What artists need a boxed set?

Art Ensemble of Chicago. They could use a box set. Don Cherry's Complete Communion would be nice (I know it was reissued, but it could do with a box).

I tend to like the ones of early performances, just for historical curiosity.

Kate Bush could use a box set that isn't just all of her regular albums in a big case.

A box of Laurie Anderson's early private-press works would be godhead.

I agree that something could be done with the Residents.

There were rumors of an Art of Noise box set containing craploads of unreleased ZTT demos and remixes, but this appears to remain a stubborn rumor.

An Einsturzende Neubauten box would be nice, but the "Strategies" discs have cleaned up a lot of the odds and ends, and they've been releasing live shows and experimental discs on their Web site by the fistful lately.

Everything But The Girl comes to mind.

So does Game Theory.

Nico deserves a box that isn't crammed with awful Cleopatra Records outtakes and 1980s live shows.

Saint Etienne have a warehouse's worth of rarities by now.

Tom Waits.

Can, unreleased stuff. Surely it exists.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004WJHO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

...huh?

Played on an iPod, Bjork's box set is really excellent, having set aside the stupid format of the box itself.

Can, unreleased stuff. Surely it exists.

Presuming you've checked out Can Box already.

LOL!

It'd be nice to get all the Meters' stuff under their own name in one place. "Funkify Your Life" is good, but I want it all. A bonus disc or two of work they did as sessionists would be nice, too.

George Jones

Dolly Parton

DISC 1 - Garista/Hessian/Norsch
DISC 2 - Mohnomishe
DISC 3 - Eostre
DISCS 4-6 Popular Soviet Songs 3CD plus Gris 10"
DISC 7 - Misfits etc.
DISC 8 - Gesture Signal Threat
DISC 9 - A Flock Of Rotations
DISC 10 - Assault And Mirage
DISC 11 - Shouting At The Ground
DISC 12 - Just An Illusion
DISC 13 - Look Into Me
DISC 14 - Shadow, Thief Of The Sun
DISC 15 - Vienna 1990
DISC 16 - What Is Not True
DISC 17 - In. Version
DISC 18 - Collusion
DISC 19 - live
DISC 20 - unreleased

Well, I can dream, yeah?

Chumbawamba could really use a box set like the one described above. There are a ton of worthwhile single-only and OOP tracks.

eta: telephone thing OTM.

We could use a double CD of the last ten years' B-sides, for sure.

Wouldn't hurt for the putative Sly box to include e.g. Little Sister, 6ix, Joe Hicks, etc... and the existence of the alternate version of Fresh suggests that there are more good unheard things in the vault here, too. What would you give to hear the outtakes from There's a Riot Goin' On...?

Do box sets come back in print? If so, Galaxie 500 and Faust phone home!

Prince would be great, too. But first they need to re-master his albums. My copy of Purple Rain is so... first generation.. My Sign o' the Times seems much newer.

I still get to say Neil Young because it hasn't happened yet.

Prefab Sprout.

David Murray.

Dare I say... The Beatles haven't been done properly yet?

You are a man of vision.

Just seeded on Dimeadozen today:

Can - Canobits 4CD set

CD 1 Early Canobits

01 - Upduff's birth (16:40) ("studio '68 instrumental birth of 'mother upduff' ")
02 - Outside My Door (4:43) (with vocals: Malcolm Mooney)
03 - Man Named Joe (3:30) (with vocals: Malcolm Mooney)
04 - Rehearsal (11:27) (with vocals by Tim Hardin; he starts @ 5:29 min)
05 - Morning glory (14:30)
06 - Soundcheck (15:35)

CD 2 : Canobits: Inner Space with Damo (1971 to 1973)

01 - Tagothrowaway (35:34)
02 - Doko E (36:36)
03 - Turtles Have Short Legs (3:36) (a slightly shorter version became b-side to "Spoon").

CD 3 : Canobits studio tracks (with vocal overdubs by Michiko Nakao)

01 - I'm Your Doll (8:53)
02 - Hot Day In Koln (6:01)
03 - Finished? (44:13)

notes: (from wreka)
TRACKS 01 & 02 "1975 studio vocal overdub by Michiko Nakao of 'stone strike' from the edinburgh gig of 28 august 1973"
TRACK 03: "1975 vocal overdub by Michiko Nakao, of a track that later became 'unfinished' "

CD 4 : Canobits Live 1975 to 1977 63'14"

01 - Slipper Baths (23:22)
02 - Stonamman (8:35)
03 - Spree (14:52)
04 - Slipper Baths 2 (8:48)
05 - Chairside Thumper (7:37) (faded out)

xpost seconded=thirded

JUST FIX "INTO BATTLE" PLEASE

(okay you can put a bonus disc with an expanded/recompiled Daft in the case as well if you want)

I like the Zoviet France idea, too.

IT WILL SELL

its not definitive, confining itself to the atlantic era only, but this is about the most played box set i own...

