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I've already reviewed this on the Amazon UK site.

If you like Adam Ant or are a collector of Box Sets....do not pass this one up. It is the best Box Set I have ever seen. That's right. THE BEST. It has Ant songs I know you have never heard before. Ones you didn't even know existed. I have really gotton my moneys worth out of this set. And the book that comes with it is very interesting. Ant and Pirroni give bits of info on every song on the set. And there are lots of great pics.

I don't even know what to say about it. It's 100% worth the price. I'd pay 100 bucks for it. Buy it.

LONG LIVE ANTMUSIC.

This is a fabulous collection, all these tracks were hand picked by Adam and Marco not some studio executives. You get album versions, single versions, demos and unreleased songs this set is simply marvelous going back to the old punk days of the Ants and into the most recent release by these amazing songwriters. I could listen to this set forever.
Now if only we could ever get Persuasion released....

It's not often you find a band that so thoroughly revisits it's history and with such humor. The only thing that could have made this compilation better would have been the inclusion of music videos. There are not a lot of sources out there for information about the history of the band, so the booklet that comes with these albums is worth it's weight in proverbial gold. And if word of the band was rare, pictures are rarer still, so the candid shots included are great fun.

All in all this collection allows you to hear Antmusic in the proper context and with the permission of it's actual creators, so you know it's good.

Back in high school, I fell in love with Antmusic. It was like rebellion from normalcy and I grabbed on for the ride. 20 plus years later, I still want to grab on for the ride. This box rocks. The best part about the collection is the different versions of the original songs. There are two versions of a couple of songs such as "Stand and Deliver". In a couple of cases, I actually liked the demo better than the recorded song. "Friend or foe", for example, the demo is better to me. If you are an ant fan, this is a must have. My 3 kids, 8 and under, love the songs, too. My 3 year old can sing "Stand and Deliver" - it is adorable. Let's face it, there is no one that compares to the original sound of Antmusic. {If Adam Ant reads this stuff, record another album!! - the music industry now is so boring. . .}

ANTBOX is a great collection of early Ant demos and unreleased stuff (mixed with the obligatory hit singles).

The first disk is a revalation for most Ant fans as most of the material has never been isssued before. Disk two is a great mix of rarities (A.N.T.S. anyone?) and has a bunch of great Friend Or Foe era outtakes. As for as Disk three is goes there's only a handful of rare items and as far as the Manners/Wonderful period goes we're deined anything besides the album tracks that were issued as singles. Which, if you're a fan, you already have and don't need again.There are no demos, live tracks or outtakes from these periods on ANTBOX which is odd because they're all over the internet. So it's not like they don't exist.

This all makes for a frustrating box set and hopefully rarites from this period will surface on another collection sometime in the future. A good box set for folks who don't mind their collections to overlap yet again with previously released material.

Well it took about 14 days to get to me, and with much anticipation, I put it in my BOSE car audio system, and BOOM there I was back in the early 80's with ADAM and MARCO!!! I absolutely love this collection, even the quirky A.N.T.S. makes me smile! If you are a FAN, this is a MUST. If you would like to know what the new romantic music movement was all about, pick this up! The DEMO versions on here are worth the cost of this collection and then some! Thank you SONY, now How about the DVD release of ANTVIDEO in AMERICA????

My dad is a HUGE antfan. I was nervous about getting this for him, since he has so many Adam Ant CDs. It wasn't a problem since there were many previously unreleased songs, songs he had only on vinyl, and cool demo versions of just about everything else. The demo version of Friend Or Foe was especially appreciated, since it didn't suffer from the cheesy trumpets in the background.