EMI's DTS Signature Series

[MacReady]

Being a fan of Simple Minds during my teenage years (and admitidly still a fan now) I was intrigued to read about the release of two of their best albums on EMI's DTS Signature Series, New Gold Dream and Once Upon A Time

I resisted buying them as most of the remasters that have been done covering their old releases is shoddy at the best....but last week I finally got round to ordering them.

WOW

Once Upon A Time was the first CD I ever bought so hearing it now as a completely remixed and reproduced DTS 5.1 96/24 format is like hearing it for the first time again!!!!

I have a few SACD's and DVDA's but nothing comes close to the clarity and depth that these two albums have. Roland Prent and DTS have used the origonal 24 track masters to go back and re produced the albums so tracks are longer and have vocals and sections that were never included on the CD due to space limitations.

There are a few more releases in this line but for anyone who even remotely likes Simple Minds (there must be a couple of you ) I urge you to get these two releases as they are simply amazing!

[laser]

Where did you buy the DTS discs from. I can't seem to locate them on play.com or amazon......

[MacReady]

Originally Posted by laser

Where did you buy the DTS discs from. I can't seem to locate them on play.com or amazon......

Got them both from Amazon UK...here are the links

New Gold Dream DVD-A

Once Upon A Time

[cabstar]

Hi

I love Simple Minds, my fave albumn of all time is NGD. I must have seen SM over 25 times since 86 to 2004. I have just upset my other half by telling her I am going to have to buy it again & a new DVDA player too

OH well here we go.

Regards

GaZZa

[MacReady]

Originally Posted by cabstar

Hi

I love Simple Minds, my fave albumn of all time is NGD. I must have seen SM over 25 times since 86 to 2004. I have just upset my other half by telling her I am going to have to buy it again & a new DVDA player too

OH well here we go.

Regards

GaZZa

You will not be disapoingted with New Gold Dream The title track along with a couple of others are 'unedited' versions and are a little longer plus there is an extra track, 'In Every Heaven' which is the origonal version of the b side 'Soundtrack for Every Heaven' before the vocals were stripped.

I still can't stop listening to these two discs....they just sound sooooooo good

I have seen them a fair few times too (went to every UK show on the Streetfighting Years tour many moons ago ) and still rate them as one of the best live bands in the world. Went to a couple of the smaller venu's to see them the other Year and the Sheffield show was one of the best gigs I have ever been to. Even my Wife thought it was great and she HATES Simple Minds !!!!!!

[pioneerman]

Originally Posted by Cleric

Got them both from Amazon UK...here are the links

New Gold Dream DVD-A

Once Upon A Time

thanks for this info i am changing my player soon to another pioneer that plays dvd-a and i saw this band back in the early nineties at wembely and they are one of the best live bands in the world, so im looking forward to hearing these.i wish i had kept my old albums to compare,i had the black gold embossed double live album on both vinyl and cd,plus most of their others sadly gone.

[cabstar]

Hi CLeric

That Sheffield gig a couple of years ago wasn't the City Hall gig was it??? I was on the front row for that one

As for Street Fighting Years tour I went to Cardiff, Wembley, Leeds & I think I went to another on that tour but memory isn't so good as it used to be.

I think I will have treat myself to the LImit DVDA player

I have the remastered versions both the limited card one & the hard case one. So will need these for completist

GaZZa

[MacReady]

Originally Posted by cabstar

Hi CLeric

That Sheffield gig a couple of years ago wasn't the City Hall gig was it??? I was on the front row for that one

As for Street Fighting Years tour I went to Cardiff, Wembley, Leeds & I think I went to another on that tour but memory isn't so good as it used to be.

I think I will have treat myself to the LImit DVDA player

I have the remastered versions both the limited card one & the hard case one. So will need these for completist

GaZZa

It was the City Hall one...I was at the front for the first few songs but my Mssus stayed at the side so I went back to her after a while Still really near the front though.

