Idolator

Since the new edition is on RCA and the old one was on Capitol, I'd assume that the former recently took over the rights to the record and decided that making a big deal about re-releasing it was more advantageous than just quietly slipping it into the catalog.

I'm that guy... I bought it because my original copy was stolen along with my car a few years ago. Always intended to replace it, and the B-sides made now seem like a good time to do it.

Well, its certainly easier than trying to dig up a copy of the X-files Soundtrack if you want to hear their version of "Down in the Park." It blows away the Marilyn Manson version.

Jay, or you could just steal it using the power of the Internets.

While Dave Grohl is a fine, fine drummer and an immensely likable everyman rockstar, I can't imagine anyone needing much more than the self-titled debut (still by far the Foo's finest hour) and a handful of random singles.

Also, I've seen enough used copies of this album in cheap bins to think that this deluxe reissue makes about as much sense as an expanded reissue of the Woodstock 94 compilation.

Universal did release a two-disc anniversary edition of Weezer (Blue Album) a couple of years ago. This isn't totally unprecedented. I even bought it for my wife, who originally owned the Blue Album on cassette.

And I disagree with Thierry - Colour and the Shape is by far my most-played Foos album, to the extent I dial up Grohl & co. at all these days.

Despite all these caveats, I gotta say I mostly agree with Matos; this is kind of pointless, either for collectors or the label.

God, that's an ugly album cover.

I can only hope that we get a 10th anniversary reissue of Limp Bizkit's Three Dollar Bill, Yall$.

I recently read a review (in the local alt-weekly) touting what a masterpiece this record was, how the sound had been remastered for new clarity, etc.

Either the guy was a huge Foo fan, or was on deadline and was writing straight from a press release. But if records that are 10 years old need serious remastering, what does that say for today's music, which sounds shittier than ever? When GenXers hit retirement age, the audiophile industry is going to clean up.

Oh my gawd y'all, this makes me feel OLLLLLLLLD.

This album had "Everlong", making it by default the best thing the Foos ever did.

I think my favorite arbitrary double-disc reissue that I just couldn't pass up was Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend".

@Miss Tanya: Now think about the fact that a 2008 university freshman will never have known a world without Nirvana's Nevermind.

@fishnotfried: That's a great reissue! Girlfriend sounds as good today as the day it was released (those Quine and Lloyd leads are still awesome), and the second disc is uniformely good.

@Juancho: Every new record just gets louder & louder, more compressed & compressed, until, I predict, in 10 years time, all major label records will sound like a high quality Merzbow bootleg ca. 1997.

The Brits are still ahead of us in this double-disc nostalgia fest (Siouxsie & the Banshees, ABC, Pulp, the Jam, Julian Cope, etc.), and I clutch my 2-cd copy of Lloyd Cole & the Commotions' Rattlesnakes tightly enough to justify it's $40 price tag at least three times a week.

O christ no, not another non-essential reissue. Stop the fucking presses. I vaguely remember when music writers actually had something to say.

@riverrun: did you also have to walk uphill five miles each way in three feet of snow barefoot just to get to school?

Interestingly, I just a did (rather OCD) critical analysis of some of my albums, and found that The Colour and The Shape actually pales in comparison (at least in terms of overall consistency) to There Is Nothing Left To Lose. Truly, an underrated gem of shameless pop-rock.

yo, this album is amazing. doesnt need a reissue, but don't knock the foo.

@The Van Buren Boys: You're a sick person.

It's a Sony/BMG thing. Grohl said they were going to reissue the first 2 albums(I love the first album also), with bonus tracks, but I guess they went with the biggest seller. The bonus tracks "Down In The Park" and "Baker Street" were recorded during the time of the first album.

I'd buy this... if only for the fact that all I have of my original copy is the crushed jewel case MINUS the 'effing booklet. I do agree with Halfwit though that the best Foo album is "There Is Nothing Left To Lose." It just has better song-writing all around.