Vinyl Me Please Anthology

MikeH said:
Based on some quick research, Pure Pleasure pressed all but 1 of these albums (which has never been reissued). Price-wise, if ya want em all, not a bad deal compared to the PP pressings. If you only want a few, probably better off just grabbing the PP's on their own!
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I’ve got a couple of the Pure Pleasure releases., they are quality. This actually seems like a reasonable price if you want all these albums.
 
botherly said:
Hm good point. But.... the podcast.

I actually have Vibes and Message already so it kind of does make sense to go the individual route. Depending on availability.
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
I’ve got a couple of the Pure Pleasure releases., they are quality. This actually seems like a reasonable price if you want all these albums.
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Since you both seem to know these albums/artists does it get into Art Ensamble of Chicago levels weird/out there jazz or is it all fairly digestible?
 
bdm105 said:
Since you both seem to know these albums/artists does it get into Art Ensamble of Chicago levels weird/out there jazz or is it all fairly digestible?
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Way more digestible. It’s free jazz but considerably more funky. I have Vibes From The Tribe and The Time Is Now. I also have Wendell Harrison’s Dreams of Love Supreme (which isn’t part of the set). I dig the music on all of them and I am not a big Free Jazz person.
 
Yeah I’m a little confused about this box. Does Now Again have sole rights to Tribe now? If so, these are almost certainly going to come out on that label at the very least. Maybe the unreleased Wendell Harrison album will be specific to this box set only? I believe I have all six that were reissued by Pure Pleasure. They are fantastic records and I need to pull them out again.
 
mitchwagz said:
Yeah I’m a little confused about this box. Does Now Again have sole rights to Tribe now? If so, these are almost certainly going to come out on that label at the very least. Maybe the unreleased Wendell Harrison album will be specific to this box set only? I believe I have all six that were reissued by Pure Pleasure. They are fantastic records and I need to pull them out again.
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VMP does this in nearly all the anthologies now. They rely on you not looking at where else you can buy the albums, or expect people to want to pay a premium to buy all the records in one box instead of buying separately. This one's weirder than most because 6 of the 7 are easily found on Pure Pleasure as AAA releases. I'd bet that Now-Again has the rights only to the unreleased album which is why they got the 2nd billing on the box set again. If you want the unreleased album, you'll likely have to buy this box set (or at least until Now-Again releases a variant of it). I'd have to think that the album will get another release since its so rare, but who knows. We still haven't seen the Zamrock reissues that people claimed Now-Again would release separately.

In this case, it's probably the same price to buy all the albums in it separately from Pure Pleasure if you don't have any and want them all. They are some great albums. I agree with @serotonein that it's frustrating to pay a premium on a box instead of getting a better price, but all the Anthologies have been that so far. I own two and they are awesome, but they lost me with the Dead box and not sure I'll buy any in the future unless they do a label or artist I love and don't have good copies of their albums.
 
MikeH said:
VMP does this in nearly all the anthologies now. They rely on you not looking at where else you can buy the albums, or expect people to want to pay a premium to buy all the records in one box instead of buying separately. This one's weirder than most because 6 of the 7 are easily found on Pure Pleasure as AAA releases. I'd bet that Now-Again has the rights only to the unreleased album which is why they got the 2nd billing on the box set again. If you want the unreleased album, you'll likely have to buy this box set (or at least until Now-Again releases a variant of it). I'd have to think that the album will get another release since its so rare, but who knows. We still haven't seen the Zamrock reissues that people claimed Now-Again would release separately.

In this case, it's probably the same price to buy all the albums in it separately from Pure Pleasure if you don't have any and want them all. They are some great albums. I agree with @serotonein that it's frustrating to pay a premium on a box instead of getting a better price, but all the Anthologies have been that so far. I own two and they are awesome, but they lost me with the Dead box and not sure I'll buy any in the future unless they do a label or artist I love and don't have good copies of their albums.
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Yeah I only have the Blue Note box and would have loved to own a couple other boxes had the selection been better or the price been more reasonable. I really don’t see how they will be able to get me to buy another anthology any time soon. They also need to stop throwing all of these anthologies out in the market, imo. They obviously aren’t selling well and I don’t believe Tribe will be an exception.
 
mitchwagz said:
Yeah I only have the Blue Note box and would have loved to own a couple other boxes had the selection been better or the price been more reasonable. I really don’t see how they will be able to get me to buy another anthology any time soon. They also need to stop throwing all of these anthologies out in the market, imo. They obviously aren’t selling well and I don’t believe Tribe will be an exception.
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It seems that Acoustic Sounds buys some of the anthologies now in advance to sell later. They have had the Dead box, Motown and will likely have Herbie. I bet they do the same with this box.
 
I was tempted by this last night but decided to back away from it. It looks like a killer set which, for once, is kind of reasonably priced for the number of records and content that comes with it (especially if you get the poster as well). The thing is the Tribe recordings were never top-quality studio-level anyway so even if these end up being better quality than the available Pure Pleasure anyway im not sure the difference would be noticable. Decent looking set though and im sure anyone that gets it will be thoroughly happy, such a killer label.
 
I just don't have the extra cash now (thanks Covid!) to splurge on these Anthologies over things I'm really interested. I only really consistently relisten to the Blue Note and Stax Anthologies. Motown was good but it's not one I'm pulling off my shelf. Ghostly is one I thought I would be more interested in.
 
Selaws said:
I was tempted by this last night but decided to back away from it. It looks like a killer set which, for once, is kind of reasonably priced for the number of records and content that comes with it (especially if you get the poster as well). The thing is the Tribe recordings were never top-quality studio-level anyway so even if these end up being better quality than the available Pure Pleasure anyway im not sure the difference would be noticable. Decent looking set though and im sure anyone that gets it will be thoroughly happy, such a killer label.
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Yea--someone on reddit brought up the fact that PP is mostly (if not always) pressed at Pallas. This box will likely be GZ again. So just another thing to keep in mind.
 
marshall said:
FWIW - Now Again did the Zamrock set, also pressed at GZ, and it was remarkably well done.
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Yep--I have that set and it sounds great. A lot of those were also not from original masters IIRC. GZ can sound great. They can also be riddled with QC errors.
 
4080 said:
I'm still surprised none of those Zamrock records have popped up anywhere, well at least the ones that Now-Again are responsible for!
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I am but also I'm not...A) there's likely at least a year "Exclusivity" period and B) Now-Again may or may not eventually press them. Its why I didn't buy the idea that people said Now-Again and Strawberry Rain would definitely repress them.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Definitely surprised N&A hasn't reissued a couple by now. All are available from them digitally. Maybe there was a year exclusive agreement with VMP
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Strawberry Rain in particular is a bit of a shitshow so I don't think we will see those reissued. They have been trying to press some of those albums for years now with no luck until VMP came along.
 
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