The Chameleons "Script of the Bridge"
A genuine classic that has a cover that might as well be a high school stoner's maths book coloured pencil doodle. It's so, SO bad that I'm almost positive it's why the band only ever seems to spread via word of mouth.

Yep, almost always. There are notable exceptions, though.

How's the picture quality?
I harp on this sort of thing a bit here, but it's nice to get a little info on whether or not the hard copy we're going to be investing in is a substantial upgrade over prior issues (since for classic movies like this, it's likely many readers do have DVDs already). For CD remasterings, DVD…

How about the whole of "Requiem for a Dream"?
"Ass-to-ass!"

I'm appalled at the lack of Neubauten here.
Shame. SHAME.

Actually, I would suggest that every responsible musical publication features a comparison screenshot for every remaster taken from Audacity to show what they've done to the dynamics.

In my case, on the family CD player at 1 in the morning quietly enough not to wake the parents.

I grew up listening to Depeche Mode and The Cure, and then discovered Pink Floyd in '89 or so, and when Grunge happened I'd just entered High School (that's 13 years old) in '90.

At least Nu-Metal helped partly dismantle racism.
Because any claim that misogynist, simian chestbeating was the sole province of rap were swiftly put to death when these ghastly, muscleheaded troglodytes pumped out their first iteration of "the roof is on fire" to an Arsenio-esque fist-pump.

Oh, the remastered Slowdive albums are ruined. The original issues sound gorgeous. It's not like CD mastering was an immature technology in the 90s.

I now make it a point to seek out old copies from eBay and Amazon when buying any older music.

Can you comment on the actual remastering?
Every "remastered" album I've ever bought aside from the Pink Floyd ones from 1994 has just been a brickwalled slab of noise. Especially with an album as noisily complex and spatially expansive as this, with the massive drum hits, have they bungled it?

Gummi Bears
Terrible for the first few episodes, but actually pretty good for a season or two.

I confess, I am a toy collector
I collect 1/6 scale action figures, and have hundreds of the little bastards.

It's a difference in emphasis. I'm surprised the intended emphasis wasn't DEE-vo as I thought the name was a truncation of "devolution", where I'd certainly emphasise the first syllable.

I completely agree. Especially with a teenager's income, hemming and hawing over which album was getting the last few months' savings (CDs were ruinously expensive as a kid in South Africa) was quite the trauma. My friends and I would arrange to buy different albums at the same time so we could swap and hear them.…

I'm going to attribute this not so much to piracy (as everyone made tapes of the CDs they couldn't afford anyway) but rather that in the pre-iPod world of sound quality mattering and being distinguishable, getting a CD held a certain prestige and pleasure it now lacks. Compared to pirated cassettes, CDs were the real…

Did you you know…
…that the name "Live" was supposed to be pronounced in its verb form. As in, the band was commanding you to live. It never took. They were insufferable. Serious music for sensitive jocks. The entire, neverending CD would get played at nearly every party I went to, wrecking it.