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47B16D24FAF7020D7863A52C0B167FD07C740F2871D2B6A5DD3A13C49840138E253F895B0C3BF2FF703F3A362A55810D1CAF154FCDC63713C8FE4A266323B48166858&sql=10:rxxuak8k5m3c

do you think there are many?

the story i've heard is that he recorded and rerecorded and rerecorded over the session tapes, which partly accounts for the muddy sound, bleedthrough, etc. on that record. meaning i don't know how many "outtakes" survive and how far they'd be from the finished product.

Having heard an amazing number of unreleased Prince recordings lately, at least a 4cd box of unreleased recordings is perfectly possible as long as it properly covered the 80's period especially.

Then I suppose there's the post-Epic years, but curating them seems less of an urgent concern. Buying George Jones material, especially 50s / 60s stuff, is confusing and frustrating.

OTM... but... then...

The Chills thing more or less existed: Secret Box had all or almost all of the non-album B-sides, Peel sessions, ads, et al.

The Secret What??!?!? Never 'eard o' it!

Also, don't know how much Throwing Muses stuff is around but more would be nice, especially if there is any decently recorded live material out there. (Yes I have The Curse, but it doesn't do justice)

Is The Curse really that bad?

and then a separate box set with their remixes...

And, dare I say it, yes, I will dare, The Replacements.

Martin Phillips curated the recordings himself and released it through his own web-site. Because the Chills went through personnel like shit through a goose, there's a lot of unreleased material included as well as what Martin calls potentially missing albums between the first eps and first lp. I don't think it was ever an official Flying Nun release. Good luck finding it, but if you do see it and it’s reasonably priced snatch it up. It has some of the best stuff they even laid down on tape.

PS I second the Factory Box up-thread as well as a Rough Trade Singles set. Something like that should keep Dan Selzer or James Nice busy until the next decade.

Since we’re on post-punk labels something on Fetish, Fast/Pop Aural, Industrial, or unreleased Postcard. Not sure about the Postcard, maybe all that was been released and any un-released material is a figment of Alan Horn’s imagination.

Of course the "Anthology" compilation kind of works, as it consists of 3 CDs.

A box set of all the bands Davey Henderson's been in would be nice. He was in Fire Engines, Win, and Nectarine No. 9. All have their merits.

I know Kill Rock Stars is working on one (I think it's K.R.S. anyway), but I'd love to have a set of his unreleased stuff from X.O - Basement. The stuff that has been leaking has been amazing, just think of how many other gems there must be. Even the instrumentals have been mental.

Also The Kinks, but I think they're working on one at the moment as well.

Love as well, but maybe just a proper version of "Out Here" would suffice.

I only have 2 Win singles but have been looking for the rest. Do you have them on CD? If so, please email me off list.

The live disc that comes with The Saints' box set is utterly tremendous.

As an aside, Carl Craig could use a box-set. There's So many alias', re-mixes, and collaborations that it could fill up ten discs.

What exists aside from I Am the Cosmos?

That's why I'm trying to find them! I won one off eBay but it never came in the mail.

Stevie Wonder's box a few years back contained absolutely nothing yet unreleased on CD, and yet it was a great box because a proper Stevie Wonder compilation needs 4 CDs to include anything essential.

Also, would be great if EMI/Sony would be able to cooperate on a proper David Bowie box set.

John Cale. For crying out loud, how can there be no career-spanning box set yet?

Kim Fowley, more than almost anyone listed here. Though god only knows how many tracks would have to be on it...

Nilsson.

capitol era david axelrod.
his own material + production for others.
the sheer scope would be a compilers nightmare (there is a lot that has yet to appear on cd), but surely it has to happen at some point.

axelrod would interesting -- there isn't a comp that covers some of that material?
cale otm.
think i've mentioned it on another thread, but lou reed deserves a better, more all-encompassing box than between thought and expression, which really only covers two decades.
disc one - pre-VU stuff, including doo wop sides, pickwick material, primitives
disc two - VU
disc three - the 70s
disc 4 - the 80s
disc 5 - 90s-00s
disc 6-12 - THE COMPLETE LULU SESSIONS

axelrod would interesting -- there isn't a comp that covers some of that material?

well, there are a couple that cover some of the stuff, the 2 cd set edge of music being one thats damn good, but having picked up the talcum soul compilations a few years back, its very clear that there are a lot of one-off singles by little known artists that could be compiled nicely.

not to mention more from the as yet albums that have not been reissued eg. the auction.

that Nilsson collection "Personal Best" pretty much says it all

Van Dyke Parks! Probably similar in format to the Randy Newman box - A disc of studio work, a disc of arrangements for others, a disc of scores, and a disc of other odds/sods/demos/sessions/etc

frogbs - but Nilsson has acres of unreleased stuff!

VDP did just put this out. not comprehensive or anything, but kind of a nice selection
http://www.soundstagedirect.com/media/van_dyke_parks_arrangements_volume_1.jpg

i think a They Might Be Giants one would work out pretty well, they've got hundreds and hundreds of non-album tracks and many of them rule

Kalyanji Anandji
R.D. Burman
Ilaiyaraaja

I think a bunch of bands deserve but do not have live boxed sets, a la the Dead or King Crimson.

I just went to eMusic with those geeta suggestions and it's a big party

I need a Peter Hammill solo box to slot alongside the VdGG box set, The Box.