AREA 51-List Your Fantasy Quad/5.1 Mix(es), Up to 51 Titles

We ALL have favorite albums that remain UNRELEASED in Quad/5.1. What's on your wish list? Your list can be as few as one, or as many as 51. Quad/5.1 mixes that remain unreleased qualify, just like those never mixed for surround. Compilations are OK. Of course, 2ch SACD's are candidates, too. Perhaps one of our record company friends will take action to realize our fantasies! Sometimes, it's fun to dream.

:banana: Linda's AREA 51 Fantasy List:

1-Moby Grape
2-Abbey Road-Beatles
3-Who's Next
4-Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus-Spirit
5-A Long Time Comin'-Electric Flag
6-Magical Mystery Tour-Beatles
7-Bookends-Simon & Garfunkle
8-Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan
9-Motherlode-Loggins & Messina
10-Marrying Maiden-It's a Beautiful Day
11-White Album-Beatles
12-Darkness on the Edge of Town-Bruce Springsteen
13-Touch-John Klemmer
14-Are You Experienced-Jimi Hendrix Experience
15-Sgt. Pepper-Beatles
16-Time Has Come-Chambers Brothers
17-Stand Up-Jethro Tull
18-Axis: Bold as Love-Jimi Hendrix Experience
19-Living in the Past-Jethro Tull
20-Past Masters-Beatles
21-Child is Father to the Man-Blood, Sweat & Tears w/Al Kooper
22-Jack Johnson-Miles Davis
23-Sweetheart of Rodeo-Byrds
24-Innervisions-Stevie Wonder
25-Led Zeppelin IV
26-Revolver-Beatles
27-Brave New World-Steve Miller Band
28-New Boots & Panties (US w/Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll)-Ian Dury & the Blockheads
29-Chicago 16
30-Aja-Steely Dan
31-Crime of the Century-Supertramp
32-An Innocent Man-Billy Joel
33-Icarus-Paul Winter/Winter Consort (Oregon)
34-Chips From the Chocolate Fireball-XTC (as Dukes of Stratusphear)
35-Takin' it to the Streets-Doobie Brothers
36-Best of Everything But the Girl (UK)
37-Down Two, Then Left-Boz Scaggs
38-Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me-Gloria Estefan
39-Celebrate Me Home-Kenny Loggins
40-Fresh Cream
41-Talking Book-Stevie Wonder
42-Heavy Weather-Weather Report
43-Plastic Ono Band-John Lennon
44-Disraeli Gears-Cream
45-John Wesley Harding-Bob Dylan
46-Ultimate Joe Cocker
47-Ultimate Michael McDonald
48-Time & Love-Laura Nyro
49-Ultimate Eurythmics
50-Infidels-Bob Dylan
51-Electric Music for the Mind & Body-Country Joe & the Fish

I'm in, but give me the weekend to think on it.

I won't be greedy.

How about Read My Mind by The Killers (Pet Shop Boys remix version).

I'm in with only three titles.

1. Kate Bush - "Hounds of Love"
2. Jon Anderson - "Olias of Sunhillo"
3. XTC - Oranges and Lemons

Give me those three and I can die happy.

J. D.

I go for some well known albums by well known artists

Yes-90125
Billy Joel - Glass Houses
AC /DC - Back in Black
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Boston- Boston
Cars - Heartbeat City
Def Leppard - hysteria
Beatles - Abbey Road
Tears for Fears - Seeds of Love
Styx- Pieces of Eight
Police - Synchronicity
Michael Jackson - Thriller
U2 - Achtung Baby
Jethro Tull - Broadsword & The Beast
Coldplay - X&Y
Prince - Sign of the Times
Journey - Escape
Kansas- Leftoverture
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
The Who - Who's Next
Jimi Hendrix - Axis
Steel Pulse - True Democracy
Elton John - Don't Shoot Me

Most well known, and some obscure....

Gazpacho - Tick Tock
Gazpacho - Night
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth (Nearly forgot this one)
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Gong - You (I hear a quad mix was done but not released???)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Based On A True Story
Salmonella Dub - One Drop East
Tiki - Past, Present, Future
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
ELP - Trilogy
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
Talk Talk - The Spirit Of Eden
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Close to the Edge (But I understand the multi tracks don't exist - arghhh)
Yes - 90125
Yes - Drama
Yes - The Ladder
Yes - Fly From Here (I'm quite liking this one)
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
Tangerine Dream - Logos: Live at the Dominion
Rush - Hemispheres (Here's hoping its out soon)
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Rush - 2112
Steve Wonder - Innervisions
Supertramp - Crime of The Century
ELO - Out of the Blue
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (My Fav Steely)
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Air - Moon Safari
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
Brian Eno -Before and After Science
Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)
Massive Attack - Messanine
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
New Order - Low Life
The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of a Friendly Card
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting From Home
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Chicago - 17 (Guilty Pleasure, plus it has WAF)
U.K. - U.K.
The XX - XX
Tool - 10,000 Days

I believe that makes a nice round 50

I'll take anything from Canned Heat.
Phil S.

