Eurythmics - Peace (Reis) (Dlx) (Dig)
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Artist: EurythmicsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Music Label: Legacy/Arista (US)/Sony BMG
Soundtracks:
- 17 Again
- I Saved The World Today
- Power To The Meek
- Beautiful Child
- Anything But Strong
- Peace Is Just A Word
- I've Tried Everything
- I Want It All
- My True Love
- Forever
- Lifted
- Beautiful Child (Acoustic Version)
- 17 Again (Acoustic Version)
- I Saved The World Today (Acoustic Version)
- Something In The Air
Music reviews of Peace (Reis) (Dlx) (Dig)
Music Review: 2005 Remaster Is Better Than Original 1999 Master! Yet, The Reissue Still Has Flaws...
Rating: 3 Stars
Many fans whined about the reissue and remaster of this 1999 Eurythmics reunion album because it had only been 6 years, at the time, since the album had been released. Was it really necessary to go back to the original master tapes and work a new master for 2005?! Will there really be much difference in sound?! What's the point?! Ugh!
Well, first of all, the audio quality on the 2005 remaster is, gasp, much better, in my opinion, than the 1999 original master. Strangely enough, both were mastered by the same mastering engineer -- that is, Ian Cooper at Metropolis Studios, London. Some editorial reviews claim that the releases were digitally remastered by Dave Stewart himself. This is not the case. He simply supervised the remastering process. While the 1999 original release is nothing to complain about this 2005 remaster simply shines above the original in terms of punch, sharpness, depth, clarity, and bass.
Take "I Saved The World Today" as an example. I did an A/B comparison between the 1999 release and the 2005 release and the instruments all sound sharper, cleaner, and louder. The stunning track sparkles with brightness! The 2005 remaster allows me to appreciate this gem even more.
Of course, that's only one track. All tracks have benefited from the remastering and sound more crisp than ever. The single, "17 Again', roars with it's bass, and rocker, "I Want It All", rocks louder than ever before! It has even more punch this time around, and the electric guitars have never sounded louder! "Forever" benefits from a cleaner production with not only minor instrumentation additions but also crisper drums and louder bass.
While many tracks may have benefited from added instrumentation and changes (i.e. "17 Again", "Peace Is Just A Word", "Forever", etc.), a couple have been totally re-worked. The lovely "I've Tried Everything" has a completely new arrangement with added drums, programming, and keyboards. I'm probably in the minority here, but I find this new mix just as good as the original mix. It sounds like a radio-friendly version of an otherwise non-single/album cut. I actually think this new version would have worked as a single over the original version. It's excellent! But, the problem is that we lose the original 1999 version in favor of this! This new version should have been placed as an exclusive bonus track, not in place of the original version! After all, the remastered disc clocks in at 63 minutes! Surely enough space exists!
"Power To The Meek" suffers from a strange edit in which Annie repeats the first verse again.
The 2005 remastered version repeats:
"I got my fingers stung
My fingers stung yea
I'm just a girl with my fingers stung
Bless these bones
Bless this skin
All of me and the mess I'm in
But I don't care
Don't know where I've been
But I'll get me there"
Instead of the original 1999 version which features:
"Power to the shine
In my worn out shoes yea
Power to me
Power to you
Yea bless this head
Bless this hair
Bless me to the dirt
In my fingernails yea
Bless this day
Bless this night
Give me something good
Make me feel alright"
Yes, we lose all that in place of a repeated verse! It is mixed totally different as well. The 2005 mix fades with a repeating chorus of "I'm alive..." The 1999 remaster fades with a repeat of the "bless these bones" verse. The 1999 version clocks in at 3:18, whereas the 2005 version clocks in at 3:32. Again, including this 2005 version would worked as a bonus track (there's still room!), just not in place of the original '99 cut!
"Peace Is Just A Word" fades with the strings overtaking the rest of the instrumentation, creating a totally different outro. Again, while it's not a totally different mix, it would have worked better as a bonus track so that the original versions were kept intact.
Included as bonus tracks are excellent acoustic versions of "Beautiful Child", "17 Again", and "I Saved The World Today", recorded live at The Church Studios, London. A mediocre cover version of "Something In The Air" is tacked on as well.
So, those are my major gripes when it comes to the new versions and mixes! Now on to the artwork...
Like the other 2005 remasters, the 'Peace' artwork suffers from the same layout, losing the original album artwork concept on not only the back cover but the spine as well! All remasters use the same font, colors, and generic white background on the back of the album! It doesn't work! While I understand the artwork will differentiate the remasters from the originals it was not necessary since these are presented in digipak not the jewel cases in which the original discs were presented. Therefore, in the case of 'Peace' the shot of the back of Dave Stewart's head is not even here! That completely ruins the original album concept with the back of Annie's head on the front and the back of Dave's head on the back! Dave's shot isn't even included anywhere in the inside booklet or artwork other than in a photo with Annie smiling next to him.
Now on to the inside artwork and booklet. Like the other 2005 remasters, they are striking! They were very well done! Included are a number of previously released and unreleased photographs from the era, including shots of Dave & Annie used for the single sleeves. If the orginal album concept was kept intact with these photos it would have been a nearly flawless overall artwork reissue concept. Unfortunately, it didn't work that way!
Instead of lyrics for the tracks (as included in the original 1999 release) we get an essay instead, which tends to include a few selections of lyrics here and there. Not good enough!
Perhaps the real problem here is that Dave and Annie wanted to put the album out again with differences in order to entice the fans who already owned the original. In that case, this release may have worked, yet the differences with the tracklisting should have been listed on the back sleeve at the very least. Nobody knows that he/she is getting different versions than the originals until actually popping the CD in the player!
I give this release 5 stars for the remastering, 1 star for the tracklisting, and 3 stars for the artwork and overall presentation. Nonetheless, I recommend adding this release to your collection if you wish to hear a number of the original recordings presented with slight to totally different arrangements in addition to superior sound.
Description of Peace (Reis) (Dlx) (Dig)
Japanese edition of the smash new wave duo's 1999 reunion album with 'Beautiful Child' (Live At The Church) added as a bonus track. 12 tunes in all, also including the single 'I Saved The World Today'. 1999 release.Peace, Eurythmics's first studio album in a decade, finds Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart proving the durability of their musical bond. Where their solo efforts were usually well crafted and unexciting, Peace makes clear how inspired the two can be when working together. The ballad (and first U.S. single) "17 Again" is nice if overly sentimental; the reprise of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" at the end treads Sting-like ground to little appreciable effect. But songs such as "I Saved the World Today" and "Beautiful Child" vividly return to the depth of Touch and Be Yourself Tonight while updating Eurythmics's chemistry for 1999. In short, Peace is a happy surprise that will find listeners hoping for more. --Rickey Wright
This edition has been digitally re-mastered from the original master tapes by Eurythmics mastermind Dave Stewart, with input from collaborator Annie Lennox. In addition, there are four bonus tracks: a mixture of b-sides, remixes and previously unreleased material (notably a cover of Phil Collins' "Something in the Air Tonight"). The packaging is a six-panel digipack redesign orchestrated by Laurence Stevens Design, the firm who art-directed all the original releases, while the thick booklets contain rare photos and insightful, new sleeve notes.
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