Played the remaster and then the remix one after the other - on my computer, admittedly, but the speakers are pretty good - and didn't really notice the difference. Maybe the drums are a bit punchier. And I noticed some extra string-scraping sounds at the start of "Darkness" :)
An extra 2.5 minutes on "Jets At Dawn", of course, which now comes to a conclusion rather than fading out. Please forgive me, Bill, but I don't think it adds much to the song - it almost loses its way. But maybe that's the consequence of listening to the original for over 40 years.
The extra tracks are fine, with a couple that I hadn't heard before. The book has some "interesting" photos - many from the day that BBD came up to London to sign with EMI.
I haven't checked them, but it occurs to me that the essays in the books of the four boxsets could provide Bill with a start to the second part of his autobiography. Lots more detail needed before and after BBD, of course, but it might be a start!
Played the remaster and then the remix one after the other - on my computer, admittedly, but the speakers are pretty good - and didn't really notice the difference. Maybe the drums are a bit punchier. And I noticed some extra string-scraping sounds at the start of "Darkness" :)
An extra 2.5 minutes on "Jets At Dawn", of course, which now comes to a conclusion rather than fading out. Please forgive me, Bill, but I don't think it adds much to the song - it almost loses its way. But maybe that's the consequence of listening to the original for over 40 years.
The extra tracks are fine, with a couple that I hadn't heard before. The book has some "interesting" photos - many from the day that BBD came up to London to sign with EMI.
I haven't checked them, but it occurs to me that the essays in the books of the four boxsets could provide Bill with a start to the second part of his autobiography. Lots more detail needed before and after BBD, of course, but it might be a start!