Supertramp - Crime of The Century
Robert Fripp- Exposure
Bob Seger- Night moves
Pink Floyd- Animals
Nazareth- Hair of The Dog
Alice Cooper- Killer
David Bowie- Scary Monsters
Megadeth- Cryptic Writings
Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley
B52s-B52s
Van Halen-1
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Champagne Jam
Frank Zappa- Joe's Garage
Frank Zappa- Thing-Fish

1-Shriekback - Oil and Gold
2-Pulp - Different Class
3-Radiohead - OK computer
4-Thomas Dolby - Aliens ate my Buick
5-Frazier Chorus - Sue
6-They Might be Giants - Flood
7-Yes - 90125
8-Julian Cope - My nation underground
9-the passage - degenerates
10-the passage - enflame
11-XTC - English Settlement
12-XTC - Apple Venus
13-Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence
14-Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Good Earth
15-Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
16-Duran Duran - Rio
17-ELO - Eldorado
18-ELO - A new world record
19-Scritti Politti - White bread black beer
20-Elbow - The seldom seen kid
21-Mumford and Son - Sigh no more
22-The Leisure Society - The Sleeper
23-The Cardiacs - Sing to God
24-The Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
25-Various - Leader of the Starry Skies
26-PIL - Album
27-Squeeze - East Side Story
28-BeBop Deluxe - Starburst finish
29-Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound on sound
30-Oyster Band - Ride
31-Prince - 1999
32-Prince - Sign of the Times
33-Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
34-OMD - Organization
35-OMD - Architecture and Morality
36-Muse - Origin of Symetry
37-Muse - Absolution
38-10cc - Original Soundtrack
39-The Devine Comedy - Fin de Siecle
40-The Devine Comedy - Regeneration

I shall also not be greedy , but I'd really like to hear 5.1 versions of several Radiohead and U2 albums as a nice start.

Ambrosia - 1st album & Somewhere I've Never Traveled
Peter Gabriel 1,2 3,4 & So
The Cars - Candy O
Yes - Tales Of Topographic Oceans, The Yes Album & Close To The Edge
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends
Pink Floyd - Meddle
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zeppelin - All
Radiohead - OK Computer
U2 - Joshua Tree
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
BTO 1 & 2
Paul McCartney - Ram
Beatles - White Album & Let It Be
Billy Joel - Piano Man & Turnstiles
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Gryphon - Treason
David Bowie - Alladin Sane, Pin-Ups, Diamond Dogs & Heroes
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
Eagles - Desperado, One Of These Nights & On The Border
Nektar - Down To Earth & Recycled

I can sit here all day with this!
The BIG shame is that a lot of these are already done but will never see the light of day as a hi-res MCH release.

Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Steely Dan - Gold Expanded Edition [just for the 4 bonus tracks]
Boston - [S/T]
Boston - Don't Look Back
Christopher Cross - [S/T]
Rupert Holmes - Adventure
Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Alan Parsons Project - Eve
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue
Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture
Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy (discrete this time)
Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi
Alan Parsons - Try Anything Once
Alan Parsons - Time Machine
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Argent - All Together Now
Gino Vanelli - Brother to Brother
Gino Vanelli - Nightwalker
Gino Vanelli - Black Cars
Gino Vanelli - Big Dreamers Never Sleep
10cc - The Original Soundtrack
Robbie Dupree - [S/T]
Robbie Dupree - Street Corner Heroes
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Ivy - Edge of the Ocean
Ivy - Apartment Life
Elton John - Rock of the Westies
Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Michael Johnson - The Michael Johnson Album
Kalapana - [S/T]
Superfly [OST] - Curtis Mayfield
Gladys Knight and the Pips - Greatest Hits
Earth Wind and Fire - Greatest [1998 edition]
Ohio Players - Skin Tight

damn, that's too much to list the separate albums. i would prefer to go mainly with catalogs.

