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Society's Victims

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A best bang for the buck,comprehensive overview of discharges career.

80 songs on 3 cds,including songs from all of their records,including a couple from GRAVE NEW WORLD,which can otherwise be found on used vinyl,and some songs from the audio of the forthcoming DVD.I'd really stick to buying DECONTROL-THE SINGLES + HEAR NOTHING.. +DISCHARGE 2001s self titled album.More money,I know,but essential discography for the true fan.This box is cheap but might prevent the purchase of essential albums.ONLY FOR CASUAL LISTENERS.NOT A TRUE ANTHOLOGY !!!!!

Discharge is a rather good band but I liked their early stuff (everything on the first disc.) better than anything else on this box set. the 2nd disc has a lot of the LP stuff (Hear nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, Grave new world, Massacre Divine, etc.) and some of that is okay but I know you may be turned down from the Hair metalish songs. the 3rd disc has some 2004 updated songs and a bunch of live material (I Personally don't care for live material except if it has exclusive songs for that album like Conflict's Turning rebellion into money because it has songs that were from Crass and so forth) get this if you are really lazy to get every album by discharge.

Like another reviewer said if you are REALLY interesed in Discharge go like this: (don't buy this box, you'll thank me later)

1. Decontrol: The Singles (every single track is amazing and not everyone is in this box)

2. Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (mind blowin record BUT is not here in is entirely. In fact, 2 KEY songs are missing (Q: and children and The End are not here)

3. Discharge (the album): Great Comeback record with the classic line-up. Easy to find, look carefully.

You Those 3 cds Now there you have a preety good discography from Discharge, and i mean real Discharge. This box adds some songs from Grave New World (disgusting) and Massacre Divine and Shooting Up the World. The last 2 are kinda good but (like singer from G.b.h. said) that's not really Discharge. I mean is like and out-of-focus dicharge. Download some songs and you'll see.

If you really want to buy this box for "the box" itself (but i tell you, it is kinda cheap and not really cool) buy it but after those 3 albums i mentioned before. The live tracks in this box will be released in a live album soon. Wait.. Dont buy this product for those.

I will be honest here, i don't like punk/hardcore very much. Pretty much 90% of it is absoulute monotonus trash, however, i found Dischage to be a very good group. It might sound contradictory, but it is true, these guys are the only punk band i ever liked, but i absolutly hate the bands/gendre that were influenced by them. Dischage were the originators to, sadly, the horrible gendre known as 80's hardcore, many have tried to copy their style and it resulted into a gendre full of posers. This isn't a uncommon trend, for every one good original band that does something new, there are about 20 horrible ones trying to immatate them. Helloween did something new and creative, now we have a whole gendre of inept (...) (Blind Gardian, Stratovarious, Hammerfall, do i need to go on?) trying to copy them, the same goes for Discharge, their music was GREAT, but the aftermath resulted in this plague known as New York Hardcore.

This box set is basically one of those retrospective career spanning things, and while i like the idea of this, i really don't think it works too well for a band like Discharge. For one thing, Discharge has been really known for only one thing and one thing only, the "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing" LP which is their definative work (which i recommend you get instead of this) and this box set does not really add anything to the greatness of that, just a bunch of singles (which are found on WHY) the horrendus "Grave New World" and some live stuff. The packaging is another downfall of this box set, the discs come in cardboard sleaves which i thought was kind of cheap, they could of put this thing in a nice jewel case or something to make it worth your bucks. Disc 1 is nothing special at all, it is just soccer hooligan music, all of the singles from Discharges early years. Disc 2 is the "Hear Nothing" LP and "Grave New World" LP on one disc, one half is great while the othe half is not. Disc 3 is basically a live "best of" kind of deal, with live Discharge cuts from the early days and some recent ones with their new singer.

This set is just average, i didn't like the packaging at all and there was nothing new that this added that was as good as what was on the "See Nothing" reissue. Get that instead of this box set, which i found to be nothing more then a cash in attemp from record companies.