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This four-CD set compiles highlights, lowlights, and odd lights from the Numero Group’ssprawling collection of songs spanning four decades and covering the broadest range ofpopular music, none of which caught the popular attention. From group soul to garagerock, from psych to folk to new age to power pop to yacht rock to indie, noise, slowcore,and art-punk....from songs in celebration of eternal life and aching love to Nicaraguan jazzand odes to death, fate, Eurotrash, and teenagerhood. Find something of everything here,year by year by year by year.This sampler follows a rough chronological format, though certain tracks are groupedtogether to provide clearer access to their genre and individual history; you will, forinstance, find a mini—collection of copyrights from San Antonio’s Epstein Enterprises onDisc #1, which we’re calling 60. Real estate mogul Abe Epstein doubled as the proprietorof an army of Texas labels, represented herein low-riding soul by the Royal Jesters and theCommands, brassy surf instrumentation by Classie Ballou, and wasted Los Angeles beachpop by Dan Henderson.Cosmic country-folk and nihilist punk rock mark 70, our splintered restatement-in—recordings of the Me Decade. This disc is a place where “Cookies” is a question posedby funk, and where “Whiskey” puts the fear of death into a simple Chevrolet man. Butthe deepest seam may be one forged in stone, a vein of very hard rock, pierced by guitarscream and bodily bass on tracks by Junction, Arrogance, Goliath, and Little Boy Blues.Then there’s the utter fracture of the MTV decade, taste-tested herein on 80. This discglobe-hops with the times, putting Aussie pop-punk into context with Alaskan blue-eyedsoul in the forms of The Scientists and Archie James Cavanaugh. But don’t let any of thatdistract you from the android advances that ooze out of Steve Elliot’s synthesizer or—to jetonce again off to exotic climes—the whistling of indigenous Philippine musicians creditedto MNLF. We’re even bringing White Zombie back into our walking-dead century.Elsewhere, as on the disc entitled 90, you’ll delve deeply into indie rock items from actsas varied as Codeine, Bedhead, Unwound, Blonde Redhead, and Beat Happening. AndNumero’s as~yet-undiscovered properties are here for you as well: Across these discs, hearmusic still just an inspiration shy of appearing in completed Numero product with TeenageWidow, Nun—Plus, and Amethyst.Your homework: Find out exactly why Earsley Young is a winner and don’t quit until youknow what made Bedhead’s landlord so darn unpredictable.Now go discover,The Numero Group