Original Releases Have Started To Disappear

[Yankovic]

I guess SONY/COLUMBIA has officially started to stop producing more copies of Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs From A Room, and Songs of Love and Hate in preparation for the LEGACY remastered editions.

These albums are now listed on Amazon.com as CDs that you can only buy used or new from individual sellers. Notice how there is no "Add to Shopping Cart" icon on the right of the screen.

Songs of Leonard Cohen

http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Leonard-Coh ... F8&s=music

Songs From A Room

http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Room-Leonar ... 04-4540724

Songs of Love and Hate

http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Love-Hate-L ... 04-4540724

Now look at this and all other Cohen albums and see the "Add to Shopping Cart" icon.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Skin-Ceremony ... 04-4540724


http://www.amazon.com/Death-Ladies-Man- ... 04-4540724

http://www.amazon.com/Recent-Songs-Leon ... 04-4540724

http://www.amazon.com/Various-Positions ... 04-4540724

http://www.amazon.com/Im-Your-Man-Leona ... 04-4540724

http://www.amazon.com/Future-Leonard-Co ... 04-4540724

http://www.amazon.com/Ten-New-Songs-Leo ... 04-4540724

http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Heather-Leon ... 04-4540724

[woody]

the same thing happened to the supposed joni mitchell releases. it's a damn shame as i really wanna hear those outtakes!

[tomsakic]

Also, I noticed there's many two-packs (first two albums, first and third) on big sales by local Sony (two in one carton package for the "nice price" of one /c. 10 Euros/). Obviously, they're trying to get rid of them.

[Waiting For Suzanne]

all the cohen album i bought were £5, seems to be the average price. but whats this legacy you talk of?

[tomsakic]

In late April, Legacy Records (Sony's sub-label for re-releases and box-sets) will release first three albums, remastered from original mastertapes, and with outtakes from the original albums's sessions. With new booklets (photos from period, all lyrics, new lines notes). Other albums will follow soon, in groups of three.

[lizzytysh]

I need to be buying some of the old, unremastered ones, while they're still around!


~ Lizzy

[Philwilli]

Lizzy,i have just got in to my house a LP with "Songs of Leonard Cohen"
and it's spinning on my turntable now.Of course it's unremastered.
The cover and vinyl is just great quality,someone in this country has taken good care of it in these 39 years since it was pressed.
It gives me a special feeling listning to this music made all those years ago on a original LP.And they are still quite easy to get hold of.
I have a copy of "Songs from a room" on it's way too.

[lizzytysh]

I can imagine, Philwilli. I bought Ten New Songs on LP, as well as cd, but haven't opened it, not for saving purposes, but fear I might do something to wreck it. I should've bought two... maybe I will buy another. I'm also going to check ebay for other, unremastered LPs before they become unavailable. I just didn't care for the homogenous sound of the remastered "Essential" ~ not clear enough where one leaves off and another begins, like 'easy listening' music. I'll still buy the remastered and give it a chance, but for me the original 'format'[?] has so much more character [beyond LP or cd and relating unremastered/remastered, as well]. Personal taste?


~ Lizzy

[Philwilli]

You have to play your LP Lizzy.You must not be frightened to use it.
Be careful with the stylus when you lower it and get you self a good carbon fiber brush to keep LP's clean.
I have also just got LC's "Various positions"and i have just heard "If it be
your will"for the first time on vinyl.It's just indescribable.
I have nothing against CD's,i have a lot of them and a lot of "modern" media equitment.Myself i have never liked unremasterd CD's,the sound is so "flat"and dead nothing near the sound of the original LP.Very often there is no bass at all.But thats my taste.
Here in europe the interest for LP's has taken itself up and people are buying turntables and LP's.Maybe it's my generation thats turning nostalgic?

[hydriot]

What is particularly interesting is that here in the UK new music, aimed at those quite a few decades younger than me, is now being issued in vinyl format as well as CD, and from the moment of release too. It seems that there is an entire market for vinyl nowadays which has nothing to do with nostalgia. Or is it just that DJs prefer vinyl as it's easier to control?

[Yankovic]

New Skin For the Old Ceremony, Recent Songs, Various Positions, and I'm Your Man are now listed as out of print on Amazon.com. I guess this means the remasters are coming soon! I'm wondering why SONY skipped on Death of o Ladies' Man. It's still in print. I'm guessing they don't want to remaster what's considered Leonard's worst album. Maybe they are saving it for later.

[kokenpere]

Hi Yankovic -

According to amazon.com only one copy of Death Of A Ladies' Man is available/in stock.

One hopes that it may be remastered in a "naked" form (a la the Naked 'Let It Be'), which was Let It Be without Phil Spector.

The Future is also listed as out of print. It seems as if two "sets" of remasters will be coming - 3 albums to a set.

(Just in time for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame show?)

michael

[Yankovic]

Are the live albums and the greatest hits albums going to be remastered too?

[opendoor]

If past is prologue, none of the Bob Dylan remasters were live albums or greatest hit packages.

The ones that were remastered were termed 'classic originals' by Sony.

opendoor

[Yankovic]

It seems as if two "sets" of remasters will be coming - 3 albums to a set.

Is this the only way the rest of the albums will be released? They won't each be released seperately?