Great Idea

[stoney]

I just read this in Yahoo and I think it is a great idea, like the directors cut in videos an artist mix in cd's.

What do you think?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070710/...2RJpOk1c8E1vAI

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Would one expect anything less than a double album from the Cure on the occasion of its 13th studio release?

"Rather than cut it down, at the stage we're at with the band, I'm making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result," frontman Robert Smith told Billboard of the as-yet-untitled effort, due in October via Suretone/Geffen. "It isn't a commercial concern for me."

"What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me," he said. "A single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing. There's a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I've agreed to sell the double version at a single-album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays. I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections, but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns."

[Lightning]

yay! New Cure music!

I wish there were more artist-mixed albums out there. I always wonder how close what I'm hearing is to what the band actually sounded like or what their intent was.