24-06-2016, 08:14
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:here's the amazon product description for it bob_32Thanks CH.
https://www.amazon.com/1984-PHILLIPS-ANT...y+phillips
OK, so I think Discs 1 and 2 contain the same material as the 2-disc set I own.
Of course their description does not really answer my question regarding the remastering, but if Steven Wilson has given his seal of approval I'm almost inclined to take that as a guarantee of production quality.
I'm slightly amused by their statement that the work is "influential". It's hardly an album you find in every second household; it's no Sgt Pepper or Dark Side of the Moon. Even amongst those who know Anthony Phillips, many of them seem to know only The Geese and the Ghost and perhaps one other. 1984 is very different from any other album of his. "Influential" in a small subset of the music making industry, possibly.
The reviews on Amazon of the edition I have, from 2008, pretty well sum up my opinion: magnificent melodies and use of synths, it would get 5 stars out of 5 were it not for the overpresence of the drum machines.
