BOX SETS

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Audio CD (September 29, 2009)
Number of Discs: 3
Format: Box set

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Audio CD (October 15, 2013)
Number of Discs: 10
Label: Rhino/Warner Bros

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Audio CD (March 18, 2016)
Original Release Date: March 18, 2016
Number of Discs: 6

You can hear a huge swathe of them baying their support here, recorded across 30 shows in Europe and featuring 21 fantasy-enhanced epics. This gorgeous-looking box set features all the tracks etched onto four black vinyl.

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Original Release Date: May 26, 2016
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Number of Discs: 6
Label: The Store For Music Ltd
Copyright: The Store For Music Ltd
Total Length: 6:56:25

The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) – also known as The Beatles: Stereo Box – is a box set compilation comprising all remastered recordings by British rock group the Beatles.

This four-disc set is perfectly suited to the format. And it's as much an Eric Clapton box as it is a Yardbirds box, a Cream box and a Derek and the Dominos box. In fact, his solo career doesn't even get covered until midway through the third CD. Plus, there's some live and previously unreleased songs. Superb.

This three-disc, 58-song collection of all their singles (A and B sides, with a few exceptions regarding '70s B sides because of contractual reasons) released between 1963 and 1971 is a terrific overview of the first part of their career. All of the songs are available elsewhere, but this mostly mono set puts them all in one place and in perspective

This three-disc collection (the first CD box set) grabs a little bit from every era up through the early '80s. 'Biograph' doesn't play out chronologically, but instead by theme, and there's plenty of previously unreleased gems sprinkled in along the way. Most of his best-known songs are here too, making it a perfect starting point for new fans. And this was before his late-'90s comeback

Velvet Underground's monumental 'Peel Slowly and See,' which compiles all four of the influential band's studio records. But each is augmented with demos, live versions and alternate mixes. Plus, there's an entire disc of demos recorded before their debut album

The Byrds released a dozen albums during their nine-year existence. Only half of them are worth hearing. But there are some good songs buried on those dud albums. This four-disc box pulls their very best, starting with the first singles, released when they were still called the Beefeaters. Because reissues of the Byrds' albums included most of the leftovers, the previously unreleased material on 'There Is a Season' is mostly live.

The Band's musical history stretches back so far, this hefty five-CD, one-DVD collection doesn't even get to their debut album until the second disc. First, there are cuts by Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan, both of whom the Band backed. There are also live cuts with Dylan from the '60s and '70s, studio outtakes, alternate mixes and some grand cuts from 'The Last Waltz,' the going-away party the Band threw for themselves in 1977.

This four-disc Allman Brothers set chronologically chronicles one of southern rock's best bands. But there's also plenty of material by Gregg and Duane's earlier groups, as well as solo cuts by Gregg, Duane and Dickey Betts. Previously unreleased live recordings by the band also show up.

Scattered among the 47 songs on this three-disc box are demos (including an economical four-minute version of 'Free Bird'), alternate mixes (a less-funky 'What's Your Name') and live cuts (almost nine blazing minutes of 'T for Texas'). There's plenty of studio tracks here too, and it unfurls like a three-and-a-half-hour history lesson on one of southern rock's greatest treasures.

This four-disc box from 1991 spans King Crimson's entire career up to that point -- from 1969's debut album 'In the Court of the Crimson King' through 1984's 'Three of a Perfect Pair.' The last disc features nine songs recorded in concert, a playground for the wildly improvisational band.