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Tears For Fears pregame, cont’d: Don’t sleep on the Seeds box

As we bide our time this week until The Tipping Point on Friday, today’s quick question is: Did you miss out on the Seeds Of Love box? When the 4CD+BluRay box came out in 2020, the limited inventory disappeared with…

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Springsteen Reimagined: Talk To Me (and ’78 Sessions box)(2010)

This playlist at Spotify /// M8 home at Spotify Let’s start with a quick look at the U.S. Top 10 album that actually* got released in 1978, then move on to its unusual creation story.Bruce SpringsteenTalk To Me (1978) SIDE ONE4:22   …

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U2 / Achtung Baby (Super Deluxe “B-sides & Bonus Tracks” Disc)(Archives, 2011)

Real-time review of Disc 5 of the Super Deluxe version of the Achtung, Baby reissue (related: the review of the Kindergarten disc). Ready … set …LADY WITH THE SPINNING HEADThis is not a random choice for the opening track. As Edge has noted, this…

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U2 / Achtung, Baby (Super Deluxe Disc 6: Kindergarten – Alternative Achtung Baby)

Achtung, y’all! In what may be some extended coverage of the reissue of U2’s Achtung, Baby, let’s start with the one audio disc in the Super Deluxe set that is 100% totally unheard by fans until now. This “Kindergarten” or “Baby” disc…

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grateful dead 3/16/90 landover spring 1990 box
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Grateful Dead – 3/16/90 Landover (Spring 1990 box #1)

Was buying this box set a bad idea? I think anyone who just spent $200 on a set of six Grateful Dead concerts from 1990 would ask the same thing as they open up the package. I’m typically all about…

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Grateful Dead – 3/22/90 Hamilton, ON (Spring 1990 box #3)

The Dead played roughly 2,300 shows from the time they started  down that golden road to unlimited devotion through 1995, and devotees recorded all but maybe a couple hundred in one form or another. So it’s unlikely — highly unlikely…

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Grateful Dead – 3/26/90 Albany (Spring 1990 box #4)

We’re over the hump in the six-show Spring 1990 box as the caravan survives customs and rolls into New York’s capital. After the collection’s second “Hell In A Bucket” opener (better than the first), 3/26/90 proceeds to a gangly but…

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Grateful Dead – 4/2/90 Atlanta (Spring 1990 box #6)

While the other five shows were the last nights in their respective cities, the middle night at the Omni took the honors to end the Spring 1990 box. So it’s hard not to look at the next night and notice…

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Grateful Dead / Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings

For a box like this, let’s go night by night and track by track (for most, but not all, of the performances). As for the physical box itself, I’m a big fan of the compact design and the basic styling,…

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Grateful Dead – 5/17/74 Vancouver (Pacific Northwest box)

The 1974 half of the voluminous and often luminous Pacific Northwest ’73-’74 box finds the lady and gentlemen in British Columbia, midway through a month of dates. What hasn’t quite been found as the lights go down is the mix…

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