Music lover on your Black Friday shopping list? 13 boxed sets that really sing

Now that holiday shopping is upon us, the opportunity presents itself to give a gift of music that is as big and boundless as the season itself.

To emphasize this, we’ve modified our annual holiday gift guide of recorded music to cover exclusively recommendations of new boxed set packages of vintage works by artists with careers vast enough to warrant such an extended review/overview.

Yes, you can pick up the new Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen or Sabrina Carpenter records. But, hey, it’s Christmas. Splurge a little on these new sets of historic sounds by artists you know — releases that are the musical equivalent of coffee table books. Sure, they cost more, but box sets chronicling careers or specific albums or eras aren’t stocking stuffers. They deserve full under-the-tree treatment.

Here is a look at new box set collections that are letting vintage sounds loose again in a huge way for the holiday season. Santa may need a trailer to cart them around.

The Beatles

Anthology Collection/Anthology 4

For those who simply cannot get enough of the Fab Four, there is this boxed set of the three original 1995 “Anthology” collections of out-takes and alternate versions boasting Beatles classics spruced up for an augmented revisit of the “Anthology” documentary series airing this fall. The box contains a “new” fourth volume (also sold separately) 2 CD set, although most of its material has been released elsewhere.

Talking Heads

More Songs About Buildings and Food (Super Deluxe Edition)

The second box set treatment of Talking Heads’ late ’70s/’80s albums continues with an enlargement of its 1978 sophomore outing, a record that put the band on mainstream rock radio through a quirky cover of the Al Green soul hit, “Take Me to the River.” The first of three Heads albums produced by Brian Eno, “More Songs” now includes a full August 1978 concert recording and a 60-page hardcover book.

Tina Turner

Private Dancer (40^th Anniversary Edition)

Amazingly, 50 years have past since the dissolution of Ike and Tina Turner and 40 years since “Private Dancer” placed Tina back in the rock arena as an international solo star. This five-CD set packs in B-sides, alternate mixes, live recordings and videos. Not all of the material has aged well due to ’80s production excesses, but the vocal torrents Turner supplements it all with remains nothing short of atomic.

The Replacements

Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)

Now expanded into a four-LP/three-CD set, 1984’s “Let It Be” stands as a crossroads record for The Replacements, a work that broke ever-so-cautiously from their punk rock beginnings to a more schooled but still corrosive unit. It also added a dimension to Paul Westerberg’s already commanding songwriting. This new set is highlighted by the inclusion of a 28-song live show from March 1984.

Genesis

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (50^th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)

Actually, it’s been 51 years since Peter Gabriel’s swansong album with Genesis was released. The new five-LP/four-CD package features a massively remastered version of the original double album along with a full concert version (released only partially in the past) from January 1975. A daring, complex and, at times, narratively indecipherable work, “The Lamb” remains one of prog rock’s cornerstone albums.

Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here (50^th Anniversary Box Set)

Reissued in a variety of physical and digital formats is Pink Floyd’s ambient-informed eulogy to its own past — a dark follow-up to “The Dark Side of the Moon.” The two-CD package sells for $20-25 and features the original album with a variety of out-takes and extras, including a fascinating new edit and mix of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” Other editions have bigger extras for bigger pocketbooks.

David Bowie

I Can’t Give Everything Away: 2002-2016

A full decade on, the series of box sets chronicling David Bowie’s full recording catalog concludes. The sixth and final installment covers the last 12 years of his life and career. It combines four studio albums, the posthumous “No Plan” EP, two live albums and a previously unreleased concert recording from the 2002 Montreux Jazz Festival. A fitting tribute to the overlooked greatness of Bowie’s final years.

Joni Mitchell

Joni’s Jazz

While songstress extraordinaire Joni Mitchell is/was far from a jazz artist, her experiments with arrangements and compositional design regularly flirted with the genre and brought her into the orbit of several of its figurehead players, including Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus and, most prominently, Wayne Shorter. All figure into this eight-LP/four-CD set of predominantly previously released music where the musical scope of Mitchell’s soundscapes was as vast as her poetic lyrics.

The B-52s

The Warner and Reprise Years

The B-52s closed the 1970s with a blast of nervous, kitschy new wave dance vigor. It ended the ’80s with a mainstream modification of that sound that took them to the top of the pop charts. “The Warner and Reprise Years” covers all of that and everything in between (including 1982’s David Byrne-produced “Mesopotamia” EP.) No extras here, just The B-52s dancing this mess around over nine LPs and eight CDs.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Bold as Love

The holidays hardly slip by without some new find from the archives of guitar colossus Jimi Hendrix. The newest focuses on Hendrix’s second studio album, “Axis: Bold as Love.” This five-LP/four-CD set’s prime interest to longtime fans will be 28 previously unissued studio tracks (mostly alternate takes and jams) and live cuts. Nothing is bolder, though, than the new Dolby ATMOS mix of the original 1968 “Axis.”

The Rolling Stones

Black and Blue (Deluxe)

The most underrated of the Stones’ 1970s albums, “Black and Blue” was cut following the resignation of guitarist Mick Taylor. Ron Wood won his spot with the album representing his first studio work as a Stone. Others, like Jeff Beck, sat in on sessions included as bonus tracks on this new “Black and Blue.” Available in two- and four-CD sets. The latter sports a 1976 concert recording from Earl’s Court in London.

Bruce Springsteen

Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition

The Boss’ second box set release in only four months revisits his 1982 unaccompanied masterpiece “Nebraska,” a stark set of aural snapshots depicting outlaws, outcasts and misfits. This new edition collects studio out-takes and a recent live run-through (without an audience.) The original record is remastered, as well, but why? Lo-fi rawness fuels the heart of darkness within “Nebraska.”

Bob Dylan

Bootleg Series, Volume 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963

Just as “Nebraska ‘82” was timed to the release of the Springsteen biopic “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” this newest edition of Bob Dylan’s famed bootleg series comes to us a year following a film depiction of the folk warrior’s early work. “Through the Open Window” represents some of Dylan’s earliest music, from teenage recordings cut in his native Minnesota to 1963 performances at Carnegie Hall.