Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Box Set want list
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Date: 23/04/2014, 2:49 pm
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Vocal overdubs on Midnight Oil and Head Injuries?!!  Please tell me it isn't so!

I'm one of the few probably on this list that hasn't bought the remasters on iTunes (well I did with Bird Noises but I've been awaiting the physical release of everything else).  I did get the D&D remaster though and I can't stand the changes made to Sell My Soul.  I'll confess I've listened to the remaster so infrequently I hadn't noticed changes to Sometimes, but the crucial snare hit at the 2:48 min mark in Sell My Soul is gone replaced with - nothing.  (In fact the guitar solo and instrumental breakdown from 2:00 - 3:00 has been annoyingly tampered with - extra backing vocals, drum fills, clutter).  It IS tantamount to a remix not a remaster.  And seriously, for what effect?

The idea that HI and/or MO would have elements recorded... surely not?

Adrian