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    Posted: February 23 2015 at 16:12
What hypothetical box would you pounce on?
 
Couple spring to mind for me: 
 
Coil - Mostly unavailable catalogue going for silly prices. Innovative, esoteric music that deserves to be heard. I'm sort of surprised this hasn't happened already.
 
Bondage Fruit - I'd spring for a box of I to VI like a shot. Try finding II, IV or V anywhere...such a shame this music is OOP and unavailable.


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Usually bands that I don't own anything by but are really important. A good example is the Columbia 5 disc set for Mahavishnu Orchestra which I am very happy with.
There is apparently a great box set for Magma that people in the know snapped up pretty quick. I would have liked that one but its now virtually impossible to get.
Others I would like (some may exist)
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schulze ( is that possible??!)
The Police ( not prog but would be a nice neat 5 disc set)
Steely Dan (used to be a nice box set , does it still exist?)
 
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a Klaus Schulze box might be large, but possible.  I've seen 100-disc sets of some classical composers, and the box wasn't overly gigantic, so size isn't a problem.  Also, of course, there might be two or three or twenty boxes.

I'd like to see a box of Sun Ra's Saturn Records albums, many of which were only a few hundred copies on first release.


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a lot of the bands I'd like to get box sets of (complete studio catalogues) have been done in Japan - those mini-album sets that cost about $600 each. I cant afford that .. so I'd like to see affordable versions of:
 
- Van der Graaf Generator
- Steve Miller Band
- Alan Parsons Project (this may be out already)
- David Bowie
- Gentle Giant
- Camel
- Dire Straits (and Mark Knopfler)
- 10CC
- Hawkwind
- Anthony Phillips
 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Usually bands that I don't own anything by but are really important. A good example is the Columbia 5 disc set for Mahavishnu Orchestra which I am very happy with.
There is apparently a great box set for Magma that people in the know snapped up pretty quick. I would have liked that one but its now virtually impossible to get.
Others I would like (some may exist)
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schulze ( is that possible??!)
The Police ( not prog but would be a nice neat 5 disc set)
Steely Dan (used to be a nice box set , does it still exist?)
 

Yep, Steely Dan box set is still available:

http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Steely-Dan-STEELY-DAN/dp/B000002ORE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1424783775&sr=1-1&keywords=steely+dan+box+set
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Czesław Niemen definitely. Even good reeditions of his old albums are few and boxset of all his works is something I'd buy right away.
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Still confuses me how VdGG doesn't have a box set...
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Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

Still confuses me how VdGG doesn't have a box set...
 
as I said - they do - if you want to pay $600 to someone in Japan
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Hi,
 
I don't know ... I have not bought a single box set, and sometimes, I think I don't want to, because I am not a "fan" ... and afte 15 CD's by Ozric's, 25 by TD, 30 by Schulze, and the like ... I do not know why I would need the box set!
 
I simply find that the remasteres and what not are not as good ... and in some cases, the "feeling" has been tone down from the original ... and this is my biggest issue ... I remember the likes of the bootlegs and the "other" quality, and that is still not showing anywhere.
 
Exception: Tangerine Dream .... is the only difference, but it's all there already, including so many live concerts to hurt your ears! Why is a box needed? maybe for all the soundtracks? ... Like 50 of them?
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Usually bands that I don't own anything by but are really important. A good example is the Columbia 5 disc set for Mahavishnu Orchestra which I am very happy with.
There is apparently a great box set for Magma that people in the know snapped up pretty quick. I would have liked that one but its now virtually impossible to get.
Others I would like (some may exist)
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schulze ( is that possible??!)
The Police ( not prog but would be a nice neat 5 disc set)
Steely Dan (used to be a nice box set , does it still exist?)
 
 
A Schulze box, like a Tangerine Dream box, would have to be constructed of an extremely sturdy material, shipped on a crate, and off-loaded with a forklift. LOL Yeah, that would certainly be cost-prohibitive.
 
