http://www.amazon.de/Studio-Albums-Rod- ... od+stewart

Looks like 14 disc boxset..which matches his studio album output for Warner / Atlantic 1975-2001

I was hoping Warner would be a bit more imaginative in the wake Universals success with "Rarities"

If there's bonus materials, I'm hoping that these are also sold individually. Rod's Warner's output sucked to my ears after 1978.

was 'rarities" that successful?

I can't imagine rarities sold a lot, let alone a set like this

Well they did supposedly remaster everything a few years back...just didn't release it all on CD. Maybe this is it. If those "Studio Albums" boxes from WEA are any indication, there will be no bonus tracks. (Though there were on the Chicago set).

In saying Rarities was successful, I am comparing it with other "vault" stuff like Sessions.
Whilst Sessions or its offshoot single disc comp hardly troubled the Top 1000, Rarities looks like charting both sides of the Atlantic (on some days on Amazon UK it has been Top 3 ahead of release today).


Re the remastering of the studio albums - the team that did Sessions etc did not remaster the entire Warner catalogue - just the stuff the planned to release on comps or deluxe editions (and only 5 of the 14 studio albums were being deluxed).

Incidentally, 14 must exclude Once in a Blue Moon (because it was unreleased originally) or Human (because it was actually on Atlantic)