The cover didn't help - a rush paste-up by some anonymous random who - against all the evidence - thought black was the way to go. And taking up a third of the area with a butt-ugly logo. And using the first photographs they found in the file. Tinted red. This here replacement took me a pleasant thirty minutes, and it's already a more attractive proposition. You'd snatch this sucker out of the racks if you saw it and run screaming into the street.
Deliverables: mono and stereo remasters from the What's That Sound? package. Song for song, it's one of the best rock and pop debuts ever.
It's the weekend. Take a break from irksome Stealth Links!
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/bS7fGX6NPvp
Rather cool! I don't get to download much in the cow pasture we're living in until the rains come, especially large files. This one made it along with Reams O' Literature Out The Ass. It'll be a nice weekend. This is the first cow pasture I've been in with no mushrooms so it coulda been better. Thanks for the treats!
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome, FGW! Taste the cud!
DeleteThank you for the new cover, way better than what was originally done. The only problem, is the new cover's small size.
ReplyDeleteYes, Bob, all my covers are done for iTunes, not CD burns. They're really low-tech. The visual equivalent of @192 rips!
DeleteDoes the back cover still inform us of Dewey's favorite color?
DeleteSorry for the late reply, Hazy!
DeleteThe way an album is packaged can either entice or put us off, for any number of reasons. The original design becomes part of the album, represents it, and colors our perception of it. In a sense, it can stop us from hearing it with fresh ears, because when we see it our reflexes are conditioned by its familiarity. This album is a good example - the original is almost shockingly bad, telling us nothing about the music, the band, or the times. Yet nobody seems to mind much - its faults have become invisible, like the scar on the face of a friend. "It is what it is," we say. But things ain't what they seem on Fabulous False Memory Foam Island, where everything is as it should be.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Thank is all.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
ReplyDelete... a one hit wonder, and the hit was not on the LP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjwEGw10w0&has_verified=1
I once "sampled before buying" (translation: grabbed for free like a 4-or-5 and dime-counting cheepskate) the 4 CD B.S. boxed set. Years ago. I never got around to playing it til a few weeks ago. As I had read a picky-axx reviewer complaining that it was 99% MONO. It isn't. Maybe I got a "mis-press"... (How a pile o' FLAC files would come out like that, I dunno...)
ReplyDeleteI for one, prefer the STEREO versions of their albums. Choose to concur or not, you still have made a choice. Gads. Now I've given a clue as to what Canoodian power trio I was listening to in high skool...
Crazier still, I as just playing a random selection of JA. junque the other day. and whadaya know, on comes a DJ version of "Watch This Sound" by the by (Slim Smith and) The Uniques (original was from '68).
After a bit (O.K., it was more like a standard black hole 1/2 an hour or more..) of searching, I've yet to FIND what I'd heard...
I think it MUST be one of these...
https://www.riddimguide.com/tunedb/riddim_Watch%20This%20Sound/
https://www.riddimguide.com/tunedb/song_Watch%20This%20Sound/
NOT to be confused with "What's That Sound"
Which is, in a roundabout (no Yes) way, to say that this was a very common JA. practice. To have a Rastafied versions of older songs. In this case, of the Stills song... (Phew)
And (speeching of "...some talking sense...") Dennis Alcapone's "Teach The Children" (Duke Reid) is another great one in the same vein.
D.A.C. does his thing over "Mr. Big Shot" by Jean Knight (1971).
Oh, and, hi rez or not, nice cover. Ranks up there with the ATCO "Stampede" one (even if that 1 only ever reached the "slicks" stage...)
Hoping for the hen's teeth STEREO "BABY DON'T SCOLD ME"...
Does "Baby" even exist in stereo?
DeleteThanks for the links - interesting stuff!
The mono mix of "For What It's Worth" hangs together as a harmonic entity much better than the crappy isolated vocals and instruments stereo mix Greene and Stone slapped together. Also problematic in stereo is the way the final falsetto "Leave..." is hung out to dry without any guitars. Quite cringeworthy. The mono mix of "Leave" leaves the guitars scrubbing away in there until the bitter end, a much more satisfying conclusion to a song which is probably not one of the highlights of the record anyway.
DeleteNot that I'm a sixties mono purist. I do dig the isolated steel drum solo in "Carrie-Ann". And I remixed a version of "So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star" with a lot less trumpet, which turned out pretty listenable. Cream's "Spoonful" appeals to me more with less harmonica, too... Dot dot dot. Dot.
"Baby Don't Scold Me"... Because here comes some more Buffalo droppings...
DeleteFor what it's worthless.......... (groan...)
"BDSM" (That actually sounds a bit naughty, now that I read it back... Oh well, no Meetwood Flac...) was only ever TRUE STEREO on FIRST PRESSING of the FIRST Buff Boys ElPee. Monomania prevailed on all reissues * (of this lost track --- lopped off the LP in favor of adding The Hit).
* That I know of.
Good luck finding this one!
(...A few moments pass... O.K., O.K., yeah, so it WAS a BIT longer than the time that horsefly lingered on the noggin of the VPOTUS...)
It's your lucky touchie touché day, Brooooce.
http://www.bsnpubs.com/atlantic/atco101265.html
SEE:
33-200/SD 33-200 - Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield [1966]
(TWO variations, both MONO and STEREO issues)
Or, cut to the chase, Prof style!:
http://profstoned.blogspot.com/2014/08/buffalo-springfield-baby-dont-scold-me.html
Here's what I meant to say:
DeleteD.A.C. does his thing over John Holt's "Sister Big Stuff" (remake of "Mr. Big Shot" by Jean Knight from 1971).
NOT:
D.A.C. does his thing over "Mr. Big Shot" by Jean Knight (1971).
Back in the mid-70s, met Stills a few times in NO at mutual friends' parties. Despite his rep., he was never an ass at those gatherings. But, he took a liking to me when I told him Manassas was better than CSNY (that was one of the periods when he was at war with all of them).
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Stills story is him punching out "Elvis Costello". I hope it's true.
DeleteRE. Rasta run-down Dept.
ReplyDelete... "Watch This Sound" by the by (Slim Smith and) The Uniques ...
It just so happenstances that Jillem has the JA. juice for alla you rabid Rasta re-do riff raff!:
https://hollandtunneldive.blogspot.com/2020/10/jamaica_17.html
...their first hit 'Watch This Sound' was an adaptation of a Buffalo Springfield 'protest' song where their reading of Steve Still's [sic] lyric adds another dimension to the original version...