Dunedin misses out on a whole lot more than just concerts, Six! They may as well re-name this backward backwater Sleepy Hollow.

Living in Perth isn't THAT bad... at least in my opinion anyway...
Anyway, back to Luton, does the version of Abu Dhabi end with a fade like the original Frenzy, the extended ending on the remix or something completely different altogether?

Hi Everybody


I'm sorry to rub it in for those who haven't got their copy yet but mine arrived in the Uk yesterday 20th and what a delight to finally hear Luton all together

I just want to say that I've been listening to disc 1 today whilst driving around making me smile alot.

I'd just like to say a very big thanks to the Enz for not only producing this great music but for allowing it's release, in a 2 Cd form for the FOTE, for all Eddies work and not forgetting Peter's quiet determination to make Luton happen. Not Forgeting Mark's work in sending them out!! Love the packaging and the recollections of them all about Luton.

Fantastic!!

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But who is the vocalist - Tim or Nigel?

My money's still on Tim.

My mula's on manic Tim. It's never sounded like anyone else.

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My mula's on manic Tim. It's never sounded like anyone else.

Sorry, it's never sounded like Tim to me at all.

Care to take this outside, Joe? *hold up fist*

I too think it's Tim

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Care to take this outside, Joe? *hold up fist*

Yeah? YEAH? You and who's army boyo?
BTW My mother wears army boots

Got mine today (many thanks Peter and Mark!).



But I'm not going to get into an argument about vocals with Camus' mother .

I received my copy today (in the Netherlands). What an amazing gift it is! New songs from one of the best periods of the Enz.

Oh, and Livin' it up is definitely song by Tim.

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Oh, and Livin' it up is definitely song by Tim.

Definitely Tim, yeah. Can you imagine Nigel singing so manically???

Exactly what I was trying to write however many posts ago. Nigel's voice is pleasant, but not remarkable. I don't know that he's got te vocal power, even in the manic state like the song, to sing like that.

Just got my fan club copy today. Think it is great. I think I should first thank Tim,Noel,Eddie,Mal,Neil and Nigel for recording these great tunes in the first place. I should then thank Eddie and Adrian for remixing and remastering all the tunes. Then I shuold thank Mushroom Records and Peter Green for this record coming out at all. Miss Haps and Carried Away are great.

Got mine today, it's bloody awesome, will give review soon when I've had time to digest it!
So far, I just love Neil's guitar sounds and Eddie's keyboards on what I've heard so far.

P.S. Carried Away sounds a little different comapred to the version last year's Frenzy remaster, Semi-Detached sounds the same.

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P.S. Carried Away sounds a little different comapred to the version last year's Frenzy remaster, Semi-Detached sounds the same.

It's been remixed (again). AFAIK the A&M Frenzy mix of Carried Away is different to the B-side version, I'm not sure if the 2006 Frenzy version is another remix as well.

Semi Detached is the original mix (the multitrack for Semi Detached is missing).

The B-side mix of 'Carried Away' has a great deal of echo/reverb added to Neil's vocals towards the end of the song. All subsequent mixes have non-distorted vocals.

I must say I miss the synthesiser 'squawks' on this new mix of 'Holy Smoke'...

Maybe the synth 'squawks' were removed to make the song more 'countryish', I haven't heard the original, but the remix does sound very country-inspired, and synth squawks are not a very prominent (if at ALL prominent) in country and country-rock

YES!!!! it came in the mail today!!! this will be my soundtrack to schoolies week, loving it already, can't wait to blast it full ball out of a stereo somewhere

Got mine today. Woohoo!

Well, I love it. I've listened to the whole thing twice already, and all these songs I hadn't heard yet are fantastic.

I love all the just off-kilter guitars, or synth lines, or harmonies. In fact, some of the synth parts (like on "Message Boy" or "Straight Talk") sound Krautrock. And a ton of great bass lines, too.

