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fredthe3rd


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Anyone bought any special editions? Anyone bought THE BOX? I nearly bought 13 today (it took several years but it's become my favourite Blur album) but realised I already have most of the bonus tracks. Will the extra discs from THE BOX be made available separately?

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I hope so, I want to listen to 'Superman'

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I believe not, Fred.

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fredthe3rd wrote:

Anyone bought any special editions? Anyone bought THE BOX? I nearly bought 13 today (it took several years but it's become my favourite Blur album) but realised I already have most of the bonus tracks. Will the extra discs from THE BOX be made available separately?

13? That would have been a hard hit on the bank funds! Hohoho

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Actually quite funny that.

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The box seems soooo expensive, but then again you get a lot. It's not that much more than that 20th anniversary Screamadelica that came out last year and that had way less really. I guess I don't care enough about Blur's b-sides/rarities to get it myself but I have a few friends who are thinking of buying it.

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For 21 cds it's not that expensive. Plus their bsides from Parklife to 13 are something you have to hear.

I bought it and it sounds amazing, everything has been remastered up to 13, and well, some albums needed that (the earlier ones).

Didn't really listen to the whole thing just odd tracks, but i will dig a bit deeper tomorrow. If you have any questions...

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Some of the b-sides from Parklife/The Great Escape are embarassing rinky-dink, mockney Chas'n'Dave shite but I'm sure there's some interesting unreleased stuff spread across the other albums. Not sure I want to hear the one about Elton John's big phallus though.

Unless you're a big fan with a fair amount of disposable income it's a lot of money to spend, even if it offers value in terms of the amount of material.

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You can probably just get the extra tracks by illegal means. (downloading not stealing them from the shop!) I resent the fact that the vinyl editions don't come with the bonus tracks as a digital download.. will definitely grab Think Tank and Blur on vinyl at some point, but I never play cds so I'm not going to bother with the boxset.

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Didn't the boxset also come with a special link to all the Blurb fanzine scans or something?

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Like this?

http://blur-zine.blogspot.co.uk/



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triciathetree wrote:

Didn't the boxset also come with a special link to all the Blurb fanzine scans or something?

 

Can't see that in the link they gave me



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Eamonn wrote:

Some of the b-sides from Parklife/The Great Escape are embarassing rinky-dink, mockney Chas'n'Dave shite

Not sure I want to hear the one about Elton John's big phallus though.

 

 well i disagree but it's not the first with you innit ? biggrin

 

Sir Elton John's cock is a lovely song. The title, not so much.



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I think there are some amazing Blur B-Sides, but I think that generally they're a bit more hit and miss than other great B Sides bands of their era like Suede or Pulp...

 Yep, but bear in mind that Blur released 19 (19!) bsides for Modern Life is Rubbish, 13 for Parklife (13!)... and so on. They were really prolific and released almost everything they recorded even if it was a silly waltz. I love thoses silly Bsides but i can understand why people hate them.

So when you compare to their contemporaries, and even other eras in music, not so many bands released that many good bsides, bar early Oasis (I know i will get slated for that). There is some stinkers, but overall Bsides from Parklife, The Great Escape and Blur are something contemporary bands would kill to have as their own. The 90s were a great time for Bsides, i think we can agree on that. How many great songs were "wasted" on a Bside.



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I think there are some amazing Blur B-Sides, but I think that generally they're a bit more hit and miss than other great B Sides bands of their era like Suede or Pulp...

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Are Pulp really that great with B-sides? Although Hardcore was alright and Gift/His n Hers was awesome. They weren't consistently so Different Class & We Love Life were pretty poor. The latter inexcusably so seeing they had all that spare material.

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PTA, Mile End & Ansaphone are all great songs

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I think TIH B-Sides were pretty amazing, too - The Professional, Ladies Man, Cocaine Socialism, Tomorrow Never Lies, Laughing Boy...

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Mile End & Ansaphone - I agree. As I do with TIH choices but there were a lot if remixes that could have been substituted for something else.

On the subject of the Blur box set, I was thinking about buying it but there's a lot of other things I'd spend 130 quid on first. What if Pulp did something similar? I'd be on it like a car bonnet!

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Pulp's b-sides were of a very high standard I tihnk, especially around His 'n' Hers time. They just became guilty of relying on now-very-dated remixes to fill up their singles, like many bands around that time. I still won't have anything said against the Vocoda remix of Common People though.



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On a similar note, when I was in HMV they had got in new stock of the HnH, DC and TIH special editions having previously just had one copy of DC so there must still be demand for them. Maybe a good sign for WLL.

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Pulp's b-sides are often much better than the a-sides. Especially There Was...

I'm not a huge fan of Blur so I'll be giving this a miss. I'm sure it'll all turn up on Spotify/Youtube anyway

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I do think Suede beat Blur in a 'battle of B-Sides'. Very little was silly, and even during their nadir of New Morning there are a small handful of good B-Sides that are far more listenable to anything that made that album.

Early Pulp B-Sides are the same quality as Suede I think, but there's just a lot fewer of them. I mean, how many unique B-Sides did we get from DC? Underwear (discounted as it's also on the album), PTA, Ansaphone and Mile End. That's three tracks between four singles! Amazing quality...but so few! Compare how many Suede produced for their contemporaneous 'Coming Up'...

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shotoki wrote:

I'm sure it'll all turn up on Spotify/Youtube anyway

 Looks like there is a lot of it on Spotify already, though I didn't see Sir Elton John's Cock.  (phnar phnar)



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fredthe3rd wrote:

Anyone bought any special editions? Anyone bought THE BOX? Will the extra discs from THE BOX be made available separately?

 No. No. No.

But if someone would like to buy it for me I'd be grateful.



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