What’s better than waking up Christmas morning to find a box set or two from your favorite bands under the tree.

Here are some gift suggestions for the rock fan on your Christmas list.

The Pink Floyd “Discovery Box” It contains all fourteen of Pink Floyd’s studio albums, plus a 60-page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson, the artist who did so many of their spacey album covers.

Queen celebrates their 40^th anniversary with 3 separate box sets, each featuring  5 Queen albums. The first covers their debut in 1973 thru their peak in 1976 with “A Day at the Races.”The next picks up with 1977’s “News of the World” through 1982’s “Hot Space.” And the third box covers the years 1984 through Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991 and finishes with the posthumous release, 1995’s “Made in Heaven” All three boxes also feature rarities and a bonus poster.

Billy Joel “The Complete Albums Collection” This comprehensive collection features brand new deluxe remasters of every Billy Joel studio album, including his classical disc 2001’s Fantasies & Delusions as well as a bonus CD with 17 rare and non-album recordings. That’s 14 discs in total as well as two 60-page booklets with lyrics and photos from every decade of Billy’s career. And here’s a little extra treat, if you order between now and December 31, 2011 you may receive one of the random Billy autographed copies.

Nirvana’s “Nevermind 20^th Anniversary Box Set”  This set gives you four CDs, including the original one, plus a sessions disc, an alternate mixes disc and a live one.

Pearl Jam’s “Vs. and Vitalogy” box set features remastered versions of those seminal albums as well as a live show recorded at The Orpheum in Boston in 1994.

For super fans only (and only available at peartjam.com) The super deluxe version of this box includes:   3 compact discs: A remastered version of VS featuring 3 bonus tracks, a remastered version of Vitalogy featuring 3 bonus tracks and the legendary live show from the Orpheum Theater.  

 Five 180-gram audiophile vinyl LPs- The remastered single LP version of VS, the remastered double LP version of Vitalogy, and the double LP version of The Orpheum Theater show.

Plus a mix tape cassette from the January 1995 Self Pollution Radio Broadcast, an 80-page composition book filled with photos, drawings and artwork by Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament, and a glassine envelope containing a collection of VS- and Vitalogy- era memorabilia including beautiful lithographs of each band member, postcards, posters and much more. 

Whew! That’s a whole lotta Pearl Jam right there.