"Nashville Skyline" - Orig. Columbia CD or current remastered CD?

True. "John Wesley Harding" didn't benefit much at all. (I never bought "Oh Mercy" either as it was from 89 and sounded fine)

 

Hi,

The SACD slays all other digital versions. The Redbook layer is also excellent. The original master reels were discovered in a storage vault in Nashville, TN. As Steve Hoffman points out, they weren't used since the original LP cutting at CBS Nashville studios (the old Bradley Studios).

 

That's great news! I guess I'll be stopping by the record store on the way home to get a copy of the SACD.

 

I prefer the remaster or the SACD to the Columbia

 

I just ordered the SACD and I'll get it next week.

 

The redbook-only remasters of "Bob Dylan" & "The Times They Are A Changin'" are also vast improvements over the original CD's. I beleive these are also both mono, which I prefer to the unnatural sounding stereo versions, with the guitar in one channel, & the harmonica in the other. I HATE that!

 

They are both wonderful! (Now, Columbia...how about Hard Rain...?)

 

I'm skeptical. Blonde on Blonde was a unique case, because it was specially remastered in 1999 for the standalone SACD. I assume since the remastering was already done for that, they thought it made since to slip that version onto the regular CD too. No extra work or expense required. It doesn't make sense to me that they would go to the time and expense of remastering Nashville and then throw it out there as a secret remaster.

 

And "New Morning", "Shot of Love", & especially "The Basement Tapes".
Hell, give us all of them. I have a bad feeling that we'll never see the less "popular" titles, however. Oh well, keep on the lookout for clean, minty vinyl, I guess.

 

I'm also going to go on record and state that I think Infidels sounds better on the old Columbia CD than it does on the remaster. To me, the remaster sounds a bit too "bright". The original Infidels CD is perfect.

 

Yeah you're probably right. Well then, the only thing I can say is that I like the sound of the old Columbia CD, so the SACD must be damn near perfection.

 

In my opinion the current Basement Tapes CD actually sounds very good, in terms of mastering anyway. Now of course I'd love to see an expanded/complete version that is stereo and doesn't feature overdubbing and non-Basement tracks by the Band. But if you want a CD of that album as it was originally released in 1975, the existing CD is just fine.

I haven't heard Infidels, but I think the current remaster of Blood on the Tracks is too bright, and some folks have made that complaint about other remastered Dylan CDs too (I forget which ones... Blood is the only one I've heard that I have a problem with, but I haven't heard them all). Unfortunately the original Blood CD is no prize either, sounding weak and limp and most likely not from the master. There is no really good-sounding CD of Blood on the Tracks, sadly.

 

While it's still fresh in my mind, from last night, as I've been on an SACD Dylan and Stones binge, these are my impressions of the Blood On The Tracks SACD.

I think these sound especailly nice:
You're A Big Girl Now
Idiot Wind
If You See Her Say Hello

I also thought these sounded pretty good to me, as well:
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome
Shelter From the Storm

Some of the others I wasn't quite as enthused about.

 

Of Another Side, Freewheelin', and JWH SACD's, I really like the sound of:

Ballad In Plain D
(kinda like My Back Pages, and maybe I Don't Believe You, as well)

Corrine, Corrina
I Shall Be Free

I like the versions of A Hard Rain's, Don't Think Twice, and I'll Be Your Baby, from the GH Volume II Remaster - more so than from the SACD's/Redbook.



Love the Times Remaster, and like BIABH, BOB, and HW61. As much as that, i like these "listening projects." They're FUN!

 

The one reason I didn't want to let NS go (to a friend who really likes that particular cd, and wanted it on the cheap) was just because I thought it sounded really good. But since the 2 songs I really like, I already had on a studio comp, and also from a live cd, I decided to make my friend happy and I sold it to him, then and there, for 5 bucks.

 

Everyone needs friends like you.

 

It was like his favorite Dylan recording, so just one of those things!

 

It's mine too. I think Blonde on Blonde->John Wesley Harding->Nashville Skyline is his best 3-album run.

 

I can't recall (off the top of my head) the sound on the remaster of the debut. But, the one for TTTAAC is in stereo.

I've never really had a problem with his original stereo mixes, sparse as they are. It wasn't just an afterthought, like like it was for the early Beatles. "Folk" music was based more around albums, than AM radio or 45's. It was deemed a more "serious" art form, that pop music wasn't really given until '67. They probably spent more time on the stereo mixes, than they did with the mono...

 

Well, maybe not for you Jason. But, for those of us who don't find the SACD too bright, there certainly is...

 

Yeah, it sucks to be me. I have no problem with the mastering on Blonde on Blonde or Nashville Skyline (the only other two remasters I've heard so far) but Blood on the Tracks is just too bright for me.

The best-sounding Blood on the Tracks CD I have is a boot needledrop of the acetate with the alternate versions.

 

I found one of the biggest improvements of the lot to be 'Oh Mercy' (SACD layer).

 

How do you get that kind of information? Is it in the press kit or something?
I love the current SACD. The old CD sounded thin and lifeless, even compared to my old and scratchy used vinyl.