The first disc is designed similar to that of the The Virgin Years 1974-1978 set it features the complete Encore double album plus two bonus tracks, originally released as a single, accompanying that album: the short remix from Monolight had later been released on the '70-'80 box set and is now available on CD for the first time. The box comes in a quintuple jewel case (having the width of two regular cases), and all five CDs are designed individually very nicely, based on vintage labels of vinyl releases by Virgin.
Force Majeure is wrongly listed as released in 1977 on the back insert (but correctly as 1979 in the booklet), and in the composition credits, Chris Franke is unfamiliarily spelled 'Christophe Franke', and Peter Baumann is mentioned as 'Hans Baumann', using his rarely seen first name instead of his more commonly known middle name Peter.
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Unlike the very similar box set Solo (1974-1983) - The Virgin Years, featuring (most of) the solo material of Edgar Froese and released by Virgin at the same time, booklet and inserts are almost free of errors. The back side of the booklet features the beautiful photo of the mirror-like reflecting tangram sculpture in the snow that originally was featured on the inner sleeve of the Tangram vinyl album. The middle double page shows numerous photos, mostly taken during the 1977 US tour this is a reproduction of the gatefold inner sleeve from Encore. The 8-page booklet contains very small versions of the original album covers with track listings and credits. The typeface selected for the band's name is the same Monique Froese had used for the cover of Force Majeure (as well as for Edgar Froese's solo album Pinnacles). The cover of the set is based on the original artwork of Tangram, overlaid with circular excerpts from the featured seven albums.
The TD material from the VA soundtrack album Risky Business (1983) is missing as well. By some unknown reason the soundtrack album Thief (1981) is represented by two tracks only, originally released on a 7" single. Regarding the timeline, this set is overlapping with The Virgin Years 1974-1978 that included Cyclone (1978), which chronologically would fit inbetween the material from Encore and Force Majeure. On five CDs, this set features the complete material from the original albums: With The Virgin Years 1977-1983 is the follow up to last year's The Virgin Years 1974-1978.
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