The Box is a five-CD/one DVD career-spanning box set by the popular American group Chicago, compiled and released by Rhino Records in 2003. It is the band's twenty-eighth canon release; the members of Chicago helped choose the material from their entire back catalogue.
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| Released | July 22, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | January 1969–1998 | |||
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| Length | 392:55 | |||
| Label | Rhino Records | |||
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The box includes material from every studio album released by the band since its 1969 debut, Chicago Transit Authority, to its late 1990s recordings, along with a few rarities, notably three songs from the then-unreleased 1993 Stone of Sisyphus project. Every charting single from 1969 to 2003 is included, with the exception of the 1986 remake of the band's earlier hit, "25 or 6 to 4."
An additional DVD features rare live recordings from 1972 and promotional material for 1979's Chicago 13. The set also includes a booklet of additional material featuring track-by-track analysis, promotional photos, essays and variations on the familiar Chicago logo.
The set did not chart in the US or the UK.
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Introduction" | Terry Kath | Chicago Transit Authority, 1969 | 6:35 |
| 2. | "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Single version) | Robert Lamm | Chicago Transit Authority | 3:20 |
| 3. | "Beginnings" (GH edit) | Lamm | Chicago Transit Authority | 6:27 |
| 4. | "Questions 67 and 68" | Lamm | Chicago Transit Authority | 5:01 |
| 5. | "Listen" | Lamm | Chicago Transit Authority | 3:22 |
| 6. | "South California Purples" | Lamm | Chicago Transit Authority | 6:11 |
| 7. | "I'm a Man" (New edit) | Jimmy Miller/Steve Winwood | Chicago Transit Authority | 5:43 |
| 8. | "Movin' In" | James Pankow | Chicago, 1970 | 4:06 |
| 9. | "Wake Up Sunshine" | Lamm | Chicago | 2:29 |
| 10. | "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Make Me Smile/So Much to Say, So Much to Give/Anxiety's Moment/West Virginia's Fantasies" | Pankow | Chicago | 7:02 |
| 11. | "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Colour My World" | Pankow | Chicago | 3:00 |
| 12. | "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: To Be Free/Now More Than Ever" | Pankow | Chicago | 2:41 |
| 13. | "Fancy Colours" | Lamm | Chicago | 5:10 |
| 14. | "25 or 6 to 4" | Lamm | Chicago | 4:50 |
| 15. | "Poem for the People" | Lamm | Chicago | 5:31 |
| 16. | "It Better End Soon: 1st Movement/3rd Movement/4th Movement" | Lamm/Kath | Chicago | 6:37 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Loneliness Is Just a Word" | Lamm | Chicago III, 1971 | 2:36 |
| 2. | "Travel Suite: Flight 602" | Lamm | Chicago III | 2:45 |
| 3. | "Travel Suite: Free" | Lamm | Chicago III | 2:16 |
| 4. | "Mother" | Lamm | Chicago III | 4:30 |
| 5. | "Lowdown" | Peter Cetera/Danny Seraphine | Chicago III | 3:35 |
| 6. | "An Hour in the Shower": "A Hard Risin' Morning Without Breakfast/Off to Work/Fallin' Out/Dreamin' Home/Morning Blues Again" | Kath | Chicago III | 5:28 |
| 7. | "A Hit by Varèse" | Lamm | Chicago V, 1972 | 4:55 |
| 8. | "All Is Well" | Lamm | Chicago V | 3:50 |
| 9. | "Saturday in the Park" | Lamm | Chicago V | 3:56 |
| 10. | "Dialogue (Part I & II)" | Lamm | Chicago V | 7:10 |
| 11. | "Just You 'n' Me" | Pankow | Chicago VI, 1973 | 3:42 |
