Pop

Here are 21 of popular music’s most spectacular gargantuan anthologies, each featuring 10 or more discs.

Forbert was about 60 when he made this record, and he spends some of it looking back.

"He didn’t sugarcoat things. He put a lot of things out there that were the way they really were. And he knew a lot.”

Like its predecessors, this latest compendium inevitably sounds as if it were designed for someone with multiple personalities.

If you’re not familiar with the music of the late 1950s and early 1960s, you’ll probably have a hard time guessing which of these tunes rocketed up the charts and which never dented the Hot 100.

Guitarist Stew Cutler merges blues, soul, and jazz with the best of them. But he's never done a covers album before.

To say that psych-pop group Orange Bicycle never established a trademark style would be an understatement.

Long live rock and roll.

Among the many winners on this roller-coaster ride are soulful renditions of “Let It Be” by Aretha Franklin and “Hey, Jude” by Wilson Pickett, the latter with guitar by Duane Allman, and George Benson’s jazzified “You Never Give Me Your Money.”

It's about time we had a box set from the Bangles, whose well-hooked, harmony-laden tunes provided some of the brightest moments on Top 40 radio in the 1980s.