Yeeps.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 September 2009 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― shipley irresistable (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 September 2009 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link
gah i was reading that and a giant ad for the CRASH TV SHOW popped up and i screamed out loud
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Friday, 25 September 2009 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Nate Carson, Friday, 25 September 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the superb Robyn Hitchcock reissue program in the 90's Rhino. And the awesome Sabbath remasters in the 00's.
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 September 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Doesn't sound good. I've still got to score that "Where the Action Is" box.
― leavethecapital, Friday, 25 September 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man, maybe I should go buy that Big Star box set after all, even though I can't afford it now.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Well this stuff will all remain available no? They'll just stop producing new stuff?
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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 :(
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Get that girl group box. It's great.
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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...).
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
you are rong about one kiss imo
― electric sound of jim (original version) (electricsound), Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Euler, Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― electric sound of jim (original version) (electricsound), Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― electric sound of jim (original version) (electricsound), Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 26 September 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Here is a link to an eighteen page thread on this topic on another board: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=194977
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― akm, Saturday, 26 September 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys heard the Sharades version of "Dumb Head?" It's maybe even better than the original. Joe Meek and all that.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Better than Ginny Arnell?
― MCCCXI (u s steel), Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe. great keyboard noise and more obnoxious vocals. it's on youtube, i don't want to post it and clutter up the thread.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 26 September 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
http://img.noiset.com/images/album/emmylou-harris-luxury-liner-album-cover-46837.jpeg
― clemenza, Friday, 1 February 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
First Digital-Only Box Set:
https://www.rhino.com/article/hot-playlists-11-classic-rhino-compilations-and-our-first-ever-digital-only-boxed-set
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
that aughts collection looks solid to me
― niels, Friday, 7 December 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
looking at their playlists it's almost too much to take in https://open.spotify.com/user/rhino_recordsI wanna listen and never stop
do they own the rights to the songs?
― niels, Friday, 7 December 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/gary-stewart-rhino-records-apple-music-dies-1203188602/
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link