Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
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Free Music Review: 0 for the CD sleeves - 5 for the music
Hit: 2 Stars
No real need to go into details about the music here other than to say that the tunes are great. The book that comes with the set is fab. The super tight built-in sleeves that house the CDs are THE WORST CONTRAPTIONS OF ALL TIME. Two of my CDs were scratched at purchase. What the heck was Rhino thinking?Free Music Review: No stars for the CD sleeves -- five stars for the music and book
Hit: 1 Stars
Both the music on the four discs in this collection and the excellent hardback book about the 60s San Francisco music scene that the discs come with deserve five stars, no question. The music is everything from early cuts and big hits by well-known Bay-area artists (the Airplane, the Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana) to little-known but real gems by bands who didn't have long careers (Johnny Was A Good Boy by The Mystery Trend, Foolish Woman by The Oxford Circle). The book is very well written, with commentary on each of the songs and outstanding photography. A lot of thought went into compiling this collection.
But how could the Rhino label, usually a supplier of great music, have been foolish enough to think it was a good idea to put the CDs in bare cardboard slots at the back of the book?
I'm now on my second copy of this collection. With the first one, two of the four discs had such bad abrasions from the cardboard slots that they didn't play properly. I returned that set to a local retailer for a refund.
Then, I decided to try buying the collection from Amazon, even though the price was higher, thinking that I might have better luck. No dice. Again, the same two discs (1 and 3, because of the way the carboard slots are constructed) have bad abrasions. I'll try listening to them to see if they play, but if they don't, I'll be returning the set to Amazon for a refund and give up on this collection altogether. If they do play, I'll be storing the discs in jewel cases to protect them properly, rather than returning them to Rhino's poorly designed holders.
For people like me (and other reviewers here) who are stuck with damaged discs, Rhino should make replacements available -- it would probably be cheaper for them than having all of us simply return the whole set for a refund.
I hate the prospect of not having this collection, because it does contain a lot of great music and the book is really interesting. So I hope the discs will play properly this second time.
But if the discs are again messed up -- and the visible abrasions suggest that possibility -- this set is going back to Amazon, and I'll be staying away from future Rhino sets unless the discs are packaged to protect them from damage.
Shape up, Rhino!! Your "clever" packaging is undermining the outstanding content of your collections.