Most stupid invention from the record industry?
Somebody gave me the reissue of Dylan's phenomenal BLONDE ON BLONDE. What a surprise to discover that it was a 2xCD set with half the record on one, and the remainder on the other... Excuse given? That half of each CD contains the regular CD format, and the other half the alternate SACD format. Since I have a few SACD (mainly for Songlines), and they are of respectable length (74mn), I would have expected that a smart 2xCD edition of BLONDE ON BLONDE (specially since the LP was not that long) would have been: - one regular CD with the whole record - one extra CD with the SACD format of the whole record Now, thanks to modern technology, I have the pleasure of dealing with this new edition the way I used with LPs: by switching sides after seven songs. Do I miss something or isn't the stupidiest way to package these two formats? Patrice.
I suspect that they went with that format to be consistent with the rest of the reissue series, each of which combine the CD and SACD sound on a single disc. Since "Blonde on Blonde" was originally a double disc, they probably decided that it would be less confusing to keep with the hybrid format rather than have a single instance in the series that splits them onto discs with different formats (which would undoubtedly lead to people trying to return them as having one defective disc). On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 13:46, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
Somebody gave me the reissue of Dylan's phenomenal BLONDE ON BLONDE. What a surprise to discover that it was a 2xCD set with half the record on one, and the remainder on the other... Excuse given? That half of each CD contains the regular CD format, and the other half the alternate SACD format. Since I have a few SACD (mainly for Songlines), and they are of respectable length (74mn), I would have expected that a smart 2xCD edition of BLONDE ON BLONDE (specially since the LP was not that long) would have been:
- one regular CD with the whole record - one extra CD with the SACD format of the whole record
Now, thanks to modern technology, I have the pleasure of dealing with this new edition the way I used with LPs: by switching sides after seven songs.
Do I miss something or isn't the stupidiest way to package these two formats?
Patrice.
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On 25 Sep 2003 14:51:56 -0700 Joseph Zitt wrote:
I suspect that they went with that format to be consistent with the rest of the reissue series, each of which combine the CD and SACD sound on a single disc. Since "Blonde on Blonde" was originally a double disc, they probably decided that it would be less confusing to keep with the hybrid format rather than have a single instance in the series that splits them onto discs with different formats (which would undoubtedly lead to people trying to return them as having one defective disc).
OK, that makes a little bit of sense :-). Thanks for the explanation. Patrice (who did not realized that BLONDE ON BLONDE was a 2xLP...)
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
On 25 Sep 2003 14:51:56 -0700 Joseph Zitt wrote:
I suspect that they went with that format to be consistent with the rest of the reissue series, each of which combine the CD and SACD sound on a single disc. Since "Blonde on Blonde" was originally a double disc, they probably decided that it would be less confusing to keep with the hybrid format rather than have a single instance in the series that splits them onto discs with different formats (which would undoubtedly lead to people trying to return them as having one defective disc).
OK, that makes a little bit of sense :-). Thanks for the explanation.
Patrice (who did not realized that BLONDE ON BLONDE was a 2xLP...)
Blonde on Blonde actually predated The Mothers' "Freak Out!" by several months, which is commonly attributed as the first double rock album. Anyways, here's another theory.. is it possible the bitrate of the SACD layer prevented them from getting all 74 minutes on one disc?
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