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Music CD - Various Artists: The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium
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Music CD: The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $64.98
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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1. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
2. Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
3. Felt - Primitive Partners
4. Shop Assistants - Somewhere In China
5. My Biggest Thrill - The Mighty Lemon Drops
6. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
7. Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen
8. April Skies - The Jesus And Mary Chain
9. Walkin' With Jesus (Sound Of Confusion) - Spacemen 3
10. Crash - The Primitives
11. Unbearable - The Wonder Stuff
12. She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses
13. The Only One I Know - The Charlatans UK
14. Step On - Happy Mondays
15. Loaded - Primal Scream
16. This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
17. Obscurity Knocks - The Trash Can Sinatras
18. There She Goes - The La's
19. Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227998356
Format: Special Edition
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 2007-11-20
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Summary: Great Brits
Comment: Thank God for the Brits. Outside of select USA bands, such as the Foo Fighters, the mantle of Rock is basically being kept alive by England. Doves, Snow Patrol, Embrace, Doves, and others, are producing great
rock, while we are dominated by Hip Hop -which produces some great stuff, but a lot of self righteous and repetitive pap. This collection, especially CDs 3&4, documents music that was only peripherally familiar to me while it was being made. It shows that ever since the Beatles hit our shores, the Old World has kept a steady stream of great music coming our way, even when we try to ignore it.
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Summary: An Alternative to American Grunge
Comment: It's somewhat telling that as the grunge of the 90's ages less and less well, the neglected gems of Britpop shine brighter and brighter. This box set is a perfect sampler of the pleasures of melodic, guitar-based pop. Starting off with the best Smiths' song ever, "How Soon Is Now", these four discs provide the listener a perfect balance of relatively well known tunes with underrated obscurities. The big names are well-represented here (The Cure, New Order, Oasis, Blur, Stone Roses, Elastica), along with some drop-dead terrific bands I would never have known about (Dodgy, Silver Sun, Moose, & Felt, to name a few). In between are bands that should have been huge in the U.S. but weren't (does Suede come to mind?). I own all of Rhino's "Nuggets" box sets, as well as their "Left of the Dial", and this one is the most consistently enjoyable listen of any of them. Hear what our friends across the pond were digging while we were stuck listening to Nirvana clones and hip hop garbage.
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Summary: missing bands
Comment: include :strangelove,puressence,shed seven,house of love, molly half head(who?),idlewild,levitation(see house of love ).and if your going to have bands like the dylans why not the milltown brothers.also,where is doves ? they released music in the late 90's. but enough about the nitpicking because if a collection has bands like the family cat and thousand yard stare it gets points for trying.
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Summary: Great collection, mixes the familiar and the almost-forgotten
Comment: This box got lukewarm reviews from the UK press, perhaps trying to protect their own turf in reaction to a US label releasing a definitive UK collection. They're wrong. The Brit Box is a great set of a lot of the best music to come from the British Isles from the mid 80's to the late 90's. Most of the standard-bearers are here - Smiths, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Stone Roses, Suede - plus some people who made some inroads in the States but kind of faded away (Kula Shaker, Elastica, Cornershop) and then some great tracks from bands who got lost in the trans-oceanic translation like Dodgy, Gene, Silver Sun, etc, that round out the collection nicely.
But as is always the case with thematic box sets, one can have some fun debating the roster or even track selections (great to hear the Shop Assistants again, but why not the brilliant A-side of that 45, "Safety Net?"). The liner notes bemoan the fact that the UK went from the Sex Pistols to Spandau Ballet within 4 years, and these bands are supposed to be the backlash against that. Then why include the Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen, whose debuts predated the miserable early 80's UK dancepop/exotic video/fashion bands? New Order, for all of their stellar pedigree, are a strange choice in a way...by the time their fellow Mancunians were inventing Brit Pop, they were kind of into their Ibiza electronica period. And Nick Heyward?
Why no Fall, Muse, Pastels, Woodentops, Yeah Yeah Noh, Nightingales, Marc Riley and the Creepers, Microdisney, Half Man Half Biscuit, Biff Bang Pow, Fuzzbox, Pop Will Eat Itself...and especially (let's hope it was just a licensing problem), why no Radiohead?
But I admit that's all nitpicking. Burn your own 5th disk if you want. Fans of indie rock and Brit Pop will love this, and younger listeners into the Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles, the Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, the Kooks, etc, will enjoy hearing where their generation's music came from too. This is one of the best box sets I've heard in a long time, I'd give it 4 and a half stars if half-stars were in the ratings key.
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Summary: Pretty darn solid
Comment: Basically they took the music I listened to college and put it on a box set.
Disc 1 and 2 are fantastic
Disc 3 is excellent and Disc 4 is really good.
Overall a great collection of music.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Consider this super-cool, long-overdue 4-CD set the less-commercial but no-less telling riposte to the early 1960s British Invasion, when bands crossed the Atlantic to serve up what they'd learned, largely from under-heralded American artists (as in the Stones and Muddy Waters). During the period that The Brit Box puts under the microscope, England went from Margaret Thatcher and John Major to Tony Blair, from youth culture (and the press) zeroing in on football hooliganism to the rise of Acid House and Brit pop. So it is that the addled guitar haze of Spaceman 3's "Walkin' with Jesus" melds with the bouncy, synth-softened euphoria of "She Bangs the Drums," and the chirpy, jangly float of The Primitives' "Crash." These are moments in pop transition, as the peppy new wave of the 1980s meets up with the psychedelic, dope-colored moodiness of the '90s, and then, quickly, with the ascent of "Cool Brittania." As the Thatcher/Major era heads into the 1990s, Birdland--long forgotten--rips at the jugular with the quick, garage rock-infused "Shoot You Down," which, like so much here, keeps a finger keenly on a groove you could either embrace while hallucinating or pogo-ing on the dance floor (or both). New Order, Pulp, Oasis, Blur, Elastica, and My Bloody Valentine are all here, of course. They embrace the whole continuum, from the trippy to the happy to the… self-reflective, and they offer enough landmarks that Dodgy, and The Bluetones, and Silver Sun and These Animal Men all have space to drop in, adding layers to this spectacular omnibus collection. --Andrew Bartlett
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