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

King's X:

Out of The Silent Planet
Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Faith Hope Love
King's X
Dogman

 

Peter Gabriel:
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
So

Brian Eno +
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Ambient 2 (The Plateaux Of Mirror)
Ambient 3 (Day Of Radiance)
Ambient 4 (On Land)
Apollo - Atmospheres & Soundtracks

 

Frank Zappa And The Mothers

Freak Out
Absolutely Free
We're Only In It For The Money
Uncle Meat
Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Frank Zappa box 2

One Size Fits All
Zoot Allures
Läther
Sheik Yerbouti
You Are What You Is

 

Eric Clapton (Pre-Solo Years)
-John Mayall-Blues Breakers with Eric -Clapton
-Cream-Disraeli Gears
-Cream-Wheels of Fire
-Blind Faith-Blind Faith
-Derek and The Dominoes-Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

 

Stevie Wonder
5 albums from Music for My Mind thru Songs In the Key Of Life

Joni Mitchell
5 albums from Blue thru Hejira

Neil Young:
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
After the Goldrush
Harvest
Tonight's the Night
On The Beach

Iron Maiden:
First 5 albums

Metallica:
First 5 albums

My Morning Jacket:
First 5 albums (including Okonokos even though that's cheating )

Thin Lizzy (Robertson/Gorham era)
Fighting
Jailbreak
Johnny the Fox
Live and Dangerous
Bad Reputation

Pavement:
Their 5 albums

Bruce Springsteen:
5 albums from The Wild... thru Nebraska

Lucinda Williams:
5 albums from s/t thru Worls Without Tears

Smashing Pumpkins:
First 5 albums including Piscies Iscariot

Led Zeppelin:
First 6 albums (gotta make an exception here)

The Kinks:
5 albums from Face to Face thru Lola... (Might even replace F2F with Muswell Hillbillies)

Al Green:
Gets Next To You
Let's Stay Together
I'm Still In Love With You
Call Me
The Belle Album

Van Morrison:
Astral Weeks
Moondance
Saint Dominic's Preview
Veedon Fleece
Into The Music

Beach Boys:
Today!
Pet Sounds
Smile
Sunflower
Surf's Up

Aretha Franklin:
I Never Loved a Man...
Lasy Soul
Aretha Now
Spirit in the Dark
Amazing Grace

 

Beck Volume 1:

Mutations
Sea Change
Guero
Modern Guilt
Morning Phase

Beck Volume 2:

Mellow Gold
Odelay
Midnight Vultures
Guerolito (Guero remix album)
The Information

 

Radiohead (UK #1 album collection)*

OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
In Rainbows

* ("A Moon Shaped Pool" hit #1 in the UK as well)

 

In The Old Folkie Days... (Foggy Trips Vol. 1) - Neil Young

Neil Young (debut)
After The Gold Rush
Harvest
On The Beach
Chrome Dreams (included to make fans fork out precious money for a couple of unreleased bits)

...The Air Was Magic When We Played (Foggy Trips Vol. 2) - Neil Young

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Tonight's The Night
Zuma
Rust Never Sleeps
Sleeps With Angels

Smoking Down The Tracks - Bob Dylan

Blood On The Tracks
Desire
Street Legal
Shot Of Love
Unit X-749

The last disc is an exclusive ensuring that diehards will buy it with the following tracklisting:

Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts (acoustic take)
Hurricane (original "libelous" take)
Joey (early take)
Abandoned Love (live at The Other End, 1975)
Caribbean Wind (acoustic take)
Shot Of Love (alternate)
Heart Of Mine (alternate)
Every Grain Of Sand (Lakeland 1981)

 

Zevon

Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy
Sentimental Hygiene
Mr. Bad Example
Life'll Kill Ya

 

Stones

Aftermath
Sticky Fingers
Some Girls
Steel Wheels
A Bigger Bang

 

Bat out of Hell
Dead Ringer
Bad for Good (see what I did there)
Bat out of Hell II
As Brave as We Are

 

Neil Young:

Neil Young (debut)
Weld
Living With War
Re-Ac-Tor
Psychedelic Pill (Disc 2)

 

Scorpions

1982 Blackout
1972-1977 Best Of Scorpions
1979 Lovedrive
1980 Animal Magnetism
1984 Love At First Sting

You might have noticed I put them in order of preference...

