Looks like it is Sony since it is the same thing on Amazon (and $100 for mp3s or $180 for the full CD/DVD set). I almost always am disappointed about box set re-issues for exactly this reason. If I am interested enough to consider a box set, I probably already have all the bands' released material, and you would have to be a die-hard fan to drop nearly $200 on a box set without knowing for sure if you were really getting a superior product to what you already own. Seems like a pretty limited market for this.
was looking forward to going through the last 3 discs and separating the worthwhile from the crap outtakes and redundant tracks. have the first 5, what do I need with them again? but of course, emusic (or maybe sony, I don't know) is not allowing for that. very disappointing.
The next to last time I saw the man who put the strum in Strummer, it was nearing afterhours at a Lower East Side bar in New York City, somewhere around the turn of the century. Despite the approaching dawn, Joe was ready to keep on the move, full of restless energy, praising the accessibility of techno music, of all things, and talking about how the computer was putting the means of production into the… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
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It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
It took the Clash just six years to go from Westway to the world, to evolve from the small-bore punk vitriol of "London's Burning" to the sophisticated Top 40 global consciousness of "Rock the Casbah." Unfettered by careerist logic and armed with passion, conviction and a flair for dramatic poses, they were the most exciting — and unpredictable — band of their era. Inscrutable, confounding and glorious in their imperfections, the Clash inscribed a cultural… more »
