Box Sets?

[HoyaSaxa03]

anyone get any good box sets lately?
 
 i'm in the market for a good one, and i'm considering:
 
 Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1995
 
 Loud, Fast, & Out Of Control: The Wild Sounds Of â??50s Rock
 Rock, Rhythm And Doo Wop: The Greatest Songs From Early Rock â??nâ?? Roll
 Rockin' Bones: '50s Punk & Rockabilly
 
 Soul Spectacular! The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time
 Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
 Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974
 The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
 The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971
 Can You Dig It? The '70s Soul Experience
 
 Anthology of American Folk Music
 
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 here's my dilemma:  i want to beef up my soul collection (i only have an aretha box set, various greatest hits comps from some of the big names, and a couple of the classic LPs) but i don't know if i should go with a more general box set like "soul spectacular" or start getting deeper into the big labels' catalogues with the Motown, Stax, or Atlantic box sets
 
 any suggestions?  any other box sets to recommend?

[walkonby]

down near sixth street, there are some wonderful transient folk who just have the nicest box sets: whole living/dining/bedroom box sets.  enjoy the listening pleasure as you try to take them.

[Bombay Chutney]

The Stiff Box  
   The New Rose Story

[BookerT]

"children of nuggets" is solid, but it'd be best if you could get that used or as a trade in. i wouldn't pay MSRP for it. the 59-68 stax set has tons of vital stuff, but it's all inclusiveness is a but overwhelming at times.
 
 i'd pick the "girl group sounds lost and found" box over both of those. four discs makes it more manageable than stax, and there are just tons of gems. phil spector didn't license any of his songs for it, so it doesn't have all the obvious hits, which is a good thing. it's funny to see some of the names on there: cher, lulu, dolly parton, twiggy.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by BookerT:
 i'd pick the "girl group sounds lost and found" box over both of those.

yeah, i remember kosmo gushing over this when it came out ... i have so many potholes i want to fill in my collection that i'd have to place this further down on my wish-list
 
 what do you think of the stax set as compared to the motown and atlantic ones?  would it not make sense to get a 'survey course' like "soul spectacular" if i was planning on digging deeper into r&b/soul music?

[chancegardener]

James Brown's "Star Time" is the Godfather of Box Sets.  Be assured: you'll have a funky good time !

[chancegardener]

And the new "Rockin' Bones" rockabilly collection looks good and has been racking up the rave reviews.  Pitchfork gave it at 9.2, whatever that means ...

[PigIron]

The only box set I own.  And the only goddamn box set I need.
 
 
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[palahniukkubrick]

Pretty much every interesting band from the past thirty years is on this one:
 
 Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story
 
 Ditto:
  Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80's Underground
 
 If you're feeling experimental...
 
 Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
 
 If you're high...
 
  The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
 
 
 Enjoy.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by you be pickup:
 Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80's Underground

i have this one and love it ... only problems are that i already had a good chunk of the songs, and it's a little too scatter-brained, but it's hard not to be when you're wading through so much disparate (but great) stuff
 
 someone where i used to work had mp3s of that conet project thing up on our itunes network ... pretty weird shit ...

[BookerT]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   

Originally posted by BookerT:
 i'd pick the "girl group sounds lost and found" box over both of those.

yeah, i remember kosmo gushing over this when it came out ... i have so many potholes i want to fill in my collection that i'd have to place this further down on my wish-list
 
 what do you think of the stax set as compared to the motown and atlantic ones?  would it not make sense to get a 'survey course' like "soul spectacular" if i was planning on digging deeper into r&b/soul music? [/b]

i only have the stax box, but it seems to be that if you really want to dig deeper, you may as well pass over the boxes/comps that give you only the hits. that's what i like about the stax box, all that stuff that would never make the "best of r&b" comps but is every bit as good.

[ggw]

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[duderino]

the atlantic r&b box is relatively cheap on yourmusic.com

[palahniukkubrick]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   

Originally posted by you be pickup:
 Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80's Underground

i have this one and love it ... only problems are that i already had a good chunk of the songs, and it's a little too scatter-brained, but it's hard not to be when you're wading through so much disparate (but great) stuff
 
 someone where i used to work had mp3s of that conet project thing up on our itunes network ... pretty weird shit ... [/b]

I'm sorry to say that if you've already got most of 'Left of the Dial,' you've probably got most of 'Just Say Sire'--although it does come with a killer DVD that is worth the price alone.

[HoyaSaxa03]

well, i wound up with Soul Spectacular
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 i can understand the criticisms of it just focusing on the played-out mega-hits ... and i've heard all of these songs many times before, but i just don't actually have a lot of them in my collection, so it's nice to have good-quality versions of them on CD ... plus all these songs really are classics, you can't go wrong with any of them