which band or artist do you think is most in need of a good box set?
My pick would be Lee Hazlewood. Between all of his production work and his own albums, it is really hard to get a handle on everything he has done. I think a nice chronological box set that dips into both his own recordings and his production work would be awesome.
I also think if Rhino could get together one of their quirky box sets focusing on 'outisider' music (however you want to interpret that), it could be really good.
Well I am looking forward to the extremely long delayed and overdue Neil Young box set(s), supposedly to be released in '06.
Like Young, Bevis Frond has many unreleased songs I'd love to hear. Nick Saloman has been a part of several seldom heard bands (whether one-man bands or with others) that are begging for a proper re-issue. Yeah, there needs to be a box set of The Frond and Nick's other projects to keep us Terrascope followers happy.
I'll believe that the Neil Young sets are coming out when I actually see them. They first appeared on release schedules in the late 90's. Seriously.
I really hope Rhino puts together a power pop box to complement their punk and alternative and garage boxes, covering some of the same material they covered in the DIY comps from the early 90's, but expanding the scope.
REM, after 20 years, has such a deep catalog of excellent B-sides, rarities, and whatnot, I'd like to see a nice boxed collection of that stuff.
REM, yeah I agree with that. I'd also like to have a U2 box set.
I have a couple good surf instrumental sets which are mainly composed of '60s tracks. The surf box that Rhino did- besides being way too short, cd time wise- didn't cover enough 3rd wave artists from the '90s. So I'd love a surf box set of '90s-'00s surf instrol tunes. Though I don't expect to see one anytime soon.
Originally posted by philosopherEric: REM, after 20 years, has such a deep catalog of excellent B-sides, rarities, and whatnot, I'd like to see a nice boxed collection of that stuff.
I'm usually not a big box set kind of guy, but I think you may be on to something with REM. Especially if they have a collection of rarities on par with "Dead Letter Office" for their Warner years. DLO is one of my favorite rarities discs from a band, and the liner notes, in which Peter Buck explains that nearly every track was recorded in a drunken stupor, are great.
----- We were wasps with new wings, now we're bugs in the jar.
Originally posted by Yay!: Kraftwerk re-releases are waaay overdue.
I'd like to see a good King Crimson boxset, too.
King Crimson have quite a few (probably one of the highest from a non-major label)
The Great Deceiver (4 CD) is the holy grail of John Wetton era live Crimson. One of the finest live box sets (rivalling the live versions in Deep Purple's Listen Learn Read On). Way pricey though.
Epitaph (Vol. 1 8 2, also Vol. 3 & 4) is from the 1969 line-up. You can't take that much of Schizoid Man, A Man A City, In the Court of the Crimson King, Epitaph etc. I'd say this is only for a die-hard fan (I'm one).
The ProjeKcts box set (4 CD)- this is an improv-laden box of the post-Thrak era. Belew even drums on one disc. Excellent (and if you love Thrakattak, this is essential).
Heavy ConstruKction (3CD) - From the ConstruKction of Light shows. Pound for pound, to me the best value-for-money live Crimson.
Absent Lovers (and the Nightwatch) are very good too. Absent Lovers is 80s era (1984) Crimson and Nightwatch 70s Wetton eta.
For a Crimson newbie, the Frame by Frame box set is probably a good intro, but I don't own it and I prefer the entire studio albums. There is one rapid live overview that I have called Cirkus (spanning ITCOTCK to Thrak eras). But it's unnecessary.
Plus you can get any number of the collector's club live releases. They range from brilliant to very good to good-but-crappy-sound quality.
Originally posted by PRG: What about a Pink Floyd box set? I don't think one exists.
The Shine On box set exists but I guess is OOP. I don't think compiling albums makes a good box set anyway.
If they release the complete Top Gear sessions remastered as a box set, that could very well be the best ever. The first couple of Floyd's Peel Sessions is some of the finest music I've heard. They've never released a good Embryo version, which's at its best in those sessions.
The Pretenders had been deserving a good box (or at least a decent best-of to replace the old Singles collection). Now they've got one coming...with a cool track listing and DVD to boot!
Originally posted by m.leland: Tom Waits allegedly has a b-sides box set, Orphans, coming out this year. Also allegedly backed by a tour. Allegedly.
I'm not sure whether to call it a b-sides box set. In all it has somewhere over 50 songs, there's a few of them that have been previously unreleased and all the rest is completely new material.
There was at one time going to be a Loveless box that had the original album remastered, another disc with different versions of tracks from the album, the Glider, Feed Me With Your Kiss, You Made Me Realise, and Tremolo eps along with five or so never before released tracks that have been recorded in the last 15 years. There was an article in Arthur magazine last year where Kevin Shields talked about it, but so far it has never come to be. The man is a stingy bastard.
Also I would like to see a "good" Nirvana box set. As the first band that I ever loved, that With the Lights Out thing really sucked. It was extremely hard to swallow considering that there are a ton of great b-sides and bootleg things floating around that are much better and almost none of which ended up on there.
The long-promised Replacements box is supposed to come out in 2007. I'll believe it when I see it, but I'll bet it comes out before the Neil Young Archives box. Or Guns and Roses' Chinese Democracy.
Originally posted by jonathanbrisby My Bloody Valentine
That was the first one that came to my mind when I noticed this topic. The box set was promised a couple of years ago, setting my poor heart a flutter, but since then no news has surfaced. A DVD of a live show or two of theirs was also reported to come along with the box set, but I have no way of knowing if any of this is true or not.
I'd plump for the late-60s/early-70s band Family, one of my favourite bands from that era and, apparently, a killer live band.
They've had both singles comps. and live selections released but a comprehensive box with a well-researched and detailed history of the band is definitely overdue and one that I'd buy.
