# This is sort of a poll. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506 "2009-07-09T23:22:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/21 "2009-07-10T11:35:40Z")
I want to hear from \*\*Biffy \*\*about his Beatles collection; and I wish \*\*fishbicycle \*\*was a regular poster still - he had a massive collection of the Fabs, too. As for me - well, I don’t have many CD’s - a few hundred? Maybe 1,000? I have 5 or 6 from a bunch of folks, from Beatles and Stones to Muddy Waters, Joe Jackson, Roxy Music, Sheryl Crow, etc. But I suppose the artist I actually have the most of is \*\*Miles Davis \*\*- not sure how; just happened that way. But I love everything I have, from Birth of the Cool, through Relaxin’, Steamin’ and Kind of Blue & Sketches of Spain (Bill Evans!!), the 60’s group with Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock, up through A Tribute to Jack Jackson. Just the Picasso of Jazz. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/22 "2009-07-10T12:12:28Z")
A quick look shows 27 Jethro Tull albums 24 Tom Waits 23 Chieftans 12 Leonard Cohen and something like 30 Bob Marley albums! This surprised me but I bought a big stack at a garage sale that I forgot about. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/23 "2009-07-10T13:41:22Z")
Led Zeppelin has seen my wallet open the most. All their albums, but also everything first in 8 track and then cassette and now cds. Then there are the box sets, remastered sets, the BBC sessions, etc. Bought an awful lot of Plant’s stuff too over the years. To a slightly lesser degree I’ve done with the Stones what I did with Zep. Same with ZZ Top. Multiple versions of everything, only they simply weren’t quite so prolific. Probably have 90% of the Beatle original releases. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/24 "2009-07-10T14:27:35Z")
Electric Light Orchestra. I’ve got every studio album, on both vinyl and CD, and, in most cases, two different CDs, since they’ve reissued most of the CDs, with additional tracks, over the past few years. Queen. Had everything from their beginning to about 1985 or so on vinyl, and bought CDs to replace most of that. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/25 "2009-07-10T14:28:38Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I want to hear from \*\*Biffy \*\*about his Beatles collection My Beatles collection isn’t particularly impressive. Now **Frank Zappa** , on the other hand, takes up a hell of a lot of shelf space, with about 200 CDs, plus a boatload of LPs, singles, and cassettes. **King Crimson** would be next. The basic discography isn’t huge, but add in the 40 Collector’s Club releases and dozens of DGM Live download CDs, and the CD total must be well over 100. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/26 "2009-07-10T16:16:15Z")
1. Richard Thompson 2. Beatles 3. Steeleye Span ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/27 "2009-07-10T16:43:22Z")
These are only estimates since my cd collection is scattered everywhere: John Zorn – I bought everything that he released for a while, including all the Naked City, Masada, game theory pieces, Filmworks, etc., until 2003 or so. I now buy one or two every now and again, but I checked recently and there had been 27 releases since I stopped buying everything that I didn’t have. I probably have 40 Zorn-related cds. Bjork – While she only has, umm, 6 or 7 studio albums, there is also the three with the Sugarcubes (plus the best-of), the two with Kukl, all of her concert and music video DVDs, and all the greatest hits and other repackaging things I have bought by her. Ennio Morricone – I bought maybe 15 or so actual soundtrack albums with him as the composer, but I have bought at least double that many Morricone compilations that span his entire career. Eric Dolphy – I think I have everything that has been commercially released with him as a player, but I have no clue how to be sure of that. There’s only a limited number of albums where he was the leader, but then there’s the stuff with Coltrane, Ornette, etc. I bought a 9-disc compilation that I thought had filled in all the holes from the dozen or so others I had bought singly, and he’s actually been dead since I’ve been buying so I’m not helping him out any. Kronos Quartet – They have a lot of releases, and I haven’t kept up lately (there’s something new called Floodplains which I hadn’t heard of until just now), but I have at least 20 releases by them. Swizz Beatz – He’s a rap producer who only has two albums to his name, but I bought pretty much every release by every rapper where Swizz had produced more than two songs on it. Which is a lot – I can’t figure out how many, but it definitely rivals at least the number of Bjork albums I have. I think those are the heaviest hitters in my collection. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/28 "2009-07-10T17:43:53Z")
Put me down for having spent far too much on Electric Light Orchestra and various Windham Hill albums, too, over the years. Also the Alan Parsons Project, Styx, Steve Winwood, Asia, the Moody Blues and Chicago. Yes, I grew up in the Seventies. So sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/29 "2009-07-10T18:07:39Z")
I bought every studio album from Pink Floyd on tape, plus Works (just for Embryo!), and Relics. Then, the Syd Barrett box collection was only available in the States on CD, so I bought my first CD player specifically to be able to hear it (and bought the box set without having a CD player.) Also in CD format I’ve bought the Shine On box set as well as Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Obscured by Clouds, and Ummagumma. So basically I’ve bought everything the Floyd have put out nearly twice if you count tape and CD. (Not counting Crazy Diamond, Amused to Death, On an Island or About Face.) W/R/T Costello: I’ve also bought the This Years Model CD 3 times, but not due to the bonus tracks (although I like them all too.) It’s the only CD that’s ever broken on me, and it’s broken twice. But the second two times were from used CD stores so they don’t really count toward supporting an artist, although the fact that I’ve seen him twice in concert does count. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/30 "2009-07-10T18:17:05Z")
Rush. I’ve got all of their studio albums and all but one of their live albums, so 24 total, plus Geddy’s solo album and Alex’s side project, _Victor_. Oh, and I’ve got some Rush on vinyl too. After that, I think it’s Zeppelin with 10, then STP, The White Stripes, Incubus, and Pixies with 6 each. 7 for STP counting Scott Weiland’s 12 Bar Blues. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/31 "2009-07-10T18:21:57Z")
