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Originally Posted by TheBang
Apparently, they used the wrong (unmixed) tracks on this vinyl (and probably the CD too?) reissue
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This was quite a surprise when listening to the OWB vinyl first time on Friday - when Beautiful Burnout didn't come in at end of Crocodile and the background loop just kept going and going, I wondered what was happening and if I somehow had a locked groove. The tail out on Crocodile is crazy long now and BB has a very different beginning.
Did wonder if I had missed out on the vinyl being different edits all these years, as it's not a record talked about a lot, but the wrong files being sent to press this time makes a lot more sense (it's an easy thing to get wrong later on). There are several interesting differences in some of the beginnings and endings (mainly on first two tracks), but most are just a lot more gap time between each track. Guess I'm glad to have it in addition to the original CD.
The vinyls all sound great and quiet pressing-wise - the remaster ones do bury some tracks more in the mix and highlight others that can feel off from what I know so well, but some of that is the nature of vinyl (which I haven't had for them before). Overall hearing more things and sounding more crisp than I have heard them in a long time.
The main thing that's odd to me (and at least it's less pressing) is the sleeve graphics quality. Whoever updated these designs either didn't have access to the original images (most likely) or didn't pay attention in outputting them correctly for print - a lot of compression artifacts and the resolution is low, making everything a bit soft (and almost bootleg feeling). All the written text is crisp thankfully, but someone didn't double-check the background graphics quality.
Really glad to own these and have them re-released, just par for the course anymore, we seem to collectively pay attention now to the wrong details...