"Traveling Wilburys" getting re-released!

I'm not a fan, but I KNOW that the fact that the CDs have been OOP for YEARS is a source of frustration for fans. This article from Billboard.com announces a deluxe set of both CDs with bonus cuts coming on June 12th!

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/..._id=1003560481

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That's great news. I've been waiting for a reissue for a long time now, at least of the first album.

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They'll probably compress the hell out of them.

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Wow, I was wondering if this would ever be released. I bought the previous version for my wife off of eBay for like $25 several years back.

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Yup. I'm very skeptical.

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Details on this release:

DISC 1: TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 1:
1.Handle With Care
2.Dirty World
3.Rattled
4.Last Night
5.Not Alone Any More
6.Congratulations
7.Heading For The Light
8.Margarita
9.Tweeter And The Monkey Man
10.End Of The Line
11.Maxine - (previously unreleased)
12.Like A Ship - (previously unreleased)
DISC 2: TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3:
1.She's My Baby
2.Inside Out
3.If You Belonged To Me
4.Devil's Been Busy, The
5.7 Deadly Sins
6.Poor House
7.Where Were You Last Night?
8.Cool Dry Place
9.New Blue Moon
10.You Took My Breath Away
11.Wilbury Twist
12.Runaway - (bonus track)
13.Nobody's Child - (bonus track)

Notes

Nearly twenty years after the creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys will be reissued on June 12, 2007. The previously released albums Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 and Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 feature inarguably some of music's greatest singer-songwriters-George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan-as the iconic band The Traveling Wilburys. Both CDs are combined on this 2-CD/1-DVD release and will feature bonus tracks of rare and newly mixed unreleased music. The all-region DVD contains historic footage documenting the first chord to the final mix, and their five video clips. Digipack also includes a 16-page booklet.

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awesome!! can't wait for this.

Each album is only about 30-35 minutes, how compressed would that be???? 3 bonus songs per disc, it should be fine.

the DVD: if they have all the videos, theres still room for hi-res audio. I tremember maybe 4 vids by the Wilbury's.

not sure why there is skepticism for this.

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Dynamic range compression = LOUD MASTERING (a very common affliction lately). Hopefully, they will "handle with care."

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One review is in...

4.5/5

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...cfwxz85ldae~T1

There never was a supergroup more super than the Traveling Wilburys. They had Jeff Lynne, the leader of ELO; they had Roy Orbison, the best pop singer of the '60s; they had Tom Petty, the best roots-rocker this side of Bruce Springsteen; they had a Beatle and Bob Dylan, for crying out loud! It's impossible to picture a supergroup with a stronger pedigree than that (all that's missing is a Rolling Stone) but in another sense it's hard to call the Wilburys a true supergroup, since they arrived nearly two decades after the all-star craze of the '70s peaked, and they never had the self-important air of nearly all the other supergroups. That, of course, was the key to their charm: they were a group of friends that fell together easily, almost effortlessly, to record a B-side for a single for George Harrison, then had such a good time they stuck around to record a full album, which became a hit upon its 1988 release. The Traveling Wilburys was big enough to convince the group to record a second album, cheerfully and incongruously titled Vol. 3, two years later despite the death of Orbison. Like most sequels, the second didn't live up to expectations and by the time it and its predecessor drifted out of print in the mid-'90s, with the rights reverting to Harrison, nobody much noticed. A few years later, though, it soon became apparent that the Wilburys records - mainly, the debut, widely beloved thanks to its two hits “Handle With Care” and “End of the Line” - were out of print, and they soon became valuable items as the Harrison estate dragged their heels on a reissue. Finally, the two albums were bundled up as a two-CD set simply called The Traveling Wilburys and reissued with a DVD containing a documentary and all the videos in the summer of 2007 (there is also a deluxe edition containing a longer, lavish booklet).

Looking back via The Traveling Wilburys, the group's success seems all the more remarkable because the first album is surely, even proudly, not a major statement. Even under the direction of Jeff Lynne, who seems incapable of not polishing a record til it gleams; it's loose and funny, even goofy. It's clearly a lark, which makes the off-handed, casual virtuosity of some of the songs all the more affecting, particularly the two big hits which are sunny and warm, partially because they wryly acknowledge the mileage on these rock & roll veterans. “Handle With Care” and “End of the Line” are the two masterworks here, although Roy's showcase “Not Alone Anymore” - more grand and moving than anything on the Lynne-produced Mystery Girl - comes close in the stature, but its stylized melodrama is a ringer here: it, along with Dylan's offhand heartbreak tune “Congratulations,” is the only slow thing here, and the rest of the album just overspills with good vibes, whether it's Tom Petty's lite reggae of “Last Night,” Jeff Lynne's excellent Jerry Lee Lewis update “Rattled” or Dylan's very funny “Dirty World” which is only slightly overshadowed by his very, very funny Springsteen swipe “Tweeter and the Monkey Man.” These high times keep The Traveling Wilburys fresh and fun years later, after Lynne's production becomes an emblem of the time instead of transcending it. (The album contains two bonus tracks in this reissue, the excellent Harrison song “Maxine” - a low-key waltz that should have made the cut - and “Like a Ship,” a folky dirge that builds into ELO-esque pop which is pretty good but doesn't have the effervescence of the rest.)

