![]() ![]() As others have mentioned, the sound quality of remastered songs can be hit and miss but what bothers me more than anything are those songs where some engineer thinks he can do better than what was originally done and they change levels or commit some other kind of audio blasphemy that makes the new recordings different from the ones we remember. I think they were victims of overplay which was standard practice back then and probably still is today. I acquired someone's record collection which I either donated to thrift stores or sold to a used record store but one of the albums I kept was from ABBA that has my favorite song by them, "SOS." I'm a pushover for tight harmonies so I didn't jump on the bashing bandwagon back in the day. I have one pressed in the UK under the Epic label and it sounds pretty good. So for now, if you want a good copy of The Album just get a TT and buy the original LP from 1977. Voulez-Vous Deluxe Edition was released in 2010 and despite having already been released in fine quality on CD in 1984, some of the bonus tracks were not previously available in as good sound quality and had stupid fades! Thank You For The Music (1983 Greatest Hits Vol.2)Īs it turns out all the remasters since 2010 seem to have addressed the dynamic range issue of the past and todays releases sound pretty good, back to the standards of around 1995. The Name Of The Game (2011 ABBA: Collected) Take A Chance On Me (1982 The Singles: The First Ten Years) Thankfully, for the tracks they took from The Album used the original mixdown tapes. The only way to get a decent sounding copy of The Album is look to the CD compilations released in the 80s, and one from fairly recently. This remaster is the worst of them all and is on the Complete Studio Recordings, The Album Deluxe Edition and The Albums. Overplay net lp plus#The 2001 remaster is similar to 1997, but the equalisation was changed plus even more compression.įor 2005 Jonsson unfortunately returned to the damaged tapes used for the 1984 release, and added compression and limiting. ![]() Bad equalisation and compression/limiting was also applied. The 1997 remaster used good mixdown tapes but the second verse on 'The Name Of The Game' was edited in (it was originally removed to form the single edit). The Side B tracks don't have the same problem, a different one: these tracks are quite noisy. The original 1984 CD release was mastered from presumably the original LP cutting tapes, but unfortunately the Side A tracks apparently suffer from terrible distortion. But here's a breakdown of my findings anyway. I don't own any of the remasters of 'The Album' but I cannot speak of it myself. I have not listened to the 1997 remasters, but from my research they have awful EQ and quite a lot of compression, so are definitely to be avoided. including the boxset The Albums (2008), which includes all of the 2005 remastered albums plus a bonus tracks CD. I haven't listened to all of them, currently these are the ABBA CD's in my possession: ![]()
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