Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection
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Artist: Frankie Goes to HollywoodEdition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD, Import
CD Release Date: 2002-12-16
Music Label: Msi Music/Super D
Soundtracks:
- Relax
- Two Tribes
- Ferry 'Cross the Mersey
- World Is My Oyster
- Welcome to the Pleasuredome
- Maximum Joy
- San Jose
- Warriors of the Wasteland
- Rage Hard
- War
- Watching the Wildlife
- Born to Run
- Power of Love
Free Music Notes for Rage Hard: The Sonic Collection
Free Music Review: Good Song Selection - OK Surround Sound - Questionable Versions
Hit: 4 Stars
Having practically everything by FGTH already in my collection, I was excited listening to the music in 5.1 surround sound. Some negative reviews were, however, a warning that the sound may disappoint.
On that sound issue, I both agree and disagree. The mixes are in a way immaculate and the lack of bass is, from my point of view, not wholly justified. The problem lies much more in the sound style of that period; very crystal and "pure" at the expense of depth. This means that the mixing would really needed a re-mix of a sort or even some re-recordings to be up to par of today's accepted sound imaging. Hence, the 5.1 mix is not as good as one maybe could have hoped for but compare the original sound to albums such as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and it becomes obvious that the comparison is not justified.
The song selection is excellent: San Jose, Ferry Cross the Mersey and Born To Run being absolute delights. The choice of having the full length album version of Welcome ... adds further value to the set. There are, however, two very dubious choices of versions, worse yet their biggest hits, Relax and Two Tribes. The versions one would expect are either the single versions or the 12 inch ones. Sorry, but the chosen versions are the inferior versions taken from the Welcome.... album. This applies especially to Two Tribes which of course has the classic well known 12 inch version. The album version differs also considerably from the single version, lacking the ferocity and innovativeness in production which had in a sense been cleaned up, and sterilized, for the album. This alone is worth ducking a star from this release.
Despite some shortcomings this set is well worth buying and surround sound wise excluded a great compilation of their biggest hits. Hopefully Welcome To The Pleasuredome will one day also be released in a 5.1 version, including then hopefully the other mixes of Relax and Two Tribes.
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Reproduced by legendary original Frankie Goes To Hollywood producer Trevor Horn.Reproduced by Legendary Original Frankie Goes to Hollywood Producer Trevor Horn.
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