Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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! |
@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. |
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 |
Miguel Bosé , Sandie Shaw, Nils Petter Molvaer, Zucchero, Angelo Branduardi, Gilbert Becaud, Charles Aznavour, Moby, Michel Rabbia, Dusty Springfield, France Gall, Michel Berger, Sarah Brightman, T. Tikaram, Eros Ramazzotti, Madonna, Celine Dion, Abba, José Feliciano, Sting,Queen, Jacques Brel, Armand Amar, Elvis Costello, Laurent Voulzy,,U2,Simple Minds, Patricia Kaas, Neil Diamond, Vangelis, Chris Rea,Ray Charles, Patty Labelle, Mari Boine, Gary Numan,Sparks, Ana Belen, Dead can dance,Kari Bremnes, Yello, Julio Iglesias, Nana Mouskouri, A-ha, Morrissey and the Smits, Faithless, ( all the cd’s of them), and many others... |
I currently have 53 albums, cd’s from Golden Earring or from the individuals in the band doing solo work or with other artists, they have been together for over 50 years and are still performing and have bookings for the next year.The bass player and lead guitarist have been together since at least 1962 when they were in high school.Here in the U.S. they only know of or play 2 songs Radar Love, and Twilight Zone (which was originally called when the bullet hits the bone) the record label made them change the songs title. |
You jokers have lured me into measuring the width of the shelf space occupied by the artists who most dominate my collection. Box sets get undeserved bonuses thanks to the extra width contributed by the box itself. LPs only! I ain't gonna try and sort through the CDs. And I certainly ain't gonna' actually count anything... Mozart -- 11", Beethoven -- 7 3/4", Mahler -- 6 1/2", Bach -- 4 1/2", Bowie -- 4 1/2", Elvis Costello -- 4", Doors -- 4", Schubert -- 3 1/2", Tchaikovsky -- 3 1/2", Genesis -- 3 1/2", Haydn -- 3 1/2", Puccini -- 3 1/4", Bartok -- 3", Springsteen -- 2 1/2", Sinatra -- 2", Various movie soundtracks and musicals -- 9". |
"The question at hand is, does any one of you have more than 48 albums by any one artist, be it an individual, band or composer. " A few artists. Most importantly, The [Mighty] Fall. The post-punk Manchester band fronted by the strange character Mark S. Smith. I add Sun Ra too the list - one can never have enough Ra. Miles Davis and Bill Evans are close seconds. I am gaining ground with Art Pepper (after recently acquiring his incredible late-period Galaxy box set). His auto-biography (transcribed and co-written by his wife Laurie Pepper) "Straight Life" is fascinating - even for non jazz fans. I started out collecting rock music focusing on Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and other blues-based rock bands focusing on ROIO materials. I happened upon the Archive.Org Grateful Dead collection before Bobby and the lawyers took down all the fantastic soundboards. Burnt them all to CD and made custom covers. |
Ron Carter has appeared on 2,221 recording sessions. For jazz enthusiasts, you could have more recordings with Ron on them than any other musician in your collection and not even realize it ;-)Sly n Robbie Their rhythms have been the driving force behind innumerable songs -- one statistician estimated that together they’ve played on approximately 200,000 tracks, and that doesn’t count remixes, versions, and dubs. As a production team, they were the equivalent of a creative storm, the cutting edge of modern dub, ragga, and dancehall. Classic Sly & Robbie....(Drum n Bass) |
Grateful Dead by a country mile. I bought the 73-CD Europe 72 Box Set. I own probably 400 GD CD's. Out of a collection of about 1000 CD's in total. All I need to do now is to digitize the entire collection so that I can choose the best version of each song, like Cold Rain & Snow, or any other great GD song, and make the ultimate playlist. My latest favorite is the Dave's Picks #29 San Bernardino 2/26/77 release-- in my view among the best shows of all-time, along the May 1977 shows and of course others from 1971 and '72. Sound quality of San Bernardino is fantastic. Like being there. |
