Again, praise be to Dionysus for the CD age and all these groovy deluxe editions and box sets. I'm not a huge fan of Lush, but it was nice to see them get a box set a while ago.
Swervedriver got the 2 cd JUGGERNAUT RIDES a few years back, but damn do they deserve more. They kicked ass 15 ways to Sunday, and they have a shitload of non-album and non-cd music floating around out there. Plus, MEZCAL HEAD is the musical equivalent of a ton of bricks landing on your head. If that's good. OK, maybe I just mean it was HEAVY AS FUCK. And it was. It and RAISE both got reissued with bonus tracks, but a lot of that was already available on JUGGERNAUT. There's a lot more work to do.
I see the first 2 Verve albums just got the deluxe treatment, so that's cool. A STORM IN HEAVEN is their best, back when they just rode grooves and tripped out blissfully. The bonus music is mostly their early singles which, despite a lot of that stuff being available on NO COME DOWN, is still pretty damn excellent. The debut mini-album isn't included in this set, but you can grab that cheap at all the usual places. And you should. Now. While we're waiting.
Catherine Wheel also need some serious reissuing and boxsetting. CATS & DOGS was a good non-album song collection but, like Swervedriver, it just scratched the surface. I think the 30TH CENTURY MAN mini-album is long out of print and now officially in hard-to-find-at-a-reasonable-price status. And FERMENT and CHROME could both use a little sound tweaking. Man do they sound good cranked up to 13 or so......
ADAM & EVE also kicked ass, in a wide screen panoramic kinda way. HAPPY DAYS sucked, with the exception of about 3 songs, and WISHVILLE was pretty lame, but the non-album stuff and the 3 1/2 aforementioned albums are more than enough greatness to warrant some reissues.....
I am seriously confused as to why these record label dipshits don't consult with
me on this stuff.
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