Stax 50th: 50th Anniversary Celebration
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Free Music Review: STAX 50th Anniversary Celebration
Hit: 5 Stars
Enjoyed this type of music years ago, but actually love it now. Great compilation of songs.Free Music Review: Great, but 45 edits again?
Hit: 4 Stars
If you don't care one way or another, "The Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration" will be a quite welcome addition to your collection. I hold back one star for the business end of things, because yet again on a fine compilation, we are given the 45 edits instead of the complete versions of songs. The ONLY time in the past this was not so was on a 1986 JAPANESE Stax comp, which being that it was mastered in the age of CD's infancy, means that it is inferior sonically to what they could do today. I probabbly wouldn't have bought this had I known ahead of time that it contained edits, but like I said before, if you don't care, what is here certainly is worth it as an introduction or as an addition to one's collection. I just wish record companies would stop being scumbags instead of revering the music as it was recorded and meant to be heard, rather than holding up versions of songs snipped to get more airplay.Free Music Review: Before and After
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1968 there was a changing of the guard at Stax and the results were dramatic. The whole approach to making music so changed (along with so much else in the world at the time) that you hear two almost seperate catalogues. For me, the earlier period just defined "soul" and that music and those musicians hold a very special place in my world. Stax most likely sold a lot more records in the latter period.
It is still a very worthwhile collection as it makes the transition really clear musically and the booklet in the box does a decent job of lending insight into the inner workings of Stax and the folks involved.
I also found it interesting that the best known songs and artists still stood out from the more obscure ones. The public got it right in this reviewer's opinion. The downside to that is that I didn't find many hidden gems.
Free Music Review: STAX
Hit: 4 Stars
What a fantastic recording. If you are a true soul/motown fan, this is a set not to be missed! It is a double CD, in a cardboard display box with a great 50 page colour booklet about the Story of Stax, interesting reading too. Disc 1 28 tracks, and Disc 2 22 tracks. So many great tracks it's hard to write a comprehansive review! Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd,Sam and Dave, Albert King, Booker T, it's impossible to name them all. Check out the full track list and see for yourselves! I don't think this needs a review - if you like Soul, you must have this in your collection! What a fantastic 50th Anniversary CelebrationFree Music Review: Stax & back to my youth.
Hit: 4 Stars
I am one of the original English fans from the 60's era & the music really took me back to my teenage years. Very good double cd & very speedy delivery service.