This is sort of a poll.

Cafe Society
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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.

22

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.

23

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.

24

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.

25

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.

26
  1. Richard Thompson
  2. Beatles
  3. Steeleye Span
27

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.

28

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.

29

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.

30

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.

31

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!

32

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.

33

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).

34

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.

35

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.

36

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.

37

You and me both. I’ve got more than a few albums by every artist you mentioned. :smiley:

38

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.

39

I appear to have 27 albums/EPs by The Fall. Shit, only half their stuff…

40

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!