I also went to all the UK Real Life gigs but they were not quite as good as the Streetfighting Years shows...the Leeds Roundhay Park show was an amazing experience as me and a few friends slept over in my car in the park and had the show area fences put up round us by the crew.( we were asked to move by the police the evening before the show though..lol) Got a great view of the soundchecks for that one though

What did you think to the remasters? I was not that impressed and found some to sound very harsh compared to the origonal releases

I try not to be as 'completist' as I used to be...My Wife still can't understand the 150+ SM vinyl releases I still have even though I dont even have a deck anymore

[cabstar]

Oh I sold all my vinyl years ago to fund the full catalogue on cd.

The early albums I think are excellent remastered. The later ones I wasn't really impressed with. To be honest though I don't really play anything past Sparkle in The Rain I played the new albums to much when I was a teenager

I have just purchased the Pioneer DVD player to play these with & hope on Fathers Day my 2 sons will be bringing me 1 each

Regards

Gary

[MacReady]

Originally Posted by cabstar

Oh I sold all my vinyl years ago to fund the full catalogue on cd.

The early albums I think are excellent remastered. The later ones I wasn't really impressed with. To be honest though I don't really play anything past Sparkle in The Rain I played the new albums to much when I was a teenager

I have just purchased the Pioneer DVD player to play these with & hope on Fathers Day my 2 sons will be bringing me 1 each

Regards

Gary

I just can't bring myself to part with all the vinyl...plus there are still a few that have the odd track or b side that has still not surfaced on any other format yet (was annoyed at how many live tracks from the Real Live tour were repeated on Silver Box when there are still live tracks on b sides we have not had on CD yet )

One of my favourite SM albums is Empires & Dance...fantastic deep sound that is almost suffacating but I love it

[cabstar]

Originally Posted by Cleric

I just can't bring myself to part with all the vinyl...plus there are still a few that have the odd track or b side that has still not surfaced on any other format yet (was annoyed at how many live tracks from the Real Live tour were repeated on Silver Box when there are still live tracks on b sides we have not had on CD yet )

One of my favourite SM albums is Empires & Dance...fantastic deep sound that is almost suffacating but I love it

Hmmmm which ones have not yet been released on cd??? Do you have the the 4 themes boxsets???? I think the only ones missing where the extended Someone in summertime which had the guitar part missing. This was rectified on the cd single version which is now one of the collectible discs to have. Hmmm if I remember correctly there is one other track that I am aware but can't remember which may be missing.

Regards

Gary

[Gary D]

does anyone know if they are going to do "Street Fighting Years"? on a personal level it maps the whole summer of 89' and it would be a dream come true to have it.

oh and was empires and dance produced by Steve Lilliywhite? does his production actully sound good now?


Gary

[MacReady]

Originally Posted by cabstar

Hmmmm which ones have not yet been released on cd??? Do you have the the 4 themes boxsets???? I think the only ones missing where the extended Someone in summertime which had the guitar part missing. This was rectified on the cd single version which is now one of the collectible discs to have. Hmmm if I remember correctly there is one other track that I am aware but can't remember which may be missing.

Regards

Gary

As far as I am aware the following are still not available on any 'official' CD release....allthough if you know of any that are please let me know!

Special View (b side from Life In A Day 7")
Garden Of Hate (b side from Chelsea Girl 7")
Film Theme Dub (from limited edition 7" flexi free with 7" I Travel)
Thirty Frames a Second - Live(b side from Arista 7" I Travel re release)
Promised You A Miracle (b side of US 12" Prmoised You a Miracle release)
A Brass Band in Africa (b side of Up On The Catwalk 7")
Soul Crying Out - Live (b side of limited Edition Laser Etched See The Lights 12")

I think there may also be a couple of Remixes from the Cry singles that were only released on vinyl in Europe.

[MacReady]

Originally Posted by Gary D

does anyone know if they are going to do "Street Fighting Years"? on a personal level it maps the whole summer of 89' and it would be a dream come true to have it.

oh and was empires and dance produced by Steve Lilliywhite? does his production actully sound good now?


Gary

Do you mean are they releasing SFY as part of the DTS series? I dont think there is any news of future releases but I would love it is SFY and Real Life were part of the next batch!

Empires and Dance was produced by John Leckie...Steve Lillywhite produced Sparkle in the Rain.

[Gary D]

thanks cleric thats sad news, but fingers crossed for the future

Never liked Lillywhites production.

Gary