BOC: Cultosaurus Erectus

Ted Alger ted at ALGER.DEMON.CO.UK
Sun Mar 14 14:45:03 EST 1999


so "Deadline" has the initial downbeat at the beginning of
the song then?

>     Hey all, just received that remaster of CE. I will now list the
>layout changes for your reading pleasure :-). The cover on the new album
>is darker, like the picture had a little longer exposure time in the
>developing room, seems to give it more depth, unfortunately on the
>remaster the Kronos is nowhere to be found, they omitted it entirely,
>but at least they remembered the umlauts. The inside of the jacket on
>the remaster has two pictures, one with a boy sitting on the edge of a
>dinosaur's fossilized footprint, surrounded by a fossilized rock bed,
>and in the background some reconstructed dinosaur skeleton (ya know,
>those exhibits in the museum, I can't recall the proper terminology
>right now), but you can only see the tail in the shot. The second
>picture is the same kind of shoot as the first, but now a girl has
>replaced the boy, I'm assuming these were the picture's displayed on the
>original inner sleeve, I don't know as I have never seen the original
>LP. The back of the remaster's jacket only display's the picture of Fig.
>C, and to the right of that the band members are listed along with the
>sources used and the credits (this was inside the jacket on the original
>CD release). The CD holster (or what ever you would call it) in the
>remastered CE is clear (like the HF album), and behind the CD is a
>picture of the CE that is on the cover. On the back of the jewel case
>Fig. A and Fig. B are shown instead of Fig. C, the song listings also
>include the length.
>     The overall dynamics seem to be improved (I'm not an audiophile so
>I'm kinda out of my area here), though after listening to one selection
>from each disk they don't seem to be much different at all. They have it
>available to order at:
>
>http://www.thoughtscape.com/abc.htm
>
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>Laj.



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