Now the art work to be honest looks a bit cheep, is looks like someone has scaned the original album art and ramped up the colour there is also some typo’s on the back nothing major, What he say is down as being 14 mins long. The inner sleeve booklet is the same as the original on the inside no extra note’s. The sound is i think better, sharper and brighter with more seperation and detail.
I have to say the only reason i got this was the get the bonus tracks on cd i think is worth the cost just for them.
All in all i’m happy with or £7[:)]
No 14 minute version of What He Say? No point in buying it now.
Sounds suspect as hell. Mind ripping a copy of one of the track to compare with the original? Rip it to WAV, just google “cd to Wav” and it’ll guide you.
In any case, nice to know one can actually buy it. Still the second best Ministry album. Ever.
Delivered while I was away in Seattle last week. Just got back home yesterday so I’ve only given it one listen.
Concur with the packaging. Just seems like a substandard scan although it’s a nice change from the original which I always thought looked a bit washed-out.
It’s crisper and more compressed, which I like actually. Seems to be slightly less sub-bass but again, it’s a positive to my ears. Less rumble = more definition. Luckily the channel separation has been retained and perhaps even a little overdone. Not much happening ‘in the middle’. Not as noticable in headphones though.
Extras: Brad’s bass playing really shines on WitP. I had forgotten what a choppy mess the track actually is though. Because it was initially intended as a club track, the crispness, compression and lack of bass is detrimental…ditto for the IWTTH and Revenge remixes.
Credits…no credits listed for “A Walk in the Park” which omits Mark Pothier’s lone recorded contribution with the band I believe. The rest of the credits are just the same as the original album version which are not 100% correct in all cases anyway.
Overall…a nice to have. I’ll stick it up on the shelf with rest of my Ministry collection so I can pass it down to my Grandkids someday.
Wait, so there is a remix of Revenge on here? I thought it was just the dub mixes for IWTTH and WFL. If it’s a never before heard remix for Revenge, I’m buying it
I thought i had all the remixes from that era but turns out i was wrong as i had never heard this one before, its a good version with a nice intro with some extra lyrics not on the album version but if you have the Detroit 82 show it’s the same lyrics he sung then there’s a good brake in the middle like the intro a bit like the later live shows.
The Track clocks in at 6.18
Yes!!! I’m glad to hear the version of I Wanted To Tell Her is the extended/re-do and not the meh “tongue tied mix” Walk in the Park on CD… check. A New mix of Revenge… check. Wempathy approved mastering…check. I’m picking this one up!!!
I just ordered mine from bestbuy.com for $19.11 that includes tax and free shipping…not a bad price for a import… I just hope wempathy gets royalties for this reissue… In Neapolitan Dynamite voice “He has keyboard skills and Synthesizer skills”… Heard mp3 version of this reissue and those sounded great at half the kbps… Wounder what Al thinks about this reissue…that’s if he can think anymore…lol
True enough. Speaking of which… here’s a interesting video that’s recently surfaced. It’s from a local fashion show for a shop that was operated by the girlfriend of Peter Katsis, Dawn Hurwitz. Dawn was a good friend of AJ’s girlfriend at the time, Athena Kuehl. There’s only one segment of the show online but I’ve seen the rest of it and it was surprising to me that I was actually in the audience that night (the full-length video shows me for a brief second). It might be the first time I ever laid eyes on the future Mrs. Roberts who makes her appearance at around 1:23. Excuse the corny content, most of it is cringeworthy… but Cate looks fabulous.
Cringe-worthy? It’s 1981, the women are beautifu, the moment you first laid eyes on your future wife is digitally preserved for all eternity 31 years later AND the video kicks off to KW’s “Numbers”. Nothing to apologize for! That’s immeasurably awesome!
P.S. No royalties, alas, but Bob has his health, is still sane of mind, has a lovely, non-controlling wife, has all original toes intact, and isn’t pathetically pierced and tatted. Again, sounds like he’s doing just fine compared to Uncle Al!
