BLT was a *club* hit in the U.S. but it only hit 98 on the Hot 100.

It did get shown on MTV, because that's where I first heard it. I was watching one late afternoon and was blown away by both the song and the video, to the point that I went and bought the cassette the next day. That's what really ignited my fandom.

I was never crazy about the 7" edit, and wonder if the album version might have fared better as a single...probably not, because there's no vocals over the kitchen sink outro (which I love).

Thankfully, it's now regarded as a stone-cold classic.

I hope so!
The price of these (admittedly wonderful) sets just keep getting pricier.
£135 will be much better than £159.

£24 better, in fact.

Thats three pints worth of good beer.

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I’m probably over-egging it a bit.
But good beer costs £7-£7.50 a pint in these here parts.
And about the same for 2/3rds of an even better beer.

But I digress…

Back on topic.

Really like the State Of The Nation demo. Those two Japan demos are the highlights for me (audio wise).

My word, that Every Little Counts ending is a bit BIG.
Not that I dislike it, but I think they were wise to rein it in for the LP.

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Oh right, thanks GotBlueEyes for heads up re Amazon price. It was £159 when i ordered but it now states i'll pay £139 when shipped. At least that's a bit cheaper. About 4 pints round my neck of the woods

^ Yes it is a bit annoying. If it wasn't for the fact that Amazon have dropped the price of my order from £159 to £139 i'd have cancelled it and jumped on a train over to Birmingham today and picked up a copy from the HMV Mega Store on Corporation Street.

Got mine today from Sister Ray. Came with an obi-strip. Still out and about so haven’t opened it yet..,

It looks like Warners is taking the same release approach for the 12" single digital versions as they did for the Low-life ones I.e., allowing the physical copies to sell for a bit then releasing on a fortnightly (?) basis.

This time however, due to last year's Substance reissue, we've basically already got all 4 tracks which would make up BLT and State/Shame 12" releases, so TBTHOG 12" & Dub are the ones to wait for. As the main Brotherhood Definitive digital release is 44/16 I'm assuming the singles will be the same.

As for the new (digital) definitive edition, I am enjoying much the same as the others have mentioned; the Japan demos and the instrumental versions predominantly. Hague's 12" remix is still getting weekly enough rotations in my house. The Salvation! tracks do sound much, much better than their 1988 CD equivalents, so nice to have but getting excited about Skullcrusher and Sputnik remains a challenge. I think Michael Johnson's Blue Monday remix has aged a lot better than the '88 which eventually came out.

Obviously, I will buy the box-set eventually for the live content, but it's got to be closer to £100. It's already begun fluctuating on certain outlets whilst the NO Store is sticking to £160. Will be interesting to see what it's at on Amazon in the immediate run up to Xmas.

I recently dug out my old receipt from the NO Store and found I got the PC&L box set, all surrounding 12" singles and a t shirt for £150 in 2020 (!) I would have paid the same this time around for the same bundle.

I popped into my local HMV today. No copies of the box-set nor the 12" singles. I even asked. Bit odd.

Had to navigate the literal shrines to Taylor Swift and K-Pop, which were generously stocked.

HMV has turned into part record store, part pick'n'mix these days.

I picked up my preorder at Siren Records in Monterey. $150, but had the piece of mind that it would show on time and I would be able to check its condition. Sadly, no promo goodies this time.

I've opened it up to inspect the contents (Low-Life box had been shipped to me with a duplicate of one of the DVDs in place of the other) but haven't had the chance to enjoy it yet.

The fact there's no comments in this thread yet about the live DVDs is a strong clue that very few people have received their physical sets yet. Guess most of us ordered from Amazon, so obviously that's a big part of the problem, but it's making me wonder if there are other distributions problems here thee and everywhere.

I just got onto Amazon Customer Services. They said there appears to have been a delay in the delivery, ordered me another copy (which it says will be delivered on Tuesday) and gave me £5 credit onto my account.

People should think of a "release date" as more of a "release suggestion." Post-COVID in particular there are still manufacturing delays. A box set has CDs, DVDs, vinyl, book binding, and printing - that's a lot of moving parts. The label may be given a target release date by the manufacturer when they send a set to production, only to run into unexpected delays.

One box set I ordered during COVID was finally delivered a full year after the release date.