For actual CDs, it looks like a three-way tie among the Beatles, R.E.M. and James Taylor at 12 each. Between John Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes and solo, I’m sure I have more than 12 Clapton Cds. The most music I have by one artist is Bruce Springsteen. My brother is a fanatic, and I loaded all of his Springsteen from his external hard-drive to my MP3 player. 413 Springsteen songs! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/32 "2009-07-10T18:24:02Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > John Zorn – I bought everything that he released for a while, including all the Naked City, Masada, game theory pieces, Filmworks, etc., until 2003 or so. I now buy one or two every now and again, but I checked recently and there had been 27 releases since I stopped buying everything that I didn’t have. Seems like he puts out about 27 releases in a _year_. I’ve got at least 95 of his–and that’s counting the Naked City and Parachute Years box sets as single items–and my collection is _far_ from complete. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/33 "2009-07-10T21:30:49Z")
Probably _Tom Waits_, _Bad Religion_, or _Yoko Kanno_. Hard to say off the top of my head, since so many of my favorite artists haven’t been that prolific (e.g. Toenut, who released exactly one full album before their bass player was killed in a car crash). ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/34 "2009-07-10T21:55:04Z")
I’ve personally contributed quite a bit to the rock and roll lifestyles of Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Steven Patrick Morrissey, and one Jarvis Cocker. It goes without saying that I own all officially released studio and live albums. With the Cure and Morrissey, I own nearly every single released on CD as well. Morrissey has been in the nasty habit lately of releasing 2 CD singles and one 7-inch for every single, and putting different unreleased b-sides on each one. Evil man. That means for now, in 2009 for God’s sake, there are several Morrissey b-sides from 2008 that are only available on 7-inch vinyl! I don’t even own a record player, but I still purchase the 7-inches with the idea of eventually getting one. Speaking of evilness, both the Cure and Pulp re-released their 90s albums in remastered 2CD versions with unreleased demos and material on the second disk, so I had to re-purchase all those albums as well. That’s not even mentioning the 4CD Cure box set released 10 years ago that I thought would have been inclusive, but they keep dredging up more stuff. I also purchased Cure cassette tapes back in the 90s that I already had the CD for, because there was extra material on the b-side of the tape that wouldn’t fit on the CD release. So yeah, Robert Smith probably filled up his champagne jacuzzi with my contributions. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/35 "2009-07-10T22:03:48Z")
I’ll stick with what’s in the double digits: [ul] [li]15 by Therion: Everything but the most recent live album. Since I have the studio versions of every song on it, I just don’t see a reason to pick it up.[/li][li]14 by Ulver: That includes everything but their very first, very hard-to-find demo and the best of album that’s just remixes by other people.[/li][li]12 by Megadeth: All the studio albums. When they’re good, they’re good.[/li][li]11 by Lacrimosa: All the studio albums plus one live album.[/li][li]11 by Talking Heads: That’s eight studio albums, both live albums and a double disc compilation. I don’t know of anything else out there.[/li][li]10 by Metallica: All the studio albums plus _S&M_.[/li][li]10 by Dream Theater: All the studio albums except the first and no live albums.[/li][/ul] After that it drops off pretty quickly. There are a number of artists whose entire discography I own, but if that’s only four or five CDs, I don’t see a point in listing it. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/36 "2009-07-10T22:34:11Z")
Well, there’s this one band. I have every studio release, every official live release, every “fan-club members only” concert special release, every fan-club bonus compilation disc, every mass market and fan club DVD, as well as band-okayed bootleg discs of about half the concerts I actually attended (roughly 20 of 40). Plus random live songs from random shows. My collection takes up significant space in my house and on my computer. I hesitate to even mention their name, such is the revulsion with which many Dopers greet them. But you can probably figure it out from my posting history and my user name. If I haven’t made them rich, I’ve certainly tried my best. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/37 "2009-07-10T23:59:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, I grew up in the Seventies. So sue me. You and me both. I’ve got more than a few albums by every artist you mentioned. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/38 "2009-07-11T00:17:20Z")
Miles Davis and Frank Zappa, at 30+ albums each. That’s a guess, because everything’s in storage right now - I just played ‘Got it, need it’ with their discographies on Wiki. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/39 "2009-07-11T00:30:35Z")
I appear to have 27 albums/EPs by The Fall. Shit, only half their stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506/40 "2009-07-11T02:34:58Z")
Peter Gabriel, especially if you count his releases with Genesis: From Genesis to Revelation Trespass x2 Nursery Cryme x2 Foxtrot x2 Genesis Live Selling England By the Pound x2 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway x2 Archive 1967-1975 PG1 x2 PG2 x2 PG3 x2, plus German-language version Security x2, plus German-language version Birdy x2 Plays Live, plus Plays Live Highlights So x3 Sledgehammer Big Time Passion x2 Shaking the Tree x2 Us x3 Digging in the Dirt x2 Secret World Live, plus the DVD Xplora1 CD-ROM EVE CD-ROM OVO Long Walk Home Up Barry Williams Show More Than This DVD Growing Up official bootleg Hit Big Blue Ball Virtuosity OST City of Angles OST Play DVD Growing Up Live DVD Still Growing Up DVD Growing Up On Tour DVD …I think that’s it. So about 60 items, more or less. I didn’t even realise the extent of it, 'til I just typed it out! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-sort-of-a-poll/502506.md?page=3)