fuggit i am treating myself to the Mahler next payday if it's still that price. also it will be good to give a shoeing to lazy complacent independent retailers.
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
stickin' it to that lazy old man
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
they should get on their bikes and look for customers
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
Noted independent record store devotee Norman Tebbit
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
Mary Portas vs ILM up in here!
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like that Tennstedt box sticks to the symphonies, so if you want yr Kindertotenlieder etc then go for the EMI box instead.
― Jaap and roids (NickB), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Can anyone recommend one of the Sibelius Symphonies boxes? I have a couple of Rattle discs but wouldn't mind a complete set.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
I was kinda wondering: why are these classical box sets selling for so much lower price than box sets in most other genres? Is it because they don't have to pay royalties for the composers? On the other hand, many/most of them feature a lot more players than your typical pop/rock record... Do these performers get any royalties from records sold?
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk looks half decent although no doubt they are struggling to compete with Amazon prices.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is the Sibelius bargain of the minute: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tapiola-Finlandia/dp/B0091JQH2Q/
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
look at that lazy website tho, they shd get rid of all that content nonsense and concentrate on bunging me tax-exempt CDs from the Channel Islands hand-packaged by children
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
Presto is great. Fast delivery and often cheaper than Amazon. One of the better examples of a well-curated online shop.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
Cheers OG - looks like promising.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
ShariVari xp: agree, that's where the competition needs to be. Constructive answer in amongst mounds of misplaced student union sarcasm.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
personally I wasn't being sarcastic, but thanks.
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
For a Sibelius box (and yay we are talking about my other favorite composer now) I would give the slight edge to this older EMI set. The symphonies here are with the Helsinki SO and recorded in the 80s rather than the 70s (but the digital sound picture is not bad in the way a lot of early-digital stuff can be, and the Helsinki are great and there are no dud interpretations) plus you get 4 and a half discs of the equally important tone poems, theatrical incidental music, and myth-based cantatas:
http://www.amazon.com/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tone-Poems/dp/B00005MIZT/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1359736483&sr=8-5&keywords=sibelius+berglund
More compact, beautifully recorded in 70s analog, and brought off with tons of personality is this set of the symphonies and a few tone poems with Colin Davis and the Boston SO. Davis' later Sibelius recordings with the London SO are not near this level:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Symphonies-Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B007CW2FFM/ref=sr_1_39?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1359736428&sr=1-39
For the two Mahler sets discussed above, I would DEFINITELY opt for the mixed-conductor Klemperer/Barbirolli/Rattle set rather than the all-Tennstedt one. I know the idea of a whole cycle in one conductor's interpretations is seductive but with Mahler's symphonies there simply is no one conductor who's gotten all nine (or ten) right.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
cant wait for the scott walker boxset.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Collection-1967-1970-Walker/dp/B00BCOL5YS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1369336963&sr=1-1&keywords=scott+walker
have held back from buying any of his 60s solo albums knowing that a boxset like this would at some point be sorted out.
seems that labels are totally going for this now.
in recent months i have seen (and left unloved) : motorhead, uriah heap, van halen, eagles, type o negative, sepultra, rob zombie (!!!) ..
personally i love this as it means i get the whole set of the good stuff in one go ..
hence why the scott walker is one of this years most anticipated purchases for me as i know it will hit so many spots for me.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
there's a 5cd bowie set featuring the 3 berlin-era cds and the double Stage(?) for little or no money too (£12):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeit-77-79-David-Bowie/dp/B00BQ8ZWO4/
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
oh yes .. saw that the other day ..
having recently just bought the complete set of limited bowie japanese mini vinyl editions from a friend i let this one go ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
and yes .. the complete set : space oddity -> never let me down
my friend had no idea he had the lot, until he checked at which point i offered over the odds as they are just gorgeous.
original inserts (where applicable), original inner sleeve notes, original gatefolds etc ..
just gorgeous ..
anyways .. back to the cheap seat bargains that i normally involve myself with ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
this as well (as been out a while)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Release-Series-Discs-1-4/dp/B0081QZJ6A/ref=sr_1_4
first 4 neil young albums for £12
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
That Bowie Berlin box, are those all in jewel cases in a card slipcase or something? Sounds like it from the product reviews. My vinyl of this stuff is oh so scratchy now.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
jewel cases with a cheap cardboard thing .. nothing new/special ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh, and i got that neil young set. my first intro to the young catalogue.reaction : 'oooh now i get it .. '
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
THESE ARE ALL VERY GOOD, BEWARE LOW AND HEROES ARE BOTH HALF INSTRUMENTAL.
― Mark G, Friday, 24 May 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=original%20album%20series&sprefix=origina%3B%2Caps%2C
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q8BbSNwHL.jpg
Packaging is the usual cheap box with no booklet or notes or anything, but I just got this for £13 or something ^^^
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
I posted that link again here btw as I assumed most wouldnt be reading the funk listening club thread, Ordered the Slave and Curtis Mayfield sets.Theres loads more I'd want tho like the Warren Zevon, Chic, Dr John etc
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
The Zevon is pucker.
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yves Nat Beethoven sonata cycle and much more. V. good.
1930-1956: Comp Recordingshttp://amazon.ca/dp/B000BS6Y74
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Nat's is a really really great Beethoven cycle. Def recommended by me.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Hey man I am still awaiting your Brendel breakdown! Eagerly would be an exaggeration, but still interested in a remotely optimistic fashion. ;-)
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Ha I forgot anyone had actually expressed interest in that. Will totally do.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
It's weird trawling through those Original Album Series boxsets and bumping into so many multi-album major label artists who I just have no effing clue about
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
e.g. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61G59g%2Ba0cL._SY355_.jpg
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
who the fuuh are pooh
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
wait is the first album on that box really called poohlover?
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
what a...
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Also they completely messed up in not calling the third one Poohmerang.
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
Pooh is an Italian pop band formed in 1966 in Bologna. They are referred to in the plural as I Pooh (the Pooh).
snigger
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
More like poomeringue amirite?
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
oh man I need that Ribeiro box
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
everybody does! tbh i wasn't really all that familiar with her beforehand - so glad i took a punt on it cos it's right up my street, especially Paix
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
xposts yeah, I remember Record Collector doing an article on them, except it was in the April edition that year, and I just assumed it was an AFJoke.
Still, Vol 2, yeah?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 September 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
It's a must have
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2013 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
There are 3 volumes of Pooh box sets and counting!
What I want to know is when is will they do one of these things for 70s Battiato? Maybe they have already?
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, and let's have a Heldon one (or two) as well
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
^ amen to that
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
thought these boxes looked a bit cheap and nasty but Pooh has just changed my mind
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
I think some of those comps obscure to you are simply bands that were/are big locally, and the releases were meant mostly for the local market. For example, the Finnish branch of Warner has put out some "Original Album Series" comps for Finnish artists that probably no one knows outside of here.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link