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However, comparing the live disc to disc one of the Hip-O release, the live tracks still seem to come out ahead, IMHO.Ĭostello's fourth reissue of 'My Aim Is True' is off target Until then, please disregard my comments. I'll test both discs when I get home on Friday. I have not compared the Hip-O disc to the Rhino release on the same player so perhaps I am mistaken about the sound quality comparison. I've been listening to the disc on my usually reliable car stereo while traveling. They also look the same when I compare the files with a wave editor.Ĭould there be some defective CDs out there? It should sound exactly the same as the Rhino CD — and my copy, at least, does sound exactly the same. I find the complaints about the sound quality completely mystifying because the main album has not been remastered for the new release.
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It is apparent that the folks at Hip-O did not know what to do with the lo-fi sound of the album. MAIT was never a "hi-fi" recording to begin with but both the Ryko and Rhino reissues clarified the sound without losing the ambiance of the original recording. Migdd wrote:I have to agree that the main album sounds hideous and trebly.
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The "My Aim is True (Deluxe Edition)" is part of an extensive series of reissues and new compilations from Costello's catalog that will be rolling out over the next few years. ' We worked it out, so that's where it all started for me, really." You've got to quit your day job.' I had family responsibilities, so I had to say, 'Well, you can pay me the same. "But then they said to me, 'Now you've got to go professional.
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There's an album's worth of material, so we're gonna it.' "I think the idea was eventually that Stiff said, 'You have enough songs. "The record was recorded over a six-month period and little sessions when Stiff could afford it and I could get time off work," he recalls.
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Costello, however, says that the way the album was made renders any anniversary date a bit specious. The new "My Aim is True" is a two-CD set that fills out the original 13-song album - which featured the hits "Alison" and "Watching the Detectives"- with four outtakes, eight demos, a 1977 concert from Nashville and the sound check to that show. It seems to be a time people reconsider things, so we have to accept the fact that's what the process is." I don't know why 30 is more important than 29 or 31, really. "I'm not a great one on anniversaries or dates. "I've never thought about it, really," Costello says. But Costello isn't waiting around to blow out any celebratory candles. The new "Deluxe Edition" version of Elvis Costello's debut album, "My Aim is True" (Hip-O) commemorates the set's 30th anniversary. I sampled here and yes, I hear the mid-range distortion, even thru cheap head phones. Keep in mind I am assuming this 'original' sounds the same as my deluxe issue of this, as Hip-0 put out both. And - get this - the sound quality on the live stuff is far superior to the studio stuff, which tells you there is something wrong with this recording. However, the good news is that the bonus disk on this new deluxe issue has the entire LP live, except I'm Not Angry. The instruments and vocals all sound like they are in the background and the loud parts, like when it goes '.And They Shoot Shoot Shoot.' just jumps out at you real loud. Add to this Watching the Detectives is particularly butchered as it suffers from that awful imbalance between the loud and quiet parts you get with bad mastering sometimes. The demos on the Deluxe issue also have it which suggests something wrong. There is a lot of high-midrange/treble distortion in the recording.