After having this pre ordered for a few months on Amazon this finally came in ($166 USD, not bad considering I've seen it go for over 200 elsewhere)
As a huge Supergrass fan - this has everything, and the posters/pins etc are awesome
The picture discs - look I am no picture disc hater, and TBH I think that the whole "picture discs sound really bad because of X Y and Z" seem for at least for the ones I own, not really affected by those issues. That said, these sound terrible, really bad. A few skip, and while that is a drag, more so, they just do not sound good (I have three more to listen to, but half is more than enough to make this statement). A huge let down, and I get it, people already said the picture discs were not a good idea, but this is a huge disappointment , and owning every studio record on vinyl is why I bought the box.
The CD live/outtakes are awesome, and there is plenty here to dive into, that alone is at least worth some part of this price (Road to Ruin era is completely underrated IMO). The book is good, but really doesn't go into their origins or even too deep into the recordings. I know there is the documentary, but it would have been nice to just got a little bit deeper.
Any super (no pun intended) Supergrass fan should probably own this for the 4 CDs of extras alone, but wow, the vinyl side of this was a HUGE miss. It's hard not to see this as a cash grab. The shining light in all of this- Supergrass are/were GREAT. Of all the brit pop bands, Supergrass were the most consistent, and IMO the Road to Ruin LP is a crowning achievement of the early 00s, a total melding of Neil Young On the Beach era meets Buzzcocks on downers.
Anyone else get this box? Thoughts?
As a huge Supergrass fan - this has everything, and the posters/pins etc are awesome
The picture discs - look I am no picture disc hater, and TBH I think that the whole "picture discs sound really bad because of X Y and Z" seem for at least for the ones I own, not really affected by those issues. That said, these sound terrible, really bad. A few skip, and while that is a drag, more so, they just do not sound good (I have three more to listen to, but half is more than enough to make this statement). A huge let down, and I get it, people already said the picture discs were not a good idea, but this is a huge disappointment , and owning every studio record on vinyl is why I bought the box.
The CD live/outtakes are awesome, and there is plenty here to dive into, that alone is at least worth some part of this price (Road to Ruin era is completely underrated IMO). The book is good, but really doesn't go into their origins or even too deep into the recordings. I know there is the documentary, but it would have been nice to just got a little bit deeper.
Any super (no pun intended) Supergrass fan should probably own this for the 4 CDs of extras alone, but wow, the vinyl side of this was a HUGE miss. It's hard not to see this as a cash grab. The shining light in all of this- Supergrass are/were GREAT. Of all the brit pop bands, Supergrass were the most consistent, and IMO the Road to Ruin LP is a crowning achievement of the early 00s, a total melding of Neil Young On the Beach era meets Buzzcocks on downers.
Anyone else get this box? Thoughts?
