Radiant Sea performance origins, When and Where the live tracks and two new songs came from Options

[AgentK7]

I was hoping this thread could pull the forum's vast Live live knowledge together to track down where the live tracks came from on Radiant Sea. I was kind of miffed that they didn't include that information on the CD packaging.

Anyway, I know track 8 "Nobody Knows" is the same live performance as found on the Birds Of Pray DVD recorded on May 18, 2002 at PinkPop, Landgraaf, The Netherlands. (I know that's an easy one, but it's a start).

I know I could probably use Bootleg Heaven and figure out most of it myself, but I don't have enough free time to do that. I'm sure other members are also curious.

I'm hoping we can wrap this thread up by figuring out all the performances, maybe this information could then be added to the live discography, etc.

....and to discover the origins of the two new tracks.

This post has been edited by AgentK7: Sep 24 2007, 8:05 pm

[Alex]

Remember the thread (I forget who started it) that compared the recording style of V to a song off of Mental Jewelry? It also had a youtube link, about the way music is recorded now kills the quality. Could that kind of analysis be done again to compare Radiant Sea to a song that was on V?

This is simply not true. I went over it in the other thread, I think, but the way things are recorded now doesn't 'kill the quality'. Simply that mastering, since about the mid 90's, has become more and more about squashing all the dynamics out of the music, hence the loss of dynamic range. Digital recording however is better now than it has been before.

Anyway, I haven't got Radiant Sea, but I'm fairly confident that I'd be able to tell if was mixed/produced by the same people that did V. But then, depending on whether this was actually a track in consideration for the final tracklisting, the song may not have been mastered at the same time. And then there's the whole Radioactive thing...

To answer your question- no, that 'analysis' was faulty to begin with (the youtube link was compressing an already mastered file). I could go a lot more in depth but I won't...