Since I already have fully half of those songs, I can safely say that's a supercool collection.

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Originally posted by mark f:
Since I already have fully half of those songs, I can safely say that's a supercool collection.

I've probably got close to half of them, too. It does look cool. I'll have to get it, I think.

I COMPLETELY forgot to mention that Rhino's got another box due in August...a 3cd/1dvd box dedicated to the RAMONES!!!! GABBA GABBA HEY!!!!

All of their videos, a booklet with comics and such, and 3 discs of Ramones. Sounds like a winner to me...

So, now that I've had my CHildren of Nuggets set about a week, I can begin to chime in on my thoughts.

1. Amazingly packaged and annotated, as all past Nuggets boxes are.

2. There are always questions of choice and genre...the range of years (1976-1996) covers a lot of great, Nuggets-influenced bands, but some of the choices (Teenage Fanclub's "Metal Baby" as the track off Bandwagonesque and The Posies' "I May Hate You Sometimes"?) are odd.

3. Gems abound, and the tracks I like the most are often from bands I've heard of but never listened to (The Cynics, The Mummies), never heard of at all (The Unknown, United States of Existence, Watermelon Men), or previously ignored (Bevis Frond, Barracudas). Particularly revelatory was Bevis Frond's "Lights are Changing" which I've heard as a cover (Mary Lou Lord does it all the time) but had never heard in the original version. Wow. I thought it was a great lost Guided By Voices song...stunning.

Great set. Worthy addition to the Nuggets, Nuggets II, No Thanks!, and Left of the Dial boxes on my wall...

Well, this is my first post in several months. I stayed away for a little while, because there was a lot of pointless arguing going on last time I visited. Looks like people are finally interested in talking about music again, which is great!

So, my vote goes to something I picked up while I was away:

Woody Guthrie: The Complete Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4

I've only had it for a few weeks, but I can say that it may in fact be the most essential piece in my (quite large) collection.

I love box sets, especially various artists box sets.

My favorite v/a comp boxes include:

Brain In A Box (sci-fi themes)
Supernatural Fairy Tales (70s prog)
Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground
Nuggets 2
Legend of the Mind (70s prog/hard rock)
Hitsville USA 1
Old Enough 2 Know Better 3 disc Merge label sampler
Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music
Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans
Bar-B-Que: Soul-a-bration Rhino's soul-food collection, cased in a cookbook

Favorite box sets for artists/groups:

The Beach Boys Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys

Donovan Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976

Elvis Presley The King Of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters (also by Elvis, a soundtrack collection in a metal film can I bought off QVC back in the early '90s)

Stereolab Oscillions from the Anti-Sun

Eric Clapton Crossroads

Allman Brothers Dreams

I have mixed thoughts on these:

V/A Cowabunga: Surf Box Great songs, great artists but they should have filled the cds to the brim with music, not cut them short! The surf wave effects at the end of each cd was unneeded.

Steely Dan Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980
On the one hand, every song from every Steely Dan album was here but little else. This was one occasion I was looking forward to demos and rarities and was sorely disappointed by the lack thereof.

I found a used copy of Children of Nuggets recently and that's my weekend treat this weekend.

Box sets are generally way too much for me. I don't have the free time necessary to absorb a full box set in any amount of sittings; I flit from artist to artist, album to album, style to style way too much.

With that in mind, I downloaded a copy of the Merzbox last week. Will report when I listen to it.

I just got Children of Nuggets as a belated birthday present, and I think it's mind-blowing. It's hard to imagine having more fun than listening to any or all of these discs with friends and family.

I hope you still play it, pE.

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Originally posted by mark f:
I just got Children of Nuggets as a belated birthday present, and I think it's mind-blowing. It's hard to imagine having more fun than listening to any or all of these discs with friends and family.

I hope you still play it, pE.

I do. I haven't pulled it out in a while, but the songs are all on my MP3 player and come up frequently when it's on shuffle. I enjoy almost all of them, almost every time.

I've recently picked up two new boxes...Billy Bragg's Volume I and the Pretenders Pirate Radio 1979-2005. Too soon to comment on the latter, but the Bragg box is, well, OK. The box is, essentially, the four reiusses of the first four records (which are sold individually) in a small box with a lyric booklet and a bonus DVD. It's nice and all, but I'm not sure the box adds much to the individual reissues purchased separately. But, then again, it's a cool package, so I won't complain.

The new Bjork box set is pretty cool. It includes all seven of her solo albums, and each of them have been turned into DualDiscs with the second side featuring the album in 5.1 surround sound. The second side also has videos. My friend has it and a lot of her stuff sounds great in 5.1.