"Miss Haps," "Home Comforts," "Animal Lover" Wonderfully quirky, very new wave — like what XTC did at the time, that kind of new wave. They're among the best on the set.

"Carried Away" Not too different than the version added to Frenzy: this one brings the synths up in the mix, particularly around the second chorus. The outro is just a little longer, too. And the vocal lacks the reverb that seems to be on all the original mixes.

"Semi-Detached" Not really different, but I noticed something odd. The part where the tape dropout would be has been masked by an edit from the next part of the solo — you hear Tim chanting "burn, burn, burn, burn" twice, so three times during the solo in all. Even more odd is the fact that the version on the Frenzy remaster doesn't have the tape dropout, or the edit . . . but it does have this odd squeaking noise in the first three seconds, which can't be heard here. So different tapes must have been used for Frenzy and for Luton. It sounds weird this way, so I think I'll keep the Frenzy version.

"Holy Smoke" The synths have been cut back, which is a bit of a shame, the vocals ("ooh, holy, ooh, holy, ooh, holy, holy, holy . . .") at the end are pushed back, and if Neil was singing along with that, he now isn't (I've only got an crackly, somewhat faint needledrop to go by). But this makes way for extra lyrics at the end!

"Message Boy" Lots of energy. Great.

"Hypnotized" Real '50s feel to it (skiffle, maybe?), going to a shoutalong outro like "Another Great Divide." I never heard the originals of these, so I can't comment there.

"Late in Rome" Very beautiful, even if Neil singing "dancer" with a long "a" sounds awkward.

"Straight Talk" Back to quirky. I could imagine this becoming something like "Nice to Know," given time in the studio, but at the risk of making it more normal.

"Hollow Victory" Veers from melancholy to menacing — like a more pop-conscious, concise, smoothed out "Stranger than Fiction," perhaps.

"Evelyn" Poppy, sounds kind of like "Holy Smoke," actually. I don't mind.

"Best Friend" Charging and manic.

"Creature Comforts" A quite beautiful song, which seems fully-formed, and thus odd that it would never have been mixed before now.

"Remember When" Been a while since I heard Rear Enz, so I'd forgotten how beautiful this song is. Probably the definitive version.

"Hermit McDermitt" We now get a longer outro as opposed to the Spellbound version, and no tape dropouts this time. It's still my favorite version — it just gets so much more unhinged. Although the Frenzy remix did make the competition closer than it used to be.

"Betty" Not that different from the Frenzy version, but for the longer outro, which comes off as very early-'70s-hard rock to me. Not that it's bad, though. The original mix from Frenzy is still my favorite, though — just has that haunting, echoey sheen to it.

"I See Red" I think this goes faster than the original. Though the guitar isn't quite as biting as the Startling version, the energy is great. I think I might like this more!

"Mind Over Matter" I finally deciphered the second line in the chorus: "Break my heart — it won't hurt." Reason enough for this to exist. Sounds a little slower than the Frenzy version, though.

"Next Exit" Darker, and and more piano-driven, than the single version. While I actually like that, this one's better. Solid beat here.

"So This is Love" Reminds me of Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky." Pretty, and sits well here. There are a couple of tape dropouts, but otherwise this sounds very CD-friendly.

"Abu Dhabi" No vocals, again. This actually sounds like a demo — most of the musical ideas pop up, though it doesn't flow so smoothly at first.

"Famous People" This sounds a bit slow, ; I think the remixed Frenzy is the best one. Still, more lyrics.

"I'm So Up As others have said, could have been a Swingers song; but it works well here — love the synth line.

"Marooned" Not very different to the Frenzy version, but there's something about this one makes me like it more. And more bonus lyrics!

"Livin' It Up" It's nuts. I love it. (And I think it's Tim, too.)

"Frenzy" Another work in progress, but one near completion. The goin' round the bend is more crazed here, as you might expect, which is a plus.

So, fantastic set. Thanks so much to Enz and the Frenz for putting it together.