Quit Dreaming - your Xmas present sorted

Wow, what a great project. Well done.

I’ve ripped a portion of original 1980s Nelson vinyl, and I don’t always prefer it to a later digital option.

Double b-side 7-inches aren’t very dynamic, while other single and 12-tracks tracks are clearly more dynamic than “Two Fold,” etc. I’ve thought that “Quit Dreaming” sounded kind of shitty since I bought it upon release.

(I found the Acquitted By Mirrors fan-club CD anthology to be rather brutally re-EQed in places, so I’ll bet your rips are more satisfactory.)

I’m a big fan of the recent Red Noise multi-track remix. I have high hopes for a “Quit Dreaming” with more precision and air than any previous version.

Cherry Red seems diligent in their sourcing and mastering (not brick-walled), so this release’s take on all the b-sides/home-recordings/etc. could come straight from original tapes. (At least some of them, and I’d assume original vinyl would be the second choice source.)

Anyway, I love what you’ve done, and it will always be the most authentic document of what Bill Nelson sounded like in the pre-CD era.

I’ve been playing the singles/12-inches a lot lately, all the pops on my copies long-ago memorized. I recently bought a pristine copy of the “Scala” 12-inch, and I’ve cranked that numerous times!

Oh, I do love lists like this. Looks very thorough to me! Thank you!

That track is on "Transcorder," as it was part of an Acquitted By Mirrors" EP

A wise reply, boswell, but doesn't this then raise the question instead of why 'The World and his Wife' and 'Dancing Music' are included? Not a complaint at all as they are both songs I'm very fond of, so they should get all the chance to be heard that is available.

Kalamazoo Kid's thread about all these pre-1985 recordings [ https://www.billnelson.com/forum/william-s-world/non-lp-tracks-circa-red-noise-chimera ] is well worth reading again at this point.

When someone puts together a box-set edition of The Love That Whirls, I hope they will take TheKKid's list very seriously, if only to avoid loose ends.

I was rather hoping we’d get both “Chimera” and “Savage Gestures” in the “Love That Whirls” box. Yes, “Chimera” is a little later, but it “fits” with these. I’d also hope it includes the “Acceleration” 12” like the Mercury CD does.

I know, I know, hoping for tracks on a hypothetical box set when there’s an actual box set coming in December…