From the stacks
Tuxedomoon
The Vinyl Box
Tuxedomoon — The Vinyl Box, 2015. Verified release details and tracklist.
- Label
- Crammed Discs
- Catalog
- cboy2222
- Year
- 2015
- Format
- Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Box Set
Data provided by Discogs ↗
Listening notes
Tuxedomoon's The Vinyl Box, issued by Crammed Discs in 2015 under catalog number cboy2222, is a ten-record box set presenting a substantial cross-section of the group's catalog in a single physical package. The set spans sides A through T, organizing its contents across what the tracklist identifies as discrete album-length sections: Half-Mute, Desire, Holy Wars, Ship Of Fools, You, The Ghost Sonata, Cabin In The Sky, Bardo Hotel Soundtrack, Vapour Trails, and a closing section titled Appendix.
The genres listed for the release — among them ambient, art rock, avant-garde, classical, darkwave, electronic, experimental, neo-classical, and rock — reflect the breadth of material assembled here. The tracklist alone suggests a wide tonal range, moving from early titles such as "Nazca," "59 To 1," and "Fifth Column" through later works like "Muchos Colores," "Kubrick," and "Wading Into Love." The Appendix section, occupying sides S and T, gathers tracks with dated titles spanning 1977 through 2008, including "I Heard It Through The Grapevine 1977," "Soma 1980," "Spirits And Ghosts 1985," and "San Casciano Idyll 2006," suggesting that this final portion functions as supplementary or archival material rather than a continuous album.
The box reaches side T before concluding, with the final entry being "Litebulb Overkill 1978," closing on a piece dated to the band's earliest years. The scope of the set, running to ten vinyl records and employing an alphabetical side-labeling system through the full range of A to T, makes it among the more extensive physical reissue packages in the post-punk and experimental canon released that year.
As an unreviewed draft, all claims here derive solely from the verified metadata supplied. Track durations, personnel, pressing details, and edition size have not been confirmed and are not addressed.
Tracklist
On the record
- 1Half-Mute
- A1Nazca
- A259 To 1
- A3Fifth Column
- A4Tritone (Musica Diablo)
- A5Loneliness
- A6James Whale
- B1What Use?
- B2Volo Vivace
- B37 Years
- B4KM / Seeding The Clouds
- 12Desire
- C1East / Jinx / • • • / Music #1
- C2Victims Of The Dance
- C3Incubus (Blue Suit)
- D1Desire
- D2Again
- D3In The Name Of Talent (Italian Western Two)
- D4Holiday For Plywood (Holiday For Strings)
- 20Holy Wars
- E1The Waltz
- E2St-John
- E3Bonjour Tristesse
- E4Hugging The Earth
- E5In A Manner Of Speaking
- F1Some Guys
- F2Holy Wars
- F3Watching The Blood Flow
- F4Egypt
- 30Ship Of Fools
- G1Atlantis
- G2Reeding Righting Rhythmatic
- G3Break The Rules
- H1A Piano Solo
- H2Lowlands Tone Poem
- H3Music For Piano + Guitar
- H4An Afternoon With N
- H5The Train
- 39You
- I1Roman P.
- I2The Train
- I32000
- I4Never Ending Story
- J1Stockholm
- J2Boxman (Mr. Niles)
- J3aSpirits & Ghosts (Part 1)
- J3bSpirits & Ghosts (Part 2)
- J4Boxman (The City)
- J5You
- J6Boxman (Home)
- 51The Ghost Sonata
- K1The Funeral Of A Friend
- K2The Ghost Sonata
- K3Catalyst
- K4An Affair At The Soiree
- K5Music Number Two
- K6A Drowning
- K7The Cascade
- L1A Mystic Death
- L2Basso Pomade (Dogs Licking My Heart)
- L3Licorice Stick Ostinato
- L4The Laboratory (Parts 1 & 2)
- L5Les Odalisques
- L6An Unsigned Postcard
- L7Music Number Two (Reprise)
- 66Cabin In The Sky
- M1A Home Away
- M2Baron Brown
- M3Annuncialto
- M4Diario Di Un Egoista
- M5La Più Bella
- M6Cagli Five-O
- M7Here 'Til X-Mas
- N1Chinese Mike
- N2La Più Bella Reprise
- N3The Island
- N4Misty Blue
- N5Luther Blisset
- N6Annuncialto Redux
- 80Bardo Hotel Soundtrack
- O1Hurry Up And Wait (Flying Sequence)
- O2Effervescing In The Nether Sphere
- O3Soup Du Jour
- O4Flying Again
- O5Triptych
- O6I'm Real Stupid
- O7Airport Blues
- O8Needles Prelude
- O9Prometheus Bound
- O10The Show Goes On: Baron Brown
- O11The Show Goes On: Jinx
- O12The Show Goes On: Loneliness
- P1Remote (Pralaya)
- P2Dream Flight
- P3More Flying
- P4Vulcanic, Combustible
- P5Mr. Comfort
- P6Another Flight
- P7Carry On Circles
- 100Vapour Trails
- Q1Muchos Colores
- Q2Still Small Voice
- Q3Kubrick
- Q4Big Olive
- R1Dark Temple
- R2Dizzy
- R3Epso Meth Lama
- R4Wading Into Love
- 109Appendix
- S1I Heard It Through The Grapevine 1977
- S2A Fez Goes To Brooklyn 1983
- S3Soma 1980
- S4Ballad Of A Coal Miner 1978
- S5Les Six 1997
- S6Everything You Want 1978
- T1Nimrod 1986
- T2Spirits And Ghosts 1985
- T3Boxman 2 2008
- T4Izzis Omeh 1985
- T5San Casciano Idyll 2006
- T6Bitter Bark 1997
- T7Litebulb Overkill 1978
