As you well know, I detest Pink Floyd. Well, I pretty much find much prog/proggy rock bands to be absolute shit but Pink Floyd always lead the way. Pretentiousness, lack of musical virtuoso ability, silly stupid lyrics about a dead father, being bullied in school, what it means to be a whining self-serving muti-millionare rock star, those shitty overblown lighting arena shows. Yeah, boring.
Anyway, no wonder these asshole rock star millionares buttfuckers have re-re-released their shit to the unsuspecting public once more. It's one grand rip off but I do suspect that hard core Floyd idiots won't mind, much less acknoledge the ridiculous price(s) for this crap. These have been out for a while now (2011), under the "Immersion/Experience" sets and apart from the superfluous crap like all the "memorabilia", demos, b-sides, rare live performances and environmental-unfriendly packaging but...
From a purely sonic perspective they are actually quite good if not downright amazing. Of course, they are being called "remixed" but not really since they sound more as if they have been Lucusized. By that I mean additional recording and (digital) editing must have taken place - particularity on the synth/keys and bass tracks. I swear the intro to Shine On You Crazy diamond has more synth parts that the original, more on the reverb guitar tracks and Gilmour's singing sounds horrid and raw on 'Wish You Were Here' Even the keyboard parts on 'Animals' sound wEiRd and different.
'The Wall' has been "remastered" as well which is good because they streaming pile of shit record needed to be. Problem is, Gilmour's guitar parts sounds dated, and if you listen close enough you can almost hear the editing of his solos (particularly in Comfortably Numb, Mother); sounds again as if additional recording took place more on the guitar tracks than anywhere else.
The upshot here is that the recordings are cleaner and more vibrant with little to none of tape hiss/studio technology limitations of the 1970's. This might be the start of a new trend to save the CD market which I am all for even if Floyd sucks. Integrating new technology with the old is something I am okay with as long as the old is respected within the process. Ian Anderson of Tull did this with the 40th Anniversary of 'Thick As A Brick' DVD putting the tracks in 5.1 and one fuck of an amazing 96/24 DTS Master (and it's strange because the performance(s) sounds like it is from 1972 but the music itself does not).
So if you are a hard core Pink Floyd fan and societal loser like most of you cretins already are then this is definitely for you. Like I said, these disc/sets are costly (but I'm also sure they cost a lot to make as well) and I'm so impressed even I can make it though an entire side of one of their dismal records. Here's hoping to more bands will follow suit.
Praise be to George Lucus.