Roxy Music - Avalon (SDE Blu-Ray #36, May 9th, 2025)

[privateuniverse]

Just curious since I don't have a wed access streaming Dolby Atmos set up, did Tony Visconti, David Bowie's producer, ever do a surround mix for Aladdin Sane or any other Bowie albums beside the Ziggy album. I just have an old 5.1 of Young Americans.

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There is a surround mix of Station to Station . It is awful. (Visconti didn't do it). Visconti did do surround mixes of David Live, Stage, Heathen and Reality. All released on SACD or DVD-A. Space Oddity is also streaming in Atmos.

 

[JulesRules]

That makes sense. Yes - 90125 it is then!

Right at the time of a Close to the Edge reissue? Doubtful.

 

[@gpoly]

The Atmos version of "Introducing the Hardline According to" by Terence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya never got a physical version and was released July 1987 (still Mid 80's?). The original album sold 8 million copies and I was puzzled when they released the Atmos version that it never got a physical release.

 

[Willie Wilson]

The Atmos version of "Introducing the Hardline According to" by Terence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya never got a physical version and was released July 1987 (still Mid 80's?). The original album sold 8 million copies and I was puzzled when they released the Atmos version that it never got a physical release.

I would love to have the physical disc in surround! Such a great record.

 

[kenm]

There is a surround mix of Station to Station . It is awful. (Visconti didn't do it). Visconti did do surround mixes of David Live, Stage, Heathen and Reality. All released on SACD or DVD-A. Space Oddity is also streaming in Atmos.

Thanks.

 

[dobyblue]

Introducing is the only TTD album I enjoy from start to finish, plenty of layering there for an Atmos mix - I would even be excited to hear the a cappella track.

 

[Victor Bisio]

I've ordered the bundle with the mystery #37, but I'm not as optimistic as some! I'm thinking that, if it was a really good album that we all wanted, then SDE would surely have announced what #37 was in order to increase their sales. The fact that it's not announced makes me think that it will be an album that wouldn't necessarily sell well by itself. But here's hoping, its only money!

...or you can cancel.

 

[colsky]

...or you can cancel.

I know, no-ones forcing me to buy the bundle, except for my own weakness and needs!

 

[splinter7]

I am going to guess the mystery title is:
Paul Young
The Secret of Association
1985

released in the mid-80s
Paul obviously thinks whatever the mystery title is will pair well with Avalon
Both albums share a sophisticated, polished sound
Both singers have a cultivated, suave, well-dressed persona during the period
The most popular songs on both releases share a theme regarding love and longing
Paul has been involved in curating and overseeing expanded editions of Young’s work, including deluxe reissues of albums along with interviewing Young multiple times for SDE, and of course having released No Parlez as an exclusive Blu-ray with Atmos

 

[Werno]

I had to look him up, I still have no idea who he is.

John Martyn was a Scottish singer-songwriter-guitarist who came up about the same time, and with the same Joe Boyd management, as Fairport Convention, the Incredible String Band, and Nick Drake, with whom he formed an odd-couple friendship. John passed away a few years back. Early albums with Danny Thompson on bass are classics, more 'produced' later work is (IMHO) sometimes a mixed bag but I too love 'Grace and Danger'. My idea of a good intro/overview would be 'No Little Boy', kind of a greatest hits re-recorded with all-star friends like Phil Collins, Levon Helm, Peter Erskine, David Gilmore... Here's a YouTube playlist of NLB (with a couple non-Martyn songs for some reason). I'd buy an atmos remix in a heartbeat. He's a vibe. John Martyn-No Little Boy

 

[DuncanS]

John Martyn was a Scottish singer-songwriter-guitarist who came up about the same time, and with the same Joe Boyd management, as Fairport Convention, the Incredible String Band, and Nick Drake, with whom he formed an odd-couple friendship. John passed away a few years back. Early albums with Danny Thompson on bass are classics, more 'produced' later work is (IMHO) sometimes a mixed bag but I too love 'Grace and Danger'. My idea of a good intro/overview would be 'No Little Boy', kind of a greatest hits re-recorded with all-star friends like Phil Collins, Levon Helm, Peter Erskine, David Gilmore... Here's a YouTube playlist of NLB (with a couple non-Martyn songs for some reason). I'd buy an atmos remix in a heartbeat. He's a vibe. John Martyn-No Little Boy

Only managed to see him a few times, missed him at one of his last gigs at Fairport's Cropredy Festival as my sister got married on the same day so I daren't couldn't go!

1973's ethereal "Solid Air" & the earlier 1971 "Bless The Weather" (which is much more acoustic & folkier) are still some of my favourite albums.

 

[lovecraft]

Another vote for Solid Air, definitely his masterpiece.

 

[DuncanS]

Another vote for Solid Air, definitely his masterpiece.

And I believe he was born in Glasgow, also my father's home town!

 

[fetchmybeer]

They did just release two Simple Minds titles, but didn't release Once Upon A Time, which was released in 1985.