Need something for the music lover on your list? Walter has 10 suggestions.

With holiday season at hand, don’t think outside the box. Instead, wrap the box up and make that your present.

We’re talking music, of course. Our annual gift guide is devoted this year to newly released box set collections — multi disc packages that spill all the details, and then some, on music you thought you already knew. Some are live collections highlighting performances given through the ages. Others are career retrospectives. A few revisit a specific iconic recording with plentiful unreleased archival music to accompany the familiar fare.

Some are modest in size (two disc sets). Others are massive (11 discs). A few are readily affordable. One or two reach out to more spacious pocket books.

All of them, though, are recommended. Here are the sounds worth checking out as a gift (maybe even for yourself) as the holidays close in.

Bruce Springsteen, “Springsteen on Broadway” — With The Boss’ year-long New York residency winding down, we have the inevitable live album of the event. Just as “Springsteen on Broadway” purposely steered away from the combustible rock ‘n’ roll, the two CD/four LP solo acoustic recording focuses heavily on Springsteen the storyteller. The cost conscious will note that, with an average retail price of $18, the cost of the CD is roughly 4% that of a ticket to the Broadway show. (To be released Dec. 14.)

Rolling Stones, “Voodoo Lounge Uncut” — Appearing now on a two CD set for the first time along with an unedited DVD/Blu-Ray of the entire performance (hence the title), “Voodoo Lounge Uncut” takes us to the then- named Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami for a Thanksgiving weekend 1994 concert. Guests include Sheryl Crow, Bo Diddley and Robert Cray, but the Stones themselves reign by digging into rarities like “Heartbreaker” and “Rocks Off,” as well as the requisite hits.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Electric Ladyland: 50th Anniversary Edition” — The third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience is now spread over three CDs/ LPs. The bonus discs truly rock this package, though. The first, the primal sounding “Live at the Hollywood Bowl,” begins with full blown aural chaos by way of the guitar mayhem that introduces “Are You Experienced.” But the true find is an amazing disc of methodical demos, solo blueprints and alternate takes titled “At Last… The Beginning.”

Chris Cornell, “Chris Cornell” — It’s easy to under-appreciate just how expansive Chris Connell’s 30 year career was until you see all its various components gathered in one place. Over four CDs and seven LPs (as well as various smaller editions), “Chris Cornell” covers music from the late Seattle rocker’s years with Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave, along with the many extremes of his solo work.

Various Artists, “Stax ’68: A Memphis Story” — A very different soul music party takes over the five-disc “Stax ’68: A Memphis Story.” The set boasts every A side/B side single the vanguard Memphis label issued in 1968, beginning with Otis Redding’s immortal “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” Music by Issac Hayes, Booker T. and the MGs and Sam & Dave flesh the set out, but the Staple Singers’ “Long Walk to D.C.” brings home the deeper social undercurrent of 1968.

The Beatles, “The Beatles (White Album)” — For fans of the Fab Four, the jackpot has been hit with a three-disc set that offers a luscious Giles Martin remastering of the band’s most infamously fractured album along with a full 27-song disc of the long bootlegged Esher Demos. But a decidedly costlier six CD edition boasts three discs of studio outtakes highlightd by a decelerated, 12 minute “Helter Skelter” and a plaintive “Good Night” that pairs Ringo Starr’s vocal with a lone piano.

Bob Dylan, “More Blood, More Tracks” — The 14 th installment of Dylan’s famed “Bootleg Series” focuses on his finest 1970s album, “Blood on the Tracks.” A single disc edition set offers fascinatingly sparse guitar/bass versions of every song on the original record (along with the outtake “Up to Me”) while a massive but enthralling six disc version offers multiple takes, including aborted band versions with Eric Weissberg. An extraordinary listen from start to finish.

Kate Bush, “Remastered” — The entire catalog of the British progressive pop empress returns in newly mastered (hence the title) editions gathered on two CD box sets and three separate vinyl compendiums. The first CD set, which covers her music through “The Red Shoes” in 1993, boasts eight discs. The second, which includes everything though 2016’s live recording “Before the Dawn” along with considerable bonus material, is a whopping 11 discs.

R.E.M., “R.E.M. at the BBC” — This eight CD/single DVD box covers 24 years worth of R.E.M. recordings cut by the BBC, including a full 1995 concert from Milton Keynes. The recording quality isn’t always pristine, but the performances continually fascinate, from a 16 song set in Nottingham from 1984 to a string of 1998 performances with the great British lap/pedal steel guitarist B.J. Cole. Also available as two-CD sampler.

David Bowie, “Loving the Alien” (1983-1988) — The fourth in a series of retrospective box sets, this 11 CD package embraces the ‘80s, when Bowie made some of his most commercially successful but artistically uneven music. The downside: a full disc wasted on dance remixes. The big upside: two full length concert sets from 1983 and 1987. The first is a funky, fun and brassy outing. The second is a wilder, more far reaching affair that enlists Peter Frampton as co-guitarist.