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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sonickteam2 on March 29, 2007, 11:52:00 am
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hey, kosmo or any other garage afficiando.
has anyone checked out "Children of Nuggets" box set? I just saw it yesterday (never knew it was even out)
looks like good stuff, though a lot i havent heard. any opinions?
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I think its great
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It's fantastic.
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Is it better than the original?
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I'd like to get it at some point but, like "Left of the Dial," I think it could have been much better. Both sets really stick to songs that, for the most part, are still in print. We really need a box set of the independent gems that built college radio. I've thought about this for a while and I think that a few of us boardies can flesh this out. It would be great to release it ourselves, maybe with Seth's backing (read "finances" :D ).
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And Sonick...You probably know more of these songs than you think. There were quite a few songs here that I remembered, but I had no idea who sang them, or what their titles were.
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
I'd like to get it at some point but, like "Left of the Dial," I think it could have been much better. Both sets really stick to songs that, for the most part, are still in print. We really need a box set of the independent gems that built college radio. I've thought about this for a while and I think that a few of us boardies can flesh this out. It would be great to release it ourselves, maybe with Seth's backing (read "finances" :D ).
have you heard of the Numero Group? (http://www.numerogroup.com/) They'd be perfect for that kind of thing as they specialize in making comps of hard to find material - they've done lots of soul so far but have also put together an amazing power pop comp called yellow pills
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it's very very good, and it has much more obscure stuff than Left of the Dial
you can, ahem, sample the set here (http://www.mininova.org/tor/307935)
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Children of Nuggets is great, but it's not as good as the two previous Nuggets sets (that's a pretty high bar). It's definitely worth having. I've been re-listening to Left of the Dial over that past few days, and I think it's a pretty good overview. As much as I'd like the out-of-print gems, I don't think that's really what Rhino set out to do. For most of the bands on it, they do a good job of picking the representative track, though there are some odd choices (e.g., "The Forest" for the Cure).