Nilsson - C or D?

"Blanket for a Sail" is one of my favorites on this.

They're releasing a 17cd box! http://fortheloveofharrynilsson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-rca-albums-collection-2013.html

It has the tearjerking 'I Want You To Sit On My Face' on it, which is worth the price of admission.

nice!

whoa!

the only disappointment is they don't include the abridged/remixed/resequenced/etc version of his first two LPs which is actually damn good in its own right.

OTOH i already have that on CD so I can just keep that disc or rip it or whatever.

oh wait they do have that album on there, nevermind. it just seems placed in a weird order.

The albums are in the order in which they were actually released. "Aerial Pandemonium Ballet" came out way way after the two albums from which it's derived.

ah, i see.

it took me a minute to notice the three discs of unreleased stuff. whoa.

btw this is going for WAY cheaper on amazon.co.uk compared to USA amazon

which means that one of you is getting me a birthday present

that amazon uk/us price diff is bonkers. is that common? or is that likely a mistake? i never shop on amazon uk.

More common than you'd think. But Amazon US's price will eventually go down, and UK's will go up, though the latter will always be cheaper. Americans don't pay VAT on Amazon UK stuff, so subtract 15% from the price!

good to know!

so subtract 15% from the price!

and probably add $15 or more for shipping, alas

Actually, no. £3.08, or about $5 to the USA. Not bad for a 17 CD set.

oh wow. well, that's ordered.

yup. ordered.

Notice he does a version of "She's Just Laughing At Me", one of the standout tracks on Tiny Tim's 2nd album!

Seems rude not to.

Ordered.

My only hesitation for ordering this is that I already have everything but Skidoo from RCA. So I'd pretty much be paying for about half of the Sessions material (a bunch of it is bonus tracks on the other releases), mono mixes (yawn) and the packaging.

Still, $70 is pretty goddamned cheap.

I have the Pand/Aerial/Combi 2CD set from a while back, and some of the vinyl albums.

This doesn't have the 'grapple' "Son of Dracula" does it? Will have to 'do' my vinyl copy and add it, I guess...

very tempted to get this

My only hesitation for ordering this is that I already have everything but Skidoo from RCA. So I'd pretty much be paying for about half of the Sessions material (a bunch of it is bonus tracks on the other releases), mono mixes (yawn) and the packaging.

Still, $70 is pretty goddamned cheap.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just sell those other discs and you'll probably make enough to pay for 1/3 to 1/2 of the box set!

Think I'll be giving my old CDs to friends who deserve to have Harry Nilsson in their lives

very tempted to get this

yeahhhh, i think i want this. i've actually got a bunch of these on beat up vinyl, so it would be nice to have remastered versions.

is there word on whether these are remastered from earlier releases? i would assume they are.... but who is doing the remastering?

i'm not expert on this but I do worry about the whole loudness stuff

the glory of the beat-up vinyl is that some of these albums have got really fun sleeves (inners *and* outers)

coconut = the moment he became classic

huh? he was way classic before that.

Apparently Vic Anesini, who's done really nice work on a lot of things (e.g. the Roy Orbison Monument reissues from a few years ago) did some or all of the remastering (according to this Steve Hoffman Forum thread: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/nilsson-boxed-set-coming.264573/page-10#post-8876519"">Nilsson boxed set coming?).

thanks!

i'm kind of shocked that they are releasing this, maybe they saw that for the love of harry blog and were like, "ha, we can best that"

for me the appeal is the later albums, most of which I've never been able to hear/find. I have a bunch of the extras from previous reissues of the early/peak period stuff, but I've never heard any of the albums after Son of Schmillson (except for Knilllssson, which is pretty good)

duit on mon dei and sandman are definitely a mixed bag (at best?)

the outtakes stuff is pretty exciting no?

I've heard most of the demos/outtakes from Pussycats, Nilsson Schmillson, Aerial Ballet and Pandemonium Shadow Show (not too fond of the latter tbh) - but yeah the rest sounds interesting

http://bp0.blogger.com/_3D4uW44cDSw/SHoYn-3F0gI/AAAAAAAACD4/xmrz11_oCO4/s1600-h/PROMO+Knnilssonn+Mask1.jpg

best novelty promo item ever?

whoops that didn't work. this thing i mean:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3D4uW44cDSw/SHoYn-3F0gI/AAAAAAAACD4/xmrz11_oCO4/s400/PROMO%2BKnnilssonn%2BMask1.jpg

for me the appeal is the later albums, most of which I've never been able to hear/find. I have a bunch of the extras from previous reissues of the early/peak period stuff, but I've never heard any of the albums after Son of Schmillson (except for Knilllssson, which is pretty good)

I might want the biography more.

I think this is my favorite Nilsson outtake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhj85VNUT_k

the glory of the beat-up vinyl is that some of these albums have got really fun sleeves (inners *and* outers)

Better than the albums themselves arguably!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSCTktqOVw

he still looks young there, but it wasn't too long before he died :(

I had to look up who EJ Gold was, interesting career there

"jump into the fire" is so fantastic, i've just listened to it on repeat for a while

Interesting article on a sports website from a guy seemingly obsessed with Nilsson

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9529179/the-legacy-harry-nilsson

thanks for that!

it's probably just the bass and the echo effects but does "jump into the fire" sound kind of dub-y to anyone else?

dub-y and, weirdly, a bit like the minutemen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6TNytFsNY

Still waiting for Amazon to deliver mine, it's now 10 days late

I see the Mercury album got a recent re-release also.