The Faces Vinyl Box Set Review

As others have said the packaging is lacking and the booklet is rather useless.

The faces vinyl box set review.

A look at the 50th anniversary edition cd dvd of the classic small faces album. Mono the original 7 vinyl was issued as a promotional single for the debut immediate album. The vinyl set sounds spectacular and each 180 gram lp is all analog from what i can tell mastered flat no compression or other concessions to the contemporary market by inglot hersch who previously mastered the five guys cd box from a few years ago. With this set the songs being from the specific albums are in the order the way you heard them back in the day.

Neil young continues his performance series archive releases with return to greendale a cd vinyl and box set offering with audio and video from his 2003 tour. Featuring excepts from get yourself together green circles talk to you all our yesterdays up the wooden hills to bedfordshire. Here we re told that the four faces studio album reissues in this box set were cut using the tapes. It s a good set to own by itself but would have had more of an impact without the other set.

Fwiw the box set has an additional lp of non lp singles b sides which i doubt will ever get an individual release outside the box set. Small faces album sampler one sided promo single excerpts from the small faces l p. Ogden s nut gone flake as well as more classic small faces albums. There is a lot of overlapping however having the other box set.

And yes they are the same kevin gray cuts as found in the box set. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2015 vinyl release of 1970 1975. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2018 clear vinyl release of faces on discogs. Not sourced from analog tapes which only means at some point the analog tape was used and it s possible the lacquers were cut from 96 24 files created from the tape.

Small faces box set vinyl. The label promise superior audiophile quality and for once this actually means something since the analogue tape direct to lacquers process cuts out the digital domain completely. Prices have crept back up to the 100 range on these so they may be starting to be in short supply. You can make me dance sing or anything.

Rhino have revealed that the five lp vinyl edition of you can dance sing or anything 1970 75 the forthcoming faces box set will be cut straight from the analogue tapes. I have both the vinyl and cd editions of this box and as other reviewers have suggested there are differences.