YouTube: Glen Campbell performing Paul Westerberg's "Sadly Beautiful"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddX3jVQV3U

From the "Meet Glen Campbell" album, released in 2008. The Replacements / Westerberg song was one of the best tracks on the album (Tom Petty's "Walls" is another).

The "Limited" Edition of the CD had remixes of five of his greatest hits:





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[gmoney]

1. Are the remixes any good?

my library has the regular edition... but I'm curious to hear the remixes. :/

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. It's been a while since I had copies of the originals...

...but the "Gentle On My Mind" remix, for example, has an amply booming bass, crisp acoustic guitar and banjo, and Glen's voice isn't buried or crowded. On "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," the bass may be a bit much and the strings, for my tastes, could be taken down just a notch. "Wichita Lineman" is probably my all-time favorite Campbell song (with "Gentle On My Mind" a close second), and as on the other tracks, the bass booms a bit (but not "rap music" booming) and the strings dance on the edge of being too loud, but overall it's even. "Galveston" sounds a bit flat to me...almost like it's mixed in mono...but once again, I don't have the original to compare it to. "Rhinestone Cowboy" is similar to the rest. It's obvious that they went for a greater prominence in the bass, which gets a bit distracting in places, as well as the strings.

On Amazon, about half of the reviewers trash the mix of the new songs. I'm not sure I agree with them, but then again, I listen to most of my music these days in the car, on my computer, or an my iPod, so I'm hardly an expert.

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[Orsino]

2. Lovely. Thanks! n/t