Platinum Collection Import by Genesis

Platinum Collection Import

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Platinum Collection Import

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I bought this collection because something called my attention: more than 50 % of the songs were indicated as "Newly Remixed by Nick Davis". "Newly remixed?" I thought..."did they do to other songs what they did to 'Carpet Crawlers' in the last collection?" I asked myself. Then I remembered that 'Carpet Crawlers' was then RE-RECORDED, not just remixed, so this new collection would possibly retain the spirit of the original songs, making them more polished. So I took the risk. (The remixed songs are, from the first CD, Illegal Alien and Paperlate; from the second CD, ALL except Behind the lines and Your own special way; and from the third CD, ALL except Supper's Ready). Overall, I was pleased to hear that most of the original sound was respected, in the sense that you don't hear different rhytms or shortened or extended parts. And my expectations were met about the better sound: in most remixes, you hear a clearer voice (specially in "Follow you follow me" and "Carpet crawlers"), and from there you have more clarity in all the instrumentation. Of course, any remix have the risk of enhancing instruments that were not as sharp in the original mix, and lower some others that were more present before. So there might be a possibility that for those very familiar with the original songs, you will identify something that was not originally clear, while miss something that originally was. That would be the reason why purists will reject "remixes". Why change things? Why not to leave the sound alone, as part of the history? A classic old painting might look dark to some, but nobody will ever dare to suggest to release it with enhanced colors and contrasts just to make it "look better". And the remixing proccess has another consequence: the sound of the songs is kind of leveled, very alike. But if you are familiar with a group, you know that part of its history is not only the style, but also the recording sound of the time in which the songs were recorded. If you take a song like "The musical box" from the early 70's, and remix it now, no matter how close to the original sound you stay, there's no doubt that you are "modernizing" it. Is that allright for you? If so, you would like this collection. It didn't bother me a lot: in a time in which songs and complete CDs are remixed in five channels for DVD audio, SACD, DVD video and others, I'm more than used to rediscover, through a new mix, the sound of a song or cd that I knew. And I'm disappointed when they sound almost the same. When you hear the oldest songs, like "Musical Box", "The Knife" of "Firth of fifth", you have to admit that the clarity provided by the new mix really does them a favor. But there are exceptions of course: "A trick of the tail" and "Ripples" come from the CD "A trick of the tail" from 1976. If you take the REMASTERED version of that cd, you have to say that there's nothing wrong with the sound, it couldn't be better. So, why remix those songs for this collection?. The truth is that in these two cases, and "Illegal alien", the sound is "overloaded": instead of give clearity to the sound and instruments, everything is in a high level. That "overload" is more favorable to a song like "Los Endos" because of its rockish sound. But as I said, I was overall pleased with this collection of alternate sound songs. At least, they provide something different. If you don't like it, just stick to the originals, or better, the remastered versions. I've got nothing against them, for nostalgia's sake. I give only 4 stars because of the "Illegal-Trick-Ripples" flaw, and also beacause songs like "Man on the corner" "Robbery assault and Battery", "In the cage" or "Dance with the Moonlit knight" are missing.

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