Your opinion, please: 366-band, 411 track 1981 box set

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Amazing.

I mean, it will be a lot more amazing in a few months after I have a chance to listen to it all. 21 HOURS!

All to say--I'd love to hear any thoughts/criticisms/suggestions/ideas/anecdotes/etc. those of you who get this thing have. I've spent a good while with the music, and especially with the stuff on the set, and I still love it all--not burned out yet. So I'm curious what people who *haven't* spent such an intense time with it think.

I've bought materials for another 50 copies, so I guess I'm committed to at least that many. But it may still be another 2-4 weeks before I can get to all the "waiting list" people. It's just a very time-consuming process.

The first two CD's were composed of mostly stuff I already knew but there were a few stray things here and there that clearly warrant further research on my part. Currently I'm enjoying the "brain" CD quite a bit. Not only does it have a lot more stuff I hadn't heard before in comparison to the first two CD's, but it's just the KIND of music I want to hear lately. It's soo nice to hear a Birthday Party song in the context of a compilation, too, because I find whole albums of theirs a bit too much to take, even if they did do some really great songs in their career.

Wow, Eyeless In Gaza! I haven't heard them in so long! I actually remember that song, too. Great stuff.

20 copies went out last thurs/friday, and another 12 will go out tomorrow. My plan is to go to the post office every couple days, to give time for enough sets to be paid for to make it worth using my lunch break. I appreciate everyone's timely responses to my mass email.

How did I miss this thread? Wowsa. Amazing. Great work IM.

My email has been sent.

Is there more available for purchase, I would love to get my hands on a copy. It looks fantastic. I'm really impressed like everyone else.

I'm not sure what the most cost-effective method for international shipping is. Try http://ircalc.usps.gov/ with a weight of 12oz from postal code 72205.

Poortheatre, Jmeister --

Go ahead and send me an email at soundslike1981@gmail.com if you would so I can put you on the waiting list. It'll probably be several weeks before I could get to you, so that should give you time to get together the $13.

Mike O.--

Glad it reached you, hope you dig it.

Yours went out Thursday, should be there any day now.

Glad you like it, Joel.

Media mail is supposed to be 4-7 days. Tomorrow makes a week. So with any luck. . . : )

I should've made it more clear that U.S.ers can opt for something faster than media mail if they want to pay for it; but I figured 7 days max wasn't too bad.

Utterly incredible...

Awesome! Somebody ought to do a marathon for charity or something where they try to listen to all 21 hours consecutively!

Let's see---the 9 mixes make 12 hours--has anybody made it to the mp3-CD (the one with the briefcase-esque logo)? That bit may have been overkill--but there's a lot of great stuff that just didn't suit the mixes!

Also I'm rather happy to see Club Tango on there. I have that 7", really like that song a lot. Nice to see Mass and Urban Verbs too!

I'm not sure how much stuff on there qualifies as obscure. Probably some, but then again, none of it is *that* hard to find or I wouldn't have found it. Some of the obscure stuff is thanks to Chuck W or PhilT.

I admit, that Necessaries track is one of my very few cheats. They released an album in '81, then rereleased it under a different name with a few different tracks and a different mastering job the next year. The track you have is from the rerelease--but I think it was *recorded* in '81. Basically, it's far and away the best track and features Arthur (Russell) most prominantly--without his influence, they're a decent but sometimes middling pop-rock band. He's just magic (though I can't say much for the one solo track I knew to have been released in '81--it's a very, very minor sketch---gosh how I wish "A Little Lost" or something like that had been released in '81).

Ah! The penny drops, I was wondering why the voice sounded so familiar. Obscurity is all in the ear of the beholder, m'friend -- certainly the vast majority of the songs and bands are very familiar (hell, I'm listening to Robyn H's "Love" right now and I saw him the other night!), but not all, and I'd be lying to say if I had!

haha I've lost all perspective on this stuff, it's imprinted on my brain--but push me forward to '85 or back to '75 or just about anywhere else, and plenty of stuff that would be well known to ILMers is probably obscure to me. I didn't mean to specialise, and in terms of time spent listening I don't really--but for a project like this, it's kind of required : )

It's very exciting to me that people are hearing stuff that's new-to-them with this thing--hopefully it'll cause more than a few legitimate purchases!

Got to get this, before the fall box set...

The music reaffirms my faith in people in a way, so it's fantastic that putting it all in one place can do the same. Fantastic : ) The queue is so deep, I don't know if I'll get to second helpings, but I'll try!

Yeah, I'd have to echo that. A labor of love and then some -- if the whole enterprise can be summed up in one word, it would be 'generosity,' from everything to getting the music to presentation and forethought and explanation.

The response of the 2nd round has been really quick! 12+ copies will go out today at lunch. The "+" can mean you, if you got an email from me yesterday and are able to respond in the next few hours. Thanks!

You're good, thanks--your copy will head out in a couple hours!

Thanks!