Suggest some cool Box sets for Xmas

[Progatron]

I like Turtles, Shortbread cookies and Fruitcake myself.

Oh not the kind of boxed set your on about?

No it wasn't what he had in mind, but now I want all three of those!

[SteveSly]

It has been out for a while, but the Blue Oyster Cult box set is outstanding. All of the studio and live albums up through “Imaginos” are included and re-mastered including an expanded version of “Some Enchanted Evening”. There is also a CD of rarities, and a CD of live material from their radio broadcasts. Nice booklet too. One of my favorite box sets.

I also picked up the Kansas box set with all of the studio / Live albums up through “Drastic Measures”. A very nice collection.

[Lopez]

I like Turtles, ....Oh not the kind of boxed set your on about?
DtB

I wish someone would issue a boxset of the entire Turtles discography. Sundazed, you hear me?

[Supersonic Scientist]

Bump...

[Garyhead]

Just got an email from Pop Market today.....Complete Led Zepplin reissue......$950.00
Yes Progeny cd box.....$45.00. 3LP $25.00. Price coming down......

[zombywoof]

New Tull boxed set of Too Old to Rock 'n Roll is revelatory.

[happytheman]

Just saw The Doors "A Collection" for just over $30 if you need to fill out your Doors albums.. Sweet price for the 6 CD set.
Update.. just got a notice from Amazon.. this set has drop to $22.. what a deal.. The whole catalog with Morrison for just over $20.. original mixes

[interbellum]

Just heard an old Traffic-song (Paper Moon) and I thought, well if there's a box-set from a group I'd like to have it would be from Traffic. I have most of their LP's, but there's not such an "Island Years" set like John Martyn I suppose.

[Rarebird]

Grobschnitt - 79:10

[Plasmatopia]

This is mighty tempting ... Are there individual booklets with liner-notes & credits or is it alltogether in a single booklet?

You shouldn't worry about that - just go to Wikipedia, lol.

I do get what you were saying (I think) - it might be better to have a single page dedicated to the entire discography of an artist? But then, I've seen individual songs have their own page...


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[davis]

just about any box set from Chess Records

or

Crazy Diamond

[jkelman]

It has been out for a while, but the Blue Oyster Cult box set is outstanding. All of the studio and live albums up through “Imaginos” are included and re-mastered including an expanded version of “Some Enchanted Evening”. There is also a CD of rarities, and a CD of live material from their radio broadcasts. Nice booklet too. One of my favorite box sets.

I also picked up the Kansas box set with all of the studio / Live albums up through “Drastic Measures”. A very nice collection.

Also a download card for four more live shows...320k MP3 and all very good...

[jkelman]

I got that Miles Davis one a couple of years ago; essential jazz! Wouldn't mind having that Tony Banks.



I know you're not a hard bop/post bop fan, but I am... and that Atlantic stuff is great. Some of it has Tyner and Jones, but they hadn't settled on Garrison until the Impulse albums. I love that period when Trane was in mid transition (no pun) between his chord progression obsession and his modal thing (that he got further and further into on the Impulse albums). One of the interesting things about the Atlantic box is hearing how bop influenced McCoy was in the early days.

There was a box of Coltrane's studio recordings for Impulse! a few years back....

[jkelman]

If you want to break out of the usual prog box (ha!), one of my favorite boxed sets of this past year is the Isley Brothers collection: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...album-masters/
Nearly worth it just for the 'Wild in Woodstock' album which is just BLISTERING.

Yes!!!

[JJ88]

The Isley Brothers are, alas, one of the biggest examples of what could be called a 'licensing nightmare'. So many hits but so many record labels! Those guys go way back to the 50s; 'Shout' was 1959, I think!

Agreed on Traffic not really getting the attention they merit.

[FrippWire]

Weather Report / The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978-1981. Focuses on the Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Peter Erskine (and sometimes Bobby Thomas, Jr.) lineup of WR. Erskine's liner notes indicate that WR was woefully under-recorded in concert. The tapes from which this 4 CD set is culled are from the archives of Erskine, WR soundman Brian Risner and a fan from Thailand.

[BravadoNJ]

Be aware that the ELO one does not contain the Xanadu soundtrack, to which ELO contributed half of the songs and most of which were hits.

yeah. the actual soundtrack sound quality really sucks too. i had always hoped that Jeff would remaster those 5 tracks. he did re-record the title track (without Olivia of course) for the Flashback box set. the soundtrack was never remastered.

[JJ88]

^To be honest, I don't think it's the best ELO work anyway. That and (to a lesser extent) Discovery have a few things which I just find ELO-by-numbers.

[Trane]

I bought this recently.

I saw this last w-e and at 30.00€ for 7 albums, I grabbed it and quickly

Awesome presentation (never seen that Spectrum was a gatefold cover before)

This looks like a "must have" for me....I had ALL of these on vinyl back-in-the-day and only 2 or 3 on CD as of now.

Do any other these albums have bonus material???......thx.

Not that I've seen, but I've yet to investigate in depth.

One booklet. And it's a classy one! The only criticism I have concerning this set is that the Spectrum disc is very hard to remove from the gatefold sleeve. No problem with the other discs which are housed in non fold out sleeves.

Booklet's a classy act.

Will try extracting the Cd from Spectrum GF cover tonight.

[Nearfest2]

The Steve Hackett "Premonitions" box is very nice.

[Zeuhlmate]

Since the One Shot box will be a fact, it could be a contender.

[Trane]

One booklet. And it's a classy one! The only criticism I have concerning this set is that the Spectrum disc is very hard to remove from the gatefold sleeve. No problem with the other discs which are housed in non fold out sleeves.

Yup, this is amazingly difficult to extract it without damaging the gatefold sleeve. I will leave it out from it from now on... just found a little plastic envelope and will store separately in the box. The other single sleeve have no such problems because of an inventive cut-out. The problem is that these mini-Lp have the 12x12cm format, whereas a lot of the Japanese are 13x13cm, which is so much easier for disc handling

[bob_32_116]

I wonder what box sets, or other physical recorded music, PE members may have got for Xmas, and which they are now looking to rapidly dispose of via eBay or Discogs?

Heh.