What Artist / Band Would You Like To See A 5 Disc "Original Album" Set From?

Mega City Four. Their CD's are eyewateringly expensive these days.

 

The Police. Give each album its own disc and get out a little unreleased material to fill out the discs, master it nicely and you have an improved version of Message In A Box.

 

The Shadows.... and Cliff Richard have their own..

 

Genesis (1970s)
Yes (1970s)
King Crimson (Court, Wake, Lizard, Larks, Starless)
ELP (1970s)

Ramones (first 4 studio albums and It's Alive)
Smiths
REM (Chronic Town Ep and first 4 albums)
Husker Du (Zen Arcade to Warehouse)
Replacements (first 5 albums)
the Cure (first 5 albums)
the Cure (second 5 abums)

Townes Van Zandt
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Tom Waits
Neil Young
Lucinda Williams

Vangelis
Can
Magma

Van Morrison
Bruce Springsteen
Willie Nelson

Frank Zappa


I could go on and on

 

War

 

Well, I mean, last year's box sounds alright to these ears, contains a bonus disc and will set you back about 15$.

 

There are two Hollies Original Album Series sets. Across the two you get their first 10 albums. The first goes from Stay With The Hollies to For Certain Because, the second from Evolution to Confessions of the Mind. The first box is all mono, the second all stereo.

The most recent Original Album Series I've bought is Graham Central Station. Patchy stuff, but the good stuff is great.

 

- Kiss
- Madness
- Ultravox

 

Why do that when you have this? The Police / Every Move You Make: Studio Recordings box issued on CD | superdeluxeedition

 

That set misses a lot of the Message In A Box non album tracks and it has no unreleased music.

 

Kaleidoscope (US), although they released only four albums on Epic between 1966 and 1970.

 

Asia (original lineup)
s/t
Alpha
Phoenix
Omega
XXX

 

5 Disc Original Album Sets are normally just the albums in cheap CD card sleeves and no bonus tracks. At least every one I have ever seen in the past 30 years is that format.

You're asking for a Police super expanded box set of deluxe editions of every album -the nearest equivalent of that that exists is Message In A Box, though you don't seem to like that.

 

I don't know if it's still in print but I bought their first 3 albums in a 3 disc set in 2005.
Cost like $15.

Here it is:
Kiss Chronicles: 3 Classic Albums - Wikipedia

 

There was another one a few years ago that was a 5-disc set. It includes the S/T; DTK; Destoryer and RARO and for some stupid reason the first volume of the 20th Century Masters comp which is made up of songs from albums already included in this set. I don't know why they felt the need to include a comp in this collection and not Hotter than Hell. Its something that really irks me.

KISSMONSTER - Discography - "5 Classic Albums" [Box] (2013, Reissue)

 

Sex Pistols

I like to challenge people.

 

Agreed, ELP and King Crimson have catalogs that I want to collect, but it's a slow process when they are priced seemingly much higher than some other artists in this series. I finally just broke down and bought Court, Wake, and Red for about the cost of 3 of these 5 cd sets...

 

I do have several with at least some Bonus Tracks.

Journey
The Byrds
ELO
Heart
Kansas
Mountain
Sly & The Family Stone
BS&T

Sometimes it's a mix of with and without in the same set IME.

 

Joe South

 

In some cases it's after the fact for me now since I've started to pick them up piecemeal.

But these would be nice:

The Move
The Kinks
Humble Pie
David Bowie (not the $100 sets)
Joe Walsh
James Gang
Small Faces
Badfinger
Thin Lizzy
Blondie

There are some others that seem to be OOP, that I wish would be revived...

 

Never Mind The Bollocks
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Some Product
Flogging A Dead Horse
Sid Sings (or possibly one of the better Pistols live recordings)

Five albums and still 'Satellite' not included. Flogging A Dead Horse would duplicate a lot but also has three of the four essential B-sides.

 

A reference & maybe a shopping list:
Original Album Classics

 

A comprehensive box set was released last year.

 

I get the impression that these sets are released when bands back catalogue sales slow down. I can't imagine we'd ever get a Bowie one, or the likes of The Smiths and The Cure. Some good suggestions there though. Blondie's first five covers all the essentials. Lizzy from Nightlife to Black Rose would be a superb set of their peak era albums.

 

RRHOF Class of 2034: Doug Yule