4 LPs (£95) or 4 CDs (£90) and an expensive-looking full-colour hardback.
I have yet to open the Richard Morton-Jack book I bought myself for Christmas.
The Making Of Five Leaves Left
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Seems LPs is the way to go for these boxsets. Am guessing that the demand for CDs in such sets is down so they are manufacturing less and charging more.
I think this is barrel scraping, I love Nick Drake but don’t think I will be buying.
I read earlier today that Nick Drake sounds like Chris Eubank. Especially on Hazey Jane II.
Never mind Chris Eubank, though that’s a good call – with its chugging guitars, country twang and jaunty horns, Hazy Jane II is a shoe-in for a cheery mid-seventies sitcom theme tune – think Butterflies, Are You Being Served or Reggie Perrin,
I met Chris Eubank once in a fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton. Nice fellow, my dad and sister who were visiting from Leicester were mightily impressed. Never met Nick Drake though.
I was hoping said encounter might have taken place in a youth hostel
Did he ask for a sachet of soy sauce for his scampi?
I could’ve said he ordered sausages and saveloys but that would just be mocking somebody with a speech impediment. I did ask him if he lived nearby and he replied ‘no, we live in Hove actually’.
I’m getting that on vinyl, absolutely
Strongly recommend you open the Morton-Jack book, but I certainly won’t be buying this box. I’m more than happy with the original.
Not buying this… put off a few years ago with the BBC session only appearing on a 10″ vinly (oh, yeah, very 1969 – 10″ vinlys!!!) in an expensive book.
Sticking to the cheap-as-chips CD.
Nick Drake’s great… he’s not THAT great.
Get an Ace/Kent soul compilation instead for a seventh of the price.
You’ll play it more and, bizarrely, I think that’s exactly what he’d want.
I’ve got the three originally-issued albums and Made To Love Magic. I’ve listened to them a lot and like his work very much. But I do feel that the legend has overtaken the reality. I can’t see myself forking out for more stuff of his.
The reason I want this is I have never seen/heard it on vinyl in all my years of digging (a wild hope I know) but I was offered an original copy in the 90’s for around £300 and laughed at that price so a ton for the full monty copy seems reasonable to me now.
Available on Amazon UK for £29
the 4 x LP set is released on 25/07 the Amazon copy comes out tomorrow and is called TBC, sounds a wee bit dodgy…
The one on AUK Is the European Island one from 2013
I imagine that’s just LP 4 (i.e. the 2013 remaster)
There have been affordable vinyl reissues though. I have one
Not even remotely tempted. I rarely like any alternate takes or demos etc – there’s a reason why they were passed over/not released in the first place. Maybe of interest if you want to hear how it evolved but you would be unlikely to play it more than once I would guess.
I’m very happy with my Hannibal boxed set called ‘Fruit Tree’ – it still sound lovely, forty years on.
Ditto.
Has box-set collectorism had it’s day?
Has the bandwagon been jumped on too hard and so often that we can now see through it?
I buy classical box sets, anything ranging from five disc sets up to sets of over a hundred discs, although somewhat fewer of those. Classical boxes don’t as a matter of course include fripperies, a booklet or in the case of Sony sets a hardback book! These boxes are often the only way to secure physical copies of some recordings that have been long out of production or some recordings that have never been available before. The cost of the discs after a simple bit of arithmetic cost around £1.50 per disc on average which I consider to be a very fair price for the pleasure they return. I still buy an unconscionable amout of single, double and in the case of operas triple discs but it helps to keep me sane. Then there’s the Jazz…
A whole different expectation/definition of “box set” pertains in the classical world, and usually it’s a bargain rather than a rip-off.
They are all things considered decidedly a bargain. It leads to owning many different recordings of the standard repertoire but that’s kinda the point. How many recordings of say Shostakovich symphonies does one need? I’ve lost count tbh.
@Mike_H
You sound like a man who’s lost his marbles
It’s the blatant Milking Exercise box-sets, with read-once books and listen-once demos and outtakes, that deplete my will-to-live.
Getting away from heritage pop and rock exploitation, there are lots of great-value boxes to be found. I have quite a few myself.
I’m currently accumulating late ’50s to late ’60s Blue Note jazz albums (my favoured era) but not from box sets right now, of which BTW the Intense Media reissue label have three seriously good cheap 10-CD sets. Blue Notes I, II and III all around the £15-20 price mark from Amazon (and probably other vendors).
“It’s the blatant Milking Exercise box-sets, with read-once books and listen-once demos and outtakes, that deplete my will-to-live”
Just Say No, Mike…your “will-to-live” will return!
I have Blue Notes I & II. They were gifts from a very, very kind friend and member of this forum. I wasn’t aware there was a third.
Just ordered the Monk set – thanks for the heads-up.
I got a little Mingus box set of 5 albums in mint condition for 10p from a chazza!
Niiiiiice!
Top trawl!
Not so much of a vinyl find more of a vinyl surprise as I ordered this box set in April and wasn’t expecting delivery today. I’ve never owned a vinyl copy of Five Leaves Left so to have all the versions leading up to an identical copy (the dark green) complete with attention to detail gate-fold/inner/pink label etc is a lovely treat for the weekend.
What a superb pooch!
ahh thank you that’s Ziggy – so named as each eye is a different colour and he has a plume tail
Hello Zig!
I picked up a vinyl copy from Fopp and it’s all packed up ready to fly back to Berlin tomorrow and take up residence on the turntable. Can’t wait to listen to it.
odd that they mucked around with the eyeball on the labels though
what it is
what it should be