The release gives fans an opportunity to own Nilsson's complete catalog on CD (they'll also need Spotlight on Nilsson, released during Harry's pre-RCA days on Tower), which is great.
What's not so great, is hearing that the new Flash Harry is a pretty shoddy affair. A person posting on the great Beatles'-focused 910 board reports:
I analyzed the recordings against a remastered needledrop, with bonus tracks, and guess what I found? This legit CD is a needledrop itself, with clicks and pops still audible on the fade-outs, and visible and audible FFT noise reduction. The indexing is poorly done. One of the tracks starts with a cowbell riff that has been chopped off at the head, picking up during the decay of its reverb. The pirate of this sounds a lot better.Disappointing news. Although my own feeling is that Nilsson really didn't record much of consequence after Pussy Cats, having this lost LP in print would've been nice. But now it sounds like fans who want the whole works in decent quality will need to wait until someone does a better job.
If that were not bad enough, I went to the bonus tracks, excited to hear them from the master tapes. But they sound like shit. So I compared them to the same material on "Secret Tracks" and "Flash Harry" on RMW, and the legit CD bonus tracks are sourced from 128 kbps mp3s found many years ago on the net, that are lossless on the RMW issues. I can tell they're the same because the DAT mistracking noises are in the same places.
I hope to post my review of the RCA box in the next week or so, stay tuned.
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