No boxsets in your collection?!

Box sets are among the things I miss least about my CD days. There was never any good or convenient way to store them, so either the boxes were somewhere else, separate from the rest of that artists' titles, or you took the CD's out (if they came in individual jewel cases inside the box) and filed them away, but still had to waste precious space storing a then-empty box. Definitely were things designed for suburbanites, not urban-dwellers. I was glad that eventually they started being (re-)packaged in more convenient forms, like the Fleetwood Mac 25 Years box, but that was toward the end of my CD days.

I only own a few vinyl sets: the Stones 64-69 box, Dylan and Beatles mono, Hendrix Winterland, and the first Bowie box, but I like that, except for the unnecessarily large Beatles mono one, they fit in just fine on my Ikea LP shelves filed in with the rest of my vinyl.

 

Comprehensive, well-annotated box sets were one of the best strategies and marketing angles of the CD age... The completely satisfied both sides of the commerce equation -- they completely captured the fanatical completeists and marketing departments were able "mythologize" an over-priced product.

I still love buying CD box sets!

 

CD: 10 Mahler sets alone. The complete Miles Davis 'metal spine' Columbia series, Mile's Plugged Nickel box, Miles 'bootleg'series, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Parker, a couple of Coltrane sets, Monk on Riverside, Monk On Prestige, Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven symphonies, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Debussy, Delius, Glen Gould's 'Brandenberg Variations'
Steely Dan, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Joy Division, Trojan roots reggae, Dusty Springfield, The Smiths, Springsteen, a Tom Waits Japanese Disk Union box (Swordfishtrombones) and Orphans. There are others..

LP: Capt Beefheart, New Order, Art Pepper, Mahler #2 and #3 with Bernstein, Kamasi Washington, Monk.

 

I like the idea of them - the presentation, notes, photos etc, and I love to have them, but I rarely play them as they are not proper albums and I don't always want to hear too much of one artist.

All I have is (apart from Bob Dylan Official Bootlegs):

Peter Tosh - Honorary Citizen
Marvin Gaye - The Master 1961-1984
Simply Dusty

I'm quite happy with those and want no more. Except maybe Fela Kuti...

 

I've only got two - Byrds and Jefferson Airplane - not many artists who have managed to keep a high standard throughout their career - I prefer making my own compilations

 

My point.
About time!!!

 

My first two were Alice In Chains and Springsteen's "Tracks."
Most of mine are looking back at artists I like or helped complete a theme or collection.
Others include "Abba, Bee Gees, Bon Jovi, Carpenters, Elton John, Heart, Carol King, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Nicks, Nirvana, R.E.M., Linda Ronstadt, Roxette, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, and Donna Summer."
Biggest wish. Olivia Newton-John Box Set. USA version which includes video and the 40 or so tracks that have never been released here at all............

 

Just have a few, but I love them. I'd own more, but financially thats not always possible.

 

I just discovered I do have one proper boxset I'd forgotten about
It's a remastered cd release discography, 3-albums from a local band in a cardboard box. That gets me out of the "no boxset zone" I guess. That and ¨The Punk Generation¨ . This one is depicted on Discogs as just ¨4CDs in a slipcase¨ for the '93 release boxset (mine) and a boxset for the '95 re-release ( states ¨in a box¨) so no boxset there either.

I never took interest in boxsets I guess coz they always include a lot of silly material I don't care about, or found out that I already owned a lot of what was in them. Then there's the fact these things are obnoxiously expensive down here. It all adds up I guess.

I remember taking an interest on the first SATBanshees ¨first 6 albums¨ boxset back when it came out, and despite I was interested in the first 4 albums, I didn't mind getting the CD for ¨Nocturne¨ (got it on DVD) and didn't mind giving ¨A Kiss In The Dreamhouse¨ another chance for the price of the whole package.

But I was warned about the hideous remastering problems and ended up hunting down those CDs individually and used.

 

I have a Soft Machine five album set and the yellow Monterey Pop four CD set, but nothing very extensive.

 

I would think at least the Nuggets Box Set series would be essential ownership to most people here.

 

Good point; does a whatever-number album SET count as a boxset ?

 

Got loads, starting with Crossroads by EC on cassette, first CD Box was Beach Boys Good vibrations box, I think the only vinyl boxes I have are Bowie Sound and Vision and Chicago live.

 

I have owned very few box sets. The only box sets I currently own are the Radiohead box set that was released in 2007 and the recent Sepultura 6 cd set. The only reason I bought them was because it was an easy way to get the majority of their releases.

I had the Black Sabbath Paranoid box set ;however, I sold it about two months ago because I already have the 2cd version released in 2016. I just didn't need it.

