe catalog

Abandoned Luncheonette and War Babies by Hall & Oates...would be great if these got the 'deluxe' treatment.

While all of this extra material is all well and good, it kind of illustrates what I said in my previous post: Unlike Dylan, who would inexplicably leave teriffic tracks off of what would wind up to be a crummy album, Springsteen's instincts were, IMO, usually dead-on in terms of which of his material did or did not belong on a particular album. Thanks to innumerable bootlegs and the "Tracks" set, it's fairly easy to understand that, while excellent songs in their own right, "Zero And Blind Terry" wouldn't have fit on "The Wild, The Innocent...", "Loose End" wouldn't fit on "Darkness...", and "Roulette" didn't quite fit in with "The River". As nasty as my comments about Springsteen can get from time to time, IMO these are PERFECT ALBUMS, carefully constructed by Springsteen from out of countless songs and recordings, etc. to best reflect his artistic vision at the time--especially "The River", a double-LP consisting of four perfect album sides that has been awkwardly repackaged into two tinny-sounding discs in a clunky double jewel box. Again...I do feel that this is a contributing factor to why these albums have never been upgraded in 20 years--the most vocal fans don't seem to want these albums to be upgraded, they seem to prefer getting outtakes that they already have on bootleg.

In another recent thread about a Steven Stills release, somebody commented that "if this was a bootleg, we'd be raving about it." That's how I feel about stuff like the Hammond tape. An official release of that entire tape would probably sell about 112 copies worldwide. "Magic" is close to going platinum, proving that Bruce's new albums can outsell the sort of unreleased material that the hardcore fans have been clamoring for--sales of the "Hammersmith Odeon '75" set, were surprisingly dismal.

And yes, Springsteen has officially released a slew of outtakes over the years as b-sides, on the "Tracks" set, or on the "Essential" bonus disc. I just wish he'd go back and give his original albums and the songs on them the same treatment that "Born To Run" has gotten. They deserve it. It's a crying shame that in 2008 there is a better-sounding version of "Thundercrack" out on store shelves than there is of "Incident On 57th Street".

The Be-Bop Deluxe catalog got overhauled by EMI in the UK some years ago, all with bonus tracks. Caroline picked them up for US distribution, and they are reasonably priced.

Where to start...

Kansas-Monolith, Two For The Show, Audiovisions, Vinyl Confessions, Drastic Measures (I realize the last 3 were done in 1996, but not with any special features or anything)
Santana-Borboletta, Amingos, Festival, Inner Secrets, Marathon, Zebop!, Shango, Beyond Appearances, Freedom, Spirits Dancing In The Flesh
Toto-everything
April Wine-everything (unless they've been done in Canada)
Blue Oyster Cult-On Your Feet Or On Your Knees, Mirrors, Cultosaurous Erectus, Fire Of Unknown Origin, Extraterrestrial Live, Revolution By Night, Club Ninja, Imaginos (for real not by American Beat)
Dio-Last In Line, Sacred Heart, Dream Evil, Lock Up The Wolves
Black Sabbath-Heaven And Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil, Born Again, Seventh Star, Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, Tyr, Dehumanizer, Cross Purposes, Forbidden (these are all supoosedly coming along with the originals with Ozzy-Castle did a decent job with the Warner albums from 1970-87 back in 1996 but they were not from the original masters)
The Fixx-everything but Reach The Beach which was done already (I believe Rainmaker did some others, but I don't know how legit they are)
Foreigner-everything left

One of my all-time favourite albums - "Get It" by Dave Edmunds along with the 45s that were released at the same time and haven't found their way onto any Dave albums.

My original UK vinyl pressing sounds great, but the US Swan Song CD release and the more current Wounded Bird release sound bad. The WB release is downright horrible.

Since "Subtle as a Flying Mallet" has been remastered as have some of Dave's CBS CDs, it would be nice to hear "Get It" get the same treatment.

Paul