Ike and Tina Turner BGO cd reissues

horseburger

Has anyone here got these reissues of Ike and Tina Turner on the Beat Goes On label?

http://www.bgo-records.com/artist/ike-and-tina-turner

just wondering do they sound good etc, these reissues seem to be the most recent releases of these albums on cd

http://www.the-world-of-tina.com/ike-tina-turner-album/workin-together-album/


The BGO label releases a lot of stuff in the 2 albums on 1 cd range

iamstop

The problem with a lot of these reissues is that they 'remaster' them, which makes you think they are going to sound better but the fact is most of the time they remaster they try to 'clean up' the recording.
Well for me that dirt or grit or whatever is part of the music, part of the sound and part of what gives it it's soul. When you take it away you lose the funkyness. It becomes too sterile. I've not heard these ones you're linking to, just some general comments.

horseburger

One thing I noticed though, about earlier editions of cds released in the late 80s or early 90s, of albums that were originally released on vinyl and tape before cds were around, is that they can sound kind of flat, compared to the remastered cd editions that have been reissued in the last 10-12 or so years.

What interests me about these cds is that they are from the early to mid 70s period and - going by the details on that World of Tina website - they seem to be the most recent issues of the albums on cd.

It's sometimes easier to decide whether to buy reissues like these, if each reissue campaign covers the singer or bands career comprehensively and have been done by the same label.

(an example being the 3 Elvis , 50s, 60s and 70s Masters 5cd box sets on the RCA label)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Rock_'n'_Roll:_The_Complete_50's_Masters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Nashville_to_Memphis:_The_Essential_60s_Masters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_A_Mile_In_My_Shoes:_The_Essential_70s_Masters

but I guess in the case of Ike and Tina I guess their earlier recordings may have been on different labels to the later releases and perhaps there's the difficulty in getting particular albums or songs to be made available for later reissues, like seems to be the case with certain Sam Cooke reissues.

If you like Ike and Tina, there's a label, I came across recently, called Secret Records who have released three collections of Ike Turners 50s and early 60s recordings. The 3rd release, Trouble Up The Road, includes Ike and Tina recordings.

Tower Records in Wicklow St had these cds in the shop recently

http://www.secretrecordslimited.com/ListProducts.asp?categoryID=118