Air / twentyears: new 5-disc anthology

Deal still available, ordered it yesterday at 35.64 € !

The price for the deluxe version 3 CD + 2 LP is 51 £ on amazon uk and 30.29 £
on amazon.fr
DEAL ALERT PAUL ?

The price dropped today on amazon.fr , he’s now 30.29 GBP so 36 €

Does anyone knows how limited this is?

Disappointing – this should have included the Japanese bonus tracks Time Capsule & Easy Going Woman, rather than the widely available David Whitaker version of Remember.

I’m so disappointed with AIR lately! Their last release says it all. Why would you make an exclusive release like ‘Music for Museum’ only on vinyl then follow it with a garbage best of compilation? Not even a digital download option for MfM?!?! A limited 3-disc with rarities shouldn’t be limited to an expensive 5-disc option! At least there’s a 2-disc pre-order, but as a long time fan the 3-disc isn’t really an option now. I do like the clever title ‘twentyears’ & that’s all sadly. Also, I agree with what other fans have said about all that’s missing from ‘Pocket Symphony’ and ‘Love 2’ is another shame. Please don’t overlook these 2 albums.

Why can’t record companies release separate cd and vinyl versions instead of throwing them together and charging a rip off price for it? Many people just want the cds, so why not offer people what they want, at a reasonable price? Once again record companies haven’t learned from past mistakes and are putting off potential buyers like myself, by still being greedy and screwing ccustomers for every penny.
As for “random” coloured vinyl, if fans are paying top whack for the box why not offer them all as coloured vinyl and give ghem what they want?
Greed, greed, greed will be the final nail in the coffin of the already flagging music industry.

Incredible Anthology!!! But my personal favourite songs are excluides. (Another Day, Biological, Readhead Girl, Photograph, Parade, Wonder Milky Bitch, Tropical Deasease….. I will buy it!!!!

I don’t know their music but that cover artwork is very stunning indeed. It’s very Mark Farrow. Does the artwork have a credit?

I’m not so impressed with the black version, but the white version is vert striking!

If that is printed with a nice foil and a slight embossing on the AIR typography then that would be particularly nice.

I can image a large format such as vinyl would be cool.

Cheers.
A.

Wouldn’t it be false advertising to call it “3 discs” when in fact two vinyl records are also part of it? Direct your irritation where it’s due – at the label for “double dipping” and providing us with a repetitive product for a much higher pricetag, rather than at Paul for simply reporting on it!

From a marketing perspective, the “bonus” disc in the super deluxe makes sense. But I join the large chorus of music fans who is tired of the big boxes being filled with duplicated material on both CD and vinyl. Sure, it probably increases the sales of the super deluxe to a certain extent, as some fans will want the bonus material enough and be big enough fans to shell out, even if the vinyl records aren’t a draw. What I’d be curious about is whether or not this makes up for the sales that are lost by not providing separate options. I suspect that if they had an additional editions available (making it overall: standard 2CD, deluxe 3CD, standard 2LP and super deluxe 3CD/2LP), the overall sales would probably be higher even if the super deluxe sold slightly less as a result. With the huge gap between cost (disproportionate to content differences) for the 2CD and super deluxe, I suspect that more sales are being lost than gained. They could always throw in a signed print/lithograph or further bonuses to make it even more “premium” for that slice of the market.

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts, Paul. It seems like some artists (e.g. Rolling Stones) seem to fall more into the camp of making many options available to fans, but others are a bit more predictable in terms of obviously money-making choices. What balance of generosity to fans and stinginess/cynical marketing makes for the biggest returns?

Seeing this promoted as a 5-disc set (that which is above the 2-disc offering) is bothersome. Not so much that it is CD+vinyl (although that is indeed tiresome), but more that 2 of the “discs” in this case are repeats of material from one of the other discs. I guess “5-disc” can’t be taken at face value anymore to actually mean 5 discs worth of material as it was customarily understood in past times.

This is a must buy for me.
Ordered from Amazon.France

Lovely idea to collect the Best Of the band at last, nice cover art…but…there’s always a but! Not enough from the later albums (as already mentioned), no “Radio #1”, and once again this fad for bunging in vinyl with CDs for the Super editions. Overall, probably a “non” from me.

Outrageous that third CD is only included in the SUPER box. God, what were they thinking?

Hopefully they use the radio edits of Kelly Watch The Stars and Sexy Boy.

Would be nice to have tracks like Soldissimo and Cosmic Bird.

if it was me i like to have 3 cd super deluxe version separate from the vinyl i don,t have a record player it is just waste of time put it all together the greatest hits cd just the same as the vinyl so whats a point is that

Looks like you can save a little money ordering it from Amazon france. $68 vs $99 from Amazon US.
Just wanted to add that I pre-ordered a hard to find box set from amazon france and it never got to me in the united states. Then they shipped it to me again and it never got to me. We ended up having to cancel and I got a refund but the worst part was the box had become very hard to find after waiting so long.

Love “Somewhere Between Sleeping and Waking” with Neil Hannon. Sad to see it not included here.

I feel so-so about this. On one hand, the rarities disc is nice and I’m intrigued by the remixes disc, however they’ve done the classic SDE move of combining vinyl and CDs. Wish you could just buy a 3CD version for cheaper! Will wait for a sale price for the 2CD edition (as CD1 doesn’t have much to entice longtime fans). Interesting that there’s nothing from “Love 2” and that the vinyl has a track swap (which then also ignores “Pocket Symphony”). Guess they don’t think all that highly of their later albums?