I'll vote for Depeche Mode's X1 & X2.
Also, Joy Division's "Heart And Soul" is the box that all others should be judged by!

Great packaging, but they could easily have fit all of the studio tracks on two discs.

The Fall: The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004. Just a tan box but a lot of great stuff in that brown box (much better than The Fall Box Set IMO).

The Carter Family ~ In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain

12 Disc set w/ hardcover book from Bear Family Records (Germany)

All of the exhaustive Bear Family sets are fantastic- the final word on the artist they cover.

that's the first one i thought of when i saw the thread title.

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and it's still not released on CD, but this is my favorite music box set ever:

I love that set, but its rarely on sale, and even when it is..is 300$ just for X1

Huge Stevie fan. It was my official entry into the wonderful world of electric blues. Awesome.

Deep Purple-Listen Learn Read On

doesn't get much better than these:







add another vote for Led Zeppelin Complete Studio Recordings & Joy Division heartandsoul

David Bowie- Sound + Vision
Johnny Cash- Unearthed
CCR- CCR (all the studio albums, the two live albums, plus a disc of pre CCR stuff)
Donovan- Try For The Sun: The Journey of Donovan

Another vote for this one. There is some wonderful stuff on here, especially his strong duet with Fiona Apple on "Father and Son", which has none of the awkwardness of their previous duet,"Bridge Over Troubled Water", where Apple sounded tentative and lost. Frusciante submits some pretty guitar on "Heart of Gold" as well.

The Joy Division Heart And Soul Box set.
The Complete Singles Collectionepeche Mode (for those that can not get X1 & X2).

The one I have been tryin to find is LADYDAY:Billie Hoilday Collection.

http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Day-Compl...8693217&sr=1-4

You can say that again. The alt version of "He's Back (the man behind the mask)" is awesome.

My other favs are Sinatra (Capitol and Reprise) and Buffet's boxed set.