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What Band Has The Best Box Set?

post #1 of 16
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There was a time when you got home to find the box set you just purchased was great! Maybe it was the sound? Maybe it was the book? Maybe they just gave you more than you thought. Which band? Which box? Why?
post #2 of 16
Well I have to say The Beatles Stereo Boxed Set is hard to beat..............I mean how do you compete with that............

Runner ups...............

Pink Floyd - Oh By The Way
Led Zeppelin - Complete Recordings (The Rhino Black Box which includes Song Remains The Same)
The Doors - Doors Of Perception


but if we're talking about Boxed sets as a retrospective (Selected tracks rather than complete albums).....

James Brown - Star Time
Ray Charles - 50th Anniversary
Ray Charles - Birth Of Soul
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
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post #3 of 16
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Originally Posted by DavidMahler View Post
Well I have to say The Beatles Stereo Boxed Set is hard to beat..............I mean how do you compete with that............

Runner ups...............

Pink Floyd - Oh By The Way
Led Zeppelin - Complete Recordings (The Rhino Black Box which includes Song Remains The Same)
The Doors - Doors Of Perception


but if we're talking about Boxed sets as a retrospective (Selected tracks rather than complete albums).....

James Brown - Star Time
Ray Charles - 50th Anniversary
Ray Charles - Birth Of Soul
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Lol, I do not own one on any of your lists. I need to get my act together. Is there any difference in SQ on the Zepp box set? I have the early 90s with standard cases not mini albums. Is the Song Remains The Same Soundtrack the same as the new redone one with Stairway on it? Sorry Zepps early box did have a style of mini albums! I just remembered.
post #4 of 16
Another vote for the beatles. It was such a long time coming and is very good.
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post #6 of 16
My all-time favorite box set and the one I return to the most is Bill Evans - Turn Out the Stars: Final Village Vanguard Recordings. Great sound quality, great band, and Bill is arguably at his best.

I really like boxsets that either capture a complete run of an artist at a particular venue or give you all their albums. Another that really suprised me was the Misfits boxset. All their albums were great early punk that in retrospect was amazingly accessible (not thrash).
post #7 of 16
The Beatles - Mono Box
Led Zeppelin - Definitive Collection Mini LP Replica Box
post #8 of 16
Camper Van Beethoven - Cigarettes & Carrot Juice (because it rescues them from eventual obscurity, and contains almost everything of value that they ever recorded, remastered, with the ephemera on a separate disc).



And I have to also nominate Angry Samoans - The Unboxed Set (for obvious reasons).

post #9 of 16
Another hit for James Brown's Star Time. I think the ones I really cherish are on the jazz side, though:

Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Song Books
Nat Cole - The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio (18 discs)
Louis Armstrong - Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
Dexter Gordon - The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
post #10 of 16
i'm a big fan of The Beach Boys - The Pet Sounds Sessions

post #11 of 16
The Beatles Mono Box

Outside of bands, Frank Sinatra's "London Box" from his Capital Years and the Ella Songbook box mentioned above. Miles Davis Prestige Box is great, too.
post #12 of 16
Grateful Dead, The Golden Road 1965-73

Great music, high quality remasters, excellent bonus materials, superb documentation.
post #13 of 16
I agree about The Golden Road. The sound quality is really good, especially on Live-Dead. I heard things in Dark Star I'd never heard before, especially the excellence of Bob Weir's "rhythm" playing, which is further up in the mix than on previous CD's.

- Ws
post #14 of 16
The Police box set is hard to beat... It has every single song they ever made including rarities B-sides etc... How can you beat that. I'm Hoping a box set like this be made for the Smiths

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Genesis 70-75, available on 200g vinyl ( with faithful replicas of the original gatefold sleeves ) or each alcum on sacd+bonus dvd

They are remastered by Nick Davis and sound better than the original IMO.
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