https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 10 May 2026 10:26:37 +0000 Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:08:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7779 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7779&PID=39637&title=loverboy-working-for-the-weekend#39637 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7779
Posted: 09 November 2013 at 11:08pm

Not much controversy with this one.

The Columbia disc Rock Of The '80s (1988) used a high-generation tape source, and sounds really muffled. Avoid this one.

One year later, Columbia's Big Ones (1989) used a fresh new analog transfer, and this one sounds pretty great. Most of the compilations out there use the same analog transfer as Big Ones:

• Razor & Tie's 2-CD Awesome '80s (1994)
• Sony's Forever Rock Vol. 3 (1996; differently EQ'd digital clone)
• Time-Life's Guitar Rock Vol. 24 The '80s Take Two (1996; differently EQ'd digital clone)
• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties Vol. 18 The Early '80s Take Two (1996; differently EQ'd digital clone)
• Realm's 3-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s Vol. 3 (2002; has compression/limiting applied to Big Ones; avoid)

Rhino's 7-CD Like Omigod (2002) has a new analog transfer, but sounds basically the same as Big Ones, which is very nice.

I don't know what the original CD release of Get Lucky sounded like, but I came across a remaster, which is way too loud and sounds pretty bad. There's a differently EQ'd digital clone of the Get Lucky remaster on Madacy's Rock On 1982 Vol. 2 (2005) - avoid both of these.

My pick: Columbia's Big Ones (1989)]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:08:34 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7779&PID=39637&title=loverboy-working-for-the-weekend#39637