bother
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Any individual Otis albums you'd recommend instead of the full box?
Vinyl Me Please Anthology
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Any individual Otis albums you'd recommend instead of the full box?
ChristoBee
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I might just do something like that, indeed.
ChristoBee
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Dock of the Bay & Otis Blue are my personnal faves.
Jeff Lerner
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Is this streaming anywhere? I can't find the album on Spotify.
Jeff Lerner
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Gun to my head I would say The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads but you can't wrong with any of them, IMO the guy never recorded a bad track.
blissfullychaotic
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I find it hard to justify $300, even $200 for vinyl when I don't know what I am getting inside the box, podcast, stickers, a nice box are nice to have's but not essential to me, as the records are what I am buying it for. And this isn't about the $$$, as I am pretty lucky to be where I am but it's more about this whole mentality of buy before you know has got to go.
I would be curious if the Motown, blue note, and ghostly buyers would still have bought the set after knowing what was inside? Had I not been a huge Ghostly fan boy and waited to see the albums were also being independently pressed I may have passed on this. Because let's be honest, getting music advice from Stof, is not something I need nor want to ever listen to. Luckily Storf didn't touch the Ghostly Podcast so I felt better about that.
I was pretty wasted when I wrote my response to the announcement of Stax so that was fun to revisit but I still stand by it.
I've bought all 3 and am buying this one. Had no issue buying without knowing what was inside and have no regrets after the fact.
Completely understand why some people wouldnt be cool with that, but this isnt who that is marketed for I guess. You're buying the theme/label and the experience. Whether the price is worth it or not is subjective. I personally would like if it was a bit cheaper but also don't really mind the price point, nowhere near a dealbreaker for me (that could change depending on how many they put out next year).
mdmost
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Same as wynn72. I've done full listens to the Blue Note one a couple times. I've got a backlog of records right now, otherwise I'd be doing the same with Motown. I actually haven't gotten through Ghostly yet since Christmas music season arrived. I'll get back to Ghostly after Christmas Day.
blissfullychaotic
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Great to know, glad you stand by your purchases and enjoy the experience!
I guess before VMP the only things I bought before I knew what I was getting was Pokemon cards, so I guess their marketing to the same crowd?
I didn't buy Motown nor Blue Note, (Motown isn't my jam, whereas Blue Note is) but from what I heard about the extras, it left a bad taste in my mouth. Besides the money, if your goal is to educate people about these labels, I find it odd that there arn't more industry experts, people who work/run the label, leading these series. What is Storf's background? It's like taking in news from an economist do I listen to Paul Krugman or Ben Shapiro? I like to learn from people who are in the industry and have insights that I have no idea about. With Ghostly it was fun to learn about Shigeto, Choir, and hear from the owner, however I passed on watching all of the unboxing's because, time, why do I need to watch someone open a box? But that's just me, and if unboxing are your jam that's cool too.
So yeah, if you buy it enjoy it and if you don't buy it also enjoy it, VMP has become such a divisive company that it almost begs the question, is it worth beating a dead horse, they once again are coming off a fiasco and are asking their customers to trust them again. I find it funny and odd at the same time, but I guess these are probably the same people who still eat at Chipotle despite their continued reliance on buying/sourcing vegetables that have killed/ made people sick.
I think everyone here knows what they want, I think it's important for us to share opinions and help lead people to making a better more informed decision, and while it certainly isn't a VMP community, this is the VMP anthology thread, so perhaps we turn this thread into the community that VMP should be providing and have the members here discuss their experience/learning with each new anthology that comes out.
I don't know who we could contact, but I am almost certain, members of N&G could put out a great Anthology set, similar to the AOTM thread, it would be cool if we did an Anthology one as well.
CCKrone
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Yeah, I dont watch the unboxings (just VMP hype to me), but enjoy the podcasts, even the Storf ones. To me he's a fine interviewer and I mainly listen for the insight of the people he's talking to, not him.
End of the day though, the podcasts are just a plus. I'm definitely never relistening to them so the box sets in my collection are really what I'm putting down the money for. I've always been a sucker for a good box set, think the packaging is qualify, I've really enjoyed the record selection so far. Especially something like Ghostly where I was pretty unfamiliar with the label beforehand, so the curation is a big selling point for me.
blissfullychaotic
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At the end of the day your happiness is all that matters, and we really shouldn't have to put members on the spot to justify their purchases, because Music makes everyone feel differently even if thats buying it from different sources.
I was a part of the Ghostly experience and I didn't do nearly enough to bring great conversations around the records they curated nor the label as a whole, which is something I kind of regret, but I would like to see this thread in the future become something like that, for those that order Stax, hope your stir the conversation into more of a learning experience for others, and not just a display of affection towards a shiny box.
mdmost
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Storf said they couldn't do Carla Thomas or The Staple Singers as those have been recently reissued. Stax seems a very male heavy label. From the Stax list, there's only three other female artists I can see: Jean Knight, Mable John, and Shirley Brown.
dhodo
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This makes me think about how strange their focus for the anthology is. On one hand, they seem like they are trying to sell it as a definitive overview/sampling of the label subject of the box, but passing over definitive albums because they have been reissued "recently", bizzarely not counting other boxsets (like the Otis one), seems to me like it would be in direct conflict with that goal.
moohoohahaha
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Teeeee
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I am not hugely familiar with the complete history of Stax so it really was an honest question. When I think of Stax I think of Otis and Isaac and exactly 0 women come to mind. Thank you for the honest answer back.
All of his albums are worthy but Otis Blue is my favorite. Make sure to get the mono versions of everything.