Those songs released on Crystal Ball 1998/1999 aren't included. It just feels incomplete. Anyone else feel that way? And how the fuck could they not release Crucial Sax Version?

homesquid said:

Those songs released on Crystal Ball 1998/1999 aren't included. It just feels incomplete. Anyone else feel that way? And how the fuck could they not release Crucial Sax Version?

Can't you just take the songs from Crystal Ball 1998/99 and, you know, make a playlist including them?

emesem said:

Or the Girl O my Dreams can’t Stop we can Funk session. But there’s only so much they can jam in. This is still the best box set of all time.

Definitely one of if not the best Box Sets ever

skywalker said:

homesquid said:

Those songs released on Crystal Ball 1998/1999 aren't included. It just feels incomplete. Anyone else feel that way? And how the fuck could they not release Crucial Sax Version?

Can't you just take the songs from Crystal Ball 1998/99 and, you know, make a playlist including them?

I'm a CD guy and sure I made my own "bonus bonus disc". Maybe it's my OCD that I want the box to be complete but dayum the box is great

I'll be making a "playlist" myself but mastering-wise those CB98 tracks are some of the worst ever, it's gonna be one jarring playlist transition-wise.

homesquid said:

Yes, Goodlove, Joy in Repetition, Girl O My Dreams, Movie Star, Can't Stop This Feeling I Got / We Can Funk and U Gotta Shake Something and 101 are notable omissions. Also the original sitar style version of Strange Relationship (from 82/85?). What happened to that?

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I just hope they are saving some songs back for an original Crystal Ball/Dream Factory/Camille sets, at some point in the future - a lot of the versions we have here are actually slightly different mixes/edits than the final configs of those albums.

TheFreakerFantastic said:

LoveGalore said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

Yes, Goodlove, Joy in Repetition, Girl O My Dreams, Movie Star, Can't Stop This Feeling I Got / We Can Funk and U Gotta Shake Something are notable omissions. Also the original sitar style version of Strange Relationship (from 82/85?). What happened to that?

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Your set omits Strange Relationship? Interesting.

Yes, there's an earlier version with Indian sounding instruments dating from 82-85?

TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ But it's not on the set...

TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ But it's not on the set...

^ I'm confused. It's not? What's on the set, then?

^ OOps just found it...it's not marked as Version 1 or early version on the digital file so missed it lol

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JoeyCococo said:

goosepumble said:

I made a Crystal Ball playlist as suggested, but CB sounds so loud but also lacking the dynamics of the surrounding tracks. So yes, when you include a mixes, edits and b-sides disc but don’t include the CB material or Big City Lights’ Good Love, it makes no sense. You don’t get a full picture of SoTT without CB or DF.

Yep.

Dandroppedadime said:

I just hope they are saving some songs back for an original Crystal Ball/Dream Factory/Camille sets, at some point in the future - a lot of the versions we have here are actually slightly different mixes/edits than the final configs of those albums.

Let's hope they'll do that someday. I'd also like them to release the original versions of Come (with the uncluttered Endorphinmachine), D&P and Emancipation (original one-disc) at some point, even if only as digital download files.

Oh also, it's missing The Sex Of It, which would have sounded great here.

TheFreakerFantastic said:

Oh also, it's missing The Sex Of It, which would have sounded great here.

I'm listening to this one now.

TheFreakerFantastic said:

Oh also, it's missing The Sex Of It, which would have sounded great here.

Love this song (both versions)...maybe it didn't make Howe's cutoff for SOTT Era songs?

I also don't understand why this GEM wasn't a bigger hit for Kid Creole...fickle pop fans.

LoveGalore said:

Sexual Suicide and Make Your Mama Happy are so fucking loud, lmao.

100. And hearing some of those who worked with him share how he wanted everything "mixed in the red" leads me to believe that his hearing had been going for a while.

Musze said:

jfenster said:

But if All my dreams is from a parade early pressing why is it on this set?

it shouldn't be, but it was also considered for Dream Factory and the Roadhouse Garden album