9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
less than what you expect, June 7, 2006
This review is from: The Lot Boxed Set (Audio CD)
the good news: this is a really nice box set from a great band.
the bad news: although all the tracks represented in the track line up are technically on the physical CDs - they are not all in CD audio, therefore not playable on a CD player... and some of these are the BEST singles.
these CDs combine CD audio with CD-ROM data, enabling the ability to view the videos on a computer.
however, many of the videos included in the CD-ROM section are omitted from the CD audio. The result: an incomplete reissue of these great albums. when you listen to this on your CD player, you will NOT hear: house of fun, driving in my car, it must be love, the sun and the rain, wings of dove, waiting for the ghost train.
if you are a fan who wants to purchase a CD version of all these great albums convienantly: this ain't it. the highly compressed computer videos are cute, but the sound utterly sucks and you can only experience them on your computer.
it's too bad amazon didn't catch this and take these songs out of the track line up.
the record company (virgin) took a GREAT idea ("the lot") and made it kind of suck. too bad.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All Six Madness Albums -- plus the videos!, January 15, 2000
This review is from: The Lot Boxed Set (Audio CD)
This set includes all six Madness albums: One Step Beyond, Absolutely, Seven, The Rise and Fall, Keep Moving, and Mad not Mad. In addition, all 24 music videos are included --- there are no instructions, but they played beautifully on my Windows PC (no indication if they play on Mac).
Although I owned four of the six albums, it was worth the extra purchase for these superb videos. In the early days of MTV you could see creative, intelligent stuff like this; but that was a long time ago. These videos are as good as the songs they illustrate.
This is a must purchase for any Madness fan.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quality Album Material Often Overlooked, May 6, 2002
This review is from: The Lot Boxed Set (Audio CD)
In this collection of the first six 'original' Madness albums, you get a lot of material heretofore missing from American releases. The tracks from "Rise and Fall" and "Seven" are worth the full price of the box set alone. A lot of these tracks have often been hard to track down in the US (especially the RaF material) and are greatly improved on with remastering. While Madness is often viewed as a simple cog in the Ska-revival wheel, the tracks on discs 3-6 prove that they were quality songwriters in their own right and even the overproduced, far too depressing "Mad Not Mad" tracks turn out to be good material on a 5th or 6th listen. Combine this with "The Business" CD set and you have all the Madness your heart could desire.
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