Good to see the official store has learnt from the mistakes of last year. Enough protection to ensure they get to everyone undamaged this time.
I went straight to disc 3, naturally.
The remastering has had no positive effect on the old tracks. Pretty sure I've heard UK Channel Boredom, Faceless Sense of Void et al in better quality on old bootlegs. Behave Yourself Baby is a different, inferior but less twee take. The Billy Bragg comparison a reviewer offered makes more sense to me now. R.E.M., even...
Poleaxed is better than a lot of those old demos we'd already heard from that era. Spent All Summer is 'different'. This could be on their 'experimental new album! Colt 45 is Spectators of Suicide with different lyrics. JDB sounds better than he does on the Heavenly version.
Crucifix Kiss sounds about as close to the Sex Pistols as they've ever been. The different riff on Nat-West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds makes it interesting too.
Not paid much attention to the b-sides but they've ballsed up the beginning of Sorrow 16.
|