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Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer
I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.
Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.
Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.
Mike
Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.
Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.
Mike
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Glupson, are you counting the Stones solo efforts in your 47 albums. I'm only aware of 31 of their recordings including stuff like Jammin' with Edward, The Chicago (blues) Bootleg album and the BBC album other than the major label issues. I do have the solo Bill Wyman album too. What else is there? Never cared much for Exiles either, that the critics all seem to favor. Nice Dylan collection too. Don't have much of his later stuff. Fred60, outstanding Dead collection you have there. You need to meet my Deadhead brother. He's seen the Dead lots of times and went so far as to move to San Francisco from New York in his wayward youth. .Now that's a Deadhead for you. The first Live Dead album is one of my all time favorites, but I've only only all the major label issues. At 400 Grateful CD's you're in second place only behind Schubert on this post Biscorbit, The Disco Biscuits? What is that? Edcyn, eleven inches of Mozart LP's should be about about 66 albums, which is nothing to sneeze about. Tomcy6, Not too many of the '60's rock guys are still crankin' them out anymore as you say. Van Morrison certainly, and Neil Young come to mind. I gave up on trying to keep up with Van Morrison at 23 albums in 1989, other than getting the second Them album, "Them Again" last year. New Hendrix albums still seem to appear every so often too, no matter how long he's been gone. If you like Roxy Music from a bit later on you can't keep up with albums from their alumni either. Brian Eno especially has put out tons of records and continues to do so, not to mention Phil Manzanera, or to a lesser degree Brian Ferry. Nice to be in the company of so many fellow music lovers and collectors. I don't feel quite so obsessive now. Mike |
@mitchagain, shore do Mitch. Thanks for the reminder, it’s playing right now. SO cool! When Crowell came to L.A. to promote his The Houston Kid album (one of my all-time faves, a great, great album) he had Steuart playing guitar for him. Never before seen his name spelled that way! The Roxy on Sunset was filled with other artists---Dave Alvin was watching Steuart play from a few tables away from me. Just as superior movies start with a good script, superior (Pop) music starts with good songs. At least, that’s the way I feel about it. And Rodney’s amongst the very best. A pretty fair singer as well, and great taste in musicians. |
More Jazz: Miles Davis Thelonius Monk Charles Mingus Sonny Stitt Wayne Shorter Herbie Hancock Pat Metheny John McLaughlin Larry Coryell Peter Erskine Weather Report Steps Ahead Yellowjackets Tom Harrell Steve Khan Eddie Daniels Dave Douglas Stanley Turrentine McCoy Tyner Terrence Blanchard Roy Hargrove Eric Alexander Harold Mabern Eric Dolphy Hal Galper But then I love all kinds of music - this is just the jazz part - and incomplete at that! |
ZAPPA. I have more than 70 Zappa and a few related LPs. (Flo and Eddie, grandmothers of invention....) Zappa released +/-100 albums before he passed. The family has released a lot more since then. I have more than one copy of walkajawaka, uncle meat, orchestral favorites, 200 Motels and my favorite, Sleep Dirt. I bought Freak Out in 1968 from the cut-out-bin when I worked at JC Penney. I was just 18 yrs old. It was $3.88, a lot of cash when min pay was $1.00. It's mono - no longer playable but I still have it. I had a portable record player. I would lie on the floor and put the speakers next to my ears and Blast. What... Ugh, I can't hear you? Why do you think I got the nickname Bent? |
Another Grateful Dead entry here. I've got all of the Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, miscellaneous live releases, box sets - plus all of their other studio releases. Some of the releases aren't exactly reference level listening, since they were mastering live to cassettes in the 80's. But some of the recordings made by Owsley "Bear" Stanley in the 60's/70's, Bob & Betty Cantor in the 70's are still stunning recordings by any measure. It makes me still want to have an HDCD option via CD player or DAC, just on the off chance that it actually *does* bring a little higher level of performance on the discs that are encoded with it. The Grateful Dead might be the only band still mastering CDs with HDCD encoding. They started back in the middle of the Dick's Picks run, and have continued on. Additionally, now they also using the Plangent system to correct for tape speed variations. |
