I'm certainly not buying this and it's just a waste of time. Besides I already have the original vinyl and cd plus the 10' inch vinyl boxed set. And, I also have the four Japanese coloured vinyls from last year. This is yet another big let down from the Oasis management who seem to like re-releasing the same stuff all the time.
Post by robg1979 on Sept 21, 2023 20:49:42 GMT 9.5
They've said the remastered audio is taken from the Chasing The Sun re-issues, these were releases from the best part of 10 years ago now.
A couple of tracks on the original Masterplan album had slightly different edits from their single counterparts, but I'm 99% sure they won't replicate these edits for the new version. I could be wrong. Whether they needed to be edited in the first place however is open to question.
Post by instepwiththestars on Nov 8, 2023 18:02:40 GMT 9.5
All of the B-sides from the Chasing the Sun remasters are just slightly tweaked versions of the original Creation singles, typically making them louder with peak limiting. Occasionally there is a minor EQ boost, but for the most part they're the same. There were no actual fresh tape transfers for the B-sides like there were for the albums. The lone exception is Angel Child, which received special treatment as part of the Mustique demos project (where it is the same mix as the B-side, but the EQ is drastically different).
Mike Marsh mastered the original version of The Masterplan, of which he said: "My job then was to pull them all together and make them sound coherent and not like it was a compilation album of tracks from over a long period of time which all sounded drastically different when you put them all together on an album!"
So, unfortunately, by using the remasters from Chasing the Sun, this new Masterplan release is going to sound all over the place. The Swamp Song in particular is excessively shrieky and shrill on the Wonderwall single. Going Nowhere, already quite a dark, bass-heavy song, received a low end boost on the 2016 remaster, making it even more muddy. Rockin' Chair retains the same error of swapped stereo channels from the Roll With It single (the drums should sound slightly panned to the left channel). Et cetera.
The green marble vinyl looks nice if you're into that kind of thing, but apart from that, I don't see the point in this. It's the same exact thing as the 2016 edition. Which is not much different to the original singles.
Fun fact regarding The Masterplan – according to Mike Marsh, Noel attended the second mastering session on 4 June 1998, where Mike burned Noel a CD-R copy of the mastered album for approval. Various sources state that Noel quit drugs cold turkey on 5 June 1998. Part of me wonders if listening to this compilation that night played a part in his decision to get clean the following morning. He was already miserable from the Be Here Now tour, he was dissatisfied with the album, and his drug abuse was torturing him rather than fueling him. Now, he's listening to an amazing collection of songs that, in various drug-addled states, he insisted be used as B-sides rather than for an album. It could just be a coincidence, but there is a plausible "where did it all go wrong?" scenario here!
