What would be the most pointless extensive and expensive Box set ever to be released

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Starting with: "Yesterday - The Cover Versions"

(100 CDs crowded with cover versions of, well, you guessed it)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

ESPN Jock Jams: The Box

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

ESPN Jock Jams: The Box

Yet if they renamed it "Hip House: 1990-1997" it suddenly becomes indispensible.

― Gavin, Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Grateful Dead: The Complete Trunkful of Bootlegs

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

the new talking heads "brick" seems pretty pointless to me.

― mitya can't remember his frigging password, Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

didn't pearl jam do a boxset of that whole live concert series?

the problem is the most truly expensive boxsets (bear family, maybe?) are actually usually deeply cool. (http://www.bear-family.de/mailorder/showoneproduct.html?lang=&p=BFX+15229 -- 3 vols, 30 LPs, 200$ u.s.ish each, but now deleted -- the complete compleat killer!)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

they still sell this tho: http://www.bear-family.de/mailorder/showoneproduct.html?lang=&p=BCD+15784

(which is apparently just the "smashes"!)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

merzbox surely

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Guns'n Roses - Chinese Democracy: The Complete Studio Sessions

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't think Merzbox qualifies because it's not even close to being "extensive."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

But there's no need to make up box sets; at almost 60 dollars U.S., "Final VU - 1971-73" is surely the most extensive, expensive, and ultimately pointless collection money can buy.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

As much as I love Fugazi, I don't see why anyone would need all 20 or 30 or however many of those concert CDs they put out, even at the drastically reduced package price they offer them at.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Phish

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

the merzcedes?

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Guns'n Roses - Chinese Democracy: The Complete Studio Sessions

-- Earl Nash (stereo99_9...), October 23rd, 2005.

actually that would be quite interesting (provided you were bored enough to sift through it)! not "good" maybe, but interesting.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

What's This Box For: The Complete Creed B-sides, Rarities and Live Tracks

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Obviously, The Greatful Dead: The Complete Vault

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, didn't notice the third post of the thread. Sorry. The joke made itself.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Derek Bailey - The Complete Recordings

and/or

Muslimgauze - ditto

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Wu-Tang & Fam: Protect Ya Neck II The Archives--Every Group, Solo, and Side Project/Affiliated Recording in one 412 CD box set!

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Monday, 24 October 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

David Morales - The Complete Remixes.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

"Featuring Pino Pallodino" - the complete sessions.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

The A-Z of Bob Dylan Songs.

― Quagmire, Monday, 24 October 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

The Porcaros, Paulinho Da Costa, Michael Boddicker & Greg Phillinganes: The complete sessions

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Rick Wakeman: The 90s

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

"Double Dog Dare You: The Compleat Jandek 1978-2014"

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Where to start...

That new Sire boxset seems like a big white elephant to me, for starters.

I was initially excited when I saw the tracklisting, and was ready to pick it up, until I realized it wasn't a 4-DVD box set of videos.. it was 3 CDs and ONE DVD, the latter of which had the least interesting songs for videos, except maybe for "Pop Muzik" (or was that even on there?) All for what, sixty bucks? Um, sure. Just Say Rip-Off.

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Monday, 24 October 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

The Complete Funhouse Sessions

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 October 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait a minute. What would be? I'm an idiot. Never mind.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Sing-a-Long-Long-Long-Time with Mitch Miller, the Complete Recordings

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

The Diane Warren Songbook.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I mentioned earlier this week how much two copies of the Faust box set cost me, and got called a bastardt.

I'm not going to tell (again) the story of the two sets of the Funhouse sessions I came by.

Suffice to say, AlexinNYC, your experience was the exact opposite of mine, in that I now love this album after having sat through its entirety of session.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

The Complete Billy Childish Sessions.

(except it would be priced at like £5.99)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

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