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Did your prescription arrive yet Vancouver? Got mine today, had to be signed for. Very nice but smaller than i expected judging by the photo someone had put up of theirs, guess it was an extreme close up!Vancouver wrote:No email for me yet...
You're not trying to get the rest of us to buy this so it sells out and pushes up the value of your copy are you Toomilk?!toomilk wrote:Supposedly there are still copies available.
Get on this!
Exactly my plan! moneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneyAds wrote:You're not trying to get the rest of us to buy this so it sells out and pushes up the value of your copy are you Toomilk?!toomilk wrote:Supposedly there are still copies available.
Get on this!
It's my favourite number, plus all of the above.laid back in the sun wrote:three is the magic number? power of three? spacemen 3?
I'm with you on that. Spiritualized is the only band that I feel the need to buy collector's versions of things that i'll buy just to complete a collection, but even that said, I can't justify the cash for something that I won't open; something that would sit on the shelf like a trophy. And if there's any album that would get me to buy something like this, it's LAGWAFIS. I haven't listened to the Complete Works 1 and 2 in forever, and i'm also a firm believer of having the best mix on the album to stand up as the definitive track. Remixes and demos and stuff like that are cool and interesting, but even "Blue On Blue" I rarely listen to.PeshoG wrote:Yeah man. I've come so close to buying it so many times now but I just can't justify spending that much money on something that I'm A)Never going to open and B) Already have numerous copies of in different formats. I would pay that much for a vinyl repressing of it all, but that's about it.
Agreed. I think most of the demos are far better than the cold and overly polished versions that made the album. Which leads to mixed feelings about the format of the bonus material. On one hand, it's really fascinating the way it's organized to show how the tracks came together -- on the other, I think I'd prefer full versions of much of what's on the discs for mixes and so forth to supplant the inferior album versions.captainbeyond wrote:Holy cow these demos and early versions are awesome! Man is that Rocket Shaped Song cool! The Home of the Brave demo is much preferred. It becomes obvious that the final version of this record is extremely polished and careful (perhaps too much, as some of the tracks failed to excite me at the time), while many of these early versions/demos are often absolutely huge-sounding and raw. I like 'em that way!
Yes please! Plus another ATP Dont't Look Back round of concerts if possible - I think it would really suit that album.BzaInSpace wrote:Bring on more like the Ladies and Gentlemen...set. Like... Let It Come Down ?!!
To me Electricity is a song that has paled over time next to subsequent songs from the same template -- Twelve Steps, much of Amazing Grace, Yeah Yeah, etc. -- because they are so much rawer and more garagey, so hearing Electricity a little less studied is a real pleasure. I've long felt that Come Together is the song that came out the worst on the LP, and generally listen to the Abbey Road EP version or the radio session on disk 2 of The Complete Works, but the demos for that are pretty cool too. As much as I love pretty much every version of Broken Heart, there's a special intimacy to the demo version that I find incomparable -- I'm mad that I had to wait so many years for it!BzaInSpace wrote:They're great, but I agree they cannot compare with the finished, spell-binding article. That album - I wouldn't change a thing. One of the 'Electricty' takes sounds a bit more garagey and less wall-of-electric sound, but even so.
Agree with you on the Marvin Gaye ones -- except for What's Goin' On. I didn't find the "original detroit mix" very illuminating and the live show is pretty redundant if you already have one or more of his other live albums. Another gold standard is the 4 disc Stone Roses box -- I'm not a huge fan of the bonus demos, but the sound is incredibly improved and it's very nice to have everything from that era in one tidy package. Except for the glaring omission of the longer Elephant Stone with the backwards drums extended intro.BzaInSpace wrote:I also think that this particular 'deluxe' style release really sets a precedent on how good these 'deluxe' albums could be with a bit of imagination. The tracks all flowing through each other was inpsired and is hardly like the majority or rereleases - a bunch of hastily prepared demos or needless live tracks bolted on a second CD.
(When I saw the x amount of versions of the title-track I did wonder what it would be like. But the way they all run together is beautiful and amazing and far more than the sum of it's parts IMO.)
When the 'Deluxe Editions' ie moneyspinners - "you've bought it once...now buy it again!" first appeared there was some great releases that added so much to the originals...the Marvin Gaye albums and the James Brown Live at The Apollo Vol II ones were...smashing.
However, in pursuit of coin, they have mostly become pretty much non-essential. Bring on more like the Ladies and Gentlemen...set. Like... Let It Come Down ?!!
Seconded.BzaInSpace wrote:That album - I wouldn't change a thing.