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This isn't as much a review as a warning... - 43%
The sound quality on here is absolutely terrible!!! This is the companion piece to Metal Blade's "Lightning to the Nations" re-release, and it does not do justice to the original releases.
If you can find it cheap, I guess you should pick it up, but don't let this be the be-all end-all of your Diamond Head investigations... the Half Moon Records "Best Of" (1998) is a much better start, in any case. But of course one should track down the original Lightning to the Nations (tracks 1-4, 9), Four Cuts EP (track 7), Sweet and Innocent single (track 5), and Waited Too Long single (tracks 6, 8).
Those are where they were originally ripped from... (well, track 7, Shoot Out the Lights, was its own single too... same version as on Four Cuts, but you may as well get a 4-song EP while you're at it) - and those are much better quality if you can get a decent non-worn vinyl.
As for this - don't get this if you can avoid it - or if you do, know what you are getting. Caveat emptor. Not a very opinionated review, but I hope a helpful one.
