I think this OOP box set, much maligned as it is, has been remaindered. Newbury Comics is currently selling copies for under $27 fulfilled by Amazon (of course, RIGHT after I went the eBay route for considerably more):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000AOWUY/?tag=imwan-20

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1. Hey What's Wrong With Me
2. Ain't That Just Like Me
3. Whole World Over
4. Stay
5. You Better Move On
6. Keep Off That Friend Of Mine
7. Baby That's All
8. Don't You Know
9. Come On Back
10. We're Through
11. She Said Yeah
12. Nobody
13. So Lonely [Bell Studios demo]
14. Bring Back Your Love To Me [Bell Studios demo]
15. Listen Here To Me [Bell Studios demo]
16. Honey And Wine
17. Very Last Day
18. Mickey's Monkey
19. You Must Believe Me
20. She Gives Me Everything I Want
21. I've got a Way Of My Own
22. You In My Arms
23. If I Needed Someone
24. Stewball
25. Don't You Even Care
26. Oriental Sadness
27. After The Fox
28. Don't Run And Hide
29. Pay You Back With Interest
30. It's You
31. What's Wrong With The Way I Live
32. Crusader
33. Non Prego Per Me

Disc 2
1. Kill Me Quick
2. We're Alive
3. Schoolgirl
4. All the World Is Love
5. Rain on the Window
6. The Hollies - You Need Love
7. Stop Right There
8. Signs That Will Never Change
9. Everything Is Sunshine
10. King Midas In Reverse
11. Dear Eloise
12. Maker
13. Would You Believe
14. Elevated Observations
15. Butterfly
16. Open Up Your Eyes
17. Relax
18. Wings
19. Like Every Time Before
20. Man With No Expression (Horses Through a Rainstorm)
21. A Taste Of Honey [1968 version]
22. Blowin' In The Wind [Nash Version]
23. Quit Your Low Down Ways
24. My Back Pages
25. Not That Way at All
26. Why Didn't You Believe
27. Please Let Me Please

Disc 3
1. He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
2. Marigold / Gloria Swansong
3. Goodbye Tomorrow
4. Man Without A Heart
5. Confessions Of A Mind
6. Too Young To Be Married
7. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top
8. Promised Land
9. Long Dark Road
10. Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
11. The Baby
12. Magic Woman Touch
13. Jesus Was A Crossmaker
14. I Had A Dream
15. Mexico Gold
16. Don't Let Me Down
17. Second Hand Hangups
18. Lonely Hobo Lullaby
19. Give Me Time

Disc 4
1. The Air That I Breathe
2. Sandy (4th July, Asbury Park)
3. I'm Down
4. Star
5. Write On
6. Love Is The Thing
7. I Won't Move Over
8. Draggin' My Heels
9. Daddy Don't Mind
10. Boulder To Birmingham
11. Writing On The Wall
12. Burn Out
13. Hello To Romance
14. Amnesty
15. Harlequin
16. When I'm Yours
17. Something To Live For
18. It's in Every One Of Us

Disc 5
1. Say It Ain't So Jo
2. Sanctuary
3. Soldier's Song
4. Can't Lie No More
5. If the Lights Go Out [First Version]
6. Heartbeat
7. What To Do
8. Carrie
9. Take My Love And Run
10. Let Her Go Down
11. Laughter Turns To Tears
12. Too Many Hearts Get Broken
13. This Is It
14. Reunion Of The Heart
15. Stand By Me
16. Shine Silently [12" Mix]
17. Find Me A Family
18. The Woman I Love
19. How Do I Survive [new 2003 recording w/Carl Wayne]

Disc 6
1. Reach Out I'll Be There [Live, 1966]
2. Too Much Monkey Business [Live, 1966]
3. Stop! Stop! Stop! [Live, 1966]
4. The Times They Are A-Changin' [Live, 1968]
5. I Can't Let Go [Live, 1976]
6. Just One Look [Live, 1976]
7. I Can't Tell the Bottom from the Top [Live, 1976]
8. Bus Stop [Live, 1976]
9. Another Night [Live, 1976]
10. Sandy (4th July Asbury Park) [Live, 1976]
11. Star [Live, 1976]
12. My Island [Live, 1976]
13. I'm Down [Live, 1976]
14. Stop! Stop! Stop! [Live, 1976]
15. Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress [Live, 1976]
16. Carrie Anne [Live, 1976]
17. The Air That I Breathe [Live, 1976]
18. Too Young to Be Married [Live, 1976]
19. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother [Live, 1976]
20. Purple Rain [Live, 1991]

WOW! I owe you a Big Thank You Jay.

I saw this used afew years back and kicked myself for not getting this (and it was much more than what we see posted at Newbury). This box has alot if rare stuff if my Memory serves me right so this will go along great with many other titles I have. My order is in!

The last year or two, us Hollies fans are all in our glory with excellent comps and the great DVD comp released last year. And we still have the BBC stuff to look forward too.

Rick A.

