For a Sibelius box (and yay we are talking about my other favorite composer now) I would give the slight edge to this older EMI set. The symphonies here are with the Helsinki SO and recorded in the 80s rather than the 70s (but the digital sound picture is not bad in the way a lot of early-digital stuff can be, and the Helsinki are great and there are no dud interpretations) plus you get 4 and a half discs of the equally important tone poems, theatrical incidental music, and myth-based cantatas:
http://www.amazon.com/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tone-Poems/dp/B00005MIZT/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1359736483&sr=8-5&keywords=sibelius+berglund
More compact, beautifully recorded in 70s analog, and brought off with tons of personality is this set of the symphonies and a few tone poems with Colin Davis and the Boston SO. Davis' later Sibelius recordings with the London SO are not near this level:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Symphonies-Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B007CW2FFM/ref=sr_1_39?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1359736428&sr=1-39
For the two Mahler sets discussed above, I would DEFINITELY opt for the mixed-conductor Klemperer/Barbirolli/Rattle set rather than the all-Tennstedt one. I know the idea of a whole cycle in one conductor's interpretations is seductive but with Mahler's symphonies there simply is no one conductor who's gotten all nine (or ten) right.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
cant wait for the scott walker boxset.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Collection-1967-1970-Walker/dp/B00BCOL5YS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1369336963&sr=1-1&keywords=scott+walker
have held back from buying any of his 60s solo albums knowing that a boxset like this would at some point be sorted out.
seems that labels are totally going for this now.
in recent months i have seen (and left unloved) : motorhead, uriah heap, van halen, eagles, type o negative, sepultra, rob zombie (!!!) ..
personally i love this as it means i get the whole set of the good stuff in one go ..
hence why the scott walker is one of this years most anticipated purchases for me as i know it will hit so many spots for me.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
there's a 5cd bowie set featuring the 3 berlin-era cds and the double Stage(?) for little or no money too (£12):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeit-77-79-David-Bowie/dp/B00BQ8ZWO4/
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
oh yes .. saw that the other day ..
having recently just bought the complete set of limited bowie japanese mini vinyl editions from a friend i let this one go ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
and yes .. the complete set : space oddity -> never let me down
my friend had no idea he had the lot, until he checked at which point i offered over the odds as they are just gorgeous.
original inserts (where applicable), original inner sleeve notes, original gatefolds etc ..
just gorgeous ..
anyways .. back to the cheap seat bargains that i normally involve myself with ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
this as well (as been out a while)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Release-Series-Discs-1-4/dp/B0081QZJ6A/ref=sr_1_4
first 4 neil young albums for £12
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
That Bowie Berlin box, are those all in jewel cases in a card slipcase or something? Sounds like it from the product reviews. My vinyl of this stuff is oh so scratchy now.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
jewel cases with a cheap cardboard thing .. nothing new/special ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
oh, and i got that neil young set. my first intro to the young catalogue.reaction : 'oooh now i get it .. '
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
THESE ARE ALL VERY GOOD, BEWARE LOW AND HEROES ARE BOTH HALF INSTRUMENTAL.
― Mark G, Friday, 24 May 2013 06:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=original%20album%20series&sprefix=origina%3B%2Caps%2C
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q8BbSNwHL.jpg
Packaging is the usual cheap box with no booklet or notes or anything, but I just got this for £13 or something ^^^
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
I posted that link again here btw as I assumed most wouldnt be reading the funk listening club thread, Ordered the Slave and Curtis Mayfield sets.Theres loads more I'd want tho like the Warren Zevon, Chic, Dr John etc
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
The Zevon is pucker.
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Yves Nat Beethoven sonata cycle and much more. V. good.
1930-1956: Comp Recordingshttp://amazon.ca/dp/B000BS6Y74
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Nat's is a really really great Beethoven cycle. Def recommended by me.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Hey man I am still awaiting your Brendel breakdown! Eagerly would be an exaggeration, but still interested in a remotely optimistic fashion. ;-)
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
Ha I forgot anyone had actually expressed interest in that. Will totally do.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
It's weird trawling through those Original Album Series boxsets and bumping into so many multi-album major label artists who I just have no effing clue about
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
e.g. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61G59g%2Ba0cL._SY355_.jpg
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
who the fuuh are pooh
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
wait is the first album on that box really called poohlover?
