Forget reality, what is your dream multichannel release?

[mrcond]

Led Zeppelin - catalog, but especially the 4th album
Who’s Next
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Steely Dan - catalog but especially Aja (I know....)
Dire Straits - catalog but especially Love Over Gold and Making Movies

And then I second some others previously suggested:
Supertramp - Crime and Breakfast
Kansas - Leftoverture
Rush - Moving Pictures SW

And then just for fun, how about:
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell done right

 

[alansanchez86]

I have a few, Zeppelin's (anything from them), Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites, John Mayer - Continum, Daft Punk, Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory, Hans Zimmer scores, NIN, Tool

 

[Ninecats]

Many. But if I had to chose one act it would be:

THE CHURCH (especially mid 80s and onwards)

 

[kap'n krunch]

Good to have these kinds of threads once in a while..the older members know my main answer...
Any Cocteau Twins , especially the later albums...maybe someone will pull this off soon!

 

[François]

One that we can unfortunately only dream of: Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh

(the multitrack tapes were erased and reused after the mix was completed because the band didn’t pay for them)

 

[skherbeck]

Big Country's debut album... mixed by Steven Wilson, of course!

 

[mrcond]

Big Country's debut album... mixed by Steven Wilson, of course!

Given you avatar, how about Iron Maiden’s first 5-6 albums?

 

[skherbeck]

Given you avatar, how about Iron Maiden’s first 5-6 albums?

That, of course, would be amazing... but I was thinking of the dense layering of guitars and vocals on Big Country, and how cool of a surround mix could be made. It's also one of my favorite albums

 

[The Rang]

The Elton John titles that are supposedly done and in the can somewhere

 

[user 1679]

I'd echo a lot of the dreams here - Todd stuff 73-76, Cocteau Twins, K Bush...etc

A few others:
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He and Pawn Hearts especially
The Stranglers - The Raven (this is its 40th anniversary, shoulda, coulda done something for it!)
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends
The Cure - Disintegration, Pornography, Faith, Bloodflowers
Portishead

 

[CPR]

Probably the Rolling Stones catalogue. After hearing the EP SACD of Sympathy for the Devil in all of its configurations and hearing the tonal quality of the remix in all it's glory ... seriously folks .....if the Beatles can do it so can [elusive to surround]
ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY!

 

[SHB]

Yes Drama mixed by Steven Wilson

 

[MCDave]

Yes Drama mixed by Steven Wilson

Good call. I really like that one in spite of the absence of Jon Anderson.

 

[furui_suterioo]

Master of Reality in the same fashion as Paranoid with the trippy echoes effects

 

[DoctorO]

In my dreamscape, there's some Parliament/Funkadelic, Prince's 1999, the National's Sleep Well Beast, and earlier titles from The Pineapple Thief. And Dylan's Time Out of Mind. And a good Fela Kuti title.

I'll echo the wishes for Zeppelin and those atmospheric John Martyn albums, too.

 

[JonUrban]

All Things Must Pass - a surround mix would open up this great album that's a sonic mess at times
The Pretender - Jackson Browne (a release of the quad "Late for the Sky" would be a great alternative)
Desperado - Eagles 2nd album with an alleged quad mix in the can
Linda Ronstadt Very Best of - Some of these tunes are total classics
The Wall - of course
America - (First Album)
Aja -
Rust Never Sleeps (Studio, not live)

you know, old man shit!

 

[elroy]

All Things Must Pass - a surround mix would open up this great album that's a sonic mess at times
The Pretender - Jackson Browne (a release of the quad "Late for the Sky" would be a great alternative)
Desperado - Eagles 2nd album with an alleged quad mix in the can
Linda Ronstadt Very Best of - Some of these tunes are total classics
The Wall - of course
America - (First Album)
Aja -
Rust Never Sleeps (Studio, not live)

you know, old man shit!

Jon, did you see the new Linda Ronstadt documentary, "The Sound of My Voice"? It is very good - I think it will be on CNN after it finishes it's theatrical run.

For my dream items:

Crime of the Century - Supertramp
The Pretender (Browne) and "The Pretenders" (debut album)!
Lexicon of Love - ABC
High Violet - The National
Love Over Gold/Making Movies - Dire Straits, plus Knopfler's "Local Hero" soundtrack
Not sure how it would come out but "The Beach Boys Today!" would be a kick
Katy Lied - Steely
Born to Run - Bruuuuce

 

[jdmack]

Top 3:

Olias of Sunhillo - Jon Anderson
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Jesus Christ Superstar - original studios recording (which will never happen because I once read that the multis have deteriorated too much)

 

[Monkish]

There’s a lot of classic soul/R&B I’d die to have in 5.1:

Any 70s Stevie Wonder, but especially Songs In The Key Of Life.
Any classic-era Prince remixed by Steven Wilson (who is one of the world’s biggest Prince fans)
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! (some of the tracks are in quad on the Greatest Hits SACD, but *wow*, would I love an actual 5.1 mix of this — I was hoping maybe they’d do a Super Deluxe for the 50th anniversary this year, but no such luck)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Earth, Wind & Fire - I’d settle for the Greatest Hits albums in 5.1

Other assorted stuff:

Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Elliott Smith - XO and/or Figure Eight

 

[GOS]

Led Zeppelin ( I and II)
Black Sabbath (first 6 albums)
Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Bee Gees - anything


Just off the top of my head...