Absolute Essential - Pop Box Sets
Submitted by lbangs on Mon, 08/22/2005 - 11:48
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- Billie Holiday - Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (2001)
- Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1995)
- Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans (2002)
- Elvis Presley - The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Complete 50’s Masters (1992)
- The Drifters - Rockin’ & Driftin’: The Drifters Box (1996)
- Muddy Waters - The Chess Box (1990)
- Sam Cooke - The Man Who Invented Soul (2000)
- Various Artists - The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (1991)
- Chuck Berry - The Chess Box (1988)
- Bobby Darin - As Long as I’m Singing: The Bobby Darin Collection (1995)
- Elvis Presley - From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60’s Masters (1993)
- Roy Orbison - The Legendary Roy Orbison (1988)
- The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)
- Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (1998)
- Etta James - The Chess Box (2000)
- The Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See (1995)
- Various Artists - Doo Wop Box (1994)
- James Brown - Star Time (1991)
- Ray Charles - Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection (1997)
- Bob Dylan - Biograph (1985)
- Aretha Franklin - Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1992)
- Marvin Gaye - The Master 1961-1984 (1995)
- The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (1993)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Lynyrd Skynyrd (1991)
- Elvis Presley - Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential 70’s Masters (1995)
- Buck Owens - The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) (1992)
- Eric Clapton - Crossroads (1988)
- The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams (1989)
- The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation (1997)
- Stevie Wonder - At the Close of the Century (1999)
- Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story (1996)
- Dwight Yoakam - Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (2002)
For pop, read rock, pop, rap, R&B, hip-hop, and soul, including any music from other genres that played a huge influence on the development of the other styles listed. The rules are pretty simple. An album must be in print (as defined by being available new from Amazon at the time this list was created), and it must be a box set, meaning it must contain three discs or more of material not originally published as an album.
This list is in roughly chronological order of the creation of the music on the albums.