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jetengine · 02.27.2010, 10:47 AM

I agree with several of you above: If these four LPs materialise as planned, it could be a major waste of effort and 180-g virgin vinyl. This may be nice for the younger Gen-Zed/Millenial crowd who have gotten into Sonic Youth and vinyl, but it will have limited appeal for us Gen-X and -Y folk who got into SY 15 to (almost) 30 years ago, and probably already have original pressings or early reissues of these albums.

Confusion Is Sex sounds like it will be the best of the bunch, holding truest to the original.

EVOL could turn out okay with 'Bubblegum' tacked on if they provide 'Expressway To Your Skull' with the locked groove like on the original; otherwise, it will be nothing more than the cassette version pressed to vinyl. Also, they might have tried tacking 'Bubblegum' on at some other point in the listings; personally, I think it could work much better coming at the end of Side One.

Sister and Bad Moon Rising, however, sound like they're shaping up to be major fiascoes. Frankly, I don't think the alternative mix of 'Master Dik' even worked as a bonus track on the original Sister CD, and if they felt compelled to resurrect it at this stage in the game, it would have been much better suited to the recent Master Dik CD reissue. Not only is it going to be a black sheep on this reissue, it's also going to throw the track listings out of kilter. ('Tuff Gnarl' not opening Side Two sounds somewhat akin to sacrilege!) And track listings thrown out of kilter will be even more detrimental to Bad Moon, with 'I'm Insane' and 'Justice Is Might' being split/faded. It's really going to sound like a different album.

If they were going to reissue these albums on vinyl, they should have at least reissued Confusion Is Sex and Bad Moon Rising as double LPs to do them proper justice ('justice' being might, remember). They could have pressed the four tracks from Kill Yr. Idols and the two tracks from (Over)kill Yr. Idols, along with a few other live recordings from that era, on a bonus LP. They could have even used the artwork from Kill Yr. Idols for a high-quality card-stock inner sleeve. As for Bad Moon, a bonus LP should have had track listings similar to the following:

Side Three:
Flower
Halloween (original mix)
Satan Is Boring
Echo Canyon
Rewolf

Side Four:
Brave Men Run ('84 original)
Death Valley '69 ('84 original)
Satan Is Boring (extended live version)

Now, reissues like those would get us all out to the record stores with stuffed wallets again, don't you think?

02.27.2010, 10:47 AM	#18
jetengine children of satan Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 399	I agree with several of you above: If these four LPs materialise as planned, it could be a major waste of effort and 180-g virgin vinyl. This may be nice for the younger Gen-Zed/Millenial crowd who have gotten into Sonic Youth and vinyl, but it will have limited appeal for us Gen-X and -Y folk who got into SY 15 to (almost) 30 years ago, and probably already have original pressings or early reissues of these albums. Confusion Is Sex sounds like it will be the best of the bunch, holding truest to the original. EVOL could turn out okay with 'Bubblegum' tacked on if they provide 'Expressway To Your Skull' with the locked groove like on the original; otherwise, it will be nothing more than the cassette version pressed to vinyl. Also, they might have tried tacking 'Bubblegum' on at some other point in the listings; personally, I think it could work much better coming at the end of Side One. Sister and Bad Moon Rising, however, sound like they're shaping up to be major fiascoes. Frankly, I don't think the alternative mix of 'Master Dik' even worked as a bonus track on the original Sister CD, and if they felt compelled to resurrect it at this stage in the game, it would have been much better suited to the recent Master Dik CD reissue. Not only is it going to be a black sheep on this reissue, it's also going to throw the track listings out of kilter. ('Tuff Gnarl' not opening Side Two sounds somewhat akin to sacrilege!) And track listings thrown out of kilter will be even more detrimental to Bad Moon, with 'I'm Insane' and 'Justice Is Might' being split/faded. It's really going to sound like a different album. If they were going to reissue these albums on vinyl, they should have at least reissued Confusion Is Sex and Bad Moon Rising as double LPs to do them proper justice ('justice' being might, remember). They could have pressed the four tracks from Kill Yr. Idols and the two tracks from (Over)kill Yr. Idols, along with a few other live recordings from that era, on a bonus LP. They could have even used the artwork from Kill Yr. Idols for a high-quality card-stock inner sleeve. As for Bad Moon, a bonus LP should have had track listings similar to the following: Side Three: Flower Halloween (original mix) Satan Is Boring Echo Canyon Rewolf Side Four: Brave Men Run ('84 original) Death Valley '69 ('84 original) Satan Is Boring (extended live version) Now, reissues like those would get us all out to the record stores with stuffed wallets again, don't you think?
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