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Originally Posted by Skuj
Well, come on now....
It is a substitution.
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No, it's
not. I emphasize it especially because Severian mentioned the Waits
Real Gone remaster, which does
replace the previous version. (Incidentally, Severian, what you describe sounds more like a full-on remix than a remaster.) Here, they are
not replacing the 1997
Time Out Of Mind; you can only get this "stripped-down" version if you get
The Bootleg Series Vol. 17, capisce?
As for shit said about Lanois' production,
yes, people have criticized it -
even contemporary reviewers basically said the album succeeds in spite of the sonic swamp, not because of it. Others favorably described it as
"a soundscape as surely as Maxinquaye". The whole sitch reminds me a bit of
Raw Power's Bowie mix and the way many who hated it actually went back to it after Iggy submerged the album in a pool of digital distortion. But once more: in this case, there will be no need to "go back" to anything; both versions will remain available without painful eBay transactions, I wanna have both, and now send me some goddamn money to buy the boxed set.