A Kraftwerk box is very doable. Their discography is surprisingly small (though they could pad it out with singles and live performances), and it looks like they did release one in 2009, titled simply Der Katalog. http://www.discogs.com/Kraftwerk-Der-Katalog/master/199394
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Curved Air deserve a box set, but it's possible that they may already have one. I screwed up by not researching first! However...a Curved Air box set that would feature unreleased material with Eddie Jobson on one disc, a concert of the original band featuring Francis Monkman that would completely differ from their "Live 75' album, and to boot...unreleased studio material of the original band!
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Usually bands that I don't own anything by but are really important. A good example is the Columbia 5 disc set for Mahavishnu Orchestra which I am very happy with.
There is apparently a great box set for Magma that people in the know snapped up pretty quick. I would have liked that one but its now virtually impossible to get.
Others I would like (some may exist)
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schulze ( is that possible??!)
The Police ( not prog but would be a nice neat 5 disc set)
Steely Dan (used to be a nice box set , does it still exist?)
 
 
A Schulze box, like a Tangerine Dream box, would have to be constructed of an extremely sturdy material, shipped on a crate, and off-loaded with a forklift. LOL Yeah, that would certainly be cost-prohibitive.
 
A Kraftwerk box is very doable. Their discography is surprisingly small (though they could pad it out with singles and live performances), and it looks like they did release one in 2009, titled simply Der Katalog. http://www.discogs.com/Kraftwerk-Der-Katalog/master/199394


Talking about Kraftwerk, first of all they would have to include their first three (3) albums in said box...
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Talking about Kraftwerk, first of all they would have to include their first three (3) albums in said box...
 
They didn't make enough off those albums to include them. LOL
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Usually bands that I don't own anything by but are really important. A good example is the Columbia 5 disc set for Mahavishnu Orchestra which I am very happy with.
There is apparently a great box set for Magma that people in the know snapped up pretty quick. I would have liked that one but its now virtually impossible to get.
Others I would like (some may exist)
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schulze ( is that possible??!)
The Police ( not prog but would be a nice neat 5 disc set)
Steely Dan (used to be a nice box set , does it still exist?)
 

The police one exists, kind of - Band in A Box - 3 discs of all the album tracks, plus some extras - fairly nice set
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Hi,
 
I think there have been a couple by KSchulze, but they were a private/small number only. I think that there was one for KS that had 10 CD's several years back, and Eurock had them. The same for AshRa Tempel, and I think it was called "Private Tapes".
 
I think that these were not, originally, released to the public, other than the hardcore fans ... don't quote me on that!


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Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

Still confuses me how VdGG doesn't have a box set...
 
as I said - they do - if you want to pay $600 to someone in Japan
No thanks, I'll stick to the studio albums.
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Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

Still confuses me how VdGG doesn't have a box set...
 
as I said - they do - if you want to pay $600 to someone in Japan
No thanks, I'll stick to the studio albums.
 
that's the thing that confuses me ... are they not official ?
I thought the companies that made these had some kind of special licencing ..
why would bootlegs be worth so much just because they have nice packaging? doesn't make sense
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http://www.minilps.net/boxes-and-other-promo-items/what-is-a-promo-box/
this explains it .. many are official releases but there are fakes based on them ... like anything.
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Originally posted by tboyd1802 tboyd1802 wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Usually bands that I don't own anything by but are really important. A good example is the Columbia 5 disc set for Mahavishnu Orchestra which I am very happy with.
There is apparently a great box set for Magma that people in the know snapped up pretty quick. I would have liked that one but its now virtually impossible to get.
Others I would like (some may exist)
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schulze ( is that possible??!)
The Police ( not prog but would be a nice neat 5 disc set)
Steely Dan (used to be a nice box set , does it still exist?)
 

Yep, Steely Dan box set is still available:

http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Steely-Dan-STEELY-DAN/dp/B000002ORE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1424783775&sr=1-1&keywords=steely+dan+box+set


 
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