rock, prog., hard rock 70th

Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Nazareth
Uriah Heep
Pink Floyd
Queen
Supertramp
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Cream
10CC
ELP
Yes
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Jethro Tull
Camel
CCR
Wishbone Ash
Bad Company
Thin Lizzy
Styx
Focus
Geordie
Ten Years After
Atomic Rooster
ELO
Iron Maiden

80th new wave couple albums from

Visage
Ultravox
Eurithmics
Blondie
Spandau Ballet
Talk, Talk
Tears For Fears
The Buggles
Men At Work

solo artist

Peter Gabriel
Roger Waters
Rick Wakeman
Steve Hackett
Stevie Nicks
Kate Bush

foreign (non english singing) artists

Omega (70th catalog)
Locomotiv GT (70th)
Cheslav Neman
Patricia Kaas
Joachim Witt
Zemphira
Rammstein
Lacrimosa
ASP
Megaherz
Oomph

i'm sure i have missed some

Love: Forever Changes. It was said that they original master tapes are lost, so this can't be done unfortunately.

Forever Changes is in my top five list of wish mixes.

LizardKing said:

Most well known, and some obscure....

Gazpacho - Tick Tock
Gazpacho - Night
Talk Talk - The Spirit Of Eden
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Air - Moon Safari
Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)
Tool - 10,000 Days

I believe that makes a nice round 50

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LizardKing... you and I have a very similar taste in music! I see from your avatar that you are a Porcupine Tree fan. I am too... SMS stands for Sky Moves Sideways.

Anyhow... Here are a few that are on my wish list:

Devin Townsend - Ki
Devin Townsend - Ghost
Kevin Gilbert - Thud
The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight
White Willow - (anything!)
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Kate Bush - Ariel
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Marillion - Marbles
Porcupine Tree - Signify


That's all that's coming to mind right now...

quadsearcher said:

Forever Changes is in my top five list of wish mixes.

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Mine too, but yes, the multis appear to be gone for good, unfortunately.

For this post, I'll go with '60s albums that most likely still have existing multis:


Beatles: Revolver, Pepper, MMT, White, AR, and even (sigh) LIB.

Rolling Stones: AFTER-MATH (UK), BTB, TSMR, BB and LET IT BLEED.

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks. There is an upmix out there that suggests this would, indeed, be very fine in 5.1.

Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends.

Led Zeppelin: I or II. Mr. Jimmy surely has all of that stuff safely hidden away....

Jimi: AXIS and LADYLAND. Not AYE (either edition), which was not well recorded and its doubtful that, even if multis exist, much could be done to make it work that well.

The Velvet Underground: S/T, the 1969 album. Which would make a third mix, I guess. Neither VU&NICO or WL/WH would work in quad, let alone 5.1, IMO.

The Monkees: Headquarters. Some interesting quad-like mixes have surfaced, and thanks to that old 3-CD box set, we also know that multis exist for much of the album, and probably all of it. The others? Who knows what's in the vaults....

Jethro Tull: Stand Up.

Dylan: Highway 61.

The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers.

The Association: Greatest Hits. Since that album was a remix effort, safe to think the multis still exist.

The Who Sell Out. The only one of the early Lp's that would benefit from 5.1.

Fat Mattress: S/T. Underrated 1969 gem.

Traffic: Traffic. 1968, ditto.

There are others, to be sure, but these come to mind first.


ED

Moonflower- Santana
Aja-the dan- all of the dans work, especially katy lied
Sgt. Peppers-(B)
any jimi hendrix
Mothers of Invention
KINKS! any-all! (redone in stereo on sacd)
and the same with CCR, why in stereo only?

Hmmm, this could take a while....

Beatles - Abbey Road, Let it Be
Eagles - S/T, Desperado, The Long Run
Steve Miller - Book of Dreams
The Rocky Horror Picture Show OST
The Grass Roots - Leaving it all Behind, Move Along, Alotta Mileage, S/T '75 Album on Haven.
The Guess Who - So Long, Bannatyne, Live at the Paramount (which probably does exist),
Sly Stone - There's a Riot going On (also might actually exist)
Saturday Night Fever OST (yeah, a guilty pleasure)
CCR - Cosmo's Factory, Willy & The poor Boys
Van Morisson - Moondance
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Barry White - Can't Get Enough
James Gang - 16 Greatest Hits

I'll probably think of more.....

Q-Eight said:

Hmmm, this could take a while....
The Guess Who - Live at the Paramount (which probably does exist),

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Ahhh imagine.... One of my fave live albums. This would have been awesome in quad.