Hey Physical Media Lovers! Original Album Classics, Original Album Series (Budget Mini-LP Album Box Sets): Search & Destroy

the Jordan The Comeback album is all out of sequence and missing the last four songs.

WHAT

My Jordan the Comeback started with Wild Horses, and had a few other sequencing issues. Last song was 'One of the Broken', and the last four songs were totally missing.

from http://z6.invisionfree.com/sproutnet/ar/t1879.htm

Jordan Disc 04
01. "Wild horses (Album Version)"
02. "Looking for Atlantis (Album Version)"
03. "We let the stars go (Album Version)"
04. "Carnival 2000 (Album Version)"
05. "Jordan: the comeback (Album Version)"
06. "Jesse James bolero (Album Version)"
07. "All the world loves lovers (Album Version)"
08. "The wedding march (Album Version)"
09. "Machine gun Ibiza (Album Version)"
10. "Jesse James symphony (Album Version)"
11. "Moon dog (Album Version)"
12. "All boys believe anything (Album Version)"
13. "The ice maiden (Album Version)"
14. "Paris Smith (Album Version)"
15. "One of the broken (Album Version)"

that's f'd up...album was pretty much perfect as it was...wonder how many others get similarly butchered in these boxes...

I just got the Lovin Spoonful one.

A Pity they didn't make an album that used "Summer in the city" as a jumping-off point. It would have been more awesome than "Pet Sounds" etc.

Looking for some new collections to check out, anyone have any opinion on any of these? Most of these are bands/artists I might know a track or so or know them by reputation.

The Professionals - Complete Professionals
The Ruts - Virgin Years
Terry Reid- Original Album Classics
Penetration - Virgin Years
The Motors- Virgin Years
The Skids- Virgin Years
Brinsley Schwarz- Original Album Classics

Of these, I'll rep for The Professionals, Ruts, Penetration and The Skids. If I had to pick one of those, it's The Ruts easily. Fantastic dub punk. The Professionals are dumb fun and The Skids start off strong but fade towards the end. Penetration are great, they'd be my second choice.

i'll rep for brinsley schwarz -- swell country-flavored pub rockers with strong songwriting chops courtesy nick lowe, ian gomm.

I've had The Crack by the Ruts for quite a few years. That is a good record.

I have the Schwarz one, which annoyingly stops short of their sixth and final album. Kind of wish Parlophone stepped it up a little like they did with Hawkwind and did all the albums plus non-lp singles and live stuff in a bigger box.

Still worth having even if it takes 'til album 3 (Silver Pistol) to hit their stride.

I was at a record show today, and the one CD guy had a ton of these. Discovered on the slightly more lavish front that EMI UK has done a Raspberries "complete albums" box.

I had no idea that this existed but clearly everyone should own a copy:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Marit-Bergman/dp/B002ZLNNII?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

http://www.theguardian.com/music/commentisfree/2016/may/15/selling-cds-spotify-digital-music-streaming

As the guy rifled through them, he sadly informed me that they hadn’t exactly aged like a fine Margaux. Instead, I would be getting rid of over 1,000 of them for around £700. “Consider yourself ahead of the curve,” he said, trying to offer solace. “If you’d waited another five years, you’d be paying me to take them away.”

haha, "something with taxidermied cats having tea on the sleeve" = Piano Magic, Low Birth Weight.

My favorite are the two volumes of Otis Redding, though it's weird that the ten albums do not include The Immortal Otis Redding (Christgau's all-time favorite).

Had no idea De La Soul got one of these in 2012, courtesy of Rhino. Their first five albums, and judging by Amazon's reviews, people were still able to buy these for less than $20 as late as 2016:

https://www.discogs.com/release/4734854-De-La-Soul-Original-Album-Series

Still look for these occasionally, got two in the mail today.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71OQI0a78sL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71w4PbNkTJL._AC_SL1200_.jpg

Total cost: just under $30 including shipping. I've got two of the Bos and two of the Buddys on vinyl, but that's pretty damn great. Many more in the series I want to look into.

There's a Psychedelia volume in this series which has 3 no-brainer killer albums by Tomorrow, July and Idle Race. All three are celebrated by psych-heads but completely unknown to normie rock fans. Tomorrow wasn't really a tough one to get, but the other two weren't exactly common finds in the CD era. It's almost like a before-they-were thing with Jimmy Page in the Yardbirds, Steve Howe in Tomorrow, and Jeff Lynne in Idle Race. The two others included: final Yardbirds album is ok (White Summer is nice). The Gods album? Don't remember being impressed by that one.

The Gods and July also had members who went on to join Uriah Heep and form Jade Warrior respectively. I'm interested in all those records but hadn't got around to listening yet, I'll look out for that package.

is there one of these for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers?

and wow, had no idea about the July-Jade Warrior connection

There are some Blakey boxes around. All the albums in this one are great, especially A Night In Tunisia and Free For All:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816TONoNR5L._SL1400_.jpg

thank you!

There’s also a nineteen (yep, nineteen) classic albums Blakey box (10 CDs). Dunno how hard (or cheap) it is to find now, but it’s got so many of the classics (Moanin’, The Big Beat, At The Cafe Bohemia) in addition to several all-percussion albums, and lesser-known gems like his date for Impulse! and later-released early ‘60s dates like The Witch Doctor. As the kids say, it’s all killer, no filler.

is there one of these for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers?

Two of them on Amazon, one for $8 and the other for $14.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7140T3VzkaL._SL1000_.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61J44+ua5nL._SL1200_.jpg

xp looks like a US copy for $60, not a bad deal tbh but I'll prob start with the 5-disc one, not much overlap between the two!

not the thread for it but i love Tunisia so much. SO MANY DRUMS ALL AT ONCE!