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Jun 21, 2018 - 8:45 AM
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CédricD
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So it is the third release of these sessions... but with less tracks than before. And by the way, the original albums are not really OOP as you can easily find them on the secondary market at cheap prices, especially in Europe. And if I'm not wrong, this reissue is not remastered.
Putting the London Sessions back in print is a good thing-it's a magnificent collection. But as a shorter Club release ? Come on...
OOP means 'out of print'. So if they're available on the secondary market, and not from the label itself, they're OOP.
And as has been said, the music on this edition is what was recorded new at the time. The material on the three editions released in 1990 and not on this release was not, in fact, a 'london session'.
And I'm not certain, but in my memory this music was only released in 1990. (in Europes, in the US and in Japan, perhaps that counts for three releases...)
In 1990... and (for the most part) in 2001 in the Great Composers collection.
I know what OOP means : what I wanted to say that it's not an argument considering the fact that you can find the original albums (and the Great Composers one) in a couple of clicks-especially the Colosseum editions. Which is not the case with Heathers, for example.
And deleting tracks because they're not from the London sessions is not an argument either. Varese could have included them as "bonus tracks" instead of losing space. What's next ?
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No one ever mentioned this, but it turns out that the Something Wicked suite really IS about a minute shorter, it's not just a typo.
This would have been a perfect release if they had actually released it as intended (i.e. all the music recorded for the London Sessions) but again.....why? Why would they mess things up in this way?
I have not heard this reissue, but in the Something Wicked suite on the original CD -- at 5:02 -- the previous minute of the suite is repeated.
My assumption is that this was originally an editing error, and presumably amended on this new release.
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