REM remastered?


Greetings. Last weekend in a cd store I found a "1999 remastered" version of Document in one of those mini-album sleeves. Had Limited Edition sticker on the oustide of plastic wrapper. Does anyone know if the entire REM back catalog has been remastered? I went through several websites (Tower, Amazon, etc). I found Limited Edition CDs of all sorts but could not find "remaster" in any of the verbage. Also, if any of you have compared the remaster to the original please include your opinions. Thanks.
nomad

Showing 1 response by megasam

Fortunately most standard REM Aluminum CDs have decent sound quality and some are very good, good thing because they have many great CDs! There are some MFSL gold REM Cds available, as others have stated, for a premium price.
I have not heard them so I can't compare to standard CD version.

I also believe the only Aluminum CD remaster currently is "Document" 10/1999 edition, the one you found. The 1992 IRS "vintage years" edition of Reckoning adds 4-5 songs to original album, but not a remaster.