| 12. | "Something in This City Changes People" | Lamm | Chicago VI | 3:42 |
| 13. | "In Terms of Two" | Cetera | Chicago VI | 3:29 |
| 14. | "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" | Cetera/Pankow | Chicago VI | 4:14 |
| 15. | "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" | Pankow | Chicago VII, 1974 | 4:29 |
| 16. | "Mongonucleosis" | Pankow | Chicago VII | 3:26 |
| 17. | "Wishing You Were Here" | Cetera | Chicago VII | 4:37 |
| 18. | "Call on Me" | Lee Loughnane | Chicago VII | 4:02 |
| 19. | "Happy Man" (GH2 edit) | Cetera | Chicago VII | 3:14 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Harry Truman" | Lamm | Chicago VIII, 1975 | 3:01 |
| 2. | "Old Days" | Pankow | Chicago VIII | 3:31 |
| 3. | "Brand New Love Affair, Part I & II" | Pankow | Chicago VIII | 4:27 |
| 4. | "Never Been in Love Before" | Lamm | Chicago VIII | 4:10 |
| 5. | "You Are on My Mind" (Single version) | Pankow | Chicago X, 1976 | 3:12 |
| 6. | "Mama Mama" | Cetera | Chicago X | 3:30 |
| 7. | "Hope for Love" | Kath | Chicago X | 3:03 |
| 8. | "Another Rainy Day in New York City" | Lamm | Chicago X | 3:01 |
| 9. | "Gently I'll Wake You" | Lamm | Chicago X | 3:33 |
| 10. | "If You Leave Me Now" | Cetera | Chicago X | 3:56 |
| 11. | "Mississippi Delta City Blues" | Kath | Chicago XI, 1977 | 4:39 |
| 12. | "Baby, What a Big Surprise" | Cetera | Chicago XI | 3:04 |
| 13. | "Take Me Back to Chicago" | Seraphine/David Wolinski | Chicago XI | 5:17 |
| 14. | "Prelude (Little One)/Little One" | Seraphine/Wolinski | Chicago XI | 6:34 |
| 15. | "Gone Long Gone" | Cetera | Hot Streets, 1978 | 4:00 |
| 16. | "No Tell Lover" (Single version) | Cetera/Loughnane/Seraphine | Hot Streets | 3:48 |
| 17. | "Alive Again" (Single version) | Pankow | Hot Streets | 3:28 |
| 18. | "The Greatest Love on Earth" | Seraphine/Wolinski | Hot Streets | 3:18 |
| 19. | "Little Miss Lovin'" | Cetera | Hot Streets | 4:36 |
| 20. | "Hot Streets" | Lamm | Hot Streets | 5:14 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Street Player" (Single version) | Seraphine/Wolinski | Chicago 13, 1979 | 4:23 |
| 2. | "Must Have Been Crazy" | Donnie Dacus | Chicago 13 | 3:23 |
| 3. | "Manipulation" (Single version) | Lamm | Chicago XIV, 1980 | 3:29 |
| 4. | "Thunder and Lightning" | Cetera/Lamm/Seraphine | Chicago XIV | 3:32 |
| 5. | "Song for You" | Cetera | Chicago XIV | 3:41 |
| 6. | "The American Dream" | Pankow | Chicago XIV | 3:17 |
| 7. | "Love Me Tomorrow" (2002 remastered edit) | Cetera/David Foster | Chicago 16, 1982 | 4:59 |
| 8. | "Chains" | Ian Thomas | Chicago 16 | 3:22 |
| 9. | "What You're Missing" (2002 remastered edit) | Jay Gruska/Joseph Williams | Chicago 16 | 3:30 |
| 10. | "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" | Cetera/Foster/Lamm | Chicago 16 | 5:06 |
| 11. | "Stay the Night" | Cetera/Foster | Chicago 17, 1984 | 3:48 |
| 12. | "We Can Stop the Hurtin'" | Lamm/Bill Champlin/Deborah Neal | Chicago 17 | 4:11 |
| 13. | "Hard Habit to Break" | Steve Kipner/Jon Parker | Chicago 17 | 4:43 |
| 14. | "Along Comes a Woman" (Single version) | Cetera/Mark Goldenberg | Chicago 17 | 3:46 |
| 15. | "You're the Inspiration" | Cetera/Foster | Chicago 17 | 3:48 |
| 16. | "Good for Nothing" | Lamm/Foster/Richard Marx | We Are the World, 1985 | 3:38 |
| 17. | "If She Would Have Been Faithful..." | Kipner/Randy Goodrum | Chicago 18, 1986 | 3:51 |
| 18. | "Forever" | Lamm/Bill Gable | Chicago 18 | 5:17 |
| 19. | "Will You Still Love Me?" (Single version) | Foster/Tom Keane/Richard Baskin | Chicago 18 | 4:11 |
