Wham! - Fantastic & Make It Big Atmos Blu-Ray Audios w/bonus tracks (SDE Surround Series #19 & #20) March 22, 2024 (Delayed until April 26)

[LennonCobain]

Make It Big is a definite buy thanks to the bonus track inclusion of Last Christmas.

 

[emili]

I cancelled my Paul Young preorder and ordered the "'80s bundle." Indeed $100 for me as well, not too bad.

The same here. Cancelled Paul Young and ordered it again with the two Whams.
I saved 13€

 

[gvl_guy]

I've always been a "pop tart," a phrase coined by the music director at a radio station that I programmed. (She claimed she was one, too.)
This is right up my alley and it's been ordered -- both.

You can keep the Gordon Lightfoots and Randy Newmans. THIS is what I live for. (I did buy the Gordon, but I just couldn't do Randy. Gordon had two pop hits off that album. Randy did not.)

 

[artwwweb]

I cancelled my Paul Young preorder and ordered the "'80s bundle." Indeed $100 for me as well, not too bad.

I can't see an option to cancel my pre-order. How do you cancel?

 

[4-earredwonder]

If this was Faith and Older, I'd be all over it.

Hopefully, Jonathan, if these two WHAM BD~As sell well, that just might be an option down the road. FAITH, IMO, is outstanding and would sound glorious in ATMOS as would OLDER!

 

[Dynamic Editor]

If anyone wants to state how these mixes sound in Atmos (they are apparently available on a few streaming services rn), that would be really helpful!

 

[GabeL]

While I don't plan to order these two releases, simply not my cup of tea I'm very excited by the fact that Paul has already managed three releases and the first quarter of the year isn't even over....and it gives me some amount of hope that there might be forthcoming George Michael solo albums in Atmos?? (bring on Faith and Listen Without Prejudice, please).

 

[4-earredwonder]

Am currently spinning SONY's exceptional HD K2 remaster of WHAM THE FINAL ...feel like a teenybopper all over again! Am looking forward to these two BD~A ATMOS reissues

 

[Uncle Obscure]

Took the plunge on the bundle. I had Make It Big decades ago, so I know that album, however I don't think I've ever heard Fantastic. So, this is kind of a 50/50 blind buy for me. I hope the Atmos mixes are good.

 

[ar surround]

No streaming option for this to satisfy that need?

If you have seen any of my posts that mention streaming, you know what I think about it...Recently reinforced by having Homeland that we were in the middle of watching pulled right out from under us.

 

[Tres Discrete]

Damn the curse of being a completist collector!

Ugh…this bundle is really testing me…IMHO the first Wham album has zero merit…but if I only buy the second one, there will be a gap in my collection

 

[Tres Discrete]

More a fan of George Michael, than Wham, but I'm in!

“Listen Without Prejudice” would be a slam dunk for me…made me respect him as an artist

 

[GOS]

“Listen Without Prejudice” would be a WHAM dunk for me…made me respect him as an artist

I see what you did there. lmao....

 

[Tres Discrete]

I see what you did there. lmao....

You made me look !!!

 

[Tres Discrete]

I cancelled my Paul Young preorder and ordered the "'80s bundle." Indeed $100 for me as well, not too bad.

Hmmm…that might be the way I can justify ordering the first vapid (IMHO) Wham album & satisfying my collector’s OCD

 

[Simon M]

I can't see an option to cancel my pre-order. How do you cancel?

Same issue here, I can't see an obvious option to cancel it on my 'account' page or the actual order page, anyone got any ideas? Contacting customer service seems the only option...

 

[Mesozoic Mike]

Not a fan of their music. I'll have to pass.

 

[Monkish]

I've listened to Make It Big on Apple Music, and I can only speak to the 5.1 fold-down, but I'm not enthused at all -- there's not much discreteness going on, and the mix is very reverby, to the point where everything feels really diffuse and unfocused.

I would certainly buy a quality surround mix of Make It Big, but to my ears, this isn't it. YMMV, of course.

BTW, in the comments on the SDE site, Paul says the mixes were done by Chris Porter, the original engineer on Make It Big.

 

[sjcorne]

Frank Filipetti did the Atmos mixes of George Michael's solo albums, which are much more involving.

 

[Scott65]

Ordered. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am!

Fantastic!