This is merely a way for greed heads to try to justify the purchase of a box set costing upwards of £100, to own records that you could potentially find for a couple of quid.
For better or worse the album exists with cheesy synths and drum loops or whatever. It is what it is.
The album belongs to us, not record companies, and it’s up to us whether we want to like it or dislike it. Getting Reeves Gabrels to give chisel away at the 80s dross and make it edgier is quite cynically a cash in.
I don’t really like this George Lucas approach to airbrushing out all the things we don’t like about the past. The new version of the album will merely become a new product of its time with the difference being that 30 years time people will have forgotten about it.
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