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Besides the poor audio quality (which I find forgivable in some cases) just take a look at the tracklists, artwork, album titles etc. I mean considering what they must have got in the vault it should be easy to put out the Death Row Inside Out compilation for example.
Quote from: The "Untouchable" DJR on August 18, 2012, 11:19:34 AMBesides the poor audio quality (which I find forgivable in some cases) just take a look at the tracklists, artwork, album titles etc. I mean considering what they must have got in the vault it should be easy to put out the Death Row Inside Out compilation for example. No poor audio quality is not forgivable and I question the sanity of anyone who would say otherwise. Buying an audio product that has poor audio quality is like buying a book that was handwritten by someone who can barely write legibally. They released unreleased production from Dr. Dre and DJ Quik and didn't even put the money into making it sound presentable. They put out an LBC Crew album that sounded piss-poor compared to the one that Effrain, a poster on this forum re-did for free.
WIDEAWAKE, DO WHAT C-STYLE DID: DO NEW CLEANER TRANSFERS, AND TELL US WHEN/WHERE THE TRACK WAS RECORDED (WHAT SESSIONS ETC) AND WHO PRODUCED THE FUCKING THING....HE EVEN KNOWS THE MUSICIANS INVOLVED....*sorry, foreign keyboard
Quote from: Do Buy Albums on August 18, 2012, 01:40:28 PMQuote from: OG Black Wilson on August 18, 2012, 10:13:55 AMQuote from: ttpac on August 18, 2012, 10:11:22 AMQuote from: Do Buy Albums on August 18, 2012, 06:17:48 AMQuote from: The "Untouchable" DJR on August 18, 2012, 01:38:24 AMI've been going on since the beginning of this WideAwake/Death Row thing about how it didn't make sense without Suge and it was not going to work out. Like someone said before DR should have just stayed bankrupt, the bootleggers would have done their job as far as emptying out the vault so no loss there.I think bootlegging is one of the reasons their releases are so weakSome people are making money behind the scenes selling the good stuff under the counter I respect your opinion but disagree because if WA would put out the material people are yearning for and actually make them available in stores their products would probably sell more. By releasing watered down releases in piss poor quality they are actually creating a marketplace/opportunity for bootleggers to exploit. If they give people what they want it would most likely stifle the bootleggers but the way they are doing it people will actually buy from bootleggers because they seem to have a better understanding of what fans want as opposed to FastAsleep. here's the problem: it's a fact that these guys are bootlegging songs behind the scenes and have been since 2009.Snap. And not just the normal stuff, Imagine all the stuff they hold that can NEVER be released or heard. Like Dre stuff, Pac outtakes and whatnot.All that holy grail stuff must be getting sold to top level black market collectors. Die hard Euros, Japs and WiggersI'm talkin G's overseasAnything can be bought for the right price. Seems like people have shallow pockets these days though.
Quote from: OG Black Wilson on August 18, 2012, 10:13:55 AMQuote from: ttpac on August 18, 2012, 10:11:22 AMQuote from: Do Buy Albums on August 18, 2012, 06:17:48 AMQuote from: The "Untouchable" DJR on August 18, 2012, 01:38:24 AMI've been going on since the beginning of this WideAwake/Death Row thing about how it didn't make sense without Suge and it was not going to work out. Like someone said before DR should have just stayed bankrupt, the bootleggers would have done their job as far as emptying out the vault so no loss there.I think bootlegging is one of the reasons their releases are so weakSome people are making money behind the scenes selling the good stuff under the counter I respect your opinion but disagree because if WA would put out the material people are yearning for and actually make them available in stores their products would probably sell more. By releasing watered down releases in piss poor quality they are actually creating a marketplace/opportunity for bootleggers to exploit. If they give people what they want it would most likely stifle the bootleggers but the way they are doing it people will actually buy from bootleggers because they seem to have a better understanding of what fans want as opposed to FastAsleep. here's the problem: it's a fact that these guys are bootlegging songs behind the scenes and have been since 2009.Snap. And not just the normal stuff, Imagine all the stuff they hold that can NEVER be released or heard. Like Dre stuff, Pac outtakes and whatnot.All that holy grail stuff must be getting sold to top level black market collectors. Die hard Euros, Japs and WiggersI'm talkin G's overseas
Quote from: ttpac on August 18, 2012, 10:11:22 AMQuote from: Do Buy Albums on August 18, 2012, 06:17:48 AMQuote from: The "Untouchable" DJR on August 18, 2012, 01:38:24 AMI've been going on since the beginning of this WideAwake/Death Row thing about how it didn't make sense without Suge and it was not going to work out. Like someone said before DR should have just stayed bankrupt, the bootleggers would have done their job as far as emptying out the vault so no loss there.I think bootlegging is one of the reasons their releases are so weakSome people are making money behind the scenes selling the good stuff under the counter I respect your opinion but disagree because if WA would put out the material people are yearning for and actually make them available in stores their products would probably sell more. By releasing watered down releases in piss poor quality they are actually creating a marketplace/opportunity for bootleggers to exploit. If they give people what they want it would most likely stifle the bootleggers but the way they are doing it people will actually buy from bootleggers because they seem to have a better understanding of what fans want as opposed to FastAsleep. here's the problem: it's a fact that these guys are bootlegging songs behind the scenes and have been since 2009.
