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| From | DethRokrX@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Rhino Handmade to rerelease Guadalcanal Diary |
| Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:33:27 EST |
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Rhino Handmade's Guadalcanal Diary reissues were already in the works when
WEA licensed the first two albums to Collectibles, a situation over which no one
at Handmade had any control. It's also worth noting that Collectibles'
version was assembled with no input from the band members, who are closely involved
with the Handmade discs, providing unreleased tracks, interviews and archival
memorabilia.
The Collectibles disc sounds decent to my ears, although I seriously doubt
that they used the original tapes. But the twofer's hideous cover art and
clueless liner notes are in keeping with Collectibles' longstanding tradition of
shoddy packaging and careless annotation.
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