Essential Albums: Box Sets
Submitted by JohnnyW on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:26
Tags:
- 1.The Beach Boys/Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys
- 2.James Brown/Star Time
- 3.The Byrds/The Byrds
- 4.Aretha Franklin/The Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings
- 5.Elvis Presley/The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters
- 6.Various Artists/The Complete Stax-Volt Singles Vol. 1, 1959-1968
- 7.VA/Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
- 8.VA/Loud, Fast, and Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s
- 9.VA/Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
- 10.VA/OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980
Again, a very solid and admirable list. I admit I haven't heard the final entry, but looking over its contents on another site, I believe it probably merits inclusion here.
The only missing item I mourn is the Singles Collection of the Rolling Stones, but after a couple more thearpy sessions, I'm sure I'll gros to cope with this...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
When are we going to get a film list from you?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Thanks for the praise; yeah, I think the Beach Boys set is by far one of the best I've heard, especially considering that with a few exceptions, both the early Beach Boys and the late didn't make especially strong albums. And even though their music evolved quite a bit over the course of their career, it retained the trademark Beach Boys sound, making this collection consistent.
Movie list? Well, I tend to get in cycles, so at some point I'll start making book or movie lists, and no more music ones will appear for awhile! So I'll just have to see.
Johnny Waco
I still somehow have not picked up the Beach Boys set. Probably that hefty price tag... I've loved listening to it, and perhaps if I finally broke down and bought it, it would appear on my compilations list. Rarely has such a great group been so inconsistent, pretty much making the boxed set a necessity.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs