Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer
R.E.M., Led Zep, U2, Replacements-w/ Paul Westerberg solo and spinoffs, The Who, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker- all David Lowery, Tom Petty with and without the Heartbreakers, Crowded House- w/ Neil Finn solo and with brother, Beatles, Soundgarden/Audioslave-Chris Cornell solo, Paul Simon Whats interesting to me is that the only artist I have a complete album collection of is R.E.M. ---even the clunkers, cause lets face it, all artists release some crap that collects dust. And the other surprise as I went through my collection is that the Stones didn't make the cut. |
Between CDs, SACDs and albums - I have over 200 Bob Dylan pieces. Every single official release (sans maybe a few recent compilations) including studio, live and all the bootleg series sets. My favorite album is "Blood on the tracks." I've seen him in concert 14 times as well. In second place is Queen (my favorite band of all time) with 130+ pieces combined. My favorite albums are "The Works" (that's when I fell in love with Queen at age 8), "The Miracle" (the first Queen CD I owned) and of course "A Night At The Opera. |
Interesting subject since I just recently finished archiving proper releases in my collection to Discogs. Guided by Voices / Robert Pollard is by far the most densely populated. The collection, including all of Pollard's side projects accounts for a total of more than 300 pieces. There are 150 lp's (several double & triple) 1 - 5 lp box set, 38 - cd's, 5 - 4 cd box sets, 5 cassette tapes. Not yet archived are +100 bootlegs / live recordings, 10 test pressings & +10 - 7" single/ep It's safe to say I have the GeebeeVeebees! A distant second is Led Zeppelin at 83 pieces - mostly bootleg lp's. |
Jafant, I’m jealous. There can be no happy listening now, knowing you have all the Coltrane and Davis albums and I don’t. I’ll not rest until I’ve achieved that same goal. I do have all the Beatles, and all but the last couple of Rolling Stones releases though, so I’m keeping pace with you there at least. yyman, that’s an impressive Dylan collection you’ve got going. When I was going to school at SUNY at New Paltz, we didn’t live that far from Woodstock, where he was with the Band at Big Pink. There was one record store in town that carried lots of his bootlegs in white jackets in a box below the legitimate records being sold. I wish now I’d the foresight to have gotten a few of those. Probably some rare material. Doni could you recommend a couple of Richard Thomas solo outings you prefer, that showcase his guitar playing? I do have some of the Fairport Convention and Shoot Out the Lights, but no much more and none of his solo work. lwal, good luck with trying to get the entire Dead catalog including all the bootlegs. That’s a true bottomless pit. Van Morrison is a deep pit too, and he's still digging it deeper. Which two Van Morrison albums are you missing? Jssmith, never heard of Buckethead and don’t know how I could have missed someone with 270 albums to his name. I’m listening to him on youtube right this moment since you brought him up, Mike |
The Allman Brothers Band Most of the commercially available recordings on CD and Vinyl as well as instant live recordings of the shows I attended purchased at the Beacon. Crazy thing is that even though I own all of these recordings, I now listen almost exclusively in all of my systems by streaming these same albums via Tidal into Bluesound Node 2i players. |
What a great thread. I cannot believe the variety of music that some of you own. the range is inspiring. I too thank all of you for selling your cd collections. I am totally cd oriented except for using Sonos/Spotify at work. At home it is totally mindful listening, lights out, and the Thiel 3.7's and entire PS Audio gear going full blast. To answer the original question, it is Beethoven, Mahler, Richard Thompson, and Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits and Emmy Lou |
Doni, thank you. I will get those. Danvignau, How many of those Tull albums did your friend count up? I do like Jethro Tull and saw them on their US Aqualung Tour in the early ’70’s. A great show. Orthomead, I can’t imagine what Beatles material you must have in that impressive collection. I’m only aware of the seventeen USA issue studio albums which I’ve all of, plus the Star Club, Hollywood Bowl and BBC albums, which I don’t. I guess if you include their solo albums that would bring the total up some more, but not nearly to 162 albums. You too Lenmc2964. Mike |
@skyscraper, if you're looking for some Richard Thompson releases that feature good guitar playing, I recommend that you seek out some of his "officially sanctioned bootlegs," such as: "Duck Napped;" "More Guitar" or "Semi - Detached Mock Tudor." These came out 15+ years ago, so you'll have to find used copies somewhere; but, they are well worth the effort! |
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (a sound that is slowly disappearing from the world), and the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra (a sound that has long since disappeared from the world). We won't hear their like again. Ditto for the old Soviet-era Russian orchestras. These groups typified a more colorful, organic style of playing that modern internationalized and standardized conservatory training has just about eradicated. I sorely miss those sounds, and try to collect every decent example of them ever recorded....which has been a huge but enjoyable pastime of mine for decades. |
