They have served me well but there are undoubted mistakes within the series.24db wrote:I found Martin K's comments about these today, interesting that TD weren't involved at all with the remastering of the discs, it being farmed out to a third party. No wonder the results weren't always the best.
the sleeve typos are unbelievable...the cheapest thing...as in 'it would cost nothing' would be to get any TD fan to proof read them for glaring mistakes first.Chris Monk wrote:I've got a few of them and they're OK. Could have been a whole lot better though. The best you can say about them is that they're workman-like. There's quite a few glaring mistakes which is unforgivable really. Shame they weren't given the loving care they deserve.
They are literally unbelievable. They would have made a better job of it if they'd just copied the data off of the original releases. I don't know if I've seen a worse set of typos.24db wrote:the sleeve typos are unbelievable...the cheapest thing...as in 'it would cost nothing' would be to get any TD fan to proof read them for glaring mistakes first.Chris Monk wrote:I've got a few of them and they're OK. Could have been a whole lot better though. The best you can say about them is that they're workman-like. There's quite a few glaring mistakes which is unforgivable really. Shame they weren't given the loving care they deserve.
It just underlines the sad decline of Virgin Records over the last 10 or 20 years, all about maximising the profit, but no interest in marketing anything.Peter Beasley wrote:I browsed through the TD section in HMV, Oxford Street, London last week and noticed that the Virgin 'Definitive Editions' still have all the printing errors 15 years after release. Unbelievable! They either pressed an incredibly huge number, sales have been low or they've re-printed them without correcting the errors. Anyone know which?
...er Future Music and one article in NME?), infact unless you were actively looking for them you'd have no idea they'd be re-issued at all. Woeful.Virgin Records: "Were's the profit"?SequenceC wrote:It's ridiculous how many mistakes there are in the Virgin Years (definitive editions).
It would be lovely if they could have proper booklets, with info on each album (i.e the recording and background), images from the recording sessions and era, etc), so it could do the albums justice. But I really doubt that would happen.
At least Sanctuary put (more) effort into their releases, with info and photos about the albums.
They'd probably see it a financial burden24db wrote:Virgin Records: "Were's the profit"?SequenceC wrote:It's ridiculous how many mistakes there are in the Virgin Years (definitive editions).
It would be lovely if they could have proper booklets, with info on each album (i.e the recording and background), images from the recording sessions and era, etc), so it could do the albums justice. But I really doubt that would happen.
At least Sanctuary put (more) effort into their releases, with info and photos about the albums.
Even though a few pages dedicated to the album would really help. With the exception of one page on instruments, recording date and location, the booklets are all nearly as good, with an extremely brief summary on TD's history...
