<![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:19:38 EST Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:19:38 EST http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php#c829368 The Tropicalia and Tom Moulton compilations really are great. But then, basically everything I've got put out by that label is awesome. I've also got the Chicago Soul and Soul Gospel compilations. The latter contains the most crazy awesome Eleanor Rigby cover ever.

Soul Jazz deserves many slices of free cake for being awesome.

sparkletone

]]> 33:227737:c829368 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:19:38 EST <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php#c829207 "A Tom Moulton Mix" is the album I listened to most last year by a wide margin. I know at least one person who told me that putting it on at a small party led directly to everyone making out with each other, and I don't doubt it.

Penny Royalty

]]> 33:227737:c829207 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:38:07 EST <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php#c828869 I never know what to do with Reissues lists in year-end polls. Selfishly, I was happy P&J dropped it. And I was sorta stumped doing it for Jackin' Pop.

I buy at least a dozen old/reissued discs a year in addition to my steady diet of current stuff. (Sometimes several dozen.) But most of it is stuff I just happen to get obsessed with at a random moment - not the instant a label does a reissue. (For example, last spring I decided I needed to own some Harry Nilsson, which had been reissued by RCA years ago.)

In fact, I'll go one step further and say that the insidious thing about Reissues lists is that they separate the haves from the have-nots - the only way you're going to keep up with a year's worth of reissues is if you have a serious (preferably media-outlet-backed) music budget. I'm not, like, marching on the Idolator offices over this, but it is kind of a fact.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:227737:c828869 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:28:00 EST <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php#c828129 "A Tom Moulton Mix" was my No. 2 reissue and is without question one of the half-dozen best disco compilations I've ever heard. You really owe it to yourselves to hear the opening track, a remix of Eddie Kendricks's "Keep on Truckin'" that just obliterates everything in its path ("truckin'" metaphor somewhat deliberate).

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:227737:c828129 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:38:15 EST <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php#c828105 I actually thought Different Class was the weakest of all the Pulp reissues, in terms of quality bonus tracks.

Mike P.

]]> 33:227737:c828105 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:33:54 EST <![CDATA[Parsing The Pop: Giving Reissues Their Day On The Charts]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/parsing-the-pop/parsing-the-pop-giving-reissues-their-day-on-the-charts-227737.php#c827695 Thank the heavens for the Bit Torrent community.

Different Class was a solid re-issue as was This Is Hardcore. Although the re-master of Hardcore was bit over-compressed for my taste, the extra songs on disc two are awesome.

Pulp also put out a BBC Sessions disc in Europe last year that is killer. The We Love Life stuff is great live.

noamjamski

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