big break records/diana ross 80s

[redlabs]

just got an email from Big Break Records ,[[who have been remastering and re-releasing the POINTER Sisters albums on cd[ serious slammin...next cd 2012]...... but i just found out that they are planning on diana ross 80's catalogue in the near future. no date given. just for fyi.

[whitesoxx]

Wow, about time this will happen! Let's hope they do all of her best RCA albums [[Why Do Fools, Ross and Swept Away!!!)

[jobeterob]

Good news; there were great songs on some of those albums.........Shine, Summertime, Dirty Looks, alot of the Bee Gees produced album...........

[redlabs]

i suggested they start off with ROSS 83 which seems to be the album people talk about the most - or has the most rumoured out takes. we'll see what happens

[Koach]

I'd love to hear the unreleased songs.

[jack020]

Big Break does not release unreleased songs: the extra's are usually 45"s or 12-inch mixes.

[lakedistrictlad1]

Normally i'd give anything to hear unreleased Diana. But if the stuff she did in the 80's was the best of it - i'd rather not hear the canned stuff.

[whitesoxx]

Here's a list of possible bonus tracks that could be included for the first 4 albums:

Why Do Fools Fall In Love:
Mirror Mirror [[45 edit)
Work That Body [[12" remix)
Work That Body [[45 edit)

Silk Electric:
Muscles [[12" remix)
Muscles [[45 edit)
So Close [[45 mix)

Ross:
Pieces of Ice [[12" version)
Pieces of Ice [[12" instrumental)
Up Front [[US 12")
Up Front [[UK 12")

Swept Away:
Swept Away [[45 edit)
Swept Away [[12" remix)
Swept Away [[12" instrumental mix)
Touch By Touch [[12" mix)
Touch By Touch [[instrumental)
Missing You [[45 mix)
Fight For It

[soulster]

I wish to God they would stop compressing their CDs!

[thommg]

I already have all the RCA CD's. Unless the sound quality is tremendously different or there are some incredible extra tracks then I'm not really interested in these. Interesting that I bought almost all these on CD when they first came out. Wow, just realized how long CD's have been with us.

[jobeterob]

Soulster.........explain what compressing means and what it does to the sound. Thanks.

[gordy_hunk]

I'm extremely happy with the quality of BBR releases. If you don't like the sound - simple solution, just don't buy them.

[soulster]

Soulster.........explain what compressing means and what it does to the sound. Thanks.

I will be happy to later on. Right now I'm on lunch.

[carlo]

Soulster.........explain what compressing means and what it does to the sound. Thanks.

See "the loudness wars"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

[soulster]

Thanks, carlo!

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

and:
http://www.barryrudolph.com/mix/comp.html

[jobeterob]

Thanks guy; I guess the bottom line is if I continue to listen to music mainly in my truck or on Youtube, it won't matter much. But if I had a good stereo system and my favorite part faded [[like when Flo sings on You Keep Me Hangin On or Diana tells Ray "you say that to all the girls Ray"), I would hear compression.

[soulster]

Thanks guy; I guess the bottom line is if I continue to listen to music mainly in my truck or on Youtube, it won't matter much. But if I had a good stereo system and my favorite part faded [[like when Flo sings on You Keep Me Hangin On or Diana tells Ray "you say that to all the girls Ray"), I would hear compression.

No, it's not like that. You'd hear it on a boombox! I guess what you need are sound samples of what it is.