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| From | Jim Kosmicki <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu> |
| Subject | fuzzy warbles? |
| Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 11:44:22 -0500 |
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I am an XTC fan -- not a die-hard, but a fan. I consider their first good
album to be Drums & Wires and their run from that album through Skylarking
to be among the best of any band that I regularly listen to. "Love on a
Farmboy's Wages" is one of my wife's favorite songs to this day, and was
influential in our courtship.
At the same time, there's so much good music that I've never been one to go
out of my way to collect all the ephemera of a band or performer just
because it exists. As much as I like the Jellyfish boxset, I don't listen
to it much and really only bought it as a vote of support for the band and
NotLame as a label.
so, having brought forth my failures as a music collector/fetishist, I am
intrigued by the Fuzzy Warbles collections. Partially because I really like
the idea of buying directly from an artist who's fought so long against the
corporate control of his music. But also because I want to have any good
music from the XTC catalog that I might be missing.
I know that there's been references to these collections, but I don't
remember any specific reviews of them. So, what's the content like? Is it
chronological? I am not interested in the first disc or two if they are
from the White Music/Go 2 era, as i like only a very few of the commercially
released tracks from that timeperiod.
There was also an XTC boxset that came out a bit ago -- does it have
anything vital that isn't already on disc?
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