I usually avoid box sets. Most of the time I don't find the extra material worth the price.

 

The most recent box I got -- the complete MGM Roy Orbison albums -- was discovered by a mouse who nibbled on the box. Grr!

 

I do not prefer boxed sets because they don't come in a jewel case. Where to shelve it? If I do buy one, I take out the CDs and put them in jewel cases, then throw the box in a pile in my attic. Sometimes, I take existing CDs and change the jewel case to a "double" to accomodate discs that come from boxed sets; so when I listen to a CD, sometimes there is a second "bonus" disc I put there.

 

If it's not the Pepper box itself, then no...

 

A bunch.
Who - My Generation
Who - Tommy
Who - Live at Leeds
Who - Quadrophenia
Who - 30 Years of Maximum R&B
Who - Join Together
Pretty Things - Unrepentant
Pretty Things - Bouquets From a Cloudy Sky
Pete Townshend - Lifehouse
Pete Townshend - Meher Baba
Faces - Five Guys Walk Into a Bar
Hollies - Clarke Hicks & Nash Years
Hollies - Changin Times
Hollies - Head Out of Dreams
King Crimson - Frame by Frame
King Crimson - Great Deceiver
King Crimson - Epitaph
Renaissance - Da Capo
ELP - Return of the Manticore
Monterey Pop
Mike Oldfield - Elements
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
John Lennon - Lennon
John Lennon - Anthology
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
George Harrison - Bangla Desh
Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Sandy Denny - Boxful of Treasures
Fairport Convention - Cropredy Box
Fairport Convention - Unconventional
Jefferson Airplane - Loves You
Genesis - Archive 1
Genesis - Archive 2
Roxy Music - Thrill of It All
Alice Cooper - Life & Crimes
Cream - Those Were the Days
Yes - YesYears
CSNY - CSN
George Carlin - Little David Years
and probably a couple I'm leaving out

 

I have a lot of them that I never listen to.

 

I never really consider if it comes in a box a twofer, triple or whatever amount of discs. I have no idea how many i have although I would probably say quite a few. I only ask one question. Does it contain music I want to hear?

 

I understand why some people don't like boxsets because the large box can be a problem display-wise. But not all box sets are large, some fit right in with my other CDs. Like the Blue Oyster Cult and ELO cubes.

 

I have a good few CD boxsets but as of yet, no vinyl boxsets.

 

My first was Eric Clapton Crossroads in 1988. It has been joined by over a hundred others since then.... I love them.

 

I got hooked ever since I got the Biograph vinyl box way back when.

 

The Beatles Mono
Sgt. Pepper box
The Move
Chicago
America
Little Feat
2 David Bowie
Roxy Music
The Police
Eric Clapton
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
The Doobie Brothers
Three Monkees boxes
Four Velvet Underground Deluxe
2 Lou Reed
Joe cocker
Allan Holdsworth
Average White Band
Lee Michaels
Squeeze
The Jam
The Style Council
4 Paul McCartney boxes
Ian Hunter boxed set (with all.of his albums)
2 Joni Mitchell boxes
Linda Ronstandt box
George Harrison box
Echo and the Bunnymen box
2 Faces boxed set
T Rex boxed set
2 The Sound boxed sets
2 XTC boxed sets
2 King Crimson boxed sets
Alice Cooper boxed set
2 Yes boxed sets
The Pretenders box
Big Star
Bob Dylan
Todd Rundgren
ZZ Top
Fanny boxed set
The Rascals boxed set
Bruce Springsteen boxed set
The Zombies boxed set
Creation boxed set
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Earth, Wind and Fire
Kansas
Bill Joel
Nils Lofgrin
Kinks
2 Lloyd Cole
Traveling Wilburies
8 Jethro Tull
Bill Nelson
Be Bop Dluxe
The Smiths
Ian Dury
The Long Ryder's
2 Pink Floyd
Manfred Mann Earth Band
Spooky Tooth
Apple Boxed set
Talking Heads
Lennon
Jimmy Webb
Simple Minds
2 Richard Thompson
Sandy Denny
Ray Cooder
Robert Plant
Genesis
Mott The Hoople
Bob Marley
Chris Difford
Simon and Garfunkel
2 Cheap Tricks
Fairport Convention
1 Andy Partridge
Jimi Hendrix
2 Split Enz
Kris Kristofferson
Rod Stewart Sessions
Another Sandy Denny I forgot about u till today.
Fotheringay
Taj Mahal
Steely Dan
Beau Brummels
Nuggets
Miles Davis
Theolonous Monk
Buffalo Springfield
CRosby, Stills, Nash
CSN&Y
Blue Oyster Cult
Marvin Gaye
Roy Orbison






Nope, I don't have any either. Just don't read above this line.