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We do not have to pay to butcher Davids game this year so we have money to blow
We want to do it on a few obscenly huge boxed sets . Like Fischer-Dieskaus interpertations of Schubert Lieder or Allen Lomaxs Encloypedia of World Library of Folk & Primitive Music

Are these worth the exhorbitant price ? Any other recommendations ?

― anthony, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

take encylopedia out duh

― anthony, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

go for the 5cd VU Peel Slowly and the 4CD Joy Division Heart & Soul; re the ones you mentioned, sorry, never had the moolah to investigate.

― Geoff, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Assuming I had the cash I would get the Harrys Smith and Partch

― dave q, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"American Pop: An Audio History" is longer, better, and more fun (IMO) than the Harry Smith Anthology (which is great anyway):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TJB1/qid=1000552896/sr=2- 1/ref=aps_sr_pm_1_1/104-0342318-9936725

― scott, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urrr... Merzbow's MERZBOX - a 50 CD ox set with all sorts of goodis. Last known US price: $500.

― Kodanshi, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I swear to you I meant BOX set!

― Kodanshi, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmmmm. ox set. brr. i don't wanna think about it, kondanshi you freak. ;)

box sets worth the moolah (in my humblest of humble opines):

anthology of american volk musik

steve reich 1965-1995

pere ubu - datapanik in the year zero

nuggets

hitsville usa: the motown singles collection 1959-1971

charles mingus - passions of a man

more to come as i remember them.

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

of course, mocking kodanshi for his grammatical slip, i call him kondanshi. hear the heavy hand of irony smack jess' mucous-addled head.

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tougher than tough - 30 years of Jamaican music.

Nick Drake - Fruit tree

1,2,3,4 punk and new wave 1976-79

Back to Mono - Phil Spector

Second the Joy Division box

Acid drops,space dust and flying saucers - Psychedelic confections from the UK underground 1965-69

Get yourself a good Jazz box, Miles, Coltrane, Jarrett etc and if you've any spare cash get me one too ;-)

― Billy Dods, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

STAR TIME.

― ethan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Syd Barrett Crazy Diamond box is quite good -- though in order to get all things Syd you'll still have to get the new Wouldn't You Miss Me CD (for the newly-surfaced "Bob Dylan Blues") and the old Peel Sessions EP (for the Peel tracks that aren't on WYWM). And that's not counting all the bootleg stuff...

― Phil, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tell me more about the Steve Reich box

― anthony, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in order: James Brown, Star Time
Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music
American Pop: An Audio History
Loud, Fast & Out of Control
Anthology of American Folk Music
Louis Armstrong, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Allen Ginsberg, Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems & Songs 1949- 1993
The Funk Box
both Nuggets boxes
The Beat Generation
Beg, Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance

― M. Matos, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the Steve Reich box is really nice anthony, although somewhat redundant if you already own a lot of his work. early works ("it's gonna rain," etc.) one one disc, also drumming, six marimbas, music for 18 musicians, and his more recent extended works (the cave, city life.) 9 or 10 discs. worth every penny and more.

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just got the Echo and the Bunnymen box set last night. GODLIKE.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it the old 18 Musicians or the new one?

Monk's Riverside box set is quite nice.

― Josh, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

josh: new. not sure if it's the same as the "new" recording which came out on nonesuch a few years back, as the one in the box is the only one i've ever heard. but it's NOT the ecm version.

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Huh, I thought there were only two recordings of it. I don't feel like researching though.

― Josh, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

STAR FUCKING TIME

― ethan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jerry Lewis. D-fucking-uh. Oh? And the Alan Lomax? I'd rather pick and choose. About half the selections are quality and interesting, and the other half for archival purposes only.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tell em about star time ethan

― anthony, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this is the third time we've had a box set question - nothing wrong with that - and for the third time I'm going to say "Beauty Is A Rare Thing" by Ornette Coleman. All the extant Atlantic recordings in one lovely fetish item - the photos by Lee Friedlander are a beautiful bonus (Don Cherry = coolest jazzer ever.)

