Bundle 5 studio albums together by an artist for an "Original Album Series" box...

And my vintage Aerosmith box. One of those legendary bands where their five best releases were literally successive. In my view...

 

Eric Clapton

V1

461 Ocean Blvd
There's One in Every Crowd
No Reason To Cry
Slowhand
Backless

V2
Another Ticket
Money & Cigarettes
Behind the Sun
August
Journeyman

 

The Residents

Meet The Residents
Not Available
Present The Third Reich 'n' Roll
Fingerprince
Duck Stab! / Buster & Glen

 

Amon Düül II

Phallus Dei
Yeti
Tanz Der Lemminge
Wolf City
Vive La Trance

 

Keeler

Autofocus
The Present Link
Playing Field
The Age of the Inventor
Trapped In The Hi-Fi Zone - Sonic Constructions

 

Cluster

Cluster
II
Zuckerzeit
Sowiesoso
Grosses Wasser

 

Jane Siberry
Jane Siberry
No Borders Here
The Walking
Bound By The Beauty
When I Was A Boy

 

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Safe as Milk
Strictly Personal
Trout Mask Replica
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Clear Spot

 

King Crimson

In The Court of The Crimson King
In The Wake of Poseidon
Lizard
Islands
Larks' Tongues In Aspic

 

And now here's something completely different: a box of Hal Willner-produced tribute albums!
You could call it, The Music NOT of Hal Willner: a series of Tribute Albums

1981's Amarcord Nino Rota, Italian Fellini film music of Nino Rota, by jazz musicians such as Carla Bley, the Marsalis brothers, Deborah Harry, etc.
1984's That's The Way I Feel Now - a Tribute to Thelonius Monk by artists such as Joe Jackson, John Zorn, Peter Frampton and more
1985's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, with tracks from Sting, Charlie Haden, Lou Reed, Tom Waits...
1988's Stay Awake: various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, as done by Ringo Starr, Ken Nordine, Yma Sumac (Tom Waits' "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho" is worth the price of admission alone!)
1992: Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus...the jazz icon covered by Bill Frisell, Henry Rollins, Leonard Cohen, Keith Richards...and here's the best part: featuring instruments designed and built by Harry Partch!

It just doesn't get any weirder than this...

 

Metallica
Kill em all
Ride the lightning
Master of puppets
And justice for all
Garage days re- revisited $5.98 ep + all b sides from the from the 1980s

 

After really getting into Larry Norman's music recently, I realized how perfect this series would work for his career, using these 5 albums:

Upon This Rock (1969)
Only Visiting This Planet (1972)
So Long Ago the Garden (1973)
In Another Land (1976)
Something New Under the Son (1981)

Aside from being his 5 most highly-regarded albums in his career, they also happen to be his first five studio solo albums of original compositions.

 

Art Ensemble of Chicago:

Les Stances a Sophie
People in Sorrow
Phase One
Nice Guys
Full Force

 

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk
2
Ralf und Florian
Autobahn
Radio-Aktivität

 

Snakefinger

Chewing Hides the Sound
Greener Postures
Manual of Errors
Night of Desirable Objects
Snakefinger's History of the Blues

 

Goblin

Profondo Rosso
Roller
Suspiria
Il Fantastico Viaggio Del "Bagarozzo" Mark
Zombi / Dawn of the Dead

 

Maynard Ferguson (Columbia Original Album Classics)

Ballad Style
MF Horn 1
Alive and well in London
MF Horn 2
MF horn3


John Entwistle (MCA, 5 classic albums)

Smash your head against the wall
Whistle rhymes
Rigor Mortus
Mad Dog
Too late the hero

 

And my Billy Joel offering...

 

Apologies if previously mentioned or if it exists:

The Flaming Lips.
1 Hit to Death in the future head.
2. Transmissions from the satellite heart.
3. Clouds Taste Metallic.
4. Zaireeka. (Stereo mix from original multi tracks )
4. The soft bulletin

All Warners releases of course. Surprised that I haven't seen an 'Original Album Series' from 'Hit To Death...' up to and including 'Yoshimi battles...' but with 'Zaireeka' not included for obvious reasons.

 

How does one keep track of new original album classics or original album series box sets coming out?

 

I periodically search "box set" on amazon and sort by release date. They usually show up in that.

 

CANNED HEAT
Canned Heat
Boogie with Canned Heat
Living the Blues
Hallelujah
Future Blues

 

Last night I discovered that discogs is an easy way to do a search. Amazon searches are just weird...

 

Bee Gees

Cucumber Castle
2 Years On
Trafalgar
To Whom It May Concern
Life in a Tin Can

 

On a similar note:

Seals and Crofts (Vol 2...collecting the albums I don't already have, most of which are out of print and very expensive!)
Year of Sunday
One on One
Takin' It Easy
The Longest Road
Traces