Box sets that didn't disappoint

Bob Dylan - 1966 Recordings, Mile Davis Quintet - Freedom Jazz Dance, Free - Vinyl box-set, Porcupine Tree - The Delerium Years (both boxes) are my current most played of the recent boxes.

 

The recent Steve Hillage, Chris Wood, and Streetwalkers box sets are all fantastic! Lots of unreleased goodies and GREAT coffee table type books. They are A bit pricy but you know these will be hard to come by a few years from now.

 

The Beatles: "Artifacts" I & II.

 

I cherish the Beg, Scream, Shout, I Can Dig It, and Motown singles sets!!!

 

Do you have the What It Is! box? That's the one I keep coming back to. Tons of fun!

 

Spirit of Joy -Tales from Polydor Underground 67-74 is a really enjoyable set. Similar 3 cd box sets from Island, Liberty, Charisma, Decca, Vertigo labels are all great too.

 

At a bargain price with good mastering and relevant bonus tracks, the first 6 Simple Minds 1979-82 albums....all predating "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
Many of us fans already had these albums, but still a worthwhile purchase. For the "new" fan it's a treasure trove.

 

That one is killer too! Did you get the Northern Soul box? On the fence about that one!

 

I didn't get it, no. You mean the 2 disc set?

 

"Immersion - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd"
Shmaltzy schlock & packaging notwithstanding.
Blu-ray Disc 5. Original Quad Mix - 24/96 5.1 mix - British, French, & North American Concert Screen Films
CD Disc 6. Demo for "Money" - "The Travelling Sequence" - '72 pre release mix

If not enough or to much $$$ for someone, get it!

i would have paid sets price just for Concert Films w/HD sound.

 

Let's not forget the awesome original mix by Alan Parsons. And that solo piece by Wright is to die for!

 

This one.
The Odyssey: A Northern Soul Time Capsule:Amazon.co.uk:Music

 

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet but the "Fleetwood Mac Blue Horizon" box set was done with real love and care and is fantastic, only wish the Reprise stuff (with Peter Green) was included.

 

Wow, never heard of that one, thanks for the heads up!

 

Hitsville USA 1959-1971
Bebop Spoken Here
Direction, Reaction, Creation
Before The Dawn

 

Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years (EMI U.K.) -- needs to be reissued stateside
Frank Sinatra: The Columbia 1943-52
Frank Sinatra: The V Discs
Frank Sinatra: A Voice In Time
Frank Sinatra: A Voice On Air
Billie Holiday: Lady Day
Billie Holiday: the Verve box
Ella Fitzgerald: The American Songbooks Collection

Elvis Presley: The Complete '50s Masters
Elvis Presley: The Boy From Tupelo 1953-55
Elvis Presley: Boy With the Big Beat 1956
The Beatles In Mono
The Beatles stereo box
The Beatles: The Complete Singles Collection
The Beatles: The EP Collection

Sons of the Pioneers & Roy Rogers: Way Out There, The Complete Recordings 1934-43 (Bear Family)
Sons of the Pioneers & Roy Rogers: Songs of the Prairie, Standard Radio Transcriptions vol 1 1934-38 (Bear Family)
Sons of the Pioneers & Roy Rogers: Memories of the Range, Standard Radio Transcriptions vol 2 (Bear Family)
Sons of the Pioneers: Wagons West (Bear Family)
The Complete Hank Williams (MGM) -- needs to be remastered
Hank Williams: the Complete Mother's Best (Time-Life)
Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings
Hank Williams Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings 2
Johnny Cash: The Man In Black 1954-58 Sun sessions (Bear Family)

Bob Dylan in Mono
Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes
Bob Dylan: The Cutting Edge
Bob Dylan: the Live 1966 Recordings

etc., etc., etc., ...

 

There is a danger of this thread turning into a shopping list if I don't distract myself with something else. I bought This Is BB King and The Doors at the Matrix boxes after seeing them posted here, and if I could afford The Grateful Dead Around the Sun Box I'd have that, too.

Meanwhile, I have to get this set any which way I can:

Wow.

 

Looks good right? Amazon uk has had it heavily discounted at various times. I will give you a heads up if I see the sale again!

 

Can you suggest an alternative with better EQ choices?

 

The Reprise Collection 1990 is pretty limited for the era it's covering but for the casual fan it's not too bad.

The Essential 60s Masters is complete for non movie secular recordings.
Essential 70s is missing a few good tracks but not a disappointment.

 

Original Singles Collection is a darn good affordable box with everything commercially released shy of Luke the Drifter material.

 

I love musical segments that pedal on a single note or a singular tonality and move around the voicings available for that tonality. Fairly simple, yet brilliant.

 

You'd hope the cds have at least fixed the 2 second gaps that were present on the last masterings between songs that were supposed to segue...

 

Agreed, although I would hardly describe every song recorded at Reprise in chr0nological order as being for the casual fan. I have the suitcase edition. It has always upset me that hardcover book inside came without its dust jacket.

Agreed. These box-sets were the first Elvis I bought since the 1970s and helped to put his music in perspective for me. Now I've got an entire bookcase devoted to Elvis CDs and some books.

True, and I own the original square box edition, but I didn't list it because the songs are also in the The Complete box and I didn't want to be a hog and repetitious at the same time.