calvin2hikers wrote:
I prefer the original.
That is what I've been listening to mostly since Lumpy Money came out. Recently I was working on a project that involved studying this album in depth, in particular, the methods of production he was using at the time, so, only the original would do for that.
calvin2hikers wrote:
On the remix the drums and bass seemed to overwhelm all the other instruments, to me at least.
The old spill a little something on the kitchen floor, clean it up producing a patch that highlights the fact that the rest of the floor was not as clean as you thought it was in the first place. I think what he did works more on some tracks than others. The bass guitar behind the piano intro on the track Absolutely Free just ruins it for me. That's a haunting piece of piano and sounds best solo to my ears. On the other hand, the original, stereo Who Needs The Peace Corps?, is quite muffled and sounds much better to me all around in FZ's rework.
So, for me, the answer isn't even which album version, it comes down to the individual tracks.
I presume also that a third option, remixing the album the way FZ did, but without new drum and bass tracks, has been confirmed to not be possible, as FZ himself claimed, because I imagine that if it was possible, someone would have done it by now. The best they could do in the 2012 "new line" was revive a 1993 digital master.