Four Year Strong Re-Record ‘Enemy of the World’

With peace and love to these guys, Enemy of the World (Taylor’s Version) just doesn’t sound anywhere close to as good as the original.

 

Why is re-recording it a necessary factor for repressing the vinyl? Is their previous record just sitting on the rights?

 

Ah I think this sounds way heavier than the original. I like it!

 

Supposedly yes

 

Universal/MoTown likely still owns the rights to the original production and has zero incentive to spend the money on a pressing of a 12 year old album that wouldn't be fully marketed by the band itself. By rerecording the songs, they now have a new master and can reproduce it as they like.

Personally, I'm all for a band making money off of a seminal album they released x years ago but now with a new spin - and get a greater return on it too. I guess I think of these project like a kind of like a live album.

 

The re-recording process sounds interesting in theory and miserable in practice if you're going for something as close as possible

 

I still think the original holds up and is better than this, but it’s worth it for the vinyl and finally getting “Listen! Do You Smell Something” on Spotify.

I would have preferred they re-record RODT because it sounds the furthest from their current sound.

 

pretty sure i saw a couple new pressings of the OG show up during this roll out of the rerecording.

 

Yeah Hassle Records who handled the release of the original in the UK/Europe were going to re-press it without the bands knowledge

 

It's hard to retrain the ear for something I've listened to constantly over the last decade. Reeeeally wish they'd do RODT because it just sounds so weak and thin compared to everything else. I rarely go back to it

 

How are they going to do the keys on this record? Aren't they a 4-piece these days? (And have been for a while)?

 

Rise or die trying is so awesome.

 

they've just shuffled things around so a lot of their keyboard parts are played on guitar

 

Is this Josh Lyford erasure?

 

80% of the history of this band has been Josh Lyford erasure

(not commenting on whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a factually true statement lol)

 

A lot of negativity in this thread, it sounds great and heavier and the guitars sound much better and you can hear the subtleties Alan and Dan play. Taylor Swift had to do the same thing with some of her albums so lay off. This album rips harder I think k. Also the 10 year repressing of RODT def worked out some of the sound mixing for sure.

 

I actually prefer when re-recordings stay close to the original, i get so used to the originals that when i hear a re-recording that differs it just doesn't sound... right

 

or backtracked, that's how they did some of the parts on the RODT 10 yr annv tour, as well as guitar as cosmic kid said.