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I recently acquired a comp called "Whole Lotta Lava"...on it, the Hollies "Leave Me" shows up in *super* wide stereo...basically a two-track mix, instruments on one side and vocals on the other.

On the Bob Irwin Sundazed disc, however, the track is folded in quite noticably.

Does "Leave Me" show up anywhere else like this, or was the Sundazed CD the "regular" incarnation of the stereo version and the Whole Lotta Lava used a wider version?

-D

PS: Shouldn't "King Midas in Reverse" actually be about a guy who turns gold things into...well, non-gold things? One wonders...

How about this for a hit's box set ????

Courtesy of BigO magazine email alert.....

The Hollies celebrate their 40th anniversary with a new six-CD boxset, The Long Road Home 1963-2003. This six-CD boxset contains five CDs of A and B sides, EP and album tracks plus rare and previously unreleased recordings from The Hollies' 40 year career.

The sixth CD has live material from shows in Sweden, 1966, Lewisham Odeon (London UK), 1968, the complete "Hollies Live Hits" show from Christchurch, New Zealand, 1976, and from Harrogate (UK) in 1991. Included in the box is an 80 page long-form book that has a 17,500 word sleeve note by Peter Doggett.

...jesus.

Xenu wrote:...jesus.

amazon.com UK has it down for October 20 release.

Looking at the track listing for the box, there's many points of frustration for the collector. They put three of the four Italian tracks on -- leaving off "Devi Avere Fiducia In Me." Arguably, not a particularly good song, but still yet to see the light on an official CD, mastered from a "real" tape source (those Magic CD's don't count).

Also, no tracks from the German '73 "Out On The Road" LP, a great album with Mike Rikfors that deserves to also see an official CD release.

The Swedish '66 concert has circulated as a radio broadcast for years amongst colectors. Wonder what the quality will be like here. Conversely, I think it's insane to release the entire live '76 album -- which has already seen two official CD releases -- Polydor in Germany and Sony here domestically.

Of course, a small selection of (yet) even more unreleased stuff, which will still force the collector to shell out. For anyone who's ever seen Record Collector's sessionography that they did on the band, in the 80's, there's STILL a lot more where this came from -- hard to believe considering the sheer volume of Hollies rarities related releases we've already seen!

Some real nice, hard to get stuff on here too. Stuff like, "Let Her Go Down" from the '83 New Zealand B side -- in it's first official CD release.

Of course, and I hate to be a downer, recent Hollies remasters have flat out sucked due to Mew's work. Don't know who's doing this set though. But, considering the initial late 90's/early 2000's released vintage of much of the rarer stuff ("School Girl," the second mix of "Man Without Expression," the alt. "We're Through"), I'm not holding my breath.

Wasn't School Girl dubbed over with new parts on the newer CD? I wonder if the boxed-set will provide the original underdub.

According to the new liner notes, "Schoolgirl" is the overdubbed release.

Mike Hunte wrote:Looking at the track listing for the box, there's many points of frustration for the collector. They put three of the four Italian tracks on -- leaving off "Devi Avere Fiducia In Me." Arguably, not a particularly good song, but still yet to see the light on an official CD, mastered from a "real" tape source (those Magic CD's don't count).

Also, no tracks from the German '73 "Out On The Road" LP, a great album with Mike Rikfors that deserves to also see an official CD release.

The Swedish '66 concert has circulated as a radio broadcast for years amongst colectors. Wonder what the quality will be like here. Conversely, I think it's insane to release the entire live '76 album -- which has already seen two official CD releases -- Polydor in Germany and Sony here domestically.

Of course, a small selection of (yet) even more unreleased stuff, which will still force the collector to shell out. For anyone who's ever seen Record Collector's sessionography that they did on the band, in the 80's, there's STILL a lot more where this came from -- hard to believe considering the sheer volume of Hollies rarities related releases we've already seen!

Some real nice, hard to get stuff on here too. Stuff like, "Let Her Go Down" from the '83 New Zealand B side -- in it's first official CD release.

Of course, and I hate to be a downer, recent Hollies remasters have flat out sucked due to Mew's work. Don't know who's doing this set though. But, considering the initial late 90's/early 2000's released vintage of much of the rarer stuff ("School Girl," the second mix of "Man Without Expression," the alt. "We're Through"), I'm not holding my breath.

Mike, Thanks for the analysis....can you give us a link to the tracklist, and the liner notes ?

Thanks so much, again !

Thanks Mike !