An artist’s comprehensive box set: the national flag jabbed into the icy mountaintop of faithful record collecting, the go-to gift from a very special and understanding family member or friend in honor of very special milestone. You own all the albums. You’ve bought the single CD releases and reissues, but you want that comprehensive box set, that one that lovingly repackages every album the artist ever released as well as bonus outtakes, videos, and in-depth liner notes and previously unseen photos! It’s all there in one giant box that shows the world just how deep your love for said artist is, albeit in packaging that usually takes up way more space than a coffee-table book.

As you sit among your treasure trove of materials, you suddenly realize that a particular album is missing from the box set. Your comprehensive box set is not so comprehensive after all. Usually the album expunged from the artist’s comprehensive box set has been expunged for perfectly good reason, but sometimes you wish it had been included after all. The only positive you may take from this omission is the extra rock nerd points you can cash in for owning the original, out-of-print slab of vinyl that was not included for half-baked archivists and Johnny-Come-Latelys to acquire in one fell swoop.

For this week’s Last Man Standing, let us note albums expunged from artists’ comprehensive box sets. Please note and tally a point for every expunged original album that you own. The winner will earn bragging rights for 2 solid weeks!