Talking Heads Remastered


Anyone out there splurg on the newly remastered Talking Heads Catalog "Brick"? Released on dualdisc with remastered stereo mixes on CD layer and extra tracks from the recording sessions and video and 5.1 mixes on the DVD layer. Every Talking Heads studio album is in the collection.

These albums were in desperate need of remastering as they came out in the late seventies and 80s. The original CD attempts sound pretty bad.

I've only been istening for a week and don't do 5.1, but the new mixes really add alot. They are tastfully done (Jerry Harrison had a lot to do with it) and sound great. I encourage any Talking heads fan to update their collection with this set.

Anyone else hear these things?

-Karl
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These tracks (or most of them at least)are available on the Talking Heads box set Once In A Lifetime in remastered form.
This was released late 2003/early 2004.

I have it, I'd actually prefer the individual albums but the DVD aspect holds no interest for me.
Like the Springsteen release,here in the UK these discs have the DVD as a seperate disc.
Paradales the TH box set is a monstrosity imho.

"Ok we've got 3 CD's of stuff what will we do?"

"I know make it 3 CD's wide!"

Yuck,terrible concept and horrible art but the liner notes are very good
Karl maybe if you read what I wrote before you started shooting your mouth off you wouldn't have made the mistake you have.

I'm answering a comment on the box set on which Paradales and I agree on....... not the single albums.

And maybe if you paid attention to what music is released you'd have heard the remastered versions two years before you did.......imho.
:-)
Karl seems we are talking at cross purposes I thought Paradales reference to the Brick (which I now think he thought I was talking about but was mistaken)was a nickname for the very long Once In A Lifetime box set shape.

So the three of us have picked it up wrong somewhere.
I apologise for my part in that.

The artwork for OIAL is horrendous imho and totally at odds (probably the reason why)with the usual TH artwork.The packaging is awkward and hopeless to be frank.

As for the remastering, the bottom line is OIAL was the first major remastering of the TH back catalogue and done by Bob Ludwig who is widely considered the best in the business.
The British versions of the single albums have nothing on the outside to distinguish that they've been done again

Your implying that the new ones are better maybe they are but unless I've misread your note you haven't compared both either.

Personally to be honest I'd rather have the single albums in their original form and I'll probably pick them up when they come down in price and are released without the 5.1/DVD disc.
That's what usually happens with these type of releases.
Out of interest it'd be nice to know if anybody has compared the two different remasters-Ludwig's box set from 2003 and the new single albums (and Brick!) by Harrison.