What about a Metal Box thread?

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http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~takanomo/LOVELOG_IMG/metal_box-s.jpg

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I have this one:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-12106-001.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

how do i store mp3 in metal canister

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

What's going on with image links on thehold? Damn.

That was the Metalheadz metal box.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(in b4 somebody links to youtube video of "poptones" on american bandstand)

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Rolling Metal Box thread

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

It was always more about the "TOTP appearance" anyway!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09rFsMTYKqA

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember when that came out, and cost something like 40 bucks, which was a lot at the time...I used to just drool over it at the record store, but just couldn't part with that much scratch at the time...(now I have the CD replica, but it 'taint the same)...

― henry s (henry s), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It came out on the very week I got paid for the first time.

I debated and debated, the weeks going up to it coming out, should I? It's expensive!

I did. Money's worth. Hooray.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a recent vinyl reissue in the metal box. If I owned a better record player it's be at the top of my Xmas list.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"it'd"

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine looks terrible now...it's gone kinda rusty.

Bought in Regent Records in Leamington Spa - I remember waiting months for it - I had to pay a deposit as well. I'm sure it's release was delayed for some reason.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn - I can't get the hang of images...what am i doing wrong?
This is what I typed in
img src = "http://static.flickr.com/103/311313218_2e21636dcd.jpg?v=0"
...with pointy parenthesis on either end...

One more go...

The pic is here anyway...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/311313218/

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

woah!...that's a rusty scupper, to be sure...wears about as well as that Spectrum LP with the oil-engorged plastic sleeve...(or the Alice Cooper Muscle Of Love cardboard box...buyer beware the uniquely-packaged record)...

― henry s (henry s), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/103/311313218_2e21636dcd.jpg

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

'careering', old grey whistle test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9O2tsIbKD0

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

eight-minute take on 'bad baby' from a US show, 1980: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZgXWlQdPHQ

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the related vids to that vid of Death Disco was STARS ARE BLIND.

The Lex is screwing with us again!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Sunday, 3 December 2006 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks nuedward - how did you do it?

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost
Anyway - yeah it is rusty.BUT...my records used to be against the outside wall of an old house which I later realised was slightly damp. Although some of the albums will never be the same again due to warping and/or paper stuck to them - the metal box - while rusty itself - kept the contents in remarkably good shape - huzzah!
I'm very pleased that the little sticker that says METAL 1 has remained intact.

Mark - is that yours at the top? It's in unbelievably good nick.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Notice also the little sellotape marks on the edge.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Where can that new reissue be found for cheap?

― ... (50 Bourbon St), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Never bought one due to lack of albums I need in metal box storage form AND the fact that i fear it rolling off my shelves.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link

No, that's not my one, mines a little rusty with fingerprints.

I just wanted to post an alternate image rather than the usual http://eil.com/images/gallery_50x50/88197.jpg type.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 4 December 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

record more notable for its packaging than music (apparently).

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

.. not.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

that's what people are talking about!

you're all just jealous of my durutti column sandpaper sleeve obviously.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

pah, I wave my first aspect of the same think in yower fiace..

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

pah, I wave my first aspect of the same thing in yower fiace..

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I figured everyone's talked about the music somewhere before - I'm sure there was some thread about that somewhere - well anyway the music is awesome really from start to finish - it's the only PIL album I can listen to all the way through - one of the few albums full stop I can listen to all the way through actually. No dud tracks and Poptones (for which I am SURE there is thread already) is one of the greatest things of all time ever.

Of course I listen to the CD nowadays as getting those things out of the box and changing the speed for the last side is too much hassle. But the CD comes in a metal box too so that's alright.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always held off buying this because I've heard the CD issue is one of those examples of really horrible CD mastering, or is that just the Second Edition version? Is there a decent reissue of this out?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I cannot count how many times this has been blasting in my car as I've scraped ice off my windshields. Scraping jagged ice as the bass goes through the glass into the scraper into the hands and then arms and then almost everything else = ahh.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - CD sounds fine to me but I am a very poor judge of sound quality.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a new reissue of the vinyl w/metal box that's really cool and affordable.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Answers to many questions:

Metal Box debates from old ILM:
Metal Box -- does anyone hate this as much as me?

How to buy the reissue:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/bin/search.pl?search_string=4M%20500LP

How to post images on sandbox:
Use standard HTML img src= tags.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

who the fuck are 4 Men with Beards? I have several reissues from them. And no, don't say they are a reissue group.. who are the people behind it and do they have beards?

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

4 Men with Beards

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow - quite a lot of hate for it on that old thread - I'm shocked.

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

it's the 'sergeant peppers' of the late 70s so obviously it's going to provoke a backlash.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

well, hate was a request.

Anger is an energy, of course.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

'meh' is not an energy.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i believe the us cd is the one that is supposed to sound terrible, but the virgin cd in the metal box is supposed to sound better. I have the latter one and it sounds good

― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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