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Various Artists:
Have A Nice Decade:
The '70s Pop Culture Box

72919 7-CD SET $99.98

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Pop culture -- and pop music along with it -- took a definite turn in the '70s. Which direction, though, is still a raging debate between fans of Tony Orlando & Dawn and people who wanted to tie a yellow ribbon around the trio's necks.

Yet, as much as we've tried to fulfill the world's funky fix for '70s pop, too much has never been enough.

Now, Rhino redefines overkill for insatiable '70s pop fans with Have A Nice Decade -- the ultimate tribute to ten years too twisted to forget.

Let this avocado-green and harvest-gold, smiley face carpeting covered, seven CD, '70s fantasy freakout be your own personal wayback machine. Over 150 tracks, classic '70s sound bites, and a coffee table-style book, stuffed with liner notes, essays, photos, and a complete timeline marking the decade's significant cultural events. Saturate yourself in '70s satisfaction.

Liner Notes

The Reviews Are In!
With 160 classic songs that run from the absolutely essential to the utterly forgettable, this 7-CD boxed set of music from America's tackiest decade is a compilation Quentin Tarantino would undoubtedly kill for.
-B. Love
INsite (Atlanta, GA)

... a remarkably cheesy and fascinating package by the gang at Rhino Records.
-Anthony Violanti
Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)

The Rhino Records '70s pop culture box, entitled "Have a Nice Decade," positively luxuriates in slothful decadence as it simultaneously dares you to take it seriously.
-Eric Alterman
Salon Magazine

Almost every hit song that mattered in the 1970s is here. Dig out your platform shoes, high-collared shirts and leisure suits - it's party time!
-Patrick MacDonald
Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)

"A" rating
-Mike Flaherty
Entertainment Weekly

So much reminiscing will ensure that you will be distracted from an otherwise crucial fact... all of this music stunk!
...
Except that it was our garbage. And no one can ever take that away from us.
So go ahead and drop $99.98... you're going to have to do it sooner or later anyway.
-Corey Levitan
RAVE!

Have a Nice Decade includes the perfect tunes for that '70s retro party you've been meaning to throw.
-Shira Tarrant
Genre (Hollywood, CA)

This is one of the most inconsequential yet wonderful releases of the summer. Just pull out these discs at a backyard barbecue, and watch people start doing the hustle.
-James Lien
CMJ New Music

Mark these words: On Feb. 24, 1999, when they hand out the award for Best Recording Package -- Boxed, Rhino will walk away with its second straight win. "Have a Nice Decade," the inventive label's latest compilation gem, is a marvel to look at, a joy to fiddle with, and yep -- it sounds good, too.
...After all, it's high time "Afternoon Delight" won something.
-Brian McCollum
Knight Ridder Newspapers

...this is not just some sick archivist's idea of a bad joke. For every truly horrific song here, there are at least five classics and nearly as many that come close.
-Kevin O'Hare
Newhouse news service
 Staten Island Sunday (Staten Island, NY)

Accustomed to raising the bar on boxed sets, Rhino has outdone itself with this mother of all retrospectives -- a seven-disc homage to the decade that time forgot, packaged in appropriately hideous, puke-green shag carpeting with a smiley face pattern.
-edited by Paul Verna
Billboard Magazine

With this box set, a bag of bad pot, a black light and some serious acne you can recreate my entire adolescence. Only this time around, it will sound better on compact disc.
-Charles R. Cross
The Rocket


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