[soulsinging]

FC is definitely the worst. Might have been their best album except for the fact it sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom stall (was Johnny using wet spaghetti instead of drumsticks?). IMO, WC and WATS have been a step in a different direction. Not as easy to pick out Paul, Rob, Gord and Johnny as there's so much else going on (strings, etc.).

Don't mean to have my first post ever in this place be kind of a bummer, but this is exactly the subject I joined up to ask about. I've been a huge Hip fan for over 10 years (even got most of my hs friends into them) and love their whole catalogue. However, FC sounds so bad it's ridiculous. Up to Here and Road Apples both are on the quiet side, but that's to be expected with an older album and even then they're not as bad as FC. I'm aware of the whole loudness wars/compression issue for listening on ipods, but even jumping from one of those early albums to FC the difference is astounding.

So I was wondering if any Hip albums have been remastered? I think the early ones I got on amazon say "original recording remastered", but I never heard anything about that and it does not apply to FC... the album that needs it most! The songs are among the strongest they've ever put together, and they sound phenomenal on Yer Favourites, but the album is such an underwhelming listen because of the weak production.