BOXED SETS/HITS Noir news is good news if you're a fan of BLACK SABBATH, whose Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath features remasters of 29 tunes by the band that Ozzy built (10/15). SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ''Dizzy'' up their 15-song best-of with a previously unreleased track (10/29). There's something about the upcoming INXS releases that makes us sweat: three reissues of the saucy Aussie rockers' best efforts (X, Kick, and Welcome to Wherever You Are), plus the 21-track The Best of INXS. The latter includes ''Tight,'' an unreleased tune recorded with the band's tragic frontman, Michael Hutchence (10/15). All the King's men and women can look forward to ELVIS 30 #1 HITS (9/24). THE ROLLING STONES are reliving their nearly four-decade rock reign with Forty Licks, two 20-track CDs. Four new cuts produced by Don Was bring the set into the present tense (10/1). The Very Best of LINDA RONSTADT spans the ''Blue Bayou'' singer's enduring career, from her fed-up ''You're No Good'' days to lite contemporary favorites like ''Somewhere Out There'' (9/24). The HERBIE HANCOCK Box, a four-CD, 39-track set, includes two discs devoted to the ''Rockit'' man's acoustic material from 1976 to 1981 (10/1). Bono & Co. recorded two new tracks -- including one from Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York -- for U2: Best of 1990-2000 (11/5). Love will tear us apart, but at least there are best-of discs from JOY DIVISION and NEW ORDER to get us through. Now that's what we call music (11/12). But if you hew to the mainstream, you'll be comforted to know that there's a new volume of NOW That's What I Call Music! (11/19). ALSO DUE Anthologies from FLEETWOOD MAC, ROBERT CRAY (10/15); the CARPENTERS (10/22); STEVIE WONDER (10/29); PARLIAMENT, BJORK (11/5); NINA SIMONE, BLUES TRAVELER (11/12).
LIVE The four-disc PHISH Live Vol. 13-18 was recorded during the jam band's Halloween shows in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1998 (10/29). The DAVE MATTHEWS BAND are using the space between albums to release a concert recording from Boulder, Colo. (11/5). BEN FOLDS Live, the first concert release by the piano man, was culled from more than 50 shows (10/8). ALSO DUE Concert CDs from NANCI GRIFFITH (9/24); ERIC CLAPTON , WILLIE NELSON, ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION (11/5); JIMI HENDRIX (11/12); FRANK SINATRA (12/17).
SOUNDTRACKS Last year, the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone disc worked up sufficient sales wizardry to garner gold status. This year, composer John Williams aims to, well, score again with HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (11/12). The release of PAID IN FULL -- about a trio of legendary 1980s Harlem drug lords -- comes more than a year after the movie's completion. Good thing the album relies on timeless tunes from the golden age of hip-hop, like Shirley Murdock's 1986 hit ''As We Lay'' (10/22). BROWN SUGAR, meanwhile, is sweet on hip-hop's present, featuring Mos Def, Blackalicious, the Roots, Mary J. Blige, and others (9/24). And Jennifer Lopez is looking to clean up with the soundtrack to her star-crossed-lovers flick, MAID IN MANHATTAN (11/26). ALSO DUE Buffy the Vampire Slayer's ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING (9/24); JACKASS THE MOVIE (10/15); THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (11/19).
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