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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by birdcat@lemmy.ml to c/music@beehaw.org

listening to lots of music lately and almost every second song is "remastered"; original is often not even available anymore.

and not one single time i can hear any kind of improvement. so what does it even mean, to remaster a song?

one of the worst cases, imo is atomic by blondie.

friggin classic

b-side abbba song?

and to add: iʼm not some kind of nostalgic puritan, plenty of songs get better after some remixing, covering and whatnot, like

The Clash - Rock The Casbah (12 inch Version)

But the remastered version?

dear god, if i wanted to listen to sting, i would listen to friggin sting.

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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

There's a Snoop Dogg interview where he makes an interesting point about this. Apparently, after 7 years, an artist has the right to reclaim ownership from the label by remastering?

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 year ago

This is essentially what Taylor Swift is doing with her Taylor's Versions. After being ignored when she requested to buy her masters, she essentially did a "Fine I'll do it myself" and is now remastering all of her old work.

[-] shutz@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

From what I've heard, she didn't remaster, she rerecorded those albums. These are new performances.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

You're correct they're all new recordings of the songs, not remastered.

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Correct. The royalties structure in music has the 2 parts - composition and performance. If you own both, you get 100% of the royalty from all those sales/streams.

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

well that makes sense, of course capitalism and greed has to be involved when stupid shit happens 😒

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