JTI
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Posts: 7
Joined: Oct. 2015 |
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Posted: Oct. 31 2015, 09:10 |
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I agree with you, Alejandra, on Zombies. Very disappointing and cheesy with the robot voice - I thought Kraftwerk were the only ones allowed to get away with that sort of thing
I think it's OK for a Halloween-only joke, but not something you'd put on the Deluxe Edition and have people pay to get. Poison Arrows deserves better treatment than that. Honestly, if you were going to spend time and money to redo it at all, you would have been better off stripping off the robot voice and lyrics completely and leave as an instrumental-only version. There would at least have been some merit to having that available.
Finger-pointing time....I can't believe Mike, who has a much better sense of humor than this, would have done or allowed this solely on his own, wondering if his management or operational team pushed him to it. Perhaps the lady whose last name sounds like a distant relative to that proverbial "Ape from Manilla"? (and maybe that explains why she's no longer on his team, who knows?)......Almost sounds like they brought in the dumb marketing team that came up with the stupid Drizzly online booze-at-your-door service name and logo......
I'm still glad they're putting out newly remastered versions of these two albums, albeit with what is sounding like some serious shortcomings on the bonus material side. That is assuming, of course, they don't botch up the sound of the original albums and singles/12inchers in the remaster, which I have enough faith based on the past remasters will be just fine (but I'll keep my fingers crossed, just in case ). I'll keep my judge and jury out till this all comes out in January and then give it its fair due.
When it's all said and done, though, I'm still grateful to Mike for all the music and for still being out there in spite of things that happen in life, which he's had a lot of this year in particular. Thanks to Milamber and stpaul for the news of the releases.
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