Uh... I've been listening to this and absolution a lot lately so enjoy. I honestly haven't given this version of the album a listen through, because the people I got the album from are liars, but it's the newer remixed version. Also got this one from YouTube and not my own music library, so let me know how the audio quality is.
Absolution is probably my favorite album of theirs, but Origin of Symmetry is a very close second. They're both great albums. The Small Print is my favorite deep cut, and Plug in Baby is always great.
ewwwww what did they do to the little clean guitar part in citizen erased? it had a bunch of reverb slapped on it
damn they really did kinda butcher citizen erased, i liked that lofi clean guitar a lot
Some of the mixing decisions are horrible, but I also like some of them. My opinions are very mixed on the remix, they gave and they took.
My honest take is that I like the original better
I'll probably still listen to the original most of the time too, I like dynamics and the effects of the loudness war are felt with this mix. Do like certain things about the remix though, like the audible backing vocals on hyper music.
Absolution is great, idk exactly where the two rank for me but they are a very close top 2.