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
what a...
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Also they completely messed up in not calling the third one Poohmerang.
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
Pooh is an Italian pop band formed in 1966 in Bologna. They are referred to in the plural as I Pooh (the Pooh).
snigger
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
More like poomeringue amirite?
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
oh man I need that Ribeiro box
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
everybody does! tbh i wasn't really all that familiar with her beforehand - so glad i took a punt on it cos it's right up my street, especially Paix
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
xposts yeah, I remember Record Collector doing an article on them, except it was in the April edition that year, and I just assumed it was an AFJoke.
Still, Vol 2, yeah?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 September 2013 09:58 (ten years ago) link
It's a must have
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2013 09:59 (ten years ago) link
There are 3 volumes of Pooh box sets and counting!
What I want to know is when is will they do one of these things for 70s Battiato? Maybe they have already?
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and let's have a Heldon one (or two) as well
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:24 (ten years ago) link
^ amen to that
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
thought these boxes looked a bit cheap and nasty but Pooh has just changed my mind
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:45 (ten years ago) link
I think some of those comps obscure to you are simply bands that were/are big locally, and the releases were meant mostly for the local market. For example, the Finnish branch of Warner has put out some "Original Album Series" comps for Finnish artists that probably no one knows outside of here.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 September 2013 10:49 (ten years ago) link
NickB - Mr. Amazon can help you with your need for Battiato: http://www.amazon.com/Gli-Album-Dautore-Franco-Battiato/dp/B003RDZ836/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378394285&sr=1-5&keywords=battiato+box
― Paul_C_in_DC, Thursday, 5 September 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh right, thanks! Fleurs 3 seems like a very out of place inclusion on there - 5 consecutive classic 70s albums and then a 2002 "collection of covers of Italian love songs"
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
The Shadows - The Early Years: 1959-1966
This 6CD collection includes every studio title recorded by the group from their very first efforts in early 1959, right up to the very end of 1966....
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2013 08:09 (ten years ago) link
you bought it?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 12 September 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Tom is this worth buying? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Electric-Prunes/dp/B00DDVPXPK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378993339&sr=1-1&keywords=original+album+series
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 12 September 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
Well, I'm not Tom, but I have two of those albums for real, and I'm looking at this going hmmm...
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 September 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
umm last 2 albums : 'produced by david hassinger '
seems to contradict : http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Warner-Reprise-Recordings-Electric/dp/B000LP5DC4/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1378993642&sr=8-22&keywords=david+axelrod
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
hmmm I will hold off until someone says I should get it then (would have to wait til end of month anyway)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
hahhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-City-Rollers/dp/B00BBQD5FO/ref=sr_1_32?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378995125&sr=1-32&keywords=original+album+series
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1921652-1252675494.jpeg
It depends on what you define as "Producer", really.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
xpost but then again: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oh-Yes-We-Can-Love/dp/tracks/B00EJU8ZZ4/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
i've got that axelrod/electric prunes compilation, it is fantastic
― willem, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the warners double cd set is fantastic.
the remastering brings out the depth, and the instrumentals are worthy of entry fee alone.
that boxset of prunes will probably not be using the remastered editions (something i have found with a few of these cheap-n-easy boxsets).
re hassinger vs axelrod : well, a little quick research reveals that hassinger 'owned' the electric prunes name, so i guess he can do what he likes re credits.
suspect that this is at the root of a lot of the chaos that surrounded the prunes.
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Ry Cooder 11CD box set for 26 quid:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/1970-1987-Album-Box-Set-Cooder/dp/B00F8OV4HQ
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Any particularly good new classical / opera box sets released in the last few months? I have an eye on the second RCA Living Stereo box but that's not out until February.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Thursday, 2 January 2014 09:48 (ten years ago) link