Fine Days: 1999-2004 is a collection of Anathema's entire Music For Nations output.

Remastered CD editions of Judgement, A Fine Day To Exit and A Natural Disaster plus the dvd of Were You There? are presented in an elegant bookset package.

CD 1 - Judgement (1999):
1. Deep
2. Pitiless
3. Forgotten Hope
4. Destiny Is Dead
5. Make It Right (F.F.S.)
6. One Last Goodbye
7. Parisienne Moonlight
8. Judgement
9. Don't Look Too Far
10. Emotional Winter
11. Wings of God
12 . Anyone, Anywhere

CD 2 - A Fine Day To Exit (2001):
1. A Fine Day
2. Release
3. Leave No Trace
4. Underworld
5. Pressure
6. Panic
7. Breaking Down The Barriers
8. Looking Outside Inside
9. A Fine Day to Exit
10. Temporary Peace

CD 3 - A Natural Disaster (2004):
1. Harmonium
2. Balance
3. Closer
4. Are You There??
5. Childhood Dream
6. Pulled Under at 2000 Metres a Second
7. A Natural Disaster
8. Flying
9. Electricity
10. Violence

DVD - Were You There? (2004):
Live concert video recorded in Krakow, 31/1/04.
Anamorphic 16:9, DD 2.0 Audio, DD 5.1 Audio, Region 0, PAL.
1. Intro: Childhood Dreams
2. Balance
3. Closer
4. Pressure
5. Release
6. Forgoten Hopes
7. Destiny Is Dead
8. Are You There?
9. One Last Goodbye
10. Pulled Under At 2000 Metres A Second
11. Parisienne Moonlight
12. A Natural Disaster
13. Judgement
14. Panic
15. Temporary Peace
16. Flying

Extras:
Acoustic performance with a string quartet, filmed at The Picket, Liverpool, 27/2/04.
'Pressure' video
'Release' live in London
'A Natural Disaster' live in Hamburg
108 minutes

US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SUFB10U/?tag=imwan-20

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SUFB10U/?tag=imwan-21

I only know their stuff from the last 5 years and it's fantastic, so this set will be a great way to catch up on some of their earlier material. I know they began as a metal band (possibly even black-metal or death-metal), but the records included here are albums #5, 6 & 7, so hopefully they had started morphing into the atmospheric prog band that they are now.

Interesting, & beyond my price range.

Geff, the UK price would be around $30 all-in.

That makes it more interesting. I only checked the USA. Are you pretty certain this is not the death Metal period?

Based on the audio clips I just heard, these are not metal albums. They sound very similar to the more recent releases. Can't comment on the songs themselves but the sound is not drastically different.

I have their fourth (Alternative 4) and fifth (Judgement) full length albums. Both would be classified along the lines of "atmospheric metal." To my knowledge, their earlier albums were more doom metal that featured death metal vocals. I don't recall if either Alternative 4 or Judgement had any death metal vocals...if they did there weren't much of them.

I realize this is a Music For Nations label thing, but it's a shame that Alternative 4 isn't a part of this because I consider that to be a much better album than Judgement. If anybody gets this set and enjoys it, I highly recommend they go out and get a copy of Alternative 4 for their collection.

Thanks for the info, Joseph. I will definitely be getting this set, and once I've spent some time with it I will likely go further back in their discography. Alternative 4 will be at the top of that list.

At $30, I'm going to think seriously about it.

I preordered this from AmazWAN UK along with several other items I had previously ordered. Cancelled the original order and combined everything into the new order, which probably saved me a few dollars on the processing charge. Now I begin patiently waiting for this shipment (or shipments) which likely won't arrive until early May.

Wow, you weren't kidding. The exchange rate is the most favorable I've seen it for US citizens in years.

Unfortunately, I THINK they use the exchange rate the day they charge the card, not the day you order.

My copy of this set just shipped from Amazon UK, and then I noticed that the product page has the following message:


Does anyone know what the issue is?

Looks like the issue with Amazon UK was cleared up, and according to the band's FB page there's no problem with this set.

I just wrapped up my first listen of the three CDs and they're excellent. All the elements I love about their music from the recent albums were in place on these albums. I wouldn't consider this "metal" at all. It's dynamic, atmospheric rock.

Looks like the DVD is not NTSC so I may only be able to watch it on my computer. That's a little disappointing since the majority of music DVDs I've gotten from overseas have been NTSC.

Rich, do you have an hd set? I thought the Pal vs NTSC issue only impacted old style CRT's?

I have an HD TV but my Blu-ray player is NTSC so it likely won't be able to read the disc.

This set is only $17 bucks at Amazon third party sellers!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SUFB10U/?tag=imwan-20

It's worth a try. Also, most br players have a PAL - NTSC conversion option in the set up menu.

Geff, I've played the contents of this box set a couple of times and, knowing you enjoy their most recent output, I feel confident in recommending it. If there's any "metal" to be found it's in some of the guitar textures. Otherwise, all of the elements we fell in love with over the last few albums were already in place on these records. As for the DVD, I was able to play it last week by hooking my PC up to the TV with an HDMI cable. The live footage is very good quality but not high-def. For some reason the audio & video were a fraction of a second off, which drove me nuts, but I'm wondering if it was a problem with the disc or the playback.

It MIGHT be the HDMI. I know Oppo recommends turning off HDMI audio & using the analog outs.

Also, if you're getting a PAL to NTSC conversion on the video but NOT on the audio I can see where that would cause a timing issue; PAL is 4% faster than NTSC.