The Fall debut, studio album (despite the title). Upped from 7 (B+) upon multiple additional listens. The only remastered CD version is the two-disc "deluxe" edition -- which is absolutely swamped in crappy, worthless extra tracks, in my opinion. I listened to the extra tracks only once to make this determination. Terrible. (Well, there is a three-disc Cherry Red issue from 2019, which has the same tracks, but has the original album on its own disc, which is good. This pushes it out to three discs.)
The only other remaster is the vinyl reissue on Cherry Red from 2024. For some reason, this sells for a high price. Why didn't they also issue this remaster on CD? No doubt because it would cannibalize sales of the dumbass three-disc version.
As far as unremastered CDs, there is the original one on IRS from 1989, which is a first-generation CD transfer, and then the 1997 Cog Sinister vinyl drops, which reportedly even have skips on them. Cog Sinister did a 2002 reissue, sourced from the original masters this time, with three nice bonus tracks, but this is impossible to find. In the end, I found a VG copy of the original IRS CD issue for a tolerable price, and just went for that. Way too much agonizing over this, but the Fall catalog is a hellacious mess.
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