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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 17:42:51 GMT
I understand buying a box set for one of your favourite album(s) but I cannot understand why anyone would buy a whole artists reissue program. Paul McCartney is a greedy cunt - especially when you factor in the fact he only released maybe two good albums after the Beatles... but he is releasing a box set for every single fucking shit album he made. the fact he released a WILD LIFE box set.... fucking wanker
His albums that required a box set at minimum;
- Band On the Run
- Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
- McCartney
- McCartney II
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Post by gobshite on Aug 4, 2020 17:52:37 GMT
In my dwindling Beatard days maybe around 2000, I bought a 2CD reissue of Band on the Run and I think even that was padded with an interview due to a shortage of interesting music. Re McCartney II I can't even conceive of listening to the shit that didn't make the cut.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Aug 4, 2020 21:59:28 GMT
True fact: I just got a Beatles in Stereo Vinyl box set last week for really cheap and sold the included book on eBay for $80 in less than an hour of listing it. I just wanted the albums nice and new and after ditching the book it worked out to be about $10 each.
Am I the only one who literally never even cracks open these books in box sets? I have the Giles Martin Beatles reissues and the books have never been touched.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 22:22:31 GMT
I skim through the pages and maybe refer to the book things once in a while.
How is that box set? was it the 2009 remaster one? Hate to sound like a SHite but they fucked with the EQ too much on the 2009 remasters
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Aug 4, 2020 22:46:23 GMT
In my dwindling Beatard days maybe around 2000, I bought a 2CD reissue of Band on the Run and I think even that was padded with an interview due to a shortage of interesting music. Re McCartney II I can't even conceive of listening to the shit that didn't make the cut.I’d imagine it’s even worse than any preconceptions you might have...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 23:20:17 GMT
...songs to rival BIP BOP
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Aug 5, 2020 6:46:46 GMT
True fact: I just got a Beatles in Stereo Vinyl box set last week for really cheap and sold the included book on eBay for $80 in less than an hour of listing it. I just wanted the albums nice and new and after ditching the book it worked out to be about $10 each.
Am I the only one who literally never even cracks open these books in box sets? I have the Giles Martin Beatles reissues and the books have never been touched.
Generally they stay unread (the one that came with the Queen equivalent of that Beatles stereo set got a quick glance and I saw the typos and unfinished sentences and put it back immediately), but some are good. The whole problem with books in box sets is that the in-depth essays and super-serious reflective articles by David Fricke or whoever they dredge up are totally at odds with the size and shape of the book itself, which is primarily designed to be an adult version of a picture book. Having reams of tiny printed text on a square 12”x12” page of glossy photo paper isn’t appealing when that space could be used for decent pictures, and mixing the two means the eye is drawn away from the text with annoying regularity.
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Post by bradman on Aug 5, 2020 19:20:41 GMT
The important ones for me are the ones in Jazz boxsets, where I actually learn some things.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Aug 5, 2020 19:32:01 GMT
For the most part, liner notes haven’t really mattered since the web happened.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Aug 5, 2020 21:52:49 GMT
The whole problem with books in box sets is that the in-depth essays and super-serious reflective articles by David Fricke or whoever they dredge up are totally at odds with the size and shape of the book itself, which is primarily designed to be an adult version of a picture book. Having reams of tiny printed text on a square 12”x12” page of glossy photo paper isn’t appealing when that space could be used for decent pictures, and mixing the two means the eye is drawn away from the text with annoying regularity. Plus I can't read the small print. The few times I checked out one of these books I felt like I would break the binding trying to juggle its weight and size. Plus I don't really give a fuck.
I stupidly bought one of those Mark Lewinsohn (spelling?) Beatles Bibles and sold it a year later nearly untouched. The Hoffman-ite I sold it to was skeptical that it wasn't well-thumbed and worn, but I literally cracked it open a few places on the day I got it to peek inside then put it away.
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Post by daved on Aug 5, 2020 22:33:00 GMT
price.pittsburgh is insane
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Post by daved on Aug 6, 2020 11:42:39 GMT
I remember when the word masterpiece meant something.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Aug 6, 2020 11:47:20 GMT
I remember when the word masterpiece meant something. The word "masterpiece" is overlooked and underrated.
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Post by hoffmental emissions on Aug 6, 2020 12:36:43 GMT
price.pittsburgh is insane
It does explain why he was dumped a few weeks ago and in so much depression he had to air it for all to see over there.
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Post by daved on Aug 6, 2020 12:49:34 GMT
price.pittsburgh is insane
It does explain why he was dumped a few weeks ago and in so much depression he had to air it for all to see over there.
Imagine how insane you are that any fucking time someone says "oh no" you think it's a Yoko reference.
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