Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick Stereo/5.1 remix will be reissued in October 2022

[originalsnuffy]

Are there any efforts underway to make the 5.1 and 4.0 mixes available as downloads as uncompressed FLAC files? I would be up for downloading both Aqualung and TAAB in that format. Mike Oldfield did that once for Tubular Bells so there is some precedent for this kind of approach. Yes, DTS 2496 is pretty good but sometimes you just want the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

 

[JulesRules]

Amazon.de still says December 12 for me...

 

[Progatron]

Amazon Canada has changed it from December 31st to December 2nd.

 

[madscot]

Amazon Canada has changed it from December 31st to December 2nd.

It’s December the 2nd for everybody except those pesky Americans, who have to wait until January for some reason!

 

[rugene]

It's ridiculous those release dates that keep changing every day. But here I can only think that some technical issue with the pressing of this product can explain why it has been pushed back to the end of the year.

 

[fredblue]

It's ridiculous those release dates that keep changing every day. But here I can only think that some technical issue with the pressing of this product can explain why it has been pushed back to the end of the year.

pretty sure it'll be vinyl related, delays in pressing LPs have held up various corresponding boxsets lately

 

[rugene]

pretty sure it'll be vinyl related, delays in pressing LPs have held up various corresponding boxsets lately

Well, I am waiting for the cd-DVD edition, so send me those and keep the lp on hold...

 

[fredblue]

Are there any efforts underway to make the 5.1 and 4.0 mixes available as downloads as uncompressed FLAC files? I would be up for downloading both Aqualung and TAAB in that format. Mike Oldfield did that once for Tubular Bells so there is some precedent for this kind of approach. Yes, DTS 2496 is pretty good but sometimes you just want the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

i'd love that but i can't see it happening anytime soon.

tbh i'd be surprised if Steven Wilson's not been commissioned to do some Atmos mixes of Classic Jethro Tull material already.

 

[fredblue]

Well, I am waiting for the cd-DVD edition, so send me those and keep the lp on hold...

i agree with you, however the labels seemingly now prefer to issue these kinds of multi-format releases across various formats and configurations simultaneously.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

It's ridiculous those release dates that keep changing every day. But here I can only think that some technical issue with the pressing of this product can explain why it has been pushed back to the end of the year.

pretty sure it'll be vinyl related, delays in pressing LPs have held up various corresponding boxsets lately

Well, I am waiting for the cd-DVD edition, so send me those and keep the lp on hold...

i agree with you, however the labels seemingly now prefer to issue these kinds of multi-format releases across various formats and configurations simultaneously.

Let the record show the 50th Anniversary LPs were pressed and shipped in June.
Nothing to do with delays of the 40th Anniversary re-issue Special Edition, which is still "cheap as chips."

Perhaps unanticipated overwhelming demand overloaded manufacturing capacity?
Or the despised Mew masterings slipped in, so the first run had to be buried in a landfill and re-pressed?

 

[fredblue]

Let the record show the 50th Anniversary LPs were pressed and shipped in June.
Nothing to do with delays of the 40th Anniversary re-issue Special Edition, which is still "cheap as chips."

Perhaps unanticipated overwhelming demand overloaded manufacturing capacity?
Or the despised Mew masterings slipped in, so the first run had to be buried in a landfill and re-pressed?

OHMYGAWD..!!
maybe somebody forgot to email the order to the DVD factory..

 

[DuncanS]

OHMYGAWD..!!
maybe somebody forgot to email the order to the DVD factory..

Fat Thin finger issue.......... they ordered 1 not 1,000,000

 

[JohnN]

OHMYGAWD..!!
maybe somebody forgot to email the order to the DVD factory..

I have names.

 

[stoopid]

With most releases since the start of the pandemic I've been following a "buy it and when it arrives, it arrives" mentality. Stressing over things out of everyone's control is wasted effort,

 

[The56Kid]

Weird. I can’t see the Thick As A Brick 50th Anniversary CD/DVD package available at all from Amazon USA or ImportCD. Help!

 

[madscot]

Weird. I can’t see the Thick As A Brick 50th Anniversary CD/DVD package available at all from Amazon USA or ImportCD. Help!

It could be because it’s the 40th anniversary package being reissued

 

[privateuniverse]

Weird. I can’t see the Thick As A Brick 50th Anniversary CD/DVD package available at all from Amazon USA or ImportCD. Help!

Import CDs: $20.43
Amazon: $24.98
Deep Discount: $18.99
Bull Moose: $22.98

YMMV on total cost once sales tax & shipping are factored in.

 

[JohnN]

It could be because it’s the 40th anniversary package being reissued

I would agree to call it TAAB revised 40th. (No Peter Mew mastered remix stereo and fixed 5.1 together for the first time.)
Cheers

 

[madscot]

Import CDs: $20.43
Amazon: $24.98
Deep Discount: $18.99
Bull Moose: $22.98

YMMV on total cost once sales tax & shipping are factored in.

That is cheap as chips, my copy is costing me £34 plus p&p

 

[The56Kid]

Import CDs: $20.43
Amazon: $24.98
Deep Discount: $18.99
Bull Moose: $22.98

YMMV on total cost once sales tax & shipping are factored in.

Much appreciated!