At the risk of being slated for my music taste (the missus wanted it, honest!), has anyone bought the Thriller 25 re-issue on CD? If so could you make any comment on how it sounds?
The reason I'm asking is I bought it on new vinyl and it sounds good, but it's unbelievably polite! Listening to something like Beat It, Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo is so, well, pleasant, it's lost all the excitement. Don't get me wrong, the sound isn't "bad", it's just, well boring, to be honest, all the excitement that I recall from listening to the songs originally seems to have been sucked out of the music, but I don't know whether it's the vinyl version or the re-mastered versions in general, so I was wondering if anyone with the CD had noticed the same thing?
It's not just Beat It incidentally, it's all the tracks, Thriller itself has lost all its creepiness and at times makes me wonder whether someone has slipped in the Casiotone version for a laugh!
The reason I'm asking is I bought it on new vinyl and it sounds good, but it's unbelievably polite! Listening to something like Beat It, Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo is so, well, pleasant, it's lost all the excitement. Don't get me wrong, the sound isn't "bad", it's just, well boring, to be honest, all the excitement that I recall from listening to the songs originally seems to have been sucked out of the music, but I don't know whether it's the vinyl version or the re-mastered versions in general, so I was wondering if anyone with the CD had noticed the same thing?
It's not just Beat It incidentally, it's all the tracks, Thriller itself has lost all its creepiness and at times makes me wonder whether someone has slipped in the Casiotone version for a laugh!