David Bowie - A new career in town

Fretwired

This is a a 'Berlin' box set of Bowie albums - don't buy it. For some reason Tony Visconti decided to add bottom end to low (no pun intended) and half way through Heroes the volume drops .. WTF. If you have Spotify you can listen to this mess.

Read about it here:

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/parlophone-respond-to-david-bowie-berlin-box-set-mastering-criticisms/

Edit:

Amazon have pulled the box set due to complaints.

AlexC

As a huge Bowie fan (and I know I say this about every 3 days on this forum) I actually find a lot of Tony V's 'cashing in' behaviour since the great man's passing to be questionable and reprehensible. 

Fretwired

AlexC said:

As a huge Bowie fan (and I know I say this about every 3 days on this forum) I actually find a lot of Tony V's 'cashing in' behaviour since the great man's passing to be questionable and reprehensible. 

I agree. I'm a big fan of Bowie's Berlin period. I've been listening to the box set on Spotify and it's pants. Heroes has a massive volume drop half way through. I have an original vinyl copy bought the week it was released. There's no drop in volume ..

not_the_dj

Co-producer Tony Visconti, doing more than people think ;-)

(any excuse to post this)

Jez6345789

Never saw the cartoon before laughed my arse off

not_the_dj

Jez6345789 said:

Never saw the cartoon before laughed my arse off

Next try Cobbler Bob...

AlexC

These cartoons have me weeping with laughter! Brilliant.

Fretwired

@not_the_dj ;  those cartoons are hilarious .. not seen them before .. :-)

not_the_dj

Fretwired said:

@not_the_dj  ; those cartoons are hilarious .. not seen them before .. :-)

They're from Adam Buxton (remember the Adam and Joe show?)....big Bowie fan and did a long show on 6 Music "Adam Buxton on David Bowie", this was all long before the died.

It's not on the iPlayer anymore but just spotted an edited version on soundcloud...the Eno sketch is originally from that:

Danny1969

That Bowie cartoon is priceless ..... 

JezWynd

Parlophone's defence seems to be that Visconti was in the room when the tracks were cut, therefore he's best placed to say what they should sound like. But Visconti's ears are 40 years older, with all the associated loss in high frequencies etc. Was he really the best ears to bring to bear on this project?

But he did play bass and (with Ronson) compose a lot of TMWSTW, amongst a load of other stuff, so he's obviously more than a tape op.

scrumhalf

Great cartoon/animations.