Your top 10 musical box sets ?

1.Elvis 50 Worldwide Gold Award Hits Vol.1 (1970)

2.Harry Smith Anthology of Folk Music (1953)

3.Otis Redding The Definitive Studio Album Collection (2017)

4.The Complete Buddy Holly (1979)

5.Country Joe&Fish The Wave Of Electric Sound (2018)

6.Fats Domino They Call Me The Fat Man


7.Beatles In Mono

8.Dylan Mono Recordings

9.VU Peel Slowly And See (1995)

10.Pere Ubu Drive He Said (2017)

 

1. Electric Light Orchestra - Afterglow. Sound quality aside, it was great to get so many unreleased tracks way back in 1990!
2. Ramones- Weird Tales of the Ramones.
3. Tom Petty - Playback
4. Yardbirds- Glimpses
5. Cowabunga ! V/A surf collection from Rhino
6. The Move - Anthology
7. Queen - the Crown Jewels
8. Kansas - Sail On
9. Cheap Trick- Sex, America, Cheap Trick
10. Jellyfish - Fanclub 4 discs of demos and live tracks on NotLame.

 

A few off the top of my head

The Cure - Join The Dots
Miles Davis - Complete Columbia Album Collection
Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High
The Police - Message In A Box
Frank Black And The Catholics - Complete Recordings
The Cult - Rare Cult
XTC - Transistor Blast
The Smiths - Complete
Talking Heads - Brick

 

Correction to my list:
Ray Charles box is “The Birth of Soul,” not “Birth of the Cool” (which is a Mile Davis recording). Sorry for the error.

 

These are the ones I own and which I love!

The Beatles mono vinyl
The Beatles stereo vinyl
Pink Floyd WYWH immersion
Pink Floyd DSOTM immersion
Porcupine Tree Delirium Years 1991 - 1993
Porcupine Tree Delirium Years 1994 - 1997

 

There's a lot to love, no doubt. Some of my very favorite box sets include...

Live Sh_t: Binge & Purge - Metallica
Echo of Miles - Soundgarden
Backtracks - AC/DC
Brick - Talking Heads
In Utero - Nirvana
The Aeroplane Flies High - Smashing Pumpkins
Eddie's Archive - Iron Maiden

But i also love these super deluxe sets from the likes of Led Zeppelin, Guns n Roses, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins and especially Metallica!

And I've definitely gotten tons of mileage out of unofficial sets such as...

Into the Black - Nirvana
A Season in Hell - Nirvana
The Apocalypse - Metallica

As well as discography sets like...

The Complete Studio Albums Volumes 1 & 2 - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Squeezebox - Weird Al

Stereo Albums - The Beatles

Classic Album Collection - The Monkees

1994 - 2008 - Nada Surf

And I'm very excited to dig through the upcoming Nazareth box set! \m/

 

1. Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Songbook 3x LP - Analog Spark
2. Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings 11 2x45rpm LPs - Analogue Productions
3. Miles Davis Quintet - Great Prestige Recordings 5 2x45rpm LPs - Analogue Productions
4. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol 5 Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue 3x LP - Classic Records
5. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child 4x LP - Classic Records
6. Led Zeppelin - The BBC Sessions 4xLP - Classic Records
7. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 3x45rpm LP - Mobile Fidelity
8. Neil Young - The Official Release Series Vol 1-4 - 4xLP - Warner Music / Reprise
9. Neil Young - The Official Release Series Vol 5-8 - 4xLP - Warner Music / Reprise
10. The Faces - You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything 5x LP - Warner Music / Rhino

 

Off the top of my head:

Aerosmith - Pandora's Box
Bob Dylan - Biograph
The Clash - Clash On Broadway
Eric Clapton - Crossroads
James Brown - Star Time
Phil Spector - Back To Mono
The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection - The London Years
Various Artists - Hitsville USA • The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
Various Artists - Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968)
The Yardbirds - Train Kept A-Rollin' (The Complete Giorgio Gomelsky Productions)

 

I had no idea The Rolling Stones' sessions with Jeff Beck had ever seen the light of day! What's the boxset like All Down The Line? It's obviously unofficial and after quickly googling it appears super rare and perhaps not the best sound wise, but it must be really interesting to hear some of those sessions?

 

I can think of the following, and in no order:

David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now ?
Johnny Cash: Complete Colombia Set
Bob Dylan: Trouble No More 8 CD, 1 DVD
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe
Delaney & Bonnie: Complete UK Concerts On The Road, Rhino Handmade set, 1969
Elvis Presley: Complete That's The Way It Is 8CD set
Ray Charles: Country & Western Recordings 1959 - 1986
Ray Charles: Pure Genius - Complete Atlantic
Ray Charles - Genius & Soul, Rhino box from 1948-1993
Richard Thompson: RT Rarities box set

 

In no particular order:

Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series - Volume 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006
Bob Dylan Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series - Volume 13 / 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition)
Bruce Springsteen The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story
Elvis Presley Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters
Miles Davis & John Coltrane The Complete Columbia Recordings: 1955-1961
The Faces Five Guys Walk Into A Bar
Van Morrison ..It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III & IV
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young CSNY 1974 (Deluxe)
Various The R & B Box: 30 Years Of Rhythm & Blues
Drive-By Truckers It's Great To Be Alive! - Deluxe

 

Yes hard to get i would think and a lot of it sounds pretty bad, way worse than the sessions proper which always seem to have crackles. You can hear Jeff Beck on a long blues and a few takes of Freeway Jam which are probably the best cuts. Thre is a Robert A. Johnson said to be on the sessions too but is that a real living person or a euphemism for Mr Crossroads himself?
I only just got hold of this box, i think other multi disc sets of Black & Blue stuff are possibly only on CD-R unlike this GoldPlate set.
Iam big on Stones boots or well um any and everything Stones really.

