megatroptimus
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New demos pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase... I need something new!
New demos pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase... I need something new!
New demos pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase... I need something new!
Mostly agreed, Buckhead, with only one reservation: Green and OOT demos have great-sounding bootlegs, if you were lucky enough to get the right ones. The most famous collection of Green demos was remastered by a fan some time ago and sounds the best you could expect from a demo album. And OOT demos can be found in at least 3 different packages with the same content and different treatments: Outtakes of Time, Slightly Out of Time and Time of Outtakes. I had the opportunity to download all of them a long time ago and compare. Time of Outtakes is clearly the best and most complete, and it's pretty decent.
The unfortunately terrible remasters collection will continue in 2016, as Bertis mentioned in a recent interview. In case you're wondering: terrible because A) they're not properly remastered, just made loud, brickwalled and obnoxious, a horrible job; I stick to other editions any day, mostly vinyls and HDtracks; B) their opportunity to release rare material was incredibly wasted, and instead we got more of the same. I think these anniversary editions are released having in mind a small group of middle-ground curious fans who don't care what the bonus is, as long as there is a bonus disc they'll listen to once and forget about it. We, diehard fans, already have all that material, while casual listeners (the vast majority) will just go for compilations and cheaper, simpler editions.
As for predictions, considering this history record so far, the bonus disc of OOT is certainly gonna be those same demos we already know. Anything else would be a surprise -- except that I can also see them releasing another widely circulated acoustic performance as a bonus disc, which would also be a poor decision. There's probably no way out when it comes to Out of Time, really. I think you're spot on about Automatic and Monster. The best thing for us would be to have demos from them, with or without new songs, but I don't think that's gonna happen. More redundant live shows to come. Whatever comes as a bonus to Hi-Fi should be interesting, as we have nothing. As for the rest, it's still a long time to come. And I honestly have no idea about the oft-mentioned box; they probably do have plenty of unheard-of material in the vaults, stuff that would make us go crazy. If you would ask this diehard fan here, there's no better time than the present time. They should be preparing it right now and for the past few months for a Christmas release, as R.E.M. is still highly-considered and people still care today. But all three guys are busy taking a long post-R.E.M. vacation and dedicating themselves to other projects, so I don't think they are in any kind of hurry. I don't know, ask Bill to do it. There are good opportunities next year (the band's 35 years anniversary) and in the distant 2020 (40 years). Or they could be leaving it to after the last 25-year album edition and I'll probably be dead by then. A side note: Chronic Town still hasn't had a decent CD release and it should have one. Since it's only 5 songs, they could include plenty of bonus material and make it a full record. There are lots of unreleased demos and live stuff from that era. Just don't make it any remastered, please! A collection of all fanclub singles would also be a handsome release as a limited edition, In The Attic style.
Any chance you can share mp3/flac of it, when you got it?i got a shipping notice today for my new peter buck 7". it's got a release date of oct 21, so that's pretty unexpected and cool.
Here is the revised upload of the Xmas stuff I promised a few weeks back, with bonus tracks, as per inyourroom's info and the uploads Anon. provided. I also used this discography page as a reference.
Disc 1
Disc 2
I wonder how Peter's songs would sound like with a real singer. Like... MJS.
Any chance you can share mp3/flac of it, when you got it?