Classic Albums - Inflammable Material / Nobody's Heroes

What can you say about this? Two great albums from SLF put together as one package. What's not to like? Anyone thinking of buying these albums this works out a lot cheaper than buying them seperate.

excellent

Two great CDs for the price of one. Everyone should listen to this band so they know what great music sounds like.

I'm a big fan of certain remasterings, such as the job done on the Beatles corpus. The Buzzcocks remastering was a definite improvement. As with Never Mind the Bollocks 2012 UK import. However, the SLF remastering job is more like a remix. One of the main attractions for me for SLF is the particular timbre of the fuzz guitars - particularly gnarly, as they say. On Inflammable Material, which is the CD I've listened the closest too, the guitars have lost much of the frenzied fuzz and are lower in the mix. I own 'SLF - All The Best' and compared all the songs that those two albums have in common. I'm left liking aspects of the remastering, but not wanting to get rid of the original mastering - unlike with The Sex Pistols. In that case, I was happy to junk the Warner Bros. US version - I would even say with relief. Likewise with the Buzzcocks 'Another Music in a Different Kitchen' I wasn't tempted to hang on to the older recording.I'd love to be able to say - Yes. Definitely buy this two for one deal. You'll unabashedly love the sound. Putting the guitars down in the mix was a terrible idea. It's not a loudness issue. That's not the problem. It's the remix that bothers me. "Alternative Ulster" is my favorite SLF song and the remastering job on that song is OK. They've left the guitars alone. But on, say, Suspect Device, it has really become quite a different sounding song to my ears with some of the fun of the guitars MIA. It would've been great if the same care and talent had gone into remastering these albums as The Beatles, but for obvious reasons $$$, perhaps, there wasn't. I've read that Siouxsie and the Banshees 'The Scream' remastering is awful with introduced clipping. No clipping here, but still a disappointment. I've read people saying 'stick with vinyl for the SLF' and that might be good advice if you still own a turntable, the vinyl, and can be bothered with the inconvenience of records.