Hello, Pink Floyd Elton John Depeche Mode I know I am all over the place. I never really listened to Floyd until 2016 when my best friend let me borrow his record player and some albums. He had a 1970 something The Wall and a Mofi recording of DSOTM. I have a nice system so when I heard The Wall played all the way through I was hooked. I had to give it back to him in 2018 so I bought my own player and expect recordings of his two Floyd records. I own those two albums in so many formats and recordings. Pink Floyd got me into LPs. I’m sure others could say the same except it happened to me in 2016 when I was 46 years old. |
Wow, the Bach, Grateful Dead, and Zappa fans seem to rule the roost of completist collectors here, of those of you who have graciously listed the number of recordings you have by those artists. I wouldn't have guessed Zappa, or Bach for that matter, with not enough Classical music experience under my belt. I would have thought Miles Davis collectors would be more prevalent as there's lots of his stuff out there including live recordings. Michaellent, I'm two years younger than you and still feel $3.88 is the right price for an album. You and I listened to albums the same way too with the same equipment too. I still feel that gasoline should be no more than $1.29 a gallon at the most too. That day has come around again in some locales, so maybe the price of vinyl records will return to reality too. Folks, if you really like an artist, if you haven't already, share how many of of his or her recordings you do have, so we can properly admire you and your collecting. Mike |
skyscraper, "Glupson, are you counting the Stones solo efforts in your 47 albums."I did not count solo albums, but I did count compilations. Things I wasted money on over time. I did not even count all the LPs that duplicate CDs and SACDs (except for Exile on Main Street as I digitized different versions from vinyl). Which Bill Wyman album do you have? Well, I do have something as unusual. Bill Wyman’s 12" single of "(Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star". Heard it once in a disco. Saw it once at Princeton Record Exchange many years later. I guess it was waiting for me. I just noticed they go for 50 cents, or not much more, on discogs. Obviously not much demand. I expected there would be many Grateful Dead followers with a lots of recordings, but Frank Zappa surprised me. |
I've collected Mason Williams to a crazy extent, Now someone may say "He didn't release all that much". You'd be right! I had to search far and wide. I called up old college friends of his as well as old folk clubs. His band mates were a good source at one time. My collection stands at maybe 200 hours of his music spanning 60 plus years. Good stuff. |
Glupson, I've Bill Wyman's first solo album, Monkey Grip on vinyl from when it came out in 1974. Don't think I've played it since, so I'll give it a spin tonight. It's got Lowell George, Leon Russell and Dr..John on it. Never heard that (Si Si) one you have. He was fairly prolific though. Zamfir and Slim Whitman, odd bedfellows. Jnovak, 200 hours of recordings of a not so prolific artist like Mason Williams is some impressive collecting. I've a bunch of obscure recordings by Mike Bloomfield from his banner years, before he get drugged out, that took some effort to collect, so I appreciate your effort in finding what you have. Mike |
skyscraper, If you are the Rolling Stones fan and you have never heard "(Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star", you have not missed that much. It is as far from Let It Bleed as, I do not know what really. Maybe Giorgio Moroder? Still, if you have nothing to do, it may be a worthwhile novelty. Talk about being a completist, it gets you up there for a few dollars. Of course, you have to get 12" version, which is a dance one, I guess. But, they are from around $3. Also, his Willie and the Poor Boys was an interesting endeavour. (Charlie Watts, Chris Rea, Jimmy Page, etc.) He even published a book about the blues, Mississippi and that area, which was quite informative and nice. I would recommend it as a quick read and look. https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Wymans-Blues-Odyssey-Journey/dp/0789480468 https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Wyman-Si-Si-Je-Suis-Un-Rock-Star/release/692641 https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/6376461?ev=rb |
thecarpathian ...
