Stephen Says wrote:for a good-sized box set, it left out some rather important tracks.
Like?
Not trying to sound like a fanboy, but I've always thought it was one of the best box sets to come out. I have no complaints at all. Well, maybe the first album in mono, as was originally planned. But overall, I think it's a model on how to do things right by a band.
You're probably right about it being one of the best box sets, but (imo) that's because career-retrospective box sets are generally ripoffs that force fans to buy dozens of songs that they can hear on the albums they already own. Sorry if this is whiney, but I think it's a valid complaint... As I said, the new Nirvana box is the case in point: Four discs of rare/unreleased material that fills in almost all the gaps left by their other releases, with only ONE album track in the entire box (Smells Like Teen Spirit.) I don't think a single devoted fan of Nirvana felt deprived of the album tracks. If I remember correctly, a few great songs like She's My Best Friend were left off PS&S. It's only right to be thankful for the overwhelmingly positive things about the box, but to be honest, I think it was compromised.
Homme Fatale wrote:This is gonna sound crazy but I think disc one shouldn't have been on there. I'm not saying it shouldn't have come out at all of course, but for that box set which would have been and was bought by not only the die hard fan boys but more like casual fans it was TOO special and TOO rare and in some ways not essential enough that it had to be heard by everyone...
Are you nuts? The first disc was the highlight of the box for me. Especially the versions of Venus in Furs played like a lament. I could listen to ten more discs of that kind of stuff.
Yes, but you (I assume) a die hard fan... What I was aying was that recording isn't essential to everyone looking to hear what the VU was about... That was almost like including a sixth disc of the early experimental Cale tapes or something...
