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Posted: 11/14/09 at 10:24am
This is a stupid question that taps into the obsessive compulsive cast album collector side of me... So any help would be appreciated (FrontRowCenter?)
Recently Sony reissued their already remastered with bonus cuts OBC of Gypsy as a 50th Anniversary Edition. I had to get it even though I admit the actual cast album itself is the same (the same remaster is used as before, etc) and the new bonus stuff is hardly essential.
But I recently wondered why they never did this for the, presumably, even better selling West Side Story cast album. Then I came across this amazon.com listing: http://www.amazon.com/West-Side-Story-Original-Broadway/dp/B000056TB2 It looks like the CD now has a dust jacket with big CELEBRATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY print. (My copy already had a dust jacket in cheap plastic coated paper calling it a classic cast album or some such)
Anyway is the actual disc (and the booklet I guess) changed in any way from the past remaster? Or is it the same pressing--same symphonic bonus cuts, same gorgeous remastered sound? In other words, aside from the pointless new slipcase, would there be any reason for me to get it? I admit it looks like they just cheaply, for the anniversary, dumped the cover on the existing, in stock editions, which would make more money sense (and is why I'm so surprised they did a new version for Gypsy).
I do hate when CDs (pop or cast albums or whatever) are endlessly remastered and reissued because it does tap into the obsessive in me and I need to update them, even sometimes when I'd rather buy a NEW cast album I don'talready have in some edition instead. That said the initial bunch of remasters from Sony in the mid 90s I think WERE a HUGE sonic improvement on the old CDs (for Company, Night Music, Chorus Line etc) and included great extras.
thanks!
E
Recently Sony reissued their already remastered with bonus cuts OBC of Gypsy as a 50th Anniversary Edition. I had to get it even though I admit the actual cast album itself is the same (the same remaster is used as before, etc) and the new bonus stuff is hardly essential.
But I recently wondered why they never did this for the, presumably, even better selling West Side Story cast album. Then I came across this amazon.com listing: http://www.amazon.com/West-Side-Story-Original-Broadway/dp/B000056TB2 It looks like the CD now has a dust jacket with big CELEBRATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY print. (My copy already had a dust jacket in cheap plastic coated paper calling it a classic cast album or some such)
Anyway is the actual disc (and the booklet I guess) changed in any way from the past remaster? Or is it the same pressing--same symphonic bonus cuts, same gorgeous remastered sound? In other words, aside from the pointless new slipcase, would there be any reason for me to get it? I admit it looks like they just cheaply, for the anniversary, dumped the cover on the existing, in stock editions, which would make more money sense (and is why I'm so surprised they did a new version for Gypsy).
I do hate when CDs (pop or cast albums or whatever) are endlessly remastered and reissued because it does tap into the obsessive in me and I need to update them, even sometimes when I'd rather buy a NEW cast album I don'talready have in some edition instead. That said the initial bunch of remasters from Sony in the mid 90s I think WERE a HUGE sonic improvement on the old CDs (for Company, Night Music, Chorus Line etc) and included great extras.
thanks!
E
Updated On: 11/14/09 at 10:24 AM
