Vinyl Me Please Anthology

yukbon said:
Nah, totally explainable: they have no deadheads on staff. From the outside, if you're not a deadhead, you just see a rabid fanbase that immediately buys up every record that a band that's been broken up since 1995 has put out. But apparently no one noticed that the dead stuff that sells is aimed at their audience: exclusive stuff that hasn't been re-re-re-released 10 times. It's "we finally made a copy of that show you went to in '74 available for purchase. Also, here's an $800 box set of every show that month. Also, here is that one show everyone says is as good as europe 72, with a better 'morning dew'" What it isn't is not "American Beauty, again, but pressed on a primary color". If you want high quality dead stuff, there's mofi presses and the new reissues are honestly pretty great. If you want box sets, the dead have at least 2 vinyl box sets of their studio stuff and countless live sets.

If they had to put out a box of studio albums, a box that had the stuff that wasn't in the Warner Box (GD, anthem, aoxomoxoa, workingman's, AB) or the RSD box (flood, Mars, blues, SYF) would have been very, very welcome. A box with terrapin, shakedown, go to heaven, in the dark and built to last? Not their best IMO but it would be nice to have it all in once place. Or a box of their "official" live albums (live/dead, europe 72, skull/roses, bear's, deadset, reckoning, without a net). Something like that would have absolutely flown off the shelf, especially with an exclusive like WAN. You could have sold it with no box, held together with a rubber band and a hemp string that smells suspiciously of patchouli.

The anthology as-is is an obvious and transparent money-grab perpetrated by someone who is not a fan or who doesn't give a damn about fans.
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Both of your box ideas would have made me consider buying it. They really should have worked out a deal for some archival release that had never been released on vinyl before.
 
has someone done the inventory trick to how many are actually left? I assume they sold a bunch but it's still a lot of dosh to drop for a casual fan, and there's limited appeal to non-casual fans
 
yukbon said:
has someone done the inventory trick to how many are actually left? I assume they sold a bunch but it's still a lot of dosh to drop for a casual fan, and there's limited appeal to non-casual fans
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I don't think you can do the inventory trick with the box set unless I'm mistaken...
 
MikeH said:
Did anybody get the Women of Motown box set? Any stand out titles/pressings in that one?
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Yes, they all sound great actually! The Teena Marie one sounds glorious and the Erykah Badu Worldwide Underground sounds phenomenal too! The soundstage and clarity on both pressings are incredible! I have an original pressing of Worldwide Underground and this 2xLP VMP pressing of Worldwide Underground absolutely blows the original pressing out of the water! Like the difference in sound quality is unreal! 📈🎯

All pressings sound really, really good though! I always feel so happy and jolly when I drop the needle on the Martha & The Vendellas Heat Wave record! The song “Heat Wave” is a favourite and it sounds so freaking good! I just love it! ♥️
 
NathanRicaud said:
Yes, they all sound great actually! The Teena Marie one sounds glorious and the Erykah Badu Worldwide Underground sounds phenomenal too! The soundstage and clarity on both pressings are incredible! I have an original pressing of Worldwide Underground and this 2xLP VMP pressing of Worldwide Underground absolutely blows the original pressing out of the water! Like the difference in sound quality is unreal! 📈🎯

All pressings sound really, really good though! I always feel so happy and jolly when I drop the needle on the Martha & The Vendellas Heat Wave record! The song “Heat Wave” is a favourite and it sounds so freaking good! I just love it! ♥
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Thanks! I've seen some single copies of albums from the box floating around so might pick up one or two...I don't think their remasters were pressed elsewhere (yet) but the prices aren't too bad for the individual albums. Some people must have gotten a box set or two and split up the albums.
 
MikeH said:
Did anybody get the Women of Motown box set? Any stand out titles/pressings in that one?
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They are all great pressings with fantastic sound quality. Musically, for me, the Tata Vega and Teena Marie are the poorest and the great sound quality isn’t enough to save them. If I were in your position I’d jump at any of the other six at a reasonable price.
 
Urbs_hott said:
They are all great pressings with fantastic sound quality. Musically, for me, the Tata Vega and Teena Marie are the poorest and the great sound quality isn’t enough to save them. If I were in your position I’d jump at any of the other six at a reasonable price.
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Thanks! Appreciate it. I really just want the Badu but that’s the most expensive one to get separately. I’ll give the others a listen on streaming and see if any stand out!
 
Urbs_hott said:
They are all great pressings with fantastic sound quality. Musically, for me, the Tata Vega and Teena Marie are the poorest and the great sound quality isn’t enough to save them. If I were in your position I’d jump at any of the other six at a reasonable price.
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It Must Be Magic is a great album! Square Biz is such a classic, celebrating, party, fun song and the production by Rick James on that album is superb! Portuguese Love is a sublime song too! Like those two songs are just immaculate! I love the rapping by Teena Marie on Square Biz too! It’s got so much character and is cute too!

I think the fact that it’s an early 80’s record, like Patrice Rushen, is a reason why people don’t like the style of music on it!
 
NathanRicaud said:
It Must Be Magic is a great album! Square Biz is such a classic, celebrating, party, fun song and the production by Rick James on that album is superb! Portuguese Love is a sublime song too! Like those two songs are just immaculate! I love the rapping by Teena Marie on Square Biz too! It’s got so much character and is cute too!

I think the fact that it’s an early 80’s record, like Patrice Rushen, is a reason why people don’t like the style of music on it!
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Yeah it has its moments for sure! It seemed to me though that they only used that album as a bridge between the older classics and the Erykah Badu album instead of picking it because it’s actually amazing. Now for the Tata record, there is NO good explanation for it being included.
 
Urbs_hott said:
Yeah it has its moments for sure! It seemed to me though that they only used that album as a bridge between the older classics and the Erykah Badu album instead of picking it because it’s actually amazing. Now for the Tata record, there is NO good explanation for it being included.
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Yeah, I really like all the picks except for the Tàta Vega one! I don’t see myself really spinning that one at all really...🙅‍♂️

They should have picked The Marvelettes’ Playboy, as Motown was at its prime in the 60’s (why not go al out), or if they wanted a 90’s album (as they didn’t have one in there), Zhané’s Pronounced Jah-Nay would’ve been a really nice pick! The Tata Vega pick was such a filler pick...😔
 
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