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I have the following FZ EMI CDs:<br><br>Sheik Yerbouti<br>You Are What You Is<br>Tinsel Town Rebellion<br>Them or Us<br>The Perfect Stranger<br>FZ Meets the Mothers of Prevention/Jazz from Hell<br>Does Humor Belong in Music?<br><br>For those of you who listened these CDs in their EMI and their Ryko versions, what differences did you notice? I'm not talking about the covers ([Does Humor Belong in Music? has a horrendous cover) but about the music.<br><br>On Sheik Yerbouti, one tune is longer on the EMI. Don't ask me why.<br>

The EMI Shiek Yerbouti is superior to the Ryko one.  Same could have been said for You Are What You Is before it was remastered again in 1998.

I'm hearing the Japanese Ryko CD (1995) of You Are What You Is for the first time, it's new for me as I only the knew the EMI so far. The first difference: the track markers are much better than on the EMI (they're completely non sense on the EMI!).

Doh. I didn't even know Joe's Garage is available on a EMI ceedee I'd like to have it!

whats a track marker ? <br><br>mungo

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[quote author=dallas alice link=board=albums;num=1061083524;start=0#5 date=11/11/03 at 13:25:35]whats a track marker ? <br><br>mungo[/quote]<br>a track marker  is the guy who paints the white lines on council run sports grounds

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... is 'track indexing' more appropriate?

[quote author=TAFKASOWTP link=board=albums;num=1061083524;start=0#8 date=11/17/03 at 18:40:16]<br>It's from EMI with the Barking Pumpkin logo on the back, CDS 7 90087 2<br>[/quote]<br>It must be pretty rare.  Damn. Another CD I'll have to hunt down

i just picked up the emi thing-fish cd, sounds very close to the original lp & much better than the tape i've been listening to all these years

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[quote author=slime.oofytv.set link=board=albums;num=1061083524;start=0#10 date=11/17/03 at 20:21:29]i just picked up the emi thing-fish cd, sounds very close to the original lp & much better than the tape i've been listening to all these years[/quote]<br>Damn again. Yet another one. It'll never stop <br>

I also have every EMI titles there is. And of cores every single album on CD, around 100 cd´s total. ;D

[quote author=Thing-Fish24 link=board=albums;num=1061083524;start=15#16 date=02/15/04 at 18:43:00]Well ... thanks for the 'Happy Birthday' there, IB.  ;D<br><br>I still think the EMI CDs are rip-offs, but that's only my opinion. I don't expect anyone to agree with me. [/quote]<br><br>Anyone who compares the EMI and Ryko versions of Sheik Yerbouti side-by-side and still prefers the Ryko CD needs to have his fucking ears checked!

I bought all the original EMI Zappa CD's when they were first released. It was all you could get here in the UK for a while so you took what you could!!!!  <br><br>One of these EMI CD's I have is "Joe's Garage" and it has a curious error on Disc 1. When the Central Scrutinizer tells us that Joe was given a do-nut and told to stick closer to "church orientated social activities" it actually repeats the dialogue!!! So, it goes like this "church orientated social activities...social activities".<br><br>Also, the booklet for this is very dull - all the pictures & diagrams have been cut away quite badly and are in black & white!!!

[quote author=Thing-Fish24 link=board=albums;num=1061083524;start=15#19 date=02/16/04 at 19:42:30]<br><br>I have never heard the EMI or vinyl editions of Sheik Yerbouti, but the Ryko edition sounds fine to me. I don't hear any reverb or compression (and I have excellent hearing. I can usually spot these kinds of things. I noticed that the sound of Zappa's You Are What You Is remix was horrible even before I heard the vinyl mix!).[/quote]<br><br>That's cool.  However, if you were to hear the EMI CD or the LP, the difference would blow you away.<br>

Also, another thing about the EMI Sheik Yerbouti CD is you get to hear Terry Bozzio giggle and say "Did you just record that?" at the end of I'm So Cute.

[quote author=Basket Case link=board=albums;num=1061083524;start=15#21 date=02/17/04 at 14:37:59]Also, another thing about the EMI Sheik Yerbouti CD is you get to hear Terry Bozzio giggle and say "Did you just record that?" at the end of I'm So Cute.[/quote]<br><br>Plus, Bozzio's drums sound kickass on the EMI CD!  The EMI CD has so much detail in the drums and percussion that's muddied up on the Ryko CD.

Now I have a question about the EMI CDs.

Since these CDs were made to be put in LP format, do the CDs need to be put through a Phono Preamp to get the original sound? Or were these not made with the Inverse RIAA Characteristics applied? I seem to remember reading somewhere that they were made against Zappa's will and he had already applied the RIAA curve to the recordings that were released on CD.

Thanks for any info ahead of time.