. the Fuzzy Warbles box, that is.
10 cds inside, and 1 cd promo outside with 2 tracks from the 9 volumes.
All in one heckofabig box! Won on ebay for about £50.
My guess is, I’ll have to pace myself. Take it all in over the course of a year or so.
Did you get any of the individual volumes?
I have somewhat studiously avoided it—I actually quite liked the idea at first, but once it became apparent that he planned to basically release XTC’s full catalog in duplicate, I just seemed like asking me to do too much quality control for him. (Plus a little greedy, although lord knows those guys haven’t made nearly as much as they deserved.)
It’s mostly unfamiliar stuff, songwise. Colin opted out of the process.
One of my old bands had a demo of some of Col’s unused songs with a “hey, use them if you want to” brief, but umm... ah... (tnvg)!“
I have Volumes 1–4, out of which I made one mix CD of the “better” stuff—I could do without the demo versions of various things and all the pointless studio filler (Andy making funny voices! doing a radio spot for some obscure british DJ! turning a drum machine on and off!). Still, bunch of interesting things on there. Now that I have 4 volumes tho, I can’t bring myself to buy the box set, doesn’t seem worth it.
It is interesting to see how he recycles bits of songs—grabbing a bridge from an old song here, inserting the chord change from another song there, etc.
I remember you saying that before, Mark, about your old band and the Colin songs...what happened? And can I get a hold of this precious artifact? I too have avoided this box set. A Colin fan has to put his foot down somewhere.
whatever happened to Partridge’s project with the Apples in Stereo guy?
“Did you get any of the individual volumes?”
I got 1–6, haven’t got ’round to 7 and 8 and am a bit pissed off about being rewarded for sticking with the project by the fact that Vol. 9 is apparently only available with the box set.
You can buy just the box and Vol 9 from Andy’s website for £10.99 or get it with volumes 7 and 8 for about £25. Pretty good deal.
Yeah, just going to say that.
I plunged in with volume five first, after playing the ’2 tracks from each’ promodisc, it’s pretty damn wonderful stuff and the sleevenotes are the icing on it.
Bimb: What happened? We wrote our own, did a pretty good job and split prematurely, as it goes with most bands. The artifact I only heard the once, and I guess the bandmate that owned the tape probably still has it and probably doesn’t know where.
“You can buy just the box and Vol 9 from Andy’s website for £10.99 or get it with volumes 7 and 8 for about £25. Pretty good deal.”
Thanks, done that.
hmm maybe I’ll do that too... altho I’ll still have to hunt down vol 5–6 for completism’s sake. argggh
You can get 1–6 there fairly cheap, although it ain;t quite as cheap as it looks (by the time they’d added VAT and P&P to my order it was more like £35 than £25)
Check e-bay for yr missing volumes.
Oh, and Dave Gregory has done one of his own, different style and not exactly available, but still...
So much for me ‘pacing’ myself, having done the ‘best of’, Vols 5, 6, 1 and 2 so far (in 3 days..)
Can’t fault the delivery—it arrived today—and Mr. Grout is correct, it is a big box (and rather an attractive one too I’d say).
You know, I can sneak around with me Clash CD singles box set quite easily (all singles with extra tracks representing UK/USA/Promo variations, although they forgot the “I fought the law” Reprise on the Cost Of Living e.p.), but I have to keep the APartridge bigbox in the boot (it looks too attractive left on the front seat!)