The finest music I have ever heard
Posted by Chimney Singing Crow on 3 December 2008 - 10:24am.
I was lucky enough to receive 'Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story' as a gift at the weekend. It was advertised as the 'best compilation ever made' and I would go a stage further and say it is the best music I have ever heard.
I cannot recommend this highly enough - it really is extraordinairy and like the best compilations it has spawned the purchase of dozens of other CDs by artists I was not previously aware of, Jimmy Hughes being the example that springs to mind immediately.
For those of you who haven't yet got it, I would urge you to update your letters to Father Christmas immediately.
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Before shelling out on this, I'd like to know how it compares with the four volumes (80 tracks) of Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures: Taken from the Vaults, which I invested in years ago and always assumed was as definitive as definitive could possibly get.
What I'm asking boils down to how high would anyone familiar with both compilations - Lucas? Or someone at Word Towers maybe? - rate their respective QCQs?*
(Quentin Claunch Quotient, innit.)
It looks great
my only reservation is that a lot of the tracks are a bit obvious and as a result I would think that many of the target audience for it will already have a lot of the tracks, which makes it a bit less tempting. For example, I can't imagine anyone interested in it not already having Tired of Being Alone or Take Me To The River. The great thing about the Godin discs is that a lot of people into soul didn't have much that was on them.
Fair point
There's a fair bit that I already had - but there's a massive amount that I hadn't and I wouldn't consider myself a newcomer to the genre.
Only problem is the price
surely? I haven't looked lately but wasn't it £30 at the time of release? I'm simply not paying that for a 3xCD set. Especially for 40 year old music (no matter how good), where probably none of that money is going to anyone originally involved either.
I had a quick check
it's cheapest is on amazon for 25 quid or their download is £6.99 which means a crystal case and 20 pages of booklet and 3 blank cd's cost £18.01 so now you know what to invest in instead of property CD CASES they are literally worth than their weight in gold.
To converge with another thread...
The 3cd edition of Dylan's Tell Tale Signs is £83 on Amazon and £7.99 at their download store.
£75 worth of paper and CD cases!
Buy!
Archie, it's great. There are a few obvious choices but not too many. It's just as good, if not better that the Godin albums and the packaging will leave your gob smacked. Sam & Dave doing I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down is a very deep slice of joy.
Confused
When I follow the link for the £6.99 download it shows me a totally different album.
can't help I'm afraid I just checked the main page
it is their first day with the downloads.