Jesus and Mary Chain remasters
 

Does anyone have these yet? I can't imagine that they could make the albums sound better. I wanted them to re-release the videos on DVD since I couldn't find the VHS, but I don't really want to spend all the money on the CD's just to have them.

Opinions?

Never even heard about this.

I have all of them. They sound amazing, but I never had the originals so I can't really compare. They're dual-disc, meaning they're twice the price. I found promotional cut-outs at Rhino Records, where they were issued - meaning they were the copies sent out to reviewers, played once, stamped, and sold half-priced as used.

Really, I'm not sure it's worth it. You get three videos on each disc, a few pages about the history of that period of the band's progress, and I suppose slightly higher quality playback. I wouldn't have bought them all full-price.

The tape is great, it would be nice if they released a DVD with maybe a live performance. I picked up the tape for 3 dollars when I was on vacation in Seattle :).

I'd make a copy for you, but I only have one VCR.

Haven't heard them yet, but I know that the original CD of Psychocandy sounded terrible compared to the vinyl. It was ridiculously heavily compressed and all the dynamics taken out of it. Hopefully they've sorted that out.

I believe they reissued the PC vinyl, as well. I picked up a promontional of that, too. Still labeled as 1985 (or 1986? I forgot), so it may just never have gone OOP.

Sounds awesome. Are they for sale anywhere? I haven't seen them in stores.

They have them at my local store for 17.99, I think.

Rhino Records down here has a bunch of them for $18.99, but they're the ones who reissued them so of course they'll have them in stock. I saw the PC reissue at Best Buy, though, for about $17.99.

i saw them in a store today..for 14.99 i think...maybe 15.99 i dont remember.
I was thinking about buying...but..i ended up not.

what stores have them????? I went to Best Buy today and they didn;t have anything by J&MC. I would have gone to a better record store like Newbury Comics or Jelly's or Al-Bum's, but I wasn;t anywhere near them. Are they in big chain stores or are they destined for the racks of small, local indie stores?

I saw one copy of the Psychocandy reis. at Best Buy. That was it.

Just bought Darklands and Honey's Dead dual discs. I had a shitty burned copy of Darklands so it is a 110% improvement on that one. Yeah, they definitely did a good job re-mastering these, as they sound super crisp. I noticed a big improvement on the song "Fall" on Darklands, it sounds so much better.

However, I have old issued copies of Automatic and Psychocandy, so I won't be buying dual discs for those. The videos are cool, but if you already have the albums, they'll still sound good anyways.

Is it me, or do the dual discs seem vulnerable to being scratched? I mean two sided discs are asking for problems, no trouble yet though.

have them all already but will prob get psychocandy again just to c if there's much of a difference!

Has 'Munki' not been reissued? I've seen it nowhere.

I have PC on reissued vinyl and my old copy of Automatic. I'll buy the rest if I see them on vinyl.

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Is it me, or do the dual discs seem vulnerable to being scratched? I mean two sided discs are asking for problems, no trouble yet though.[/quote]

yeah dualdiscs are apparently more fragile than regular cds.

no. i think it's coz they'd switched record labels back to creation b4 they released munki.

The original Munki is on Amazon for really cheap, though. Something like $8. Same with 90% of the SY albums.

I think the Peel Sessions were re-released (or just released for the first time). Not dual-disc, though.

Thanks guys. It's a shame it's not in the shops too, to complement the other reissues.

yeah the peel sessions are well worth getting. there's a live album too of 2 concerts recorded by the bbc knocking around too which is pretty good.