Star Time, the James Brown box set, is great because of the music but also because it "made sense" of the James Brown catalog as a whole. Arguably, some of the Miles Davis boxset series (like the Quintet one) do the same thing.
So, which artist is most deserving of such treatment? someone who is truly great but whose acclaim is hampered by their own catalog...
Parliament etc.?Post-Lovesexy era Prince? (lots of gems in there, but so much junk!)Sun Ra?The Fall? (or is the recent 50,000 Fans comp the best they'll get)
Ideas?
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)
Whatever happened to the MBV box-set?
― Mog, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Maybe Bowie?
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
I sense self-interest.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.viniciusdemoraes.com.br/
I just bought a 'boxset' of his, but it is just a repackaging of 20+ of his albums. This type of thing seems common for Brazilian artists (Caetano, Gilberto Gil, Nara Leao)... or is it me?
the announcement of the MBV boxsets said "Sadly they probably won't be released until late 2005 or early 2006."
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
What about Mr. Bungle? I'll bet a compilation including the best of the obscure early stuff, album highlights, live stuff & recent rarities would be a real ear-opener. I'd buy it.
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
An all-in-one-place Wu Tang retrospective is awesomely inevitable, too.
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
Cornee indie fuck me would really like a Steve Albini box that collects all the albums and rare trax and 7 inch stuff by Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac....(Shellac esp. has lots of pretty rare stuff out there in some form or another)....
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)
every album has a good two or three traxx that are as good as the singles, and then there's the b sides an ting.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)
a definitive detroit techno box set would be amazing, but the likelihood of that happening is probably so rare...
― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Give or take ten or twenty years.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Sahko recordsJimi Tenor
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)
I need money.
― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)
And why don't I need money?
― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)
Most likely it's technically impossible, but a Wu/solo box could be fantastic.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)
It'd be a great collection, however. Varied, dark, and guitar heavy. Just what I like.
Rage Against the Machine.
― Courtney, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)
― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)
http://www.thinlizzyfan.com/albumpages/boxset.html
I agree on the Fall box set idea.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
― Swedish Tiger, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)
― JAS, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)
There. I said it.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)
Thirded. It's a joke neither of these are compiled in any meaningful way.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago)
The Shadows.
just discovering this group tonight. floored. this -- moody, dark, noir-ish sounding late 50s/early 60s music -- is exactly what i've been wanting lately.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 October 2011 01:04 (fourteen years ago)
I was all "Who said Shadows?" and went upthread only to find it was me!
Anyways, I have this: http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/780/784781.jpg and it's great, especially disk 3.
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 09:45 (fourteen years ago)
Considering the only Star Time that has been made was James Brown, I'd suggest Modern Talking, Baccara, Ace of Base or Helmut Loti. They are on roughly the same level as James Brown in terms of artistic quality.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Monday, 10 October 2011 10:47 (fourteen years ago)
Oh who woke up feeling sharp as a knife then?
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 10:55 (fourteen years ago)
John Zorn's gotta be right up there with Prince & Clinton/P-Funk.
― Adam J Duncan, Monday, 7 December 2015 00:32 (nine years ago)
John Cale. It's a crime there's nothing more than the 2cd "Seducing Down The Door".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 7 December 2015 00:38 (nine years ago)
Curt Boettcher — a lot of his projects have been reissued individually, but I'd like to see a career-spanning set of his best productions and performances, without too many selections from the Millennium and Sagittarius albums
Jackie DeShannon — three discs of her own recordings, one disc of demos, and one disc of other artists who recorded her songs
Brian Eno as a producer/arranger for other artists
John Hartford
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:00 (nine years ago)
john fahey
― akm, Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:52 (nine years ago)
lots of 70's sorts of people who have vast discographies that are hard to swallow all at once like John Martyn and Roy Harper, who I can never keep apart. Peter Hammill.
― akm, Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:54 (nine years ago)
and I like John Cale as stated above but think that Seducing Down The Door is actually pretty representative; he has that and the Island Years comp.
