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 ... this new edition will bring you nothing worth to pay for. But of course the music in this CD is great. I donýt see any updating, as some folks like to say.Itýs so easy to point a punisher finger on music or pictures or anything that have come a long way, just to say "Ha,ha, this is stuff for a past generation, and for worse, a generation thatýs not mine, forget it". I didnýt know that ART has expiration date. I wonder what Bethoven, Mozart and others like them would think about that. For writing a review, I think you have to have at least a remote idea of what a band is about (I canýt imagine a journalist or a critic talking about the lack of better space for keyboards in a Rollings Stones CD, or to much guitar in a Van Halenýs release). I mean, whatýs that about "the inappropriate prominence of John Taylor's bass lines"???... This is Duran Duran for God sake! It supossed to sound this way, why the bass has to be in the back of the mix, inaudible and shy? Because that reads the manual of instructions for rock and roll? Please... get a job B.B. Thanks.
Anyway, I'm a Rush fan, but I consider them to be more dated than Duran Duran. The day is coming soon when someone will remake a Duran Duran song and it will be a hit just like No Doubt with It's My Life from Talk Talk, and other similar remake hits as of late.
The original album was originally released in the U.S. in 1982 on Harvest records. This version (as well as all UK and Japanese versions) shipped with the *shorter* versions of the songs. So in fact these tracks are the "original versions" and are not "cut to pieces" or the "wrong master tapes". This is the version of "Rio" that every country but the U.S. thinks of when they think of the album. Now, if memory serves me correctly, Harvest then re-released a version of the album in very small quantities. This version is exactly the same as the later Capitol version, and would become the "standard" U.S. release. This version contains the mostly "extended" versions of the songs. I hope this clears up some of the confusion. If you think this is bad, don't even bring up the US vs. UK vs. German CDs of this same album! |
Rush - Live In Rio? Now, who's the one stuck in the 80s - or 70s for that matter. I don't think anyone would but this CD if they weren't a fan of 80s music. If so, this is a must have. Not only are the hits (Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf & Save a Prayer) solid, but there really isn't a weak song on here. My other favorites are The Chauffeur and Hold Back the Rain.
When I first bought this album in 1983, it had an excellent 5:20 version of "Hungry Like the Wolf", the highlight of the whole album (next to the title track). When the first CD of "Rio" came out, "Hungry Like the Wolf" was much shorter (like they wanted to hurry up and get it over with). This shorter version killed the appeal of the whole CD for me. I hoped someday they would re-release "Rio" as "the original vinyl version." I thought that day came this past July 3rd, 2001. I was let down again. The same short version of "Hungry Like the Wolf", but now remastered. Sad! Would anyone like to take this lame CD off my hands AGAIN? Never mind, I'll go trade it for something else somewhere. The closest we're going to get to the original vinyl version of "Hungry Like the Wolf" is on the "Night Versions" collection. Not exactly the same, but close. Since Capitol created this confusion back then, why didn't they just feature the alternate tracks as "bonus tracks" to make everyone happy?