Traveling Wilburys built upon Harrison's comeback with Cloud 9 and helped revitalize everybody else's career, setting the stage for Dylan's 1989 comeback with Oh Mercy, Petty's first solo album Full Moon Fever produced by Lynne (sounding and feeling strikingly similar to this lark), and Orbison's Mystery Girl, which was released posthumously. Given the success of this record and how it boosted the creativity of the rest of the five, it's somewhat a shock that the second effort falls a little flat. In retrospect, Vol. 3 plays a little bit better than it did at the time - it's the kind of thing to appreciate more in retrospect, since you'll never get another album like it - but it still labors mightily to recapture what came so effortlessly the first time around, a problem that can't merely be chalked up to the absence of Orbison (who after all, didn't write much on the first and only took lead on one song). Where the humor flowed naturally and absurdly throughout the debut, it feels strained on Vol. 3 - nowhere moreso than on “Wilbury Twist” where Petty implores you to put your underwear on your head and get up and dance, the epitome of forced hilarity - and the production is too polished and punchy to give it a joi-de-vive similar to the debut. That polish is an indication that Lynne and Petty dominate this record, which only makes sense because they made it between Full Moon Fever and Into the Great Wide Open, but it's striking that this sounds like more like their work, even when Dylan takes the lead on “Inside Out” or the doo-wop-styled “7 Deadly Sins.” Both of these are quite good songs and they have a few other companions here, like the quite wonderful country stomp “Poor House,” but they're songs more notable for their craft than their impact - nothing is as memorable as the throwaways on the debut - and when combined with the precise production, it takes a bit for them to sink in. But give the record some time, and these subtle pleasures are discernable, even if they surely pale compared to the open-hearted fun of the debut. But when paired with the debut on this set, it's a worthy companion and helps support the notion that Traveling Wilburys were a band who possess a unique, almost innocent, charm that isn't diminished after all this time.

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The only thing I'm not liking about this release is that it doesn't include all of the B-sides released by the group. There's only a handful so it's not like they could include them on another release.

Same thing happened with a previous George Harrison box set; they included a handful of bonus tracks but they had more than ample room to fit all the stuff from the era that had at least been released in the past but didn't.

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I kinda wished the review say something about the sound quality of the release. For re-releases, they usually mention it...

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I picked it up today, but don't have anything to compare it too... I'd been looking for a copy of the CD for years.

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Does the Harrison estate control the rights to all of that stuff?

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Hello all---

Okay, what are the differences between the deluxe version and the regular version of this set?

The official website has this to say:

http://www.travelingwilburys.com/deluxe.html


The regular version apparently has a 16-page booklet. I can live without the deluxe photos, but are the original and new liner notes included in both sets? Is the deluxe version worth the $15 price difference?

Thanks,
mattl

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I believe the deluxe version also comes with postcards, if that entices your decision.

From what I understand the original liner notes aren't included in the regular set, and the new liner notes are abridged in the regular one.

The post-2001 Harrison releases generally are accompanied by deluxe versions, and while I like having the additional stuff, I think they way overcharge for it.

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Love this CD! Still have my original in rotation in the car.

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Just picked it up today at Best Buy for $19.99 — can't beat that for CDs I've been looking for for the better part of a decade. I have a burned CD-R copy of a copy of a copy of the original CD release for Vol. 1. It sounds different and yet the same; the instruments feel more seperated in the remaster - in other words, it sounds clearer. Here's a comparison of the wave forms for "Handle with Care":

So while the remaster has definitely been mixed "louder" than the original release, it's not compressed all to oblivion, either.

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iTunes sounded fine.

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You're right. It doesn't look God-awful. Thanks, Adam!

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Is anyone else frustrated with the lack of availability for the deluxe version?

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I bought my wife a copy of the "regular" edition (both CDs and a DVD) off of CD Universe. While I haven't yet listened to the CDs (I hope the remastering came out alright), the set comes with an excellent "fly on the wall" DVD that chronicles the making of Vol. 1. It's an really interesting watch. You can tell how much those guys enjoyed the music making process.

Adam, what program do you use to get the waveforms? That looks really interesting...

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Yeah, it was definitely the best surprise out of the package. I had no idea they filmed that much when making the first record. Particularly surprising was the fact that they recorded all of the instruments in the not-sound proof kitchen with the doors open. You'd never be able to tell in the final product. I used a shareware program called GoldWave to render the waveforms. It's my audio editing software of choice; much easier to use (and I find, more powerful) than Adobe Audition, which is the other tool I have at my disposal.
I use the Print Screen key to take a screen shot into Paint and crop to just the waveform. I made the transparencies for the backgrounds in Photoshop.

Speaking of, I took a look at "Last Night" which made the most dramatic use of dynamic range on the first album. As you can see, the quiet introduction was preserved intact:

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Yeah, I was very surprised about that as well. I was also surprised at much Jeff Lynne contributed to the album, not just on the producing side, but musically as well. He's quite a gifted musician.

Very cool about "Goldwave"...is it freeware???

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so who is selling the more expensive edition?

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Just click on the link above to download it (if you're using Windows). It's shareware, but you can pretty much use it indefinitely without consequences.

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Why wouldn't you pay for shareware that you use?

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Because you're cheap? He asked me for a price, not a lecture.

Naturally, if a piece of software becomes is a regular part of your toolbox, you'll want to buy a copy to support future development.

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Thanks, Adam! I'll check it out.

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Judged by those screenshots (and by the way it sounds), it's still too loud for my liking. If you zoom in and see a flat line at the top or bottom, it's been mastered too loud.

I've compared both the original and reissue, and I like the old one better. It might not be as loud, but the overall natural dynamics are closer to how it originally was supposed to sound.