JosephC wrote:
This would probably be targeted to someone like me who has all of the six regular studio albums but none of the other stuff. It would be a reasonably-priced, efficient way to complete the collection. However, I'm not going to get this because I don't like the overall studio work enough to want to collect all the other pieces of this collection. Although some of Halford's studio work is excellent (Resurrection is outstanding and Crucible is really, really, really good), some of it isn't so great. I would go as far as saying Fight's A Small Deadly Space and the 2wo album are complete poop.
Aerosmith has the Box of Fire which covers all the classic Columbia albums, and if you keep an eye on Amazon it's not uncommon to find it priced in the $65 range (currently at $90). My only problem with that is it too has way too much filler with GH, Gems, Classics Live 1 and Classics Live 2 (could just make Come Together a bonus track on the end of Night in the Ruts). But if there was a complete albums collection released for Aerosmith it would probably include all those releases as well.
I am under the impression that Journey's back catalog still sells pretty well (which is surprising, I'd figure 80% of their sales these days would be limited to the Greatest Hits albums) which may prevent that one for awhile. Toto seems to be the one that would be a no-brainer...it just make too much sense. The one I would really love is an Ozzy one...I have all the originals and the remastering probably would be a step down....but many of those were reissued with bonus tracks which if included on a complete albums collection would make it a no-brainer purchase for me. That was the best part of the BOC collection, I already had all the original albums but didn't have any of those bonus tracks so to collect all of that with one purchase was a sweet deal.
A complete Aerosmith wouldn't include any comps though.
The Legacy Complete box sets offer up studio and live albums only and are either newly remastered or a mix of the previous remasters with new remasters. Sometimes, like the BOC box we also get rarities CDs and live shows. Comps are never included.
That Box of Fire you mention is pretty ancient and there hasn't been anything done to the Aerosmith catalogue since the early 90s.
I think Journey and Aerosmith are total no-brainers and would be very big sellers that would appeal to the diehards and the hits comps would continue to sell.
Even though I'm a huge Toto fan, I probably wouldn't get one now that I have all the Columbia albums remastered by Rock Candy from the original tapes.
Ozzy is also a no-brainer, as are Santana, Jeff Beck, Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, and more and I don't even like Nugent or REO.
Ah, who knows?
