Artists that should release a box set with all their albums

Ha! Besides you and I, how many people would buy Amy's old albums in a big old box set? No harm in wishing though!

 

Animal Collective, Elliott Smith, Sunny Day Real Estate, Teenage Fanclub, Cat Power, Dntel, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky.

 

Mountain.

 

Indochine. Even though they just did rerelease all of their albums on vinyl.

 

Murph and The Magic Tones.

 

A CD box set of every Iron Maiden release including every live release and all of the bonus tracks that were on the Castle reissues.

 

I forgot about that thing

 

Bubbles and the $hitrockers

 

Moe Bandy - The Complete Albums Collection box set

 

Now, that is one thing I would be willing to part with quite a large-ish sum of money for.

 

I know it is wishful thinking.

 

Devil Doll

Like that'll ever happen.

 

Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Brothers recordings on vinyl, in a box. With Live In Philadelphia 1975 and a disc of outtakes and rarities if there are any.

 

His major catalog is split between Sony and Curb.

 

I'm surprised that there is no vinyl box set with all Michael Jackson albums starting with OTW and ending with Invincible.
They could even put History as one album in there and leave out the "Best Of" part.

 

king gizzard and the lizard wizard
ty segall
wire
beck (including all b-sides and singles)

 

Talk Talk
The Psychedelic Furs
The Go-Betweens
Siousxie & The Banshees

 

That's what this thread should be called! Always fun though.

 

I have no doubt we'll see this. No way the estate will miss an opportunity to milk the catalogue further. If they include a nice book I think it would sell though.

 

And Curb doesn't seem to play nice with licensing their artists for things like this.

 

Fans of singer-songwriter Gene Thomas and also his cult following 1960s duo group Gene & Debbe would enjoy an official box set compiling the recordings of Gene Thomas. It's up to these labels to release quality music instead of the more recent dregs. Even Gene's later material proves that he remained a talented songwriter up until the very end of his life.

Legendary songwriter and singer Gene Thomas

Ad from a concert appearance prior to Gene's death

 

Rusty Wier

 

Ryan Adams (including all the unreleased albums as well).

 

Sun Ra

 

Not a fan of the idea wasting the "box" concept on a mere re-releasing of the same old albums the public used to be able to buy one-by-one, even if there are plenty of low-expectation high-rollers would jump on them. I'd certainly be all for re-approaching an artists' span with the releasing label including all the other singles, mixes and promotionally-released live tracks, in the box. Even a short catalog from Nick Drake benefited greatly from that extra disc - which gave the liner notes extra reasons to be more thorough!

The much more controversial-but-bonus-filled option might be two versions, both making room for extras in the box, but the further materials only available separately. Gives fans the extras, with the option to buy or not buy the same albums they already supported the group with in the first place. Give curious neophytes a legit box to get their appreciation started. Give the label a prestigious product fairly priced, and pitchable to two types of customers.