Quote from: Do Buy Albums on August 18, 2012, 06:17:48 AMQuote from: The "Untouchable" DJR on August 18, 2012, 01:38:24 AMI've been going on since the beginning of this WideAwake/Death Row thing about how it didn't make sense without Suge and it was not going to work out. Like someone said before DR should have just stayed bankrupt, the bootleggers would have done their job as far as emptying out the vault so no loss there.I think bootlegging is one of the reasons their releases are so weakSome people are making money behind the scenes selling the good stuff under the counter I respect your opinion but disagree because if WA would put out the material people are yearning for and actually make them available in stores their products would probably sell more. By releasing watered down releases in piss poor quality they are actually creating a marketplace/opportunity for bootleggers to exploit. If they give people what they want it would most likely stifle the bootleggers but the way they are doing it people will actually buy from bootleggers because they seem to have a better understanding of what fans want as opposed to FastAsleep.
Quote from: The "Untouchable" DJR on August 18, 2012, 01:38:24 AMI've been going on since the beginning of this WideAwake/Death Row thing about how it didn't make sense without Suge and it was not going to work out. Like someone said before DR should have just stayed bankrupt, the bootleggers would have done their job as far as emptying out the vault so no loss there.I think bootlegging is one of the reasons their releases are so weakSome people are making money behind the scenes selling the good stuff under the counter
I've been going on since the beginning of this WideAwake/Death Row thing about how it didn't make sense without Suge and it was not going to work out. Like someone said before DR should have just stayed bankrupt, the bootleggers would have done their job as far as emptying out the vault so no loss there.
I understand them re-releasing songs from that boxset. They're only doing that because that boxset is discontinued (in part due the Dr. Dre material appearing on there without his permission and it becoming a legal issue along with "The Chronic Relit: From The Vault"). WideAwake used "Doggy Bag" along with "20 To Life: Volume 1" and "20 To Life: Volume 2" to re-release the unreleased material that appeared on the boxset. I just hope that after this release, they can move forward and give the fans more good unreleased recordings. Maybe release a remastered version of "Doggystyle" or "Dogg Food" in the future.
I'd be more interested if they did well put together versions of the classic albums...Like if they released Doggystyle, with all the remixes from the singles, with all the tracks that later became tracks on Doggystyle,instrumental versions of all the tracks... maybe even some of the tracks broken down into just parts so we can see how they were made,that would be more interesting to me...And then have a big booklet with lots of info on the making of Doggystyle, interviews with people who were involved, how the artwork/photos were donefor it... then do that for the Chronic, Dogg Food, etc.I don't know if you ever seen like classic Jazz albums or rock albums or anything, but they do that all the time, like have full liner notes redone for them,and get the session recordings for the album and put all that stuff on a couple of discs or so...
doggystyle relit is a possibility though with some bloody mary and danny boy tracks at the end.
I just want them to put out 100% unreleased albums and compilations, properly mixed and mastered, with at least 14 tracks per disc. No more of this 12 track bullshit. And I definitely do not want to see one single song that has been released officially make it onto these unreleased projects. Now, I absolutely do not mind if they put stuff like G'd Up & Banged Out by Crooked I or We R Blown by Petey Pablo on unreleased projects because even though they've been bootlegged in pretty good quality, they are still officially unreleased and I would like to see every track get a proper release.
if wideawake wanted to make a fancy remaster of doggystyle that would satisfy consumers they would need to:-figure out how to master properly (and better then the original)-find a way around the red tape with dre so they can put outtakes on-make peace with people involved in creating the album so they can interview them for liner notes-do some research and figure out death rows history to assemble tracks from that time-do some more research to figure out who was involved for the liner notes-basically completely get there act together.........basically this is all a fantasy. i'm not saying yall are asking for too much wanting a decent product like this actually worth buying i'm saying it's so impossible it's not even worth talking about. doggystyle relit is a possibility though with some bloody mary and danny boy tracks at the end.
Do a collector's set of some of the classic catalog and model it after what these other labels have done with say, the BDP catalog or ODB and GZA's deluxe albums. Include all the single and 16' inch stuff on a bonus disc with cleaned-up versions of the "Doggystyle" leftovers from the first Lost Sessions (don't know if that's still legally possible). Put "G's Up, Hoes Down" back in the original tracklist and do a remastered Doggystyle collector's edition, instead of these over-priced, poorly-mixed and weakly-compiled bootleg-quality albums they've been putting out.