David Bowie "Station To Station" Special Edition (2010)

That set looks awesome!

I hope Low gets the same treatment.

 

Same here, though I may still splurge and get the SDE anyway. I'm enough of a Bowie nut to want the big deal release!

The whole RCA thing seems weird to me. One assumes that they believe the 2010 master will be the best ever, so why toss in an old one? Yeah, many think IT is the best, but it's almost like some weird admission of defeat.

Or a gimmick. I'm leaning toward that interp. Still seems strange to throw in a 25-year-old mastering - has that ever happened with another release?

 

I was wondering the same thing. I know some older masterings have popped up on some of those Japan mini-lps, but I can't recall any deluxe cd reissue doing that.

 

I can understand why Harry Maslin did a new 5.1 mix, but why did he also do a new stereo mix? I'm quite happy to give it a listen, but was there anything wrong with the original mix?

 

Maybe someone's been listening/viewing these forums and is aware of how well regarded the RCAs are. I'd love it if they re-released them all, but that's probably a pipe dream for now unless this set sells out.

 

Not happy with the 5.1 mix being only in the super-mega-expensive version.... I am not interested in the vinyl and I don't see the rationale behind bundling DVD and vinyl, apart from the usual EMI rip-off mindset.

 

Which of the two RCA cd Masters will the Deluxe include? WG or Japan?

 

Same here, I think that is really funny. Maybe they did their research and realized that the RCA is *the sound* people have liked best and are just going to throw it in as an extra feature? Maybe it does something with putting the RCA back in print for legal reasons? I am thinking that they know that the masters just sound different... they are not the sound of the albums, and they don't want to even attempt to recreate that sound when they can simply include the real deal. In any of those cases its good news, especially for folks who haven't heard the RCAs before.

edit- About which RCA version they put out... is there a third option? Where did the WG/J tapes come from? Perhaps they used the tape those were copied from and this is an even better sounding RCA version.

 

Oatsdad: King Crimson released a deluxe version of In The Court of... that included a needle drop of the original vinyl. This wouldn't be the first time this was done, and as long as the deluxe STS is not $500.00, and is indeed truly from the master tapes, and the vinyl pressings are good (please get the hole in the middle folks,) I'm all for it.

 

You know, this already had happened 34 years ago in 1976 on LP, in 1985 on CD and so on..
This is great album of course, no matter hi or low res
I have all cd version on my ipod and when I'm not at home I can choose between them
(RCAs, Rykos) and when I'm in the mood I put the needle on my UK orange label and the slow train is coming...))
Don't get me wrong, I want and probably will get this box like a new toy, maybe 5.1 will do this for me, maybe Nassau show, but speaking of the album only the music is already with me, maybe it's in my head, too much Bowie in last years) but when I hear guitar opening in "Stay", this is a real drive or take "Word on a Wing" for example...
And I say to myself - Do I really need a boxset to enjoy this great music again?
Maybe I should spent money on some new stuff, like Black Keys new album or something that I'm not familiar with

 

Wow, possibly the most over-the-top reissue ever... Funnily enough, this is the first mega-deluxe I'm even considering. With both Exile and Bitches Brew (among my favourite albums) I had no use for an LP reissue, but I only have S to S on the awful Virigin remaster, and it has grown into my favourite Bowie album. With a possible surround setup in the near future, this could be a great addition...

 

It was the "newness" of this album (to me) that really made it for me.
And I didn't hear it until the early 1990's - talk about late to the party. And it was on the much dreaded Ryko remaster - on EMI vinyl - that I first experienced it. Still, it left me floored, along with Young Americans (another "new" 1990's discovery for me.)

They were the regular soundtracks on my drives to and from the gym.

 

Its not the side effects of the cocaine, i'm thinking that it must be $$$

 

Ya know I was just imagining the day when a record company would release an re-mastered or remixed album as a deluxe edition with the original uncompressed, un-futzed with original mix as a bonus. Kind of like when the Star Wars original trilogy was included as a bonus with the digitally enhanced special edition trilogy.

Crossing my own arms and sticking out my chest, "I should be an A&R guy."

Cheers, Michael

 

So, who does the mastering? Sorry if it was mentioned, too hot here in The Netherlands. Makes me lazy!

 

PS, I guess I don't have to worry about tracking down an old RCA edition of Station To Station anymore.

Michael

 

Not necessarily - just because they're using the mastering doesn't mean it'll be an identical copy of the RCA CD. Could be brickwalled or mucked with in other ways. Besides, as others have noted, we don't know WHICH mastering - J or WG - will be used...

 

Sick! This thing is going to be way overpriced, no doubt, but that's okay. One of my favorite albums of all time. Time to break the piggy bank open...

 

You probably don't. It's more the case of EMI desperately needing your money again for a product you partially already purchased a few times.

As I understand it you are forced to buy vinyl albums if you want the 5.1 mix ?
Vinyl albums that contain exactly the same music that's on the CD's ?
Why didn't they include the album and the concert on cassette then ? (only joking !)

And what's the story with the Panic in Detroit drum solo missing ?
Is it because there isn't enough room on two CD's to fit the whole concert ?
Apparently not ! You probably couldn't fit it on four sides of vinyl.

So to get that full version you still need to download ! (the whole live album. Again ?)

The whole thing looks nice though.

 

The drum solo is really long I should think that the people buying it won't mind it, but hey that was emi's decision.

 

Unbelievable. a fan's dream...stop the complaining people...i mean really, if you like bowie and this music how can you NOT be psyched!!!!!?
this looks awesome.

 

because I doubt I'll be able to ever afford it.

 

Arguably my favorite album from my favorite artist ever - I almost fell off my chair looking at the photos! I foolishly traded away my RCA CD years ago, and no longer have my LP-12 deck, so the special edition looks like the way to go; let's hope Harry Maslin did a nice job.

 

Disappointed that the SE doesn't include a 5.1 mix. Boo!

Not buying the mega vinyl edition.

 

Hell, if the RCA masterings are still available, go ahead and release the entire RCA Bowie catalogue. Maybe at five bucks a piece since it's such an "obsolete" recording.

PS, this is proof positive that Bowie is a member of this forum and cares about the sound quality of his catalogue. Okay, maybe I'm only 13% sure of this.