Zappa for me as well. Tostadounitos and Richmos, I do love that particular Zappa band, but I love them all (like my kids I guess?). The relative sloppiness of Bongo Fury (with Frank flubbing the beginning of "The Muffin Man" and Captain Beefheart, ... just being Captain Beefheart, has never kept me from enjoying the album, especially the closing line. And picking a favorite band means I'd have to skip some singularly great players (Vai, Bozzio, Chester, etc.). One of the things I love about Frank is how much the personalities/talents of the band infected the music, despite Frank's singular vision and reportedly iron grip. I'm thinking not only of Bongo Fury, but also Live at the Filmore/Just Another Band with Flo and Eddie, Live in NY with Don Pardo and Bozzio's flourishes, and anything with the Ikettes singing back up. I do so miss him -- now, especially. |
Is there ever such a thing as TOO many albums to own?... Hunting vinyl has been a passion since I was 13 and had to fight my mother for ownership. (Not as bad as it sounds, but it was still an event.) I don't have actual counts, but Miles Davis >30 Bill Evans >40 Duke Ellington around 50± There's no such thing as too much Duke! |
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stttt....listening to Cold on the Shoulder now... VAN MORRISON |
Mitchagain, thanks for the additional Richard Thompson recommendations. And thanks to you all you who along with identifying them, have listed approximately how many albums you have of your favorite artists. I’m sure many of us had no idea there were so many releases by some artists, including bootlegs. And you’ve got to appreciate how assiduously some of you must have sought them out to acquire such terrific collections. It’s interesting too the variety of musical tastes reflected by the serious collectors among you. Mike |
I don't collect, I buy (bought) to listen and pass on to my sons, so what's exiting the brain .... nearly all albums of Dylan, Stones, Beatles, Ani DiFranco, Oscar Peterson, Terrance Blanchard, Cassandra Wilson, Van Morrison, Billy Joel, Kate Wolf, Eva Cassady, James Taylor, Patty Griffin, Nora Jones, Nancy Wilson, omg, Well, then I got into Reel to Reel, (acquired content limited by the end of production 1980's), stopped buying CD's, then back to/upgraded Turntable, buying some new but mostly cleaning my existing LP stock, so I don't own or even know about the current output of favorite artists. Minor streaming, but to find new artists primarily using Pandora 'stations' feature. |
Elliotbenewcombjr, I’m with you Elliot, I buy to listen to artists. When I find an artist I really like though, I keep going until I find everything of his or her’s you could hope was good. That takes a bit of time with artists who were more prolific. With finite resources like most of us, sometimes I feel when buying CD’s I might be overdoing it on the collecting side, and missing out on buying new or different genres, or artists material. I suppose I should just win the lottery, then spend indiscriminately on CD’s. Mike |
Three pages of comments and not one fan of Alison Krauss and Union Station? I understand that with only 14 studio albums plus numerous joint ventures they don't fit the O.P,'s criteria of 43+ but still. 12 million albums sold and 27 grammy awards you would think she would have a few fans. FWIW, she has assembled one of the tightest and most talented group of musicians I've ever seen and heard. One of the few bands that sound exactly the same on stage as on recordings. |
I like Alison Krauss, but don't have any of her records. My country and bluegrass music collection is woeful at best, except for EmmyLou Harris. I've ten of hers, including the exquisite Wrecking Ball. By the way how'd Ms Krauss win twenty-seven grammys with only fourteen albums. Fripp is great too. I've plenty of his King Crimson and post-Crimson stuff including the Eno and Bowie collaborations.. Mike |
Wfw, you’re right about there "never being enough Duke" Just played his first LP, "Masterpieces" from maybe 1950 or so, this evening. Wish I had your collection of fifty. rather than only three. Gyelsten, that is an amazing number of Sun Ra albums. I’ve been trying to expand the range of jazz artists I’ve recordings from and Sun Ra is on the list. Could you recommend a couple of your favorites to try. Thanks. Syntax, you’ve thoroughly disgraced yourself with your lack of obsessiveness, except if you only own four albums. To be fair I’ve only one Elvis myself, the Sun Sessions. Jkf011, I’ve some XTC and multitudes of Pink Floyd, but never heard of the Proclaimers. Have to look them up tomorrow as you obviously have good taste. Mike |
llg98ljk4 posts05-02-2020 9:29pm"Three pages of comments and not one fan of Alison Krauss and Union Station?" She/they are fabulous, but I think of her as Music Video, as their concerts are sooo well filmed/recorded, https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0000A02WW/ref=tmm_dvd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1588518461&sr=1-1 I put the DVD on before going to my CD's. When I stopped buying CD's, I started buying Music DVDs #1 favorite is Sophie Milman, Montreal, holy smoke is it good!!! https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Milman-Live-Montreal/dp/B001EGG5RG I do very well buying used DVD's, LP's, R2R tapes, Books on Amazon, other places. I put them in a nice binder with the paper label/info, throw the hard case away. |
