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Best Box Set Of The Year?

FirecloudFirecloud Posts: 516
edited December 2009 in Other Music
There have been a lot this year, but what's the best? The giant colossus that was the Neil Young Archives, the AC/DC amp box, Jane's Cabinet of Curiosities? What do you think?
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  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,413
    I've been super happy with the NY Archives (Blu-Ray) box. I'm hoping to get the Tom Petty Live Anthology for Christmas. That looks like it has some real potential.
  • peacegirlpeacegirl Posts: 841
    TrAvELAr wrote:
    I'm hoping to get the Tom Petty Live Anthology for Christmas. That looks like it has some real potential.

    This has gotten good reviews...I've been thinking of picking it up myself
  • MysteryTrainMysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    Box set of the year has to be the Beatles remasters.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,941
    KevDylan wrote:
    Box set of the year has to be the Beatles remasters.

    without any doubt
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Neil Young Archives

    Close Thread.
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
    Ohana Festival 24 x2
  • FirecloudFirecloud Posts: 516
    The Neil Young box set is best? It's just such a dense, comprehensive body of work that it's hard not to give it that credit, but I think the sheer bulk and excess of it weighs it down. Look at the variety and unique nature of some of the other ones... I don't think it's a no-brainer Neil win, though it's certainly a contender.
  • darthvedderdarthvedder Posts: 2,602
    That Pixies box set looks amazing but is way too costly.
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I have to say the Beatles box set probably outsold any other box set released this year, thus making it the best of the year.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

    9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
    5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
    EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    I can't imagine anything better than this:
    http://wilco.kungfustore.com/category/1 ... dle-wil266
  • Sleep.With.InnocenceSleep.With.Innocence Posts: 607
    pretext wrote:
    I can't imagine anything better than this:
    http://wilco.kungfustore.com/category/1 ... dle-wil266

    +1
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,632
    Neil Young's Archives is just amazing. The Beatles one is good too but the unreleased songs on NY's Archives make it a better buy in my opinion
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,055
    I don't consider remastering albums and selling them together a true box set.

    I want box sets that give me something I've never heard or that has been unavailable before, but that's me.

    My vote goes to Neil.
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 93,985
    Neil Young Archives Volume 1 via Bluray release .. has my vote.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Ten SDE is pretty sweet.

    Beatles stereo collection-It's the first time those mixes have gotten the attention they deserve.
  • randallanddarcyrandallanddarcy Posts: 813
    There's been a few...
    Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 is comprehensive, but it was bollox that loads of it was previously released.
    Beatles sets: :|
    Ten Super Deluxe Edition was amazing for (mainly) its non-musical content: the passes, photos, the journal etc.
    The Big Star boxed set is very cool for unreleased stuff. Especially for a band with such limited output.
    The Pixies one was amazing, but the fucking cost! Looked good though.
    Was the NIN one this year? Not really a fan, but it looked good. Especially the disc with all the individual tracks so you could remix everything yourself however you wanted to. And the first however many signed by Trent, too.
    My Pearl Jam shows: 1 in 1995, 2 in 1998, 20 in 2003, 13 in 2006, 3 in 2007, 8 in 2008, 5 in 2009, 4 in 2010, 5 in 2012. EV: 8 in 2011, 1 in 2012. Brad: 1 in 1998, 1 in 2002.
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