Steve’s Wishlist For 2014
1) The Rolling Stones-Brussel’s Affair ’73 released as a 2-CD Deluxe Edition with extra live tracks from ’73 Europe or The Pacific Rim Tour from earlier in the year. Let’s also hope that the rumored Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe Edition box set makes it out from Universal too.
2) Santana-A box set of entirely unreleased live material from the ’60s through the ’70s. It would be a great tie-in with the autobiography that Carlos is supposed to be penning. Plus, there’s quite a bit of unofficial sourced material floating around online. There’s no excuse that something like this couldn’t be done by Sony/Legacy.
3) Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown: 40th Anniversary Edition as a well done remaster, a 2-CD Deluxe Edition with outtakes, demos and alternates from Rhino/Warner Brothers or let Audio Fidelity do an SACD hybrid of it.
4) Golden Earring – Moontan: 40th Anniversary Edition 2-CD Deluxe edition with the original Dutch release lineup for the remastered first disc and then a second disc of the American tracks, unreleased studio material or a live show from the time of the album from Universal. Otherwise, let Audio Fidelity do an SACD hybrid of it. And by the way, we’re all grownups. Please issue these with the original Dutch cover-however which way it turns out.
5) William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got: 40th Anniversary Edition. I’m going to keep drilling BBR about this until it becomes reality. I know! I’m a pest.
6) The Hues Corporation – Freedom For The Stallion: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Here’s another for BBR to make a high priority.
7) Bad Company – Run With The Pack SACD hybrid or gold disc from Audio Fidelity.
8) The Who – Who’s Next: Super Deluxe Edition box set with different bonus material than was on the 2-CD Deluxe Edition from back in 2003. Include San Francisco ’71 as the live show and untouched demos from Pete Townshend, Give the main album a whole new 2014 remastering job.
9) Ravi Shankar -A box set of or individual releases of live shows and private performances. Serious consideration should be given to a multi-label unreleased material box set(s).
10) Miles Davis – Let’s hope the next installment of the Bootleg Series actually makes it out in 2014.
11) I hope that the Soundway and Analog Africa labels will do some of their great ’70s Africa compilations for countries they haven’t covered yet.
12) Carly Simon – Anticipation. Let’s have Audio Fidelity do an SACD hybrid of this album. It would be a dream come true for me to hear “Legend In Your Own Time” on SACD.
13) Jackson Browne – Definitive remasters or 2-CD Deluxe Editions for all of his albums from Jackson Browne (aka Saturate Before Using) on up to and including Hold Out. I can’t believe Rhino/Warner Brothers has still not gotten around to this yet. It should never have to be on a list like this.
14) Mike Nesmith & The First National Band – Please! Let this happen. Can we have definitive, from the multi-track mixdown tapes (no needle-drops) remasters of the great 3 album run of Loose Salute, Magnetic South and Nevada Fighter?
15) Mel & Tim – Starting All Over Again: Could Fantasy/Concord or BBR please take of this? It’s driving me nuts that I don’t have the long version of the title song in my collection.
16) Peter Green-Era Fleetwood Mac: That by some blessed miracle, some unreleased live tapes turn up and that we are given more proof of why this man should be a household name.
17) Joe Walsh-Era James Gang: Same as above. I would also include any Reunion shows too. An officially released live version of “The Bomber” would really make me one truly happy camper.
18) Elton John – SACD releases for Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player and Caribou albums. Then continue with 2-CD Deluxe Editions for Madman Across The Water, Honky Chateau, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player and Caribou since we know we are not likely to get Super Deluxe Editions of these albums from Universal. They already have Goodbye Yellow Brick Road planned for that particular treatment.
19) Bread: O.k., I’m stretching things a bit in the realistic hopes category, but I’d like to see the Bread catalog get individual album remasters from Rhino/Warner Brothers with some bonus tracks included or else let Audio Fidelity do hybrid SACD releases for their catalog.
20) Steely Dan – American (and definitive) SACD hybrid releases from either Audio Fidelity or Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs of their catalog. I would be good for everything from Can’t Buy A Thrill all the way up to and including Aja.
I wonder if my friend Matt has a wishlist of his own he’d like to share?
(I do!)
I was getting ready to chime in with – Elton’s “Don’t Shoot Me….” album in 5.1 (since rumor has it that a 5.1 mix was finished) – but you got that one.
Another being the mythological 5.1 mix of Aerosmith’s “Rocks” which was also reportedly completed back in the early days of sacds.
The Who – Who’s Next Super Deluxe Edition – If they did a HFPA Blu-Ray disc of 5.1 mixes of the album, then I would be all over that release, but if not, then it’s not getting my money…
Same with Elton John and Steely Dan reissues. Universal needs to release the unreleased EJ 5.1 mixes of “Don’t Shoot Me”, “Caribou”, “Rock of the Westies”, and “Blue Moves” as well as releasing any other unreleased 5.1 mixes from Steely Dan, like “Pretzel Logic”, “The Royal Scam”, etc
I have heard that Greg Penny did a 5.1 version of his own production of Elton John’s “Made In England” CD from the 90’s (for my money, the last truly great EJ recording). If that is true – let’s include that one if we’re doing a wish list…
Yep, all those re-mixes have been bought and paid for by the labels. Why don’t they just put them out and get some cash back!
I suspect that there were numerous other 5.1 experiments that were done about a decade ago that are rotting on a shelf somewhere that could generate some interest in the format. Heck, delivering them on a new format like HFPA, with a widely installed user base (unlike SACD or DVD-A), could even give that format a needed shot in the arm – and maybe make some converts along the way.
I just can’t figure out why the record companies are so lazy. We all know that DD has become all the rage, but there is still a sizeable audience (with cash to spend) that has not completely abandoned physical media.
Great List !!!!!!!!!
Count me in on the deluxe Elton albums. Get those B-sides included too. (Snow Queen).
The year starts off on a positive note with The Beatles Capitol box set.
I will chime in with a big PLEASE on the EJ SACD’s mentioned above. I loved the 5.1 EJ titles from several years ago and was sad they didn’t follow through with more. I would be ok with a Sticky Fingers Deluxe box, but the Exile box from a couple years ago was underwhelming. 5.1 mixes get me fired up for deluxe boxes. Vinyl and hard cover books, not so much.
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