Bad Manners Box set

[bluearmy78]

A new Bad Manners box set is due end of August. 5 CD set, Ska n B, Loony Tunes, Gosh its, Forging ahead and Mental notes. All with bonus tracks. Only thing is, if you have the reissues from a few years back, most of the bonus tracks are the same, expect on Gosh its, where you get 2 extra tracks.
Mental notes is the most interesting, as its hard to find anyway,on CD and there are 10 bonus tracks on it, some very hard to find mixes that were only done for the foreign market.
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[Trojan]

More reissues of reissues?

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[kennybacon]

Ordered, I haven't got Mental Notes so ordered pretty much just to get that.
I bought the deluxe editions a few years ago, so the other CDs don't hold anything I haven't already got with the exception of Yakety Yak.
Would of preferred for Mental Notes to be available on its own, but £23 certainly isn't bad for a box set

Cheers for the heads up bluearmy
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[Trojan]

Mental Notes is a piss poor album. No wonder the record company saw it as a tax write off. The band seemed to be attempting some sort of Euro pop sound. What the Papers Say has to be the worst ever Bad Manners single.
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[bluearmy78]

I agree Mental Notes is a poor album, but l have the CD , which did come with bonus tracks. But like another poster says, lm getting the box set mainly for that, as this time it has a lot of extra stuff on it thats not freely available.
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[Trojan]

I noticed Cherry Red are releasing quite a few box sets. I suppose it's the latest way of floging back catalogue.
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[bluearmy78]

Cherry Red tend to do a lot of reissues and box sets. Some are really worth getting hold of, others not so much. I suppose its a way of keeping the artist out there so to speak. A lot of those artists, like Bad Manners just get lost otherwise in todays market.
Its also nice to get physical copies on CD,instead of this new vogue for downloads. You cant beat a vinyl LP, and a CD with a lot of additional tracks is great. I think all this is lost on the youth of today, which is a real shame. I cant be doing with downloads, l love a physical copy, something to actually hold in your hands for the money you are spending(or not spending) on finding it on the net.
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[bluearmy78]

Got the box set today. Its a nice little set if you want all the albums at an affordable price. The extra 10 tracks on Mental Notes were the reason l got the set, as the extra tracks are the same as the previous releases on the other albums, except on Gosh its.....
Good price, and nice to see them in one set.
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[parkedcars]

ne-ne-na-na-na-na-nu-no thank you

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[kennybacon]

Got mine today and noticed a few things...

The 7" USA remix of 'That'll Do Nicely' on Mental Notes is the same version as track 20 on Forging Ahead.
Pleased that the Elizabethan Reggae version on Gosh Its, isn't the same as the version on Rare & Fatty, which I thought it would of been.
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[bluearmy78]

Well spotted. I hadnt noticed the USA remix was the same on both cds.
l had noticed that Elizabethan reggae was different from Rare and fatty though.
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[kennybacon]

Having just played Mental Notes for the first time ever, I am going to draw my 'severe loss of quality in albums released' mark after Forging Ahead.

Still I suppose I have gained a handful of new versions of other tracks I didn't own previously - not short of versions of My Girl Lollipop for sure - but hardly worth the price paid for the box set in order to get them.

I would still consider it a decent box set for someone who hasn't already got the first 4 albums and the bonus tracks that come with them
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