 

The Clash - On Broadway
Faces - Five Guys Walk into a Bar...
The Cult - Rare Cult
Bob Dylan - The Original Mono Recordings
Rolling Stones - The Singles Collection: The London Years
Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See
James Brown - Star Time
Nuggets
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes: The Anthology

 

Actually, I only have one. The CSN set that came out in the early '90s. Great set, though.

 

Thanks All Down The Line! That's really interesting, looks like I've got a bit of reading and research to do! It just never really occurred to me before, until I saw your post, that there might even be a boot for the Jeff Beck sessions. Yeah, you can't beat a good pseudonym for a famous musician can you?

 

Goodbye Babylon....

 

I think I bought that box set new for a couple hundred dollars. It seems there was a time when people weren't buying them and places wanted to sell them off, IIRC.

 

If you only buy one.....that's a pretty decent one indeed

 

Like the Dylan & Clapton box sets that you have, I recall this one being at the early years of box sets becoming a "thing" and this was a pretty great set, with the right balance of studio tracks, unreleased and live material.

It came out whilst I was replacing my LP's with CD's however because the box is so good, to this day I have never gone back and re-bought the individual albums....except Night In The Ruts...which is my clear favourite.

 

1. The Smile Sessions - Beach Boys (Love the album proper and love listening to the sessions.)
2. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys (Virtually all of their hits, plus a wealth of deep cuts and rarities.)
3. Nuggets - Various (The definitive collection of vintage garage rock, early psych, and Baroque pop gems.)
4. America's Folk Heritage - Various (A Murray Hill 6-record set with a wide variety of folk music including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Glenn Yarbrough, and more, including 5 straight sides of great folk blues.)
5. 150 Songs, Ballads, Jigs and Reels of Ireland - Various (Another Murray Hill vinyl box; 5 packed out records of Irish folk music including 5 sides of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (comprising 10 of their Tradition albums with whole albums squeezed onto one side each. Their album of Irish Drinking Songs, Come Fill Your Glass With Us, is all on one 37-minute side. Sound quality is fine to my ears.)
6. Unearthed - Johnny Cash (4 CDs of great outtakes from his American recordings and a 5th CD of some of the best of his previously released ones.)
7. Jefferson Airplane Loves You (Many of their best songs, plus a large number of rarities including live recordings, quad mixes, and more.)
8. The Pet Sounds Sessions - Beach Boys (The classic album in mono and stereo, all the instrumental tracks, all the vocal tracks, lots of sessions, and more. You have to be a bit obsessive to get into this, but I qualify.)
9. Tales From the Brothers Gibb - Bee Gees (All of their hits, all of the post-Australia orphan singles and B-sides, live recordings, and previously unreleased studio tracks, chronologically structured to show their evolution.)
10. The Nash, Clarke, Hicks Years - Hollies (Everything they recorded with Graham Nash, including a live set. Chronologically structured from their cover-heavy bar band roots through the maturation of their songwriting. I only wish it had maintained the flow of the albums rather than all of the songs being sequenced according to their sessionography.)
(There are others that would make the list on other days, but those are today's Top 10.)

 

1. Various ~ Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947 ~ 1974
2. The Kinks Anthology 1964~ 1971
3. Serge Gainsbourg ~ Cinema de (5 CD version)
4. Bee Gees ~ Tales From the Brothers Gibb
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ~ Lovely Creatures
6. The Saints ~ All Times Through Paradise
7. The Beach Boys ~ Good Vibrations
8. Elvis Presley~ Platinum: A Life in Music
9. Michel Polnareff ~ Pop. Rock en Stock
10. Velvet Underground ~ Complete Matrix Tapes

 

Aerosmith's Pandora's Box is an example of the ideal box set for me - it's pretty comprehensive, has a good amount of rarities, good mastering from Vic Anesini and best of all, it's still cheap to buy to this day. I sometimes find box sets can fall down in one of those areas - usually the price!

 

1. Miles Davis - The Complete Live At the Plugged Nickel

2. Keith Jarrett - Live at the Blue Note. The Complete Recordings

3. The Grateful Dead - May 1977: Get Shown The Light

4. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 Collector's Edition

5. The Beatles - In Mono

6. Echo & the Bunnymen - Crystal Days

7. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs – Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006

8. The Fall - The Complete Peel Sessions

9. Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions

10. The Velvet Underground - The Complete Matrix Tapes

 

The Beatles-In Mono
Beg, Scream & Shout: The Big Ol' Box of 60s Soul
James Brown-Star Time
Miles Davis-The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
Bob Dylan-Biograph
Bob Dylan-The Original Mono Recordings
Grateful Dead-Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-68
The Velvet Underground-Peel Slowly And See

 

all your top 10 box set are in vinyl

I see there is a red Japanese Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings from 1991, the black box is from 2010 and 2017, i belive the 2017 is the only MFSL box set?
Bill Evans-Riverside Recordings-Vinyl Box Sets|Acoustic Sounds