Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse [IMPORT] [Original recording remastered]

Lighthouse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 28, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B00000G5WO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,410 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One Really Bad Morning, July 23, 2006

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Bill Larkin (Lyndhurst, NJ, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse [IMPORT] (Audio CD)

The backcover touts "Digtally Remixed". Above it says "from the original tapes". The CD credits "re-mixing engineered by Frank Marrone and Robert Hanson". The CD goes on to credit "re-mixing produced by Paul Hoffert, Ralph Cole, Skip Prokop, and Bob McBride". They should all quit the recording business immediately and find other work.

If you are like me, you look for quality re-releases of older material. Since there are 16 tracks on this one, it caught my eye. Particularly for the 70's hit "One Fine Morning". I figured the existing releases currently available of that track were not that bad, but it could always be improved upon with today's technology.

Not by these guys. They have to be deaf. Or they let the wrong take get on the final CD. Or they were hung-over when they re-mixed "One Fine Morning". If they want to continue working in the recording industry, they should get the label to quickly re-call this disaster and get it right and then re-release it. It's that bad.

As someone else here already noted, the bass track sounds different than the original. But that, is the least of the problems. The string section sounds like it was in the parking lot. The electric piano solo sounds like it was in the next room. The cymbals have no high-end at all. The lead guitar solo sounds like it was recorded in a 55-gallon drum. The horns and the vocal come out on top (as they should) but when the rest is in the mud, it's horrible.

This is a real shame. Especially when you spend your hard-earned money only to find out that the one track you really wanted should be used as a prime example of how NOT to re-mix music. If "One Fine Morning" was want you wanted from this CD, save your money.

If the other 15 tracks is what you wanted, amazingly, they are ok.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BS&T Meets ELO, April 25, 2003

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Timothy D. SHELFER "TDS" (Arlington, Tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse [IMPORT] (Audio CD)

One of the many horn bands of the 70s, Lighthouse took a bit of a different spin from others. Along with a 5-piece rhythm section and 4 horns, they also added a string quartet. Think of Blood Sweat & Tears meets ELO. Add to that some really good singing - nice baritone voices singing 3 part harmony, and occasionally sounding a bit like Three Dog Night - and all that adds up to Lighthouse.

This CD includes most of their best stuff - great swaggering brass pieces like "One Fine Morning", "Silver Bird", and the travelling musician's lament, "Broken Guitar Blues." If you liked BS&T or the Ides of March, you'll probably like Lighthouse.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whoa, I'm the first reviewer!, March 20, 2002

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doug (North Bay, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse [IMPORT] (Audio CD)

I have had a double album "Lighthouse Live" since it was released in '72 and have loved it forever. It was recorded at Carnegie Hall in '72. This band was huge and had hits on both sides of the border. Americans who came to live in Canada to avoid that draft fell in love with this bunch. The music is rock with brass, I'm thinking Blood Sweat and Tears but better with more ooomph and every bit as good as Chicago. This cd is an excellent sample of the work they did.