It did...just not in the US. His entire catalog through 1982 -- both solo and with Utopia -- was remastered and reissued by Castle in 1999. The sound quality is improved over the domestic CDs, though I don't think any amount of remastering will make them sound spectacular (I think many of his albums just weren't recorded very cleanly). And as an added bonus, the spines of the solo albums, when lined up in chronological order, reveal Todd's face, while the Utopia titles form the band's logo.

There is a Japanese mini-LP remaster of this one. It's mastered a bit loud for my tastes, but I think it's still an improvement over the old CD.

BOC On Your Feet is at the top of my list. I read somewhere (I THINK in an old Ice thread) that the master tapes are lost. I hope that isn't true. If I could only pick one BOC album as my fav, that would be the one. The cd sound is atrocious, though.

The out of print MFSL of Something Anything is well done. (& it's now rare too!)

There is currently a limited Japan mini sleeve of Twin Sons that I believe is on the verge of going oop. Get it while you can, our own Roxanne Marciniak is getting one for me.

I've heard 4 of the Japanese Fogelberg Mini Sleeves. 3 sounded excellent (Captured Angel, Netherlands, & Phoenix). Innocent Age is a bit compressed/strident; but still better then the US.

AMV,
I will have to politely agree to disagree with you as it especially concerns the Born In The USA album. For commercial purposes, it was sequenced and structured perfectly. As far as critically and as well as core fan angles go, you will find that a lot more fans wish that Bruce had gone the Murder, Inc. album direction instead of the overtly commercial way the album ended up being.

Gunnar, the original poster, mentioned the the Doobie Brothers 70's catalog. I have to heartily disagree with this. I've been listening to these a lot of late and - surprise! They sound absolutely GREAT! At least, to my ears. Full marks to Lee Herschberg, the mastering engineer on these.

Dunno how much sonic change you'd get with a remastered Appetite, but there might be some interesting bonus material out there...

The Sting back catalogue (up through Mercury Falling, I believe) was remastered a few years ago, albeit only available on import.

*clears throat* Yeah, careful readers will note that I kind of sidestepped BITUSA. "Shut Out The Light" is one of my all-time favorite B-sides, and it as well as other songs like "Murder, Inc." could have easily replaced lame, Landau-inspired cuts like "Cover Me" or "I'm Goin' Down". I'm also one of that teeny tiny minority percentage of the population who enjoyed the 12-inch remixes of "Dancing In The Dark" and the title track (NOT "Cover Me").

But I'd still rather see the original songs and the original albums finally get treated with the respect that they deserve.

These were remastered at the time that the CSN and CSN&Y catalogs were remastered back in the 90's. But Deja Vu and 4 Way Street were not a part of the most recent catalog reissuing which added bonus cuts to the various albums.

Regarding Springsteen.....

I have a feeling you will never hear the Electric Nebraska material because Bruce feels it's terrible, which is why it was dumped in favor of the demo tapes. It's kind of a different situation from songs that were recorded for the albums but didn't make the cut not because of the song quality, but because they didn't fit into an album's context, or due to album space issues.

I agree with AMW regarding the Springsteen albums and how they should be upgraded. I just want a sonic upgrade of the original albums. Look, I am a person who feels that at least 25 songs from the Born In The USA sessions are better than 2/3 of the cuts on that album. I know Bruce these days feels very much the same way (he admits its the only real album where he mucked up the song selection), but the solution to that is not to expand BITUSA, but to do another Tracks box set.

And he does need to another Tracks box set. What I want to hear more than anything are all of the studio versions of songs that were rehearsed or demoed for the River ("Night Fire," "Chevrolet Deluxe," etc.) and BITUSA ("Unsatified Heart," "Richfield Whistle," etc.). We only have the songs on poor sounding boots, and it would be interesting to hear the real songs. Especially "Richfield Whistle," which I think features Bruce's best lyrics in any song he's written.

Yes, these were re-issued, but everything I have seen regarding these discs says that they were not re-mastered. These seem to be the exact same issues (tracklists and mastering) as the 1990 releases of these titles, down to the exact same bonus tracks and liner notes. Even the "Air Age Anthology" from 1997 is reputed to be digitally remastered, but much doubt exists about that claim, and the sound does not differ noticeably from the originals. If you have any information confirming an upgraded mastering on these, please let me know.

I have heard rumors for the last several years regarding a comprehensive Be Bop Deluxe box set, and Bill Nelson even mentioned his involvement (on his website blog) back then, but I don't believe that anything came of it.

I'd love to see the Hendrix catalog done right ~ make deluxe editions of Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love in both stereo and mono with bonus tracks much like the Monkees did.
Also...
B-52's first two lp's
the first few Neil Young albums
Van Morrison's Warner releases
Humble Pie - Rockin' The Fillmore
Paul Butterfiled Blues Band - first two albums
The Stooges - Raw Power (non-Iggy mix)
The Romantics - catalog
Bob Seger - Back in 72, Mongrel, ect
(how can somebody who is in the Rock Hall of Fame have such awful sounding CD's)
The Smiths - catalog

how can someone in the rock and roll hall of fame not have 3 of his albums EVER on CD?

The first two Van Halen albums with Sammy Hagar (5150 and OU812) need it, bad. The dynamic range especially on 5150 is pitiful. Warner Bros. remastered all the David Lee Roth albums about eight years ago. Now that Roth is back again, it's probably not politically correct to upgrade those Hagar albums, which were underrated IMO.

I'd be thrilled just to buy the Hendrix catalog again for the 5th or 6th time without all the compression on the last few generations of Hendrix remasters!

If memory serves me right, "Backstreets" magazine raved about them before they were actually released... I guess it was due to the anticipation of finally having these things in improved sound quality... but in the following issue, they reviewed the actual discs and said that any sonic improvement was minimal at best; their opinion was that the CDs were not worth the expense of getting them as imports.

The early Kinks have been, but I think the CDs were only released overseas. The American CDs of the early albums are uglier. But you can still buy all the remastered ones as imports, I believe.

The MusicTap website mentions that the Japanese editions of "...Kate Bush titles (The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never Forever)." are to be "imported and domestically released by Caroline Records. They are planned for February 26."

However, I am not at all clear on whether the Japanese editions are remastered in any way, or if they have any additional material. It may simply be the cardboard sleeves that are "new".

I checked some of the Kate Bush fan sites and no one seems to be aware of the domestic arrival of these Japanese editions.

I thought the earlier Hendrix remasters were better than the current ones.
Chip

Glad I didn't upgrade.

What about the rest of the Bob Dylan catalog Columbia promised when they released the Hybrid SACD's a few years ago?

Anyone said this yet? - Quadrophenia! Be nice to see what sort of extra materials they come up with if it's ever done.