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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Definitive Aero-Collection, 25 Mar 2002
Basically, this is an awesome set of discs! Included in this lavish box set are the first 12 Aerosmith albums released under their original label, Columbia, before they signed with Geffen in 1985.
'Aerosmith', 'Get Your Wings', 'Toys In The Attic', 'Rocks', 'Draw The Line', 'Live Bootleg', 'Night In The Ruts', 'Greatest Hits', 'Rock In A Hard Place', 'Classics Live', 'Classics Live II' and 'Gems'.
Every track has been remastered with 20-bit technology using super-bit-mapping. Beautiful packaging with all the original liner notes and LP artwork showing vintage press clippings and memorabilia. Great stuff!
If you only have you old Aerosmith LP's which have been in the loft for the past few years, you could do a lot worse than updating with this collection.
Coupled with 'Pandora's Box' (a collection of demos, outtakes, live and original recordings) and 'Young Lust' (an anthology of the latter years from 1986 to 1996 under Geffen), you will have the ultimate in Aerosmith.
Buy it all. Buy it all, NOW!
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A lot of Aerosmith. A lot of great music. Not a very good box set, 2 Feb 2004
The "Box Of Fire" brings together all of Aerosmith's releases for Columbia records, as well as a few rare tracks (of which the excellent "Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu" is by far the most interesting).
All twelve albums have been digitally remastered, and the packaging is exquisite, with numerous photos and memorabilia from the era when each specific album was concerned.
The only problem with this lavish box set, and the reason why I'm only giving it three stars, is that it doesn't really add very much to the Aerosmith legacy.
By including all of their Columbia albums, including one great, one good, and one very mediocre live album, it almost makes itself obsolete...all these records are readily available (and have also been remastered since "Box Of Fire" came out), and the previous Columbia-era box set, the superb "Pandora's Box", contains many more rarities and previously unissued songs than "Box Of Fire" - and much more interesting ones as well.
And that's why I'm not all that impressed by this collection. Sure, the packaging is excellent, but there is very, very little here that the serious Aerosmith fan doesn't already own - if anything. And the casual fan will be better served by buying the best of these twelve albums individually, and perhaps adding "Pandora's Box".
Previous rock box sets, like Stevie Ray Vaughan's "SRV" and Bob Dylan's "Biograph", included all the hits and most of the best album tracks, as well as many rarities and unreleased songs. "Box Of Fire" just throws together what is already there, adding five "rarities" of which only one is truly great (and truly rare).
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Box of Fire a must for Aerosmith Fans, 22 Jan 2001
By A Customer
The box of fire is an excellent collection of Aerosmith Songs. It includes all the hits by the rock band, it includes all the well known songs and other lesser-known, but still great, songs. This is definately a must for any fan.
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