― Andrew L, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as mentioned above nuggets, star time, & tougher than tough are all fantastic.

the definitive otis redding box is great & has goodies like a coke ad and a great "stay in school" jingle that sounds like it was made up on the spot "I was just sittin' here thinking about you and I thought I'd write a song about you..." Awww shucks, thanks, Otis.

the elvis sixties sessions has great stuff too - all those great memphis soul sessions people always forget about.

the bo diddley chess box is a real eye-opener too - and available on vinyl!

I've always been tempted by the hank wms 10-cd set, but it seems a bit too much to digest, not to mention afford.

There's also a Tropicalia box that sounds great. It's all the landmark tropicalia records in full - i think 4 cd's. Anybody have that one?

― fritz, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bob Dylan : The Bootleg Series vol. 1-3...and might as well pick up vol 4 while you're at it. Vol 1 is my favorite though, it's got a good mixture of pre-Bob Dylan home recordings, studio outtakes and demos from Bob Dylan, Freewheelin' and The Times They Are A-Changing. Except for two songs (piano demos of The Times They Are A-Changing and When The Ship Comes In , they're all unavailable on any official release, in any version. There are a lot of great songs here, my favorites being Let Me Die In My Footsteps, Rambling Gambling Willie, and Moonshiner (it's obvious that Cat Power owns this record, I've heard her cover three or four songs off of it (not that this is any sort of recomendation, as I find her completely repulsive)). Theres also a great spoken poem at the end, Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie.

Vol 2 is unreleased songs and alternate versions from recording sessions stretching from Another Side... up to Blood On The Tracks. The best part of this disc are the songs he does with the Band. There's a haunting version of I Shall Be Released... (as a side note, I'd also recomend getting The Genuine Bootleg Tapes vol's 1-5 (i've got 3 of 'em, but I assume the other two are just as good), but that would be extremely expensive as they're import bootlegs). Also on Vol 2 are a few songs from what was going to be the original release of Blood On The Tracks, which was scrapped days before it was to be pressed and ended up being completely re- recorded. The entire original recording session is supposedly the next official bootleg release...

Vol 3 is more of the same, from Desire, up to whatever crappy 80's album the last song was taken from.... The best song of the whole set is on this one though, Blind Willie McTell.

― daniel, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another vote for "Back to Mono".

― Sean, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and another.

― piscesboy, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Money! You could, ahem, get every single thing Rubinstein ever recorded on RCA Victor, I think. It's insane, something like 94 discs. Or you could get the 20th century's greatest pianists on RCA-- which left out some notable artists, but is still amazing and so expensive you might as well get a Steinway. Or, ooh, the complete J.S. Bach collection--I think there are at least a couple ranging over $1,000 US dollars each... and of course, someone may have mentioned the Miles Davis/Plugged Nickel series of recording... gorgeous... or Richard Pryor's Boxset... Duke Ellington boxset... or you could get a retrospective by The Kronos Quartet or Arditti Quartet... or the complete Stax-Volt boxset... and of course, the denouement to end all denouement, The Ring Cycle.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Arkology

― stevo, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and Richard Pryor's ...And It's Deep Too!. Duh.`

― M. Matos, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven years pass...

15 discs in the super-mega deluxe edition of "Larks Tongues in Aspic" King Crimson..

Um, why?

― Mark G, Friday, 19 October 2012 12:26 (thirteen years ago)

Bunch of live double CDs, DVD, DVD audio version plus conventional CD, etc. Actually studio material comprises maybe 4 of the discs. Rest is live stuff.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:03 (thirteen years ago)

It's the sit-at-home version of following the band around on tour!

― Mark G, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:15 (thirteen years ago)

I've raved about this box on ILM before:

http://www.fmp-label.de/freemusicproduction/labelsbilder/retrospect_BOX.jpg

12 discs of rare and OOP material from the motherlode of European free improv, plus an awesome full colour book.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 19 October 2012 14:01 (thirteen years ago)

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