Yes, and thanks for asking. My favorite was never released in stereo, so ... mono only. BUT ... the sound and performance are really good. It is the type of mono record that will have you asking ... "who needs stereo?" It’s "Jazz Impressions of The U.S.A." This looks like a good one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Jazz-LP-DAVE-BRUBECK-Jazz-Impressions-of-the-USA-Orig-6-eyes-CL-984-NM/362975912949?hash=item54830ce3f5:g:IzgAAOSwtYxeSKmq Next in line would be "Further Time Out." Here’s a promo "six-eye" stereo copy. If you look at your CD collection, you’ll find "Further Time Out" in there. :-) https://www.ebay.com/itm/DAVE-BRUBECK-QUARTET-TIME-FURTHER-OUT-COLUMBIA-6-EYE-STEREO-LP-PROMO-VG/164156367728?hash=item26387b6370:g:GvAAAOSwxzhekGtp The "Jazz at Oberlin" album is mono only and has somewhat of a compromised sound compared to the two above, however, Paul Desmond is especially inspired on the album. There are Brubeck fans out there who think it was his best effort. https://www.ebay.com/itm/VG-Dave-Brubeck-Jazz-At-Oberlin-Paul-Desmond-Fantasy-3-11-1953-Vinyl-LP-10-DG/183982407790?hash=item2ad634c06e:g:GLoAAOSwP~Fdl1PO You should look for original pressings on the Columbia label. Heavy vinyl and very good sound-wise too The Brubeck albums on the Fantasy label, in my opinion, aren’t up there with the Columbia’s sound-wise, so I would opt for the Columbia’s. Also, as a side note, it isn't Brubeck, but if you can find a stereo version of this on red vinyl, snap it up: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Conte-Candoli-All-Stars-LITTLE-BAND-BIG-JAZZ/253955509774?epid=44375329&hash=item3b20ed8e0e:g:6mwAAOSwnHZYUPxb Take care ... Frank |
Original 6-eye Columbia for "Time Out" and "Time Further Out" is obtainable because Columbia is a big label that released a lot of copies of their major stars (unlike hunting down original Blue Note). I think they both sound really good and are better than the reissues (probably an issue of the master tapes degrading a bit over time). Columbia did fantastic sounding recordings back then. When I want to show someone how little has been done in sixty years to improve the state of the art in recording, I take out an original 6-eye Ellington "Blues in Orbit" (stereo), to make my case. |
I accidentally stumbled onto the chalet way up on Red Mountain in Aspen CO where Dave Brubeck and his group occasionally practiced and hung out. They were not there at the time, only the caretaker who let us listen to the stereo system. Six or seven racing Ducati’s in the garage. The stereo system was all tube Macintosh electronics, a tall rack of it, not the usual stuff, either. Ablaze with blue. At least 4 huge Macintosh speakers the size of refrigerators and some kind of monster mid range horn, maybe JBL. Brubeck’s concert grand piano was hooked up to a digital time delay system that my brother, demonstrated. There was a bunch of Joshua Light show stuff too that we activated with some Hendrix and Get Yer Ya Yas Out, almost too long ago to remember, back in 1970. |
I can’t help wondering what FZ’s comments would have been about the current state of the world and US leadership in particular. ’Dickie’s Such An Asshole’ wouldn’t even begin to cover it....Some of you a**hats just can't contain yourself, can you? Even a simple benign thread such as this has to be politicized by radicals. Sheesh........ |
I too an am "nutty"! My top two nuttiest (all CDs at this point): Miles Davis - 65 discs John Coltrane - 53 discs Each of them would be even more had I kept their vinyl and inferior CD recordings I discarded in favor of better remastered discs. These two are by far where I've gone the deepest into Nuttyville. |
- Stravinsky (too many Rite of Springs. 28 at last count, most on vinyl. BUT I DON’T CARE!!!) - Bartok (and still don’t have a minty shaded dog Concerto for Orchestra) - Kinks (if you don’t know their work from the Banned in America phase - 1965 to1969 - and their RCA catalog in the early 70s, YOU ARE A LUCKY DOG. Go buy them all on vinyl RIGHT NOW!) |