Title: Great music, but beware of CD rot
Product review: I have enjoyed Al Stewart's music since his first album, and saw him perform most of these songs live in my younger years. These were among the albums we played at 4am in my student days, along with "Songs of Leonard Cohen" and others, while we talked the world to rights.So it's great to have Al's first three albums (including "Love Chronicles" which was infamous at the time for one of the earliest appearances on record of the F-word, used entirely appropriately) all together on a double CD. It's also good to have all the songs from both versions of "Bedsitter Images", which at some point was reisssued with a few tracks changed.BUT... I have now owned two copies of this set, purchased a couple of years apart, with different cover art, and both have suffered from CD rot. I don't know the quality of current pressings, but I am reluctant to spend my money a third time to check this out.
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