Display MoreI really like the 07-08 stuff. For me, it all sounds better. Just a couple of oddities and one disappointing thing:
At the start of the runout of IKWIL, the flute has pretty much gone.
Is the "hasn't it" in Lover's Leap in a slightly different place?
In Lilywhite Lilith, just after "by whatever's coming here", there is what sounds like a vocal line very far back, whether scat or actual lyric I can't tell. I think I always heard it, but it's much more prominent on the 08.
The disappointing thing: on the 08 Musical Box closing section, the big chiming Hammond chords sound subdued compared to original vinyl and the DERs. Those huge chords are one of the main things that caught my attention as a child so I was sorry to hear them sound a bit smaller. But anyway, overall, I like these versions a lot.
While far from being a favourite, ATTWT sounds especially good in its 07 incarnation.
Not wanting to disrupt the Lady Lies thread I thought it'd be better to come here to pick up a topic that originated there and led to DecomposingMan asking this query about a reference I made to the "hasn't it" at the end of the vocal segment of Lovers Leap (I mistakenly said it was "isn't it"). Along with others here I'd noticed that in the 08 remaster this phrase had moved back a couple of bars into the start of the instrumental section, one of a number of changes I mentioned above. Some of us wondered why such a specific change had been made.