― akm, Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:55 (nine years ago)
How great that Nilsson one was.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 December 2015 10:39 (nine years ago)
lol coxhill
― rushomancy, Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:46 (nine years ago)
seducing down the door works well as a sampler, but Cale could definitely use like a disc-per-decade kinda compilation ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:52 (nine years ago)
harumi hosono
actually he already has an amazing box set, but like most of his work it's only been released in Japan, so america is still largely ignorant of his genius.
and that box set is largely composed of stuff hosono did as a 'solo' artist and with the bands he led
you could make a whole box set of just his work producing for other artists
you could make such a box of productions by ryuichi sakamoto as well
i wouldn't mind a 'complete YMO' boxset, either
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:53 (nine years ago)
one key point though is that james brown was not really much of an albums artist, so his body of work lends itself to being synopsized more easily than someone like john cale
hosono and sakamoto et al are kind of in-between -- they put out tons of great albums-as-albums but also lots of 'ephemeral' work -- singles, EPs, compilation tracks, a few tracks on this other person's album, etc. etc.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:54 (nine years ago)
also
egberto gismonti
but maybe ECM already has a box set for him?
he has a huge expansive body of work which could stand being synopsized
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:56 (nine years ago)
ian matthews
― just sayin, Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:59 (nine years ago)
you mean ia(i)n matthews
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:47 (nine years ago)
yeah at least one "produced by Hosono" disc would be incredible, he has such a unique and identifible sound that it would all fit in quite well. I have yet to hear the boxset but looking over the tracklisting now there's tons I haven't heard yet so I'm gonna have to seek that out
"Complete YMO" is a cool idea but I question how coherent it would be; Sakamoto and Hosono have such a wide breadth to their work that simply picking the best tracks would result in something very disjointed, but I think I may give it a try anyway, something that goes say 73-79, 80-84, 85-96, 97-present would be really cool
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:53 (nine years ago)
there actually is a double-disc collection in Japan that is all non-YMO YMO stuff -- meaning a bunch of acts associated with one or more of the YMO folks.
complete YMO could only include the stuff actually released under the YMO name, which is a manageable group of albums, EPs, singles, etc.
if you actually tried to compile everything released by those three folks in some fashion, you'd end up with... probably a box set as big as my house.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:55 (nine years ago)
never heard of that double-disc set...but I do have a couple of YEN records comps which are effectively that
I do think several double-disc YMO sets exist but I don't see the point. There aren't a whole lot of albums and I'd say at least 5 of them are absolutely essential
compiling everything would be an insane task - Sakamoto has to have something like 100 CDs worth of material out there in some form
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:59 (nine years ago)
anyway my first thought in for this thread would be Adrian Belew, I think he's fairly well known even if no particular album of his are, and listening to a few of them they're kinda hit or miss, but the good stuff is really good.
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:00 (nine years ago)
i think sakamoto has well /over/ 100 CDs!
let's say you took everything sakamoto, hosono, and takahashi performed on or produced since the early 1970s, you'd probably have a collection larger than the new york public library. (slight exaggeration.) the productivity of those dudes is unbelievable.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:03 (nine years ago)
but in any event i guess the point is that it would be nice to have a reasonable-sized (maybe 3 or 4 CDs) collection that made the case to english-language audiences for the greatness/importance/expansiveness of hosono and/or YMO.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:04 (nine years ago)
hoppy kamiyama!
― rushomancy, Friday, 11 December 2015 04:09 (nine years ago)
The reformed Allman Brothers starting in 1990-2015 would be an excellent subject for a well made compilation. I think it could be done with a couple full CDs/four LPs. I'd make a CD a compilation of the four studio albums and then either 1 CD live collection concentrating mostly on live material from the later period of the band. You could extend the live section to 2CDs if you wanted to intersperse the later band doing hot cuts of the original lineup's book.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 December 2015 19:36 (nine years ago)
Nile Rodgers
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 December 2015 19:38 (nine years ago)
http://www.discogs.com/Nile-Rodgers-Presents-Chic-Organization-The-Box-Set-Vol-1-Savoir-Faire/release/2501209
― boring alt-reality reverend (The Reverend), Friday, 11 December 2015 23:56 (nine years ago)
Imagine that could be very expensive, but also sell 1000000000
― niels, Saturday, 12 December 2015 00:25 (nine years ago)
one way to do YMO would be like how they did CSN: individual 3 disc sets for each member. i don't know if the songwriting credits for YMO seperate out as cleanly as with CSN, though, obviously it's a whole different kettle of fish
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 12 December 2015 00:41 (nine years ago)