Albums you'd like a band to re-record

tekbow

.....And justice for all.

But with Bass guitar.

Lee1974

"Give 'Em Enough Rope"  by The Clash......Sandy Pearlman made it sound like it was recorded in an old shortbread tin.....

Lee1974

....and on reflection it'd be a bugger to re-record with Joe passed not far off 20 years....

barry2tone

Showing my age here, but I've long wished that the early Little Feat albums weren't recorded with all the depth of compressed cardboard.

They were brilliant live, and though there were some hits, the records were a huge disappointment comparatively.

Grumpyrocker

ICBM said:

richardhomer said:

I’m not sure Water’s gripe with fame deserves such a (dare I say it?) turgid portrayal.

Which exactly confirms my point. If you think it's about his 'gripe with fame', you've clearly failed to understand it.

Actually, it needs one *extra* track to make it perfect - When The Tigers Broke Free should be at the beginning. It was recorded at the time but not used because the others thought it "too personal". Well duh...

Also needs the full version of What Shall We Do Now which was played live and in the movie, but didn't fit on the album.

Grumpyrocker

I'd like to have Maiden's Seventh Son with a bit more grunt. I feel this is more a mixing issue and than re-recording though. Martin Birch tended to have rhythm guitars too low in the mix on mid-period Maiden. Fear of the Dark album is perhaps the worst for this with some great rhythm stuff in there, but it's too quiet. 

I'd like a version of An Justice for All where we can hear Jason. 

And just to be sacrilegious I'd like Springsteen to redo Born to Run without on the twinkly stuff like glockenspiels and the like. 

Fretwired

ICBM said:

Which exactly confirms my point. If you think it's about his 'gripe with fame', you've clearly failed to understand it.

Actually, it needs one *extra* track to make it perfect - When The Tigers Broke Free should be at the beginning. It was recorded at the time but not used because the others thought it "too personal". Well duh...

Interesting .. not considered that, but it makes sense.

Sesh

ICBM said:

...Warren Zevon’s Learning To Flinch, which I found unlistenable due to the guitar sounds.

First album that came to my mind. The vocals are often lost in  the mix too.

stickyfiddle

Grumpyrocker said:

And just to be sacrilegious I'd like Springsteen to redo Born to Run without on the twinkly stuff like glockenspiels and the like. 

Just imagine me giving you "a look"... 

Winny_Pooh

barry2tone said:

Showing my age here, but I've long wished that the early Little Feat albums weren't recorded with all the depth of compressed cardboard.

They were brilliant live, and though there were some hits, the records were a huge disappointment comparatively.

For the time they're fine, besides, most of the later albums are Amazingly well recorded, especially The Last Record Album (Massenburg)

Strat54

Re-records so rarely happen but did you see that Joe Bonamassa is redoing the guitar parts and vocals on his New Day Yesterday recording for a 20th Anni edition release? Must be Kevin Shirley wanted to stamp his same old mark on the Tom Dowd production......
Personally I'd like to see my old favourites Green On Red back in the studio to re do Snakes or some of the other stuff. 

stickyfiddle

Ooh, just remembered U2's Pop. There are some good songs in there, but the recording process was a complete mess. If they'd re-done it immediately after the tour that followed it would've been a great record.

blobb

Impossible to do but I would love National Health to re-record Ds al Coda without the Simmons drum kit. Sadly Pip and Phil no longer with us and Dave Stewart won’t touch his old band output anymore. Still a great tribute to Alan Gowan though. If you haven’t heard it, etc ... 

ionian

Offspring - Smash

I know it's supposed to sound raw but using something more sophisticated than a Tascam 4 track and letting Brian have more than one take at the vocals would give it the tweak it needs. Maybe. 

ICBM

Strat54 said:

Re-records so rarely happen but did you see that Joe Bonamassa is redoing the guitar parts and vocals on his New Day Yesterday recording for a 20th Anni edition release?

That reminds me... I'd like Deep Purple to re-record, or simply re-mix, Stormbringer... without Glenn Hughes' vocals. His screeching nearly ruins what's otherwise a pretty good album.

DrJazzTap

And justice for all. 

freakboy1610

All of Husker Du's indie label albums suffer from poor production IMHO. Rerecording them could prove tricky without Grant Hart though.

Bill_S

I’d like Dream Theater to re-record their very first album When Dream and Day Unite. It was recorded and mixed in three weeks on a tight budget and it sounds like it, but there was some great material on there. 

p90fool

Everything from the 1980s, except Zappa.

It all sounds like sports jackets with the sleeves rolled up. 

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

That reminds me... I'd like Deep Purple to re-record, or simply re-mix, Stormbringer... without Glenn Hughes' vocals. His screeching nearly ruins what's otherwise a pretty good album.

Be careful what you wish for.  They might re-record it with his current vocals.... and he sounds infinitely more annoying now than he did then.

(Personally I love Stormbringer, it's one of my favourite DP albums.)