Box Set Beefs

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Wildest cat from montana, Apr 19, 2021.

  1. babyblue

    babyblue Patches Pal!

    Location:
    Pacific NW
    I've always thought (or wished) that Bruce had released some kind of album for the 1978 or 1980-81 tours. He might not have been as popular back then, but he sure had a reputation as a live performer and at the very least a concert album would have given people a taste of that.
     
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  2. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    Cardboard jacket sleeves that are just a leeetle bit too snug.

    It's not like wearing and breaking in bluejeans!
     
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  3. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    My only complaint about certain box sets can be the remastering. I never expect them to be complete. If I want complete representation of an artists' output, I will also but their albums separately.
     
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  4. octophone

    octophone immaterial girl

    Location:
    Scotland
    The catalogue of The Smiths is small and easy to compile. They recorded their entire output for one record label and their studio career is a little over 4 years. It is absolutely "won't" rather than "can't", the refusal to do a properly complete edition as this would rule out releases like "The Sound Of The Smiths" and its ability to dangle a few carrots in front of the faithful.
     
  5. guidedbyvoices

    guidedbyvoices Old Dan's Records

    Location:
    Alpine, TX
    14 bonus tracks are on the digital version. A few single mix/edits plus b sides.
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  6. Bemagnus

    Bemagnus Music is fun

    I have (to ) many box-sets. S favorite of mine is Nils Lofotens ten-disc beaty Face the Music. Limiter,numbered and hand-signed by Nils.
    However great the set is I never understood why they excluded the original version of his Maybe most famous song Keith Don t Go. Instead we ger a blistering version featuring Neil Young. Why not both
    A great ser anyway
     
  7. steveharris

    steveharris Senior Member

    Location:
    Mass
    Glaring content omissions and poor mastering are the main disappointments.Sometimes not having the music you want on vinyl or cd is a pain.
     
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  8. Chrisaw

    Chrisaw Forum Resident

    Location:
    England
    If only all box sets could follow the standard set by Jethro Tull. Great sound, great content and a great price.
     
  9. dsdu

    dsdu less serious minor pest

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    Santa Cruz, CA
    That's why I got these.
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  10. DME1061

    DME1061 Forum Resident

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    Trenton, NJ
    I didn't buy it, but for The Life & Crimes Of Alice Cooper box set, I was stunned that "Halo of Flies" and "Generation Landslide" weren't included.
     
  11. Two Sheds

    Two Sheds Sha La La La Lee

    I hate the way the discs are jammed into slots in the Nuggets LA and San Francisco box sets. Absolutely reckless and lazy to do it that way.

    I bought The Who: Maximum R&B set in 1994 but I don't even remember any of the many complaints about it on here. I don't even remember the last time I played it. Time to revisit it.
     
  12. Sevoflurane

    Sevoflurane Forum Resident

    Pink Floyd box sets = disintegrating Blu Rays.
     
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  13. Solly Bridgetower

    Solly Bridgetower Elton is my golden God of music. Deal with it.

    Location:
    Ontario, Canada
    I didn't know that. Well, maybe I'll reprocess the extra bits into fake stereo, then edit them into the SS mix. Seriously. I'd love to have a stereo mix of the whole thing. (I like the Beatles in mono; but, for the BBs post-1964, gotta be stereo!)
     
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  14. Keith V

    Keith V Forum Resident

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    Secaucus, NJ
    Citizen Steely Dan. Lousy liner notes. One previously unreleased version of a released song. Cropping Rikki intro on first pressing. No other outtakes.
     
  15. Big Blue

    Big Blue Forum Resident

    Location:
    Wisconsin
    I completely understand people being annoyed when a box set only comes in a version that includes the album on LP. It’s not a format everybody has re-embraced, and there should always be an optical-only version.

    However, as somebody who has re-embraced vinyl, I prefer a deluxe boxed set be mixed media and not all-LP.

    Your complaint is not with the concept of mixed-media sets, it’s with the record labels deciding not to release two versions of the set.
     
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  16. BigManRestless

    BigManRestless Forum Resident

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    Similarly - why was there not been a second volume of the Smiths' Singles box set? Or why didn't it include all the singles?
     
  17. NunoBento

    NunoBento Rock 'n' Roll Star

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    London
    Which is an excellent compilation, by the way. The Smiths best.
     
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  18. Someone In A Tree

    Someone In A Tree Crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples

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    The Carpenters, From the Top (1991)

    This four-disc box set has a total time of not quite 205 minutes. The short run time of each disc always irked me.

    The set could have easily fit on three discs.

    Or, if each disc were filled to 75 minutes, there could have been an additional 95 minutes of content!

    Alas, as Cunegonde sang, 'Twas not to be...
     
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  19. BigManRestless

    BigManRestless Forum Resident

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    London
    The Human League's A Very British Synthesizer Group came in two versions; 2 CD and 3 CD / 1 DVD.

    The first two discs of the box set are the same as the double CD version - a chronological collection of the band's singles. Except for The Sound Of The Crowd, their breakthrough single in the UK, their first top 20 hit, which is represented by the instrumental b-side version. Even the original 7" version is rather elusive on CD as it is; the version on Dare being a re-recording.

    Then there was the pricing; the double CD sold for what double CDs tend to sell for; I think it was around £15. But the box with one extra CD (of all previously unreleased material) and a DVD was £100. Only hardcore fans would be interested in the third disc (and probably the fourth) yet they had to pay £85 extra for those 2 discs, and end up with the flawed singles collection which 99% would have owned anyway.
     
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  20. BrentB

    BrentB Urban Angler

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    Midwestern US
    I keep reading abot "forced vinyl", but I am much more annoyed about "forced DVD or Blu-ray" discs.
     
  21. mesfen

    mesfen Senior Member

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    lawrence, ks usa
    I had a major beef with the Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 box set regarding the glaring omission of the Live Fox theater version of Free Bird. The set had the demo and studio versions of the song, but not the iconic version that many identify Skynyrd by.
     
  22. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

    Location:
    New Mexico USA
    Whining and carping are important coping activities, especially during this past year of the waking nightmare of pandemic, so good on you mates!

    But I’m more interested in what I consider to be nearly perfect box sets: like the Beatles vinyl mono box, the Grateful Dead Fillmore ‘69 and Complete Europe ‘72 sets, the recent Bobbie Gentry box, the Go-Betweens Vol. 2 box (a dreaded mix of vinyl and CDs, but I for one adore it anyway), the Dylan Tell Tale Signs Bootleg Series Vol. 8, along with box sets that are often excoriated but I love, like the first Buffalo Springfield box and the Byrds box (which sounds fantastic and gives you a stellar Byrds overview despite some weird omissions and the awful reunion tracks).

    Doesn’t anybody else have some box sets they consider to be more or less fantastic treasures? That are worth praising to the skies rather than nitpicking to death?

    Uh-oh, looks like I’ve gone seriously off-topic!

    :nauga:
     
  23. Any and all box sets that combine vinyl and CDs.
     
  24. Big Blue

    Big Blue Forum Resident

    Location:
    Wisconsin
    I’m hard pressed to think of a single box set I own that doesn’t have one disc that has only been played one time or never, so I have a hard time being annoyed if a set includes DVD or Blu-Ray content that doesn’t particularly interest me.

    Vinyl, I understand the frustration, because it takes up a lot of space and it’s conceivable that most people don’t have a way to even play it.
     
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  25. Colocally

    Colocally One Of The New Wave Boys

    Location:
    Surrey BC.
    Funny that some complain when there is vinyl and cd but then others complain when there isn't...
     

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