Sundazed reissues

[mikael]

Have you ever come across a Sundazed reissue that didn't suck large donkey ass?
The ASSAULT that they did with the We The People material is inexcusable.

 

[chas_kit]

I love the Counts IV and Preachers EPs & the Things to Come LP, among other things they're released over the years. What'd they do to We the People?

 

[mikael]

You like it because you've never heard what it sounded like BEFORE
the castrators at SUCKdaze destroyed it.

 

[chas_kit]

Yer on the warpath! I'm out.

 

[Frantic]

You like it because you've never heard what it sounded like BEFORE
the castrators at SUCKdaze destroyed it.

dude...chill

 

[eargasm!]

The Sundazed reissues I've owned or heard over the years have sounded pretty good to me and i do have many of the originals as reference.

 

[pfft]

I have a lot of Sundazed titles. Some sound pretty bad, most of them sound great.

Mikael, ever the grumpy moaner...

 

[EXPO67]

Maybe Sundazed use 'y' synes too many tymes....too psych and all that shyte.... lyten up

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

I do remember Sundazed reissues sounding sterilised, but I haven't listened to any of their stuff in decades. I thought their Beat Rocket sideline was supposed to sound good?

 

[Dave Baldwin]

I thought that most of their "Garage Beat '66" series sounded pretty good.
A lot of Nashville mono master tapes without much tweaking. On the other
hand their Byrds remixes really blew donkey dix...especially "Bells Of Rhymney".

 

[Perkeo]

So Mikael, you've heard the original tax scam label Things To Come LP? REALLY

 

[beccabear67]

Have you ever come across a Sundazed reissue that didn't suck large donkey ass?

Well, The Remains EP Sullivan show thingy sounded really good to me. I have had a couple of other EPs sound pretty bad (tinny, flat) but don't know what their originals might have been like. The Beat Rocket LPs have all been good to great, especially that Great Scots one (and I did have one of the original Epic singles). I wonder if you could get your money back if you were that disappointed?

I just got through listening to a couple of Sunbeam collections that sounded right naff, and I've really liked some of their/his releases before... but maybe there was Welsh mold on some of the acetates (or whatever still exists of '60s Meic Stevens), I dunno.

 

[pfft]

Sunbeam definitely has (or at least had) a major quality control issue! I have the 2LP collection of West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band related artists, and a lot of the songs there are clearly taken from crappy MP3 files. The first couple of songs even has that horrific 'chek-chek-chek' noise that damaged CD-R's often get.

 

[chas_kit]

Sunbeam definitely has (or at least had) a major quality control issue! I have the 2LP collection of West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band related artists, and a lot of the songs there are clearly taken from crappy MP3 files. The first couple of songs even has that horrific 'chek-chek-chek' noise that damaged CD-R's often get.

My biggest pet-peeve, releases made with mp3s. That's an expensive set too, I'll avoid it after reading this.

 

[Mr.Segment]

My biggest pet-peeve, releases made with mp3s. That's an expensive set too, I'll avoid it after reading this.

I find it a bit surprising RMJ would do that. But then again, I do not know him personally. Disappointed, will not buy this then.

 

[JohnH]

Though I've never closely A/B'ed one of their releases with something similarly sourced, I've can't say I've had a problem with Sundazed stuff, and am hard-pressed to think of a title they've done that another label managed to improve upon...

 

[greenfuzz]

Though I've never closely A/B'ed one of their releases with something similarly sourced, I've can't say I've had a problem with Sundazed stuff, and am hard-pressed to think of a title they've done that another label managed to improve upon...

Sundazed is top notch but Ace/Big Beat have improved on several of their titles by including unreleased material that Sundazed probably didn't know about. As an example, take the upcoming Zakary Thaks collection. Once it's available, the Sundazed one becomes obsolete.

 

[beccabear67]

I also remember I thought the Five Americans, and The Rising Sons' reconstructed would've been album, on LPs, sounded pretty fine. Big Beat are always the must have editions for anything CD.

 

[StuShea]

Never had a huge problem with Sundazed...at least not compared with Collector's Choice...