Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Dtknuckles said:
I had a deeper listen to the Schizophrenia this morning. Man this is a really great album. I slept on it when bought the CD in high school. They really take some time to stretch the harmonies. In Kryptonite, Ron even stays on one note for Wayne’s and then into Herbie’s solo. It’s like he’s meditating. Finally Herbie prods him into action mid way through his solo.
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It's one of my favorite jazz albums. It's a shame that it hasn't been repressed in 20 or so years prior to Anthology.
 
Overall a bit disappointing with Anthology. The first two picks were definitely the best, I'm not sure about the others. They're good, but I'm not sure in hindsight I would have spent all that money on those records. Maybe I'm at a point in my journey through Jazz where I don't need VMP recommendation and need to follow my own path. Amazing sounding records tbf, they did a good job on that score.
 
Captainfog said:
Overall a bit disappointing with Anthology. The first two picks were definitely the best, I'm not sure about the others. They're good, but I'm not sure in hindsight I would have spent all that money on those records. Maybe I'm at a point in my journey through Jazz where I don't need VMP recommendation and need to follow my own path. Amazing sounding records tbf, they did a good job on that score.
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Yes, I agree. As an international (with a crappy exchange rate) it was a big call and I got swept up in the excitement of it all to some extent. I put some faith in the whole "experience" being something pretty cool and in the end it really wasn't. If you don't count the free Shorter record in a Dexter sleeve then the only other potential bonus was the Blue Note Review which would be fantastic but there's three of them to win. Not on Facebook so can't access that side of things but it sounds like a bit of a flop anyway. And there's so many wonderful, quality reissues coming out at the moment that we're spoilt for choice, at a great price. Like you, I'm following my own path in jazz and it's a hell of a good path to be on. No regrets and yep, the records are great.
 
Captainfog said:
Overall a bit disappointing with Anthology. The first two picks were definitely the best, I'm not sure about the others. They're good, but I'm not sure in hindsight I would have spent all that money on those records. Maybe I'm at a point in my journey through Jazz where I don't need VMP recommendation and need to follow my own path. Amazing sounding records tbf, they did a good job on that score.
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I’m not an Anthology subscriber for a similar reason you described (plus the price), but the one record that I reeeeeeally want out of it is Bobby Hutcherson - Montara. I hope for everyone’s sake that VMP won’t mess that one up.
 
Captainfog said:
Overall a bit disappointing with Anthology. The first two picks were definitely the best, I'm not sure about the others. They're good, but I'm not sure in hindsight I would have spent all that money on those records. Maybe I'm at a point in my journey through Jazz where I don't need VMP recommendation and need to follow my own path. Amazing sounding records tbf, they did a good job on that score.
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<------ Lurks the Jazz thread, it's kind of like an online Jazz 101 class, lol
 
Is the FB page approaching maximum shittiness? I feel it has slowly become that the complainers about the "complainers" have just become regular complainers now. They always acted like discussing anything that went wrong with the Anthology was ruining the group and distracting, when really it was them coming in to start shit about anyone who said anything critical (and then carrying that into other threads shitting on those people) that were causing the bad vibes and the distraction. Now it seems they've come around to shitting on people for "only posting album covers", which was always obviously an issue. They act as if anything beyond Chris Irwin's contributions have been enlightening. Are some of them really getting a jazz education or learning about new artists there? The guy they are shitting on for posting just covers has probably posted the most diverse range of jazz artists of anyone, beyond a couple of random quality posts over the course of the group. And yeah, I agree that guy does suck anyway cause he never says anything about the albums and honestly I've noticed almost half of them are CDs. I'm far past done with entertaining any of these people seriously and have turned to the only thing that now makes sense: trolling them.
 
johnpisme said:
Is the FB page approaching maximum shittiness? I feel it has slowly become that the complainers about the "complainers" have just become regular complainers now. They always acted like discussing anything that went wrong with the Anthology was ruining the group and distracting, when really it was them coming in to start shit about anyone who said anything critical (and then carrying that into other threads shitting on those people) that were causing the bad vibes and the distraction. Now it seems they've come around to shitting on people for "only posting album covers", which was always obviously an issue. They act as if anything beyond Chris Irwin's contributions have been enlightening. Are some of them really getting a jazz education or learning about new artists there? The guy they are shitting on for posting just covers has probably posted the most diverse range of jazz artists of anyone, beyond a couple of random quality posts over the course of the group. And yeah, I agree that guy does suck anyway cause he never says anything about the albums and honestly I've noticed almost half of them are CDs. I'm far past done with entertaining any of these people seriously and have turned to the only thing that now makes sense: trolling them.
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I don't get adding to the fire it's just counterproductive at best and mean spirited at worst.
 
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