Various Artists - The Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set


Limited edition four CD boxset celebrating the 25th Anniversary of New Zealand's finest (and longest running) independent label. Jam packed with long out-of-print rarities this set will have fans of the iconic label salivating. The four discs are sequenced in a roughly chronological order with the tracks hand-picked by Shepherd himself. The first disc covers the label's early years, with flagship band The Clean aptly getting things started with the epic 'Point That Thing Somewhere Else'. Other obvious names like The Chills, The Verlaines and The Gordons are present but this multi-disc format affords them the luxury of including some obscurities and lost gems from the likes of The Rip and Victor Dimisch Band, not to mention the label's first release - 'Ambivalence' by Pin Group. The second disc covers the mid-to-late 80's, the years many consider the label's heyday, where second generation Nun bands like The Bats and Straitjacket Fits took the label to the world. Again more rare treats are to be had with Stephen, The Weeds, Alpaca Brothers and This Kind Of Punishment. Disc three continues from the late 80s to mid 90s where the music really hit it's stride with great bands like Skeptics, JPSE, 3Ds and the mighty Bailter Space and the final disc takes us from the mid 90s to the present day where we witness some of the label's key original players going solo (David Kilgour, Martin Phillips, Graeme Downes) and a new generation of fresh and exciting talent like HDU, The Subliminals and The Mint Chicks. Fittingly ending with the pre-Nun band many consider to be one of the label's catalysts - Toy Love. 84 tracks.

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12 comments:

decrepittapes said...

Disc 1:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xhtn85

decrepittapes said...

Disc 2:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/s3vtbi

decrepittapes said...

Disc 3:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4dzdln

decrepittapes said...

Disc 4:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/w8727q

R said...

Our store copy of this at Little Brother has gone walk-about and I always regretted not picking it up when I had the chance, this will suffice for the moment.

Great post.
Thanks very much.

A. Scott said...

Excellent. I've been lusting after this set for a while.

Lantern-Jawed said...

Great post...but Disc 2 seems to be incomplete

Nickcave said...

Thanks for this post, but disc 2 is missing trax 13 thru 22 and disc 3 is missing track 20. plz re-post if possible. thanks again.

Heavy River said...

NEW LINK for Disc 2:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dcxql3

Anonymous said...

Thanks for that! It really is a diverse and amazing set. And now I've just got to get hold of a physical copy ;-)

danP said...

any chance of a repost for disc 3?

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