Who does I-Tunes think they're fooling with their crappy "remastered" versions? I'm not talking about remixes. Those are different takes on the same song. No...these are the same songs, redone, many years later. However, as years have gone by, the same studio musicians are no longer available. People write songs, as they do poetry, because they feel it at the time. With those remastered versions, the same emotion just isn't there. A person isn't the same ten years down the line. They may have written it because they were going through the pangs of a break-up or suffering through the difficulties of staying clean. Trying to relive it, years later, just isn't going to happen.
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I know somebody who was a huge Pearl Jam fan and decided to get a tattoo that was symbolic of the band. This was before every grandmother was getting them and the work site would still look in askance at people who had them. Just like "Jeremy" doesn't hold the same significance for her now, the band wouldn't be able to belt it out in the studio with the same passion.
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I've heard auto tune used on remastered songs when that garbage didn't exist the first time it was used. I guess everything has to sound the same and safe to sell to today's market. They are used to a certain sound, but please. Don't insult the original audience. I have yet to listen to one of those remastered songs that is comparable to the original. Just pay the damn royalties to the artists.
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In any other artistic domain, can you imagine this happening? Would they go bak and rework Van Gogh? If they touched up the deep blues a bit, would "Starry Nights" be available for resale as a new product and new profits? It ruins the integrity of the original work.
Friday, August 14, 2015
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