 

Beach Boys

Surfin' USA
Pet Sounds
Holland
Love You
L.A. Light Album

 

Beatles

Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
The White Album
Let It Be

 

Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles (aka white album)
Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol album) yes, I said Capitol..........

 

Paul McCartney:
RAM
BAND ON THE RUN
TUG OF WAR
FLAMING PIE
MEMORY ALMOST FULL

John Lennon:
PLASTIC ONO BAND
IMAGINE
MIND GAMES
WALLS AND BRIDGES
DOUBLE FANTASY

George Harrison:
ALL THINGS MUST PASS
LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
33 1/3
GEORGE HARRISON
CLOUD NINE

Ringo Starr:
BEAUCOUP OF BLUES
RINGO
GOODNIGHT VIENNA
RING O RAMA
LIVERPOOL 8

Beatles:
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
RUBBER SOUL
REVOLVER
SGT PEPPER
ABBEY ROAD

 

Tom T. Hall:
In Search Of A Song
We All Got Together And...
The Storyteller
For The People In The Last Hard Town
I Wrote A Song About It

Bobby Bare:
Me and McDill
Sleeper Wherever I Fall
As Is
Hard Time Hungrys
Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn

Frank Sinatra:
In The Wee Small Hours
Only The Lonely
Close To You
No One Cares
Where Are You?

 

The Smiths

The Smiths
Hatful of Hollow
The Queen is Dead
Louder Than Bombs
Strangeways Here We Come

I love all things Smiths, but I love Meat Is Murder just a bit less

Eno

Here Come the Warm Jets
Taking Tiger Mountain
Another Green World
Music For Airports
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (w/ Byrne)

MLITBOG is not my fave, but would be an interesting inclusion to get a sense of his aesthetic

Dinosaur Jr.

You're Living All Over Me
Bug
Green Mind
Where Ya Been
Farm

I don't love WYB or Farm a ton, but since they've been reunited for longer than they were united, probably should have a recent one.

Elvis Costello

My Aim Is True
This Year's Model
Armed Forces
Get Happy
Imperial Bedroom

R.E.M.

Murmur
Reckoning
Fables
Lifes Rich Pageant
Document

A nearly perfect run.

Dylan

Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61
Blonde On Blonde
John Wesley Harding
Blood On The Tracks

 

The La's
The La's
The La's
The La's
The La's

 

The Tubes Complete A&M Years

The Tubes
Young & Rich
NOW
What Do You Want From Live?
Remote Control

I'd buy it, if only for a decent sounding NOW.

 

I'd buy it if it was like this:

Disc 1: Yer Album
Disc 2: Rides Again (w/both the edited and non-edited Bomber, Laguna Salada, Country Fever)
Disc 3: Third (w/the unreleased track they cut with Little Richard)
Discs 4-5: Live In Concert (if the multitracks still exist...a remix of the full show was remixed, plus the original 7 song album).

 

You guys suck lol
The "Original album series" usually gather together 5 consecutive albums.
I think we need one with all the Supertramp studio albums with Roger Hodgson starting with "Crime of the Century".

 

How about we really confuse the average consumer:

Peter Gabriel:

Car
Scratch
Melt
Security
Birdy


I think they're essential listening, but anyone expecting "Sledgehammer" may have a minor conniption.

 

Talking heads
77
More songs..
Fear of music
Remain in light
Speaking in tongues

All I need


Joni mitchell
For the roses
Blue
Court
Hissing
Heijira

Todd rundgren
Runt
Ballad
Something/anything
Wizard a true star
Todd

Genesis
Foxtrot
Selling england
Lamb
Trick
Wind