| 20. | "Niagara Falls" | Kipner/Bobby Caldwell | Chicago 18 | 3:42 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Heart in Pieces" | Tim Feehan/Brian MacLeod/Diane Warren | Chicago 19, 1988 | 5:04 |
| 2. | "Look Away" | Diane Warren | Chicago 19 | 3:59 |
| 3. | "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" | Jason Scheff/Chas Sandford/Bobby Caldwell | Chicago 19 | 4:19 |
| 4. | "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" | Warren/Albert Hammond | Chicago 19 | 3:55 |
| 5. | "We Can Last Forever" | Scheff/John Dexter | Chicago 19 | 3:45 |
| 6. | "You're Not Alone" (Single version) | Jim Scott | Chicago 19 | 3:56 |
| 7. | "Hearts in Trouble" | Champlin/Dennis Matkowsky/Kevin Dukes | Days of Thunder soundtrack, 1990 | 4:01 |
| 8. | "Only Time Can Heal the Wounded" | Lamm/Gerard McMahon | Twenty 1, 1991 | 4:43 |
| 9. | "You Come to My Senses" | Billy Steinberg/Tom Kelly | Twenty 1 | 3:49 |
| 10. | "God Save the Queen" | Pankow/Scheff | Twenty 1 | 4:19 |
| 11. | "Chasin' the Wind" | Warren | Twenty 1 | 4:18 |
| 12. | "All the Years" | Lamm/Bruce Gaitsch | Previously unreleased, 2003; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus, 2008 (originally recorded in 1993) | 4:16 |
| 13. | "Stone of Sisyphus" | Dawayne Bailey/Loughnane | Previously unreleased; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus | 4:12 |
| 14. | "Bigger Than Elvis" | Scheff/Peter Wolf/Ima Wolf | Previously unreleased; later released as a part of Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus | 4:31 |
| 15. | "Caravan" | Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Juan Tizol | Night & Day: Big Band, 1995 | 3:23 |
| 16. | "Here in My Heart" | Glen Ballard/James Newton Howard | The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997, 1997 | 4:15 |
| 17. | "The Only One" (Single version) | Pankow/Greg O'Connor | The Heart of Chicago 1967–1997 | 4:38 |
| 18. | "All Roads Lead to You" | Marc Beeson/Desmond Child | The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II, 1998 | 4:20 |
| 19. | "Show Me a Sign" | Pankow/Greg O'Connor | The Heart of Chicago 1967–1998 Volume II | 3:35 |
Disc 6: DVD
editFeatures live material from 1972 and promotional videos for Chicago 13 in 1979.
- Dawayne Bailey - electric guitar, lead & background vocals
- Peter Cetera - electric bass, lead & background vocals, acoustic guitar
- Bill Champlin - keyboards, lead & background vocals, guitar
- Donnie Dacus - guitar, lead & background vocals
- Laudir de Oliveira– congas, percussion, background vocals
- Bruce Gaitsch - guitar
- Keith Howland - guitar, background vocals
- Tris Imboden - drums, harmonica
- Terry Kath - guitar, lead & background vocals, bass, percussion
- Robert Lamm - piano, keyboards, percussion, lead & background vocals
- Lee Loughnane - trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, background vocals
- James Pankow - trombone, percussion, background vocals
- Walter Parazaider - saxophone, flute, woodwinds, percussion, background vocals
- Chris Pinnick - guitar
- Jason Scheff - bass, lead & background vocals
- Danny Seraphine - drums, drum programming, percussion, background vocals
References
editThis article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2013) |
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. Chicago: The Box - Chicago | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic at AllMusic
- ^ The Box (Media notes). Chicago. Rhino Records. 2003.
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