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compact collection : information
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- In late 1990, Virgin released a range of Compact Collection box-sets for several artists.
These collected together three CD albums and housed them in a clam-shell box.
- The Simple Minds Compact Collection featured
Life In A Day,
Real To Real Cacophony and
Empires And Dance. To make things more interesting,
the CDs themselves were picture CDs – a novelty at the time, although Virgin had already exploited
the new technology with the
Themes Volumes and
Street Fighting Years.
- The albums were just standard pressings; the rest of the packaging (the CD inlays and backing sleeves) were
exactly the same as the normal, standard pressings.
- It was rather cynical, being just an exercise in repackaging. And the timing of its release was also poor as
fans had just bankrupted themselves purchasing the expensive Themes Volumes.
- Unfortunately it marked the start of a series of releases where
albums were collected together and released in a box set. Many similar releases, collecting together different sets of
albums, were released through the following decades (which included
a reissue of this same box-set four years later).
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