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Summary: Disappointing and disjointed
Comment: This set tries to cover too much ground, too many years and costs too much with too few songs. 50 minutes a cd is ridiculous for a box set of old songs. Has some nice songs though but sort of covers more than one era as far as I'm concerned.
If I were doing this I'd have a box set that didn't go beyond maybe '65. That earlier era, dominated by the pop side of the Beatles and bands like Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark Five, Searchers, Seekers, Mindbenders, Them, early Zombies, Freddie and the Dreamers, Peter and Gordon, early Animals, etc. deserves to be looked at sperate from things like Nights in White Satin. We will soon have a reissue of the Dave Clark Five hits and I will put together my own collection of early pop British Invasion followed by a collection with the bluesier stuff from the period. It's hard for me to go from Mrs Brown to Heart full of Soul on one disc. Although this disc doesn't do that exactly, it does it in principle.
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Summary: Just what my husband wanted for xmas
Comment: We were watching channel 13 concert showing the groups from these cds. My husband wanted to pledge $ to get them. I then ran upstairs, went on amazon, found them and ordered them for x-mas for a fraction of the pledge. My husband was surprised and thrilled. It is his kind of music.
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Summary: great music
Comment: Music is great! I had to break the disc holders to release the cd's, BE CAREFUL.
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Summary: good music, cheap on the content
Comment: This is a (mostly) good collection that could have been better (I know, I know,can't they all?). My biggest gripe, and the reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars, was the length of these cd's. At appox. 50 minutes each, many more songs could have fit. Either that or this should could have been narrowed down to a 2cd set.
Another gripe is the inclusion of "Winchester Cathedral". It just doesn't belong here. Also, much as I loved Dusty Springfield, four songs by her was a little much, especially "The Look Of Love"
Other than that, the rest of the collection presents a fairly good mix of songs, and memories, for me. The sound is pretty much excellent throughout.
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Summary: The British Invasion At It's Finest! :)
Comment: I absolutely LUV~LUV~LUV my new CD collection of 60s "British Invasion" music! Although I am slightly disappointed that, for reasons unknown, The Dave Clark Five were completely left off of this compilation; despite the many, many hits they had (i.e. "Because", "Catch Us If You Can", etc.), AND the missing Peter & Gordon's songs "I Go To Pieces" and "Nobody I Know", you can't ask for much more!
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