Title: WEALTH OF MATERIAL OVERSHADOWED BY LONG-OBSOLETED MASTERING
Product review: This compilation, first mastered and issued in 1990, has long since been supplanted by several superior remastered compilations.The best audio is resident on the 2005Essential Collection. The same audio is also on the now-OOP 2002Classic MastersCD.Essential has 15 tracks to Classic's 12, but Classic has the 6 minute version of "Total Control" (a great early track), where Essential carries the shorter single edit.There are six tracks on "No Vacancy" that do not appear on these two recent compilations (8, 9, 13, 15, 16 & 17).Both of these compilations also have superior mastering to the 1999 "All For One" Expanded Edition.So, while No Vacancy has more material than the more recent compilations, the sound quality of the newer discs is much more enjoyable.
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