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Great concept!

David Goodwin | Westchester, NY United States | 01/29/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Teichiku Japan has always treated the Zombies catalogue very weirdly. They basically own the "main" distribution rights in Japan, it seems, and they've produced two VERY different versions of the Zombies' catalogue. The stuff from the early nineties basically copied the then-current Repertoire, Rhino, and Razor (nice alliteration, no?) Zombies catalogues, and reconfigured them severely, while the current crop reconfigures the current Big Beat reissues.So what's this? This is actually a concept Big Beat hasn't gotten around to doing; these are the "RIP" posthumous Zombies tracks from the Zombie Heaven boxed-set, making this an excellent piece of you don't have the set (Big Beat has apparently been planning something similar for some time, but Teichiku beat 'em too it). This is filled out, by the way, with a few tracks from the Big Beat ODESSEY AND ORACLE that didn't make it to the Teichiku reissue of that album. Odd.So, the verdict? If you own the boxed-set and the Big Beat releases, there's nothing new here, but it's a nice reconfiguration and ESPECIALLY nice for those who don't own the boxed-set."