How do you store your Miles Davis boxed sets?

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And any other weirdly configured boxed set, where the packaging is almost inextricable from the music? I haven't been listening to these much (or things like the Complete John Coltrane Quartet, or Mingus stuff) mostly because they're tucked away on a back shelf where they'll fit, and I either don't have the space or ability to take them out of their cases and slip them in with everything else for easier access.

Suggestions? Strategies? Solutions?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

(Same problem with the Dead Can Dance box, too ...)

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

The one I have is the Plugged Nickel box and it fits in my CD drawers with everything else. I have the Talking Heads box that came out a couple years ago and it's like 2 feet wide and as tall as a CD case. It fits NOWHERE. But yeah, I'd say this is a general problem with box sets; I don't play them nearly as often b/c they're off on a shelf.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Mine are on a shelf, but that shelf is directly above my desk at home, so all my boxes are within easy reach. The ones that cause me the most storage problems, btw, are not the Miles boxes (do you have the ones with the metal spines, or the cheaper tall skinny versions?), but the Mosaic ones that are 12" square cause they use the same outer packaging for the vinyl and CD versions of their releases. Very annoying when everything else on the shelf is short.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Those Mosaics CDs just go in with the vinyl, as does the Anthology of American Folkways box.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't own any vinyl.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I put this moment.. here.

I put this moment .. here.

I put this moment....

― Kate Bush (mark grout), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I am more annoyed by some of the larger sized special edition CDs like this wacky sized version of DJ Shadow's Entroducing and the Stones' Exile on Main Street that looked good when I bought them until I tried to file them away with everything else.

― Forensic Horsewhipper, Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

My Miles and my Coltrane boxes get filed with all my other CDs. I use Ikea shelves that allow for a handful of CDs to go in together, not those CD storage units with the individual grooves for a single CD.

The box that causes me the most filing problems is the Cure's Join The Dots box, which houses the printed and audio material in one book which is too long for the shelves, and too tall for a bookshelf.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I have that Join The Dots thing; it, along with several other long-n-flat sets (the ZZ Top box, New Order's Retro, Joy Division's Heartandsoul, the Black Sabbath Black Box, Motorhead's Stone Deaf Forever and Miles Davis's Complete Miles At Montreux 1973-1991) lie flat in front of the other stuff on the shelf I mentioned earlier.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I have tons of the long-n-flats (Nuggets-style), which all look fine stacked atop of each other across he top of my CD shelves.

The Misfits coffin box looks like shit and is falling apart. Also, that Nirvana Box has the information on the weird skinny end which can't be seen from any angle... Tho I guess I'm glad there's not a contant reminder that I was stupid enough to buy that piece of shit.

i have a special section next to my vinyl for the Harry Smith box/Stax box/Spector box, et al.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Ha, I just got the Complete Bitches Brew in the mail and my first thought was "Who the @#$&(*# designed this thing?" Storage isn't an issue per se, as my CD shelves are cube-shaped and don't have individual slots, but the CD sleeves are pages in the booklet! It's so irritating, and there isn't even a back cover with track info, so I have to actually open to those sleeves. The liner notes are terribly organized also and difficult to read.

Thankfully the music is great. Those two Double Image cuts are better than any of the stuff that made it onto the album.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thankfully the music is great. Those two Double Image cuts are better than any of the stuff that made it onto the album.

Yes, Bitches Brew certainly is subpar.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

cardboard sleeves for cd's are the WORST. my coltrane impulse! box has like three fucked discs, just from normal listening/putting-away. im putting the miles cellar door cd's in slimlines, i think. that fall peel sessions box has great packaging like that.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't actually mind the cardboard sleeves that much, but I hate that book is bound in the box, so I can't just take it out and read on a table or something - I have to physically pry it open and hold it.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed. That said, these boxes look very nice on one's shelf. Very nice, indeed.

The long boxes don't look half as nice, however.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

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