Re-recording a great (or not so great) album

[JohnDavisNYC]

i want to try and remake OK Computer. That would be fun. that or 'Oar' by skip spence.

john

[coniferouspine]

I think it'd be interesting to go back in the time machine and get Neil Young to re-cut Trans with a more traditional NY style and instrumentation...and when he first brought in the demos of the songs, I'd be like, "these are good songs, but write another fifteen more and then we'll talk about whittling the 30 songs down to ten." Not just engineering, those records needed some serious work to get them above sub-par.

[djdrake13]

The Wall, any of Notorious B.I.G.'s tracks, and Britney, just so I could get her in the studio and make something fuckin cool with her. "She's not bad, just drawn that way."

[pwrb]

I don't think it really needs to be re-recorded (oh, wait, it can't be...), but Johnny Cash's last one "The Man Comes Around" would be a lot cooler in my book if the vocals had not been cleaned up so damn much. I mean, the guy's dying. There's not a breath or mouth noise to be heard anywhere; just this fragile, disembodied voice that apparently doesn't require oxygen. Very annoying.

Oh, and it might be nice if a couple of the covers were nixed.

Pete

www.weissy.com

[djdrake13]

I don't think it really needs to be re-recorded (oh, wait, it can't be...), but Johnny Cash's last one "The Man Comes Around" would be a lot cooler in my book if the vocals had not been cleaned up so damn much. I mean, the guy's dying. There's not a breath or mouth noise to be heard anywhere; just this fragile, disembodied voice that apparently doesn't require oxygen. Very annoying.

Oh, and it might be nice if a couple of the covers were nixed.

Pete

www.weissy.com

I do love his version of "Hurt" I think its from that album

[takeout]

that rings the vaguest of bells in what passes for my memory. but he was trying to recreate the whole thing, right? no way he had access to the actual tapes?????

Re-recorded the whole thing, from scratch, with only the finished album as a reference.

[pwrb]

I do love his version of "Hurt" I think its from that album

Yeah, I do too. I was thinking more along the lines of "In My Life" or "Bridge Over Troubled Water". A little melodramatic and kind of exploitative in an overly obvious way...

Pete

[BrianK]

I think the trouble with almnost all Ramones albums (there IS quite a range of sounds and styles on there) is the mixing. We had the master tapes to most of them, as I mixed many of the outtakes found on the reissue CDs that just came out. However, the "rules of the game" are to make things sound like the original, not fix it up and make it better. Fair enough.

So - we'd get a song that was unreleased and mix it, then we'd A/B it to the original album and have to thin out the guitars and drums, some BIG changes to make it sound worse, in my opinion. So, the potential is there just to take the trakcs as they were cut and EQ and fit them to sound much as you'd hope. And later on, you'd have to add tons of gated verb and stuff to match the 80's records.

I think the real suprise was how little the Ramones themselves were on those records...

[MoreSpaceEcho]

that rings the vaguest of bells in what passes for my memory. but he was trying to recreate the whole thing, right? no way he had access to the actual tapes?????

Re-recorded the whole thing, from scratch, with only the finished album as a reference.

jeez. i'd like to have that guy's free time.

[Stephen]

Early Buzzcocks. Is it Lipstick that is so bright that I bleed everytime I hear it? Don't get me wrong I love the band,song,performance etc

J7

Word...
Pax, Steve

[Stephen]

The Wall, ."

Ditch those hideous Roger Waters acoustic songs and make one decent single album out of it.
Then do the same thing with The White Album...
(*Cue flame throwers...*)
Pax, Steve

[Stephen]

I just wish someone would do a decent mastering job on Birds of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra. The CD is horrendous.
Pax, Steve

[Rick Hunter]

I want to rerecord all the white stripes albums and use protools and auto tune and beat detective. Then I want to throw a giant turd at Meg White.

yeah. I said it.

[cgarges]

I want to rerecord all the white stripes albums and use protools and auto tune and beat detective.

I think for once that would be an extraordinarily appropriate use of Auto Tune, Beat Detective, and Sound Replacer.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[JGriffin]

I want to rerecord all the white stripes albums and use protools and auto tune and beat detective.

I think for once that would be an extraordinarily appropriate use of Auto Tune, Beat Detective, and Sound Replacer.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Yup.