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The seller gave excellent service and provided exactly what I expected.I purchased the 18 CD box set of Flower Power (Flower Power - 18 CD Box set Time Life music), not the 10 CD set. The 10 CD set is not an exact subset of the 18 CD set, if you compare the songs. The 18 CD set does contain many of the songs, but not all songs, of other music CD's: Time Life "Summer of Love" volume 1 or volume 2, "One Hit Wonders," "Dick Bartley Presents...," "The Ultimate 60's...," "Rock Instrumental Classics vol. ...," etc.Unfortunately, you won't find many key artists in this CD set, like Herb Alpert, Dionne Warwick, The Spinners, etc. One could ask: what do they have to do with "flower power?" Time Life has taken a wide view in defining who's included in their CD set, and I don't object. Naturally, shop around: price varies considerably by seller and time-of-year. These are great songs for anyone who loves good music. One point of irritation is: the CD's come in nine double-CD jewel cases, sometimes opening left, sometimes right, and sometimes with great difficulty due to poor fit. These are expressive songs from a very creative era. Enjoy some good digitized music.One should ask oneself: why buy CD's in this age of 99¢ MP3 downloads from Apple or other sources? I only wanted about 50% of the songs from the Flower Power 18 CD set, and could have purchased them much cheaper via downloads. It's probably a little bit faster importing MP3's into your digital music player from CD's. Also, Flower Power has fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, digitized most of the hits as you heard them originally on AM radio and 45's. Buying a CD allows you edit sound levels and song length before importing into iTunes. Unfortunately, iTunes's "Sound Check" feature doesn't seem to work very well. iTunes's analysis/adjustments don't seem to correspond well to hearing perception. I can't imagine what the sound "engineers" were thinking for their original mixes, but iTunes playback levels are all over the auditory map. Changing sound levels of uncompressed CD music in a free sound editor (like Audacity) sometimes helps playback levels.Other CD's from this era and genre worth considering might be:Summer Of Love: The Hits of 1967Summer of Love 1Summer of Love: GoldSummer Of Love Box SetSummer Of Love Vol. 2: Turn On { Various Artists }Summer of Love: 40th AnniversarySummer of Love: The Sound of 1967