I ordered one too.....(if there's more than 1 available). Kind of suspicious if it's a boot considering the Newbury price is so cheap compared to other 3rd party sellers.

Not to worry Charles. The owners of Newbury are straight up guys (I believe WalterP can atest to this). As well as I scored the killer Electra deluxe boxset for a steal about 4 years ago from them and it was everything as advertised.

Rick A.

Glad to help, Rick. At least some of my fellow ICErs are getting in on the deal. I am guessing that it will have a small drill hole through the UPC like the copy I got on eBay.

i remember when my wife got me this new for christmas, when i found that the "hits" were all live i returned it without ever opening it, however, for $30 bucks, i may just order this one.

Jay:
Thanks! I ordered one through this link. Amazon actually had this around $29 themselves a few months ago and I forgot about it, then it starting going for crazy OOP prices.
As for the live cuts-isn't it just the Disc 6 tracks that are live, including a remastered live album from the late 70's?
This looks like a great collection of classics (some missing), rarities, alt takes and single only tracks from various countries.

My pleasure, Pete. It appears that only a few essential cuts are truly missing in their original form ("Bus Stop", "Stop! Stop! Stop!" and "Carrie Anne" being the most egregious examples, only appearing on Disc 6 in live versions from 1976).

Another Hollies comp missing Tell Me To My Face (how tf could they leave it off a 6 disc set??!).

That one is on the Clarke/Hicks/Nash 6 cd set that came out last year.

Thanks much for the heads up.
Sadly 25 bucks is about all this abomination is worth. Horrid sound quality and an insanity that only the Brits seemed to adopt of "over conceptualizing" box sets.
"Right then ... l've got an idea!
Lets do a 6-CD career spanning box and leave off the big hits because surely everyone's got those already! "

i looked this over very carefully and once again decided against it. i have just about everything on it, and what i don't have i've never heard and probably don't miss.

Mine came in already but I haven't opened it yet. Can anyone tell me why this is an "abomination"? I understand a few classic tracks are absent in tier original studio form (but I've got them like anyone else already). Is the sound that terrible?
It reall seems to hit all points of their career (aside from the 1983 reunion) and has a lot of things I've never heard. I'm a fan, not a massive one, but a pretty big one, and this is something I always wanted to get.
Now I'm wondering if I've got something I should have. It's EMI after all, so I'm not worried about the sound quality, although the "horrid" comment above doesn't sound good.
But can anyone who is a fan and owns this tell me why some people trash it so much?
Thanks.

Strange song selection and noise reduction issues are usually the factors cited by people who don't like this box set.

If you're looking for an extended greatest hits, this isn't it. It's missing the studio versions of too many Hollies hits, and some key tracks aren't there at all ("Look Through Any Window" and of course "Tell Me To My Face" for Geff). But if you already have a best-of, this box is a very good supplement. And at this price, anybody who even mildly likes The Hollies should go ahead and get one.

The NR is done in EMI's house style at the time, similar to how The Move's Message From The Country remaster sounded. I personally liked this approach. (For the Move album, it resulted in something very close to how I remember the original vinyl sounding.) The individual remasters of the early Hollies albums suffer from too much hiss and "scratchiness" around the edges.

Only waveforms can really settle this debate!

Linda:
Thanks-pretty much what I figured as for the track selection. It is odd that so many classic 60's singles are absent, but I already have the excellent 2CD best of from 2003, so I'm OK with it despite how weird it is.
As for the remastering, I'll hear it for myself and go from there.
But there's so many rare tracks from all eras, that this was a must for me at this price. I haven't opened it yet, but I hope the bookelt is nice too.
I really want to step up on the remasters from the late 60's-late 70's EMI did, but I'm still waiting for some of those albums to be legit remastered (at least I think I am unless I missed a few).

i highly recommend thew 6 CD set called "clarke - hicks - nash years"

there is a used one on amazon right now for $16.94.

it has every song they did together (except the reunion, which was terrible IMHO anyway as nash did not sing lead on even one single song )

Linked:

Amazon USA | Amazon UK

Pete,

The booklet is quite nice. 17,500 page essay from Peter Doggett, lots of great photos, nice discography with numerous photos, etc.

Jay:
I opened it and you are indeed correct. And I meant booklet not bookelt, though that was nice too!
I listened to Disc 1 and have no complaints so far, but it does feel strange having that whole disc not include any of the classics. Aside from that I'm looking forward to the rest-I very much like everything they did from 1967-80.

17,500 pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That would be impressive -- that will probably be the length of Johnny Rogan's next Byrds book. Should have been "words" rather than "pages".

Just received my shipping notice. Should be available for next weekends listening.

Rick A.

PS This morning I find the boxset awaiting at my door, on a Sunday. I have noticed their are now independents delivering Amazon boxes. I don't know if they are postal contractors or what but you want to talk about a surprise. I will be playing this this Sunday as I do my W/E "chores".

Also, someone asked I believe were these cutouts. There was a very small hole in the back bottom right where the barcode is. You just about notice it.