I hit "like" on this because I thought you meant the cabaret Voltaire album. "That would be a bold move for vmp" I thought
Vinyl Me Please Essentials
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"No sticker this month, just these 'guess the flavors' stamps? Weird but ok. Huh, doesn't really taste like anything...."
dhodo
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Damn catching up on this thread was a roller coaster. You guys got my hopes up with WL/WH and MHtRtC!
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mitchwagz
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What is the “wild mix”?
MikeH
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The original mix of the album. An alternate more commercial mix was done in 1972 to capitalize on their popularity and that’s probably the one people know more.
MikeH
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Think wild is the first mix.
on reading the description, I think you are correct. the description of the second one seems more "normal"
mitchwagz
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Got it. Never heard it called anything besides the original mix
it’s a much better mix than the remix. Are all recent reissues the remix? Still such a strange pick for essentials but not complaining.
Hemotep
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Yeah, I'd probably call the Air album an essential, but not this Dead pick (even though I love it) and certainly not the KM pick. Even wanting two of the three I still feel like it's a weak quarter.Got it. Never heard it called anything besides the original mix
MikeH
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Think 2011 Rhino was the wild mixGot it. Never heard it called anything besides the original mix
oldschoolkirby
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The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 Vinyl release of "Anthem Of The Sun" on Discogs.
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I picked up this BN exclusive of Anthem a few years back - not totally clear which mix it is though… one reviewer on Cogs says the original… I’ll have to pull it out and verify soon. Anyway, if the VMP edition is the mix I don’t already have, maybe I’ll keep it.
I don’t have either Air or Kacey. Her Christmas album sure is great though!
Sebastian
It’s Wool…
I guess VMP didn’t learn a thing from the Anthology experiment.
Colonel4Bin
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What’s bizarre to me is that they did an entire Anthology of what they considered 8 albums that tell the Story of the Grateful Dead and Anthem isn’t in there (rightfully so).
But it’s an essential album in music overall? Headscratcher.
But it’s an essential album in music overall? Headscratcher.
MikeH
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You mean the one that sold 2500 copies and is being repressed because of demand? I bet it took longer to sell out than they thought but I’d say it was still largely successful
MikeH
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I hate their title of “essentials”. Most of them are not actually essential haha. I get they want a broad term to put anything that doesn’t belong in classics/country/RHH but a large portion of backlash on selections seems to be “how is this essential?”
Not shocked to see the Dead let them do a wider release of a lesser album for those kinds of pressing numbers
keylime_5
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It used to just be called "record of the month" until they started adding sub-tracks like Classics and Rap/Hip-Hop. They had to call it something.
keylime_5
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In this case the artist is the "essential" part more than the actual album.
MikeH
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I’m well aware. But then Storf complains when people say a pick doesn’t seem “essential”. So it’s kind of a problem of their own making
keylime_5
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Yeah. I think 99% of the time though they do actual "essential" albums as their Essentials ROTM. We only occasionally get something more off the beaten path like Jim Sullivan, Beverly Glen-Copeland, or the 10th best Grateful Dead album