Rhino Records C/D

I thought they did an excellent job with The Cure. I am no audio expert though.

And for "I'm a Christmas Tree" by Wild Man Fischer.

In fact, Wounded Bird, which has Rhino in fine print on it, has largely been quite fine. They're budget-priced mostly and deserve to be. This year's select choices for me were Lord Sutch, More and the astonishing Loudness rereleases.

chortle, giggle, snort.

Thanks for the Wounded Bird tip, never heard of the label.

And the essay was mediocre. But they same people did good with the In Flame DVD. And the best Slade comp appears to be an import that was published about a month ago.

BTW, Rhino really dropped the ball with the CHILDREN OF NUGGETS set.

CHILDREN OF NUGGETS, on the other hand...even when I do max out the inferior tracks (more here than on the other two combined), it still sounds kinda half-assed.

This is a convincing argument, Get Back has also done as well for me.

The most played thing I have bought has to be this:

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Not exactly. I would bet a good sum of people who bought Jo Jo Gunne, Fanny, More, Private Life, Cactus, Steve Hunter, Loudness, etc. have little or no use for Nuggets, I or II. So kudos to the company for not coming even close to catering to one singular demographic.

However, I always hated that album that contained "Plate Full of Kazoos." Now, it's time to reissue Mogen David and His Winos. This is an in joke.

Yeeps.

It's really stupid because with all music becoming just dust in the ether I was valuing the definitive nature of Rhino boxes even more.

gah i was reading that and a giant ad for the CRASH TV SHOW popped up and i screamed out loud

Bummer indeed. I even bought two new Rhino releases this year (Dehumanizer LP and Heaven & Hell LP). Guess my little part wasn't enough.

I wonder if Shout! Factory will ramp things up?

Thanks for the superb Robyn Hitchcock reissue program in the 90's Rhino. And the awesome Sabbath remasters in the 00's.

yeah, they've done so much good stuff, and almost always done it well. I think the New Order remasters were the only things I heard really bad things about.

Doesn't sound good. I've still got to score that "Where the Action Is" box.

Oh man, maybe I should go buy that Big Star box set after all, even though I can't afford it now.

Well this stuff will all remain available no? They'll just stop producing new stuff?

God, I hope it'll stay available, I still haven't picked up half the Nuggets boxes, the rockabilly and girl-group boxes, etc...

This sucks :(

Get that girl group box. It's great.

I love Rhino but sheesh you think maybe some of their woes stem from the outlandish claims made for their boxes (for almost ALL boxes really but...)? I finally heard One Kiss Can Lead to Another a few months ago and shame on anyone claiming that EVERY SINGLE TRACK is ace (esp. when half the songs are unaccounted for in all of the reviews I've read so far). Or take Tim Sendra's Allmusic review: "Any girl group fan will have additions to the list, but the great thing about One Kiss Can Lead to Another is that there are no obvious choices to remove to make room for anyone else. Each track fits just right and to take one out would be just plain painful." Cute...until you pluck down your $50. I intend to take out at least two discs full (and replace them with Ginny Arnell's "Dumb Head" which I'm NOT claiming anyone else on earth would like). Even with much more consistent fare, like the first two Nuggets boxes (yes, I paid cash fuckin' money for them), I managed dynamite one-disc distillations of each with no pain.

I don't applaud these layoffs or "the death of the music industry" in general. But the death of the box set sounds very healthy (and lookee here - Big Star box, new Nuggets box...).

you are rong about one kiss imo

Kevin I LOVE "Dumb Head"! My mother had it on 45 and as kids we spun it all the time. I was delighted to find an mp3 of it a few years ago. I don't remember the b-side; did she do anything else worthwhile?

Not sure I'd change a thing on the two 50s boxes, "Loud Fast & Out Of Control" & "Rockin' Bones" - except I'd eliminate the duplicates!

Seriously, though, Rhino has had an amazing ability to cut through the licensing issues and gather together artists work across labels like no one else. Who's gonna be able to do that in the future? Damnit, at least put out the desperately needed John Cale box first!

cherry red (well, at least some of the people they have working with them these days) aren't too shabby at it, but they do put out a tremendous amount of crap alongside the excellently curated gems

Cherry Red's quality control and "remastering" are a joke compared to Rhino. They routinely include tracks from vinyl rips that seemingly haven't been listened to.

i agree it definitely depends on the release. the stuff joe foster does is excellent. ok, in all fairness, he's probably the only one there who really has a clue

cherry red covers soooooooo many niche labels and compilers that there's no real comparison with rhino...the cherry red mail order catalogue each year is just ridiculously huge compared to rhino's yearly output

Kevin I LOVE "Dumb Head"! My mother had it on 45 and as kids we spun it all the time. I was delighted to find an mp3 of it a few years ago. I don't remember the b-side; did she do anything else worthwhile?

Isn't it the most?!? And as contradictory a pleasure as anything by The Rolling Stones. The only other song I know of hers is the devastating "I Wish I Knew What Dress To Wear," kinda like Dionne Warwick going through her closet before she walks on by.

Here is a link to an eighteen page thread on this topic on another board: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=194977

which also notes that this wasn't everyone at rhino, it was a substantial reduction, but bigger name things are still going to go out the door, and even some handmade titles. so rhino will probably get a little worse, which is what it's been doing for years.

You guys heard the Sharades version of "Dumb Head?" It's maybe even better than the original. Joe Meek and all that.

Better than Ginny Arnell?

maybe. great keyboard noise and more obnoxious vocals. it's on youtube, i don't want to post it and clutter up the thread.

I think us steel was funnin', gott. But I do prefer Ginny Arnell's and like both.

From Rhino's website:

The Reports Of Rhino's Demise Were An Exaggeration

I'd love to ready a study tracing what happens to where all this reduced staff goes next, i.e. which professions, still in the industry?, etc.

On that other thread they were talking about how this would cheat a guy who had won the Rhino trivia contest and was receiving a lifetime supply of every Rhino release ever. I though they might have been talking about Rickey Wright but turns out he only got 100 CDs.

Have they gone under? The mall store had a wall rack of CDs for $4.99, and about a third of them were Rhino soul and blues best-ofs: Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Elmore James, etc. I have all this stuff in various configurations, so I couldn't think of a good excuse to buy any of it. I did pick up Emmylou Harris's Luxury Liner. I won't lie--the cover factored in. Also bought the Gram Parsons double with both his LPs (not Rhino). I've already got them on vinyl, so it'll go into my box of gifts for some hypothetical future date. Felt almost sad buying these two records together off a budget-CD rack. They're the kind of albums that are worth spending years searching for.

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First Digital-Only Box Set:

https://www.rhino.com/article/hot-playlists-11-classic-rhino-compilations-and-our-first-ever-digital-only-boxed-set

that aughts collection looks solid to me

looking at their playlists it's almost too much to take in
https://open.spotify.com/user/rhino_records
I wanna listen and never stop

do they own the rights to the songs?

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/gary-stewart-rhino-records-apple-music-dies-1203188602/