listening to lots of music lately and almost every second song is “remastered”; original is often not even available anymore.

and not one single time i can hear any kind of improvement. so what does it even mean, to remaster a song?

one of the worst cases, imo is atomic by blondie.

friggin classic

b-side abbba song?

and to add: iʼm not some kind of nostalgic puritan, plenty of songs get better after some remixing, covering and whatnot, like

The Clash - Rock The Casbah (12 inch Version)

But the remastered version?

dear god, if i wanted to listen to sting, i would listen to friggin sting.

  • shutz@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    From what I’ve heard, she didn’t remaster, she rerecorded those albums. These are new performances.

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      8 months ago

      You’re correct they’re all new recordings of the songs, not remastered.