I bought all of their albums

Cafe Society
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What artist have you bought all of their studio albums? You can include artist you bought all albums “since” or “until” some significant change. I have examples for what I mean.

For me:
The Cars – all seven albums
Savage Garden – both albums

The Since/until artists:
Steely Dan – the seven albums they had until they broke up in the early 80’s.
Jim Croce – the three albums since he became famous. Apparently, he had a couple of albums in the 60s that didn’t chart.
Boston – the three albums before Brad Delp left. To me they were a different group after that.

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Bonzo Dog Band – all their albums (not counting compilations)
Kak – single album
Renaissance – just the first album with the original group
Flash and the Pan – two albums

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All albums:

Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
Green Day
Captain Beyond
Steve Hillage
The Beatles (at least the canonical UK releases)
The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic
The Rutles

All albums and all singles, EPs, bootlegs, and other material I could get my hands on:

Beck (until Odelay)
The Sex Pistols
Nirvana
Monster Magnet
Sun Dial
Garbage

4

Jeb Loy Nichols solo
Jeb Loy Nichols with Fellow Travelers
(his '90s rock-reggae-folk-bluegrass-trombone band)
Jeb Loy Nichols with a Jamaican band
Jeb Loy Nichols with Ian Gomm
Jeb Loy Nichols doing moody jazzy stuff
Jeb Loy Nichols doing vocals for EDM and hiphop
Jeb Loy Nichols acoustic with his wife

Even fixed up my old turntable to play his LP-only albums. Like the 10"-er Ya Smell Me… hey, it’s on iTunes, you can listen.

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I can’t list every artist I have every bit of recorded output from; that would be hundreds of artists. They include:

Slayer
Beastie Boys
Kool Keith
Infant Annihilator
Johnny Dowd
Ohio Players
AC/DC
Radio Birdman
Minutemen

Bands that I have partials because reasons include:

Van Halen (up to the Van Hagar years)
Steely Dan (thru Aja, because that’s all they did that matters and it’s all perfect)
Frank Zappa (there’s just a shitload of stuff FFS)
The Residents (there’s just a shitload of stuff FFS)

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Back in the mid-80s I was listening to country music and ONLY country music. I snagged every CD I could, starting with the initial albums, of Clint Black, Garth Brooks, and Travis Tritt. There was no way I could get the back catalog of Hank Williams, Jr., but for about 10 years I bought everything he released.

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Wilco - I had all of their albums until the release of their live “Kicking Television” album, which I still do not own, but I have everything else, including the two Mermaid Avenue albums with Billy Bragg.

Rush - I had all of their albums through Signals, started losing interest when Grace Under Pressure came out, and didn’t buy another Rush album for 20 years. I’m slowly filling in the gaps now.

Led Zeppelin - I had all their albums at one time but some are missing now.

Genesis - I had everything up to and including the yellow “Genesis” album (including “Trespass” and “From Genesis to Revelation”).

Old 97s - everything (so far)

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Pink Floyd – up through and including A Momentary Lack of Reason, also including bootlegs and rips from BBC broadcasts etc

Alan Parsons Project – everything except Freudiana and The Sicilian Defense.

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Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Yes
Jimi Hendrix

When I was buying a lot of CDs the Beatles were always on the air, just flip the station and someone was playing a Beatles song, so I never came close to completing my Beatles.

I might be missing any Yes albums from post 2000, but that is fine.

10

Cream.

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Weird Al Yankovic
Abba
Guns 'n Roses, except for Chinese Democracy (so basically everything until the original lineup fell apart).

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That is truly a strange mix you have there.

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Bob Dylan

The Beatles

Johnny Crawford

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For bands with relatively short outputs, 5 albums or less, I have too many to list here.

For higher output bands:
Pink Floyd
Camper Van Beethoven
Primus
Love and Rockets
Garbage
Concrete Blonde

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I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I had the complete Doobie Brothers up until One Step Closer. I am more embarrassed to say that despite selling off almost all my LPs, I still do!

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Buckethead.

I kid, I kid! :smiley:

For real:

Uncle Tupelo
Wilco (new album out soon!)
Led Zepellin
Beatles

There are a lot of bands I bought all albums up to a certain point:
Metallica - Nothing after the black album
Black Sabbath - First six (I did get Dio’s Heaven and Hell)
Chris Isaak - up to Speak of the Devil
Dwight Yoakam - up to dwightyoakamacoustic.net - stupid name for an album but I love it

Many more.

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All:

Electric Light Orchestra
Yes

Most:

Queen – everything up through “A Kind of Magic.” At the time, i wasn’t a fan of what I heard from their final few albums, and never bought them.

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I collected Devo in the 1980s and into the 90s. I had the catalog of course, and all the rare singles and oddities. Foreign picture sleeves, some boots, oddball tapes, autographs, and of course an authentic Devo radiation suit.

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REM - All studio albums up to “Reveal” including “Dead Letter Office” which was their B-side compilation.

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Yeah, same here. A few of mine:

Genesis
Yes
Marillion
Dream Theater
Spock’s Beard
The Flower Kings
IQ

I’ve also got every live album, EP, b-sides collection, some bootlegs, and so on. In come cases, I’ve kept albums even if they suck (Yes’s Open Your Eyes, for instance), just to be able to say I’ve got all of their output.

I own everything by Zappa up through 1993 (The Yellow Shark). It’s somewhere around 70 albums! I also have a couple of his posthumous albums, but gave up trying to keep up with these releases a long time ago.