Yes.

The Stiff Records Box!!!

Contains classic singles from:
Nick Lowe
Graham Parker
Ian Dury
Madness
Kirsty MacColl
Desmond Dekker
The Damned
Tenpole Tudor
Devo
Elvis Costello
The Pogues
Tracey Ullman (yes, that Tracey Ullman!)
and dozens more that you've never heard of, but need to hear.

It drags a little at the last half of the 4th disc, but the other 3.5 discs are insanely great.

Los Lobos "El Cancionero: Mas y Mas" 80+ tracks covering a lot of history. Good stuff from rockabilly to mariachi.


Must have that Stiff Records Box. Thanks Todd!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!! I totally meant to ask for this for Christmas. Totally forgot. Maybe I can get in a last minute addition to my list.

The Cure boxset is really good, too -- Join the Dots.

left of the dial: dispatches from the 80s underground

bumpski bump bump...my birthday is coming up and I think I'm going to have my sister buy me a box set as a gift. I'm leaning towards

Rhino Rockin' Bones or that girl group one mentioned earlier.

Anyone want to mention something not yet mentioned in this thread though for me to consider. I'm actually not that interested in that recent Rhino Atlantic Soul box, but am interested in some suggestions.

1. Fallout
2. Nothing Achieving
3. Dead End Job
4. Next to You
5. So Lonely
6. Roxanne
7. Hole in My Life
8. Peanuts
9. Can't Stand Losing You
10. Truth Hits Everybody
11. Born in the 50's
12. Be My Girl - Sally
13. Masoko Tanga
14. Landlord [Live]
15. Next to You [Live]
16. Landlord
17. Message in a Bottle
18. Reggatta de Blanc
19. It's Alright for You
20. Bring on the Night
21. Deathwish
22. Walking on the Moon
23. On Any Other Day
24. Bed's Too Big Without You
25. Contact
26. Does Everyone Stare
27. No Time This Time
28. Visions of the Night
29. Bed's Too Big Without You [Mono Version]
30. Truth Hits Everybody [Live]
31. Friends
32. Don't Stand So Close to Me
33. Driven to Tears
34. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still
35. Canary in a Coalmine
36. Voices Inside My Head
37. Bombs Away
38. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
39. Behind My Camel
40. Man in a Suitcase
41. Shadows in the Rain
42. Other Way of Stopping
43. Sermon
44. Driven to Tears [Live]
45. Shambelle
46. Spirits in the Material World
47. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
48. Invisible Sun
49. Hungry for You (J'Aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)
50. Demolition Man
51. Too Much Information
52. Rehumanize Yourself
53. One World (Not Three)
54. Omega Man
55. Secret Journey
56. Darkness
57. Flexible Strategies
58. Low Life
59. How Stupid Mr. Bates
60. Kind of Loving
61. Synchronicity I
62. Walking in Your Footsteps
63. O My God
64. Mother
65. Miss Gradenko
66. Synchronicity II
67. Every Breath You Take
68. King of Pain
69. Wrapped Around Your Finger
70. Tea in the Sahara
71. Murder by Numbers
72. Man in a Suitcase [Live]
73. Someone to Talk To
74. Message in a Bottle [Live]
75. I Burn for You
76. Once upon a Daydream
77. Tea in the Sahara [Live]
78. Don't Stand So Close to Me '86

Lookit that shit.

I know this is the transcriptions. This is the clearest pic I saw when I Googled.

seconds for:

the police box set
nuggets 1 & 2
the beat generation

and my favorite box set ever. . . harry's smith's anthology of american folk

you can't go wrong with any of the Nuggets compilations.

the VU one is pretty great, but there have also been some great special editions of the albums on their own (the fully loaded edition of Loaded especially)...also the first disc of demos is interestsing, but difficult to get through more than once.

Clash on Broadway is essential
There is a great Jam box set

That's a possibility too...also bumping for the "work" crowd

Jenna Jameson and Tracy Lords...
Now THAT'S a box set!!!












sorry.

Have you heard or do you have the Goodbye Babylon box?

I don't actually have it, myself, (thinking about asking for it this year), but I think that's something you'd like.

Pretty expensive for a 5 or 6 disc set, but I get the impression that it's worth it.


I never shell out for box sets or think to ask for them as gifts, but it'd be nice to have Nuggets and a few other things.

ditto for me... I also really like:


the Jimi Hendrix Experience


The Cure: Join the Dots, B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001
not really a box set per se, but multi-disc set.

I had to look up what you were talking about. a link for others also not familiar with it. It does look interesting but expensive. I'm looking for something a little cheaper since I'm asking for it as a gift from my sister though.

the new Bob Wills "Legends Of Country Music" is pretty much the best thing to ever exist.

and Goodbye Babylon is pretty awesome too. I dont really listen to it, but when i did when i downloaded it, it was great.

I think that the next box I need to get is
Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions

I've had "Little Sister" flying around my head all morning and it made me think of just how amazing that early EP stuff really was. Yeah. I need this. Damn.

I ended up getting 2 for christmas.

Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80's Underground

as mentioned above.

And this:




Loud, Fast, and Out of Control: Vintage 50's Rock n Roll

Any further thoughts on the Goodbye, Babylon box set? I just found out about it and am pretty interested.

edit: they also just put this out this year.

Wunderbar, I hope?

And "Three Bells in a Row" and "Throwing My Baby Out With the Bathwater". (No "Who Killed Bambi", though.)

This is incredible. I just added it to my wishlist.

They put out great sets. The one they put out for Joe Brussard's label was incredible.