I found this pretty odd. The book in my set disappears into the slot and I had to flip the box over and use a putty knife to get it back out. I made a sling out of duct tape to keep the book from disappearing again.
I would say that this is a contender for one of the oddest:
Bill Evans, Verve box.
It's designed to rust on purpose, and owners have reported getting cuts on their hands.
Yeah, glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. The music is pretty good though -- sort of a French Imogen Heap.Originally Posted by Fracktured
Some band from Mass. that came up with a cool way to promote their stuff around town. Simple is often the best way to go.
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No kidding, that's brilliant.
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Wes Montgomery's Movin' - The Complete Verve Studio Recordings has a nice book-form.
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The Doors: Perception
I have the somewhat similar one they did for John Coltrane. It doesn't rust, but it's a bitch to get the leatherette book containing the discs out of the metal slipcase.
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Other box sets I own:
One Kiss Leads to Another: Girl Group Sounds - hatbox with "diary" booklet and discs in digipaks designed to look like powder puffs in mirrored compacts.
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A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box - housed in a black leather corset
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Brain in a Box - with 3-D brain
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Shakti silk-covered box
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Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
That Neil Young set was terribly made. I eventually sold my copy because it was like 5 times as big as it needed to be, and the interface for the DVDs seemed like it was designed by morons.
I found this pretty odd. The book in my set disappears into the slot and I had to flip the box over and use a putty knife to get it back out. I made a sling out of duct tape to keep the book from disappearing again.
I would say that this is a contender for one of the oddest:
Bill Evans, Verve box.
It's designed to rust on purpose, and owners have reported getting cuts on their hands.
A classic design concept, but incredibly annoying was Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized, which replicated antibiotics from the pharmacy. There as a blue and white cardboard box, enclosed instructions and the CD itself was housed in a blister pack ... which was a pain once you'd actually opened it
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Another large box from The Dead. The complete Europe '72 tour.
zoviet*france had a recent release that came in a cast iron (rusted) case.
I found this pretty odd. The book in my set disappears into the slot and I had to flip the box over and use a putty knife to get it back out. I made a sling out of duct tape to keep the book from disappearing again.
I would say that this is a contender for one of the oddest:
Bill Evans, Verve box.
It's designed to rust on purpose, and owners have reported getting cuts on their hands.
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Zoviet France are sort of the first and last word in bizarre packaging for their releases in EVERY format. Weren’t they the ones who sadistically released an album with a sandpaper cover that would ruin the records next to it in the stack?
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
That was Durutti Column.Zoviet France are sort of the first and last word in bizarre packaging for their releases in EVERY format. Weren’t they the ones who sadistically released an album with a sandpaper cover that would ruin the records next to it in the stack?
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Sticky Fingers did that unintentionally.
Miriodor - 3rd Warning
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Cabezas di Cera - all of their early releases are odd
Hidria Spacefolk - while all 4 square, have interesting configurations.
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
Right, it was The Return of the Durutti Column (which was their first album)
It was an LP, (not a CD)
And the band Joy Division were the guys who glued the sandpaper to the white LP covers!
Introvisión´s special cd edition of 08:36:59.
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Tull´s 25th anniversary 4 cd.
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Floyd´s Pulse 2cd led flashing. (my copy still works!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkUqRv5adc8
Tool - 10.000 Days.
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Bjork - Biophilia.
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"[This] strictly limited-edition, lacquered and silkscreened oak hinged lid case comes with the full Biophilia Manual as well as 10 chrome-plated tuning forks, silkscreened on one face in 10 different colors, stamped at the back, and presented in a flocked tray. Furthermore, each fork is adjusted to the tone of each of the tracks from Biophiia and covers a complete octave in a non-conventional scale."
Radiohead - Amnesiac special edition ( won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in the 44th Grammy Awards.)
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The Misfits.
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Alt-J - An Awsome Wave.
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Shidlas - Sailami Postmodern. (hungry anyone?)
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Daily Bread (gospel compilation)
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