Who dominates your music collection?

Cafe Society
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I was putting my music collection into a database, so I would have a record for insurance purposes (a friend had his 500 CD collection ripped off last week (while he was asleep in the next room), so that made me a little paranoid)…

ANYWAYS… here’s what I found out: a top eight if you will (it would have been a top ten, but there were rather large ties for 9th and 10th)

8: Steely Dan - 9 titles
7: RUSH - 10 titles
6: Jethro Tull - 11 titles
5: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 12 titles (13, if you count E,L & Powell)
4: The Beatles - 13 titles
3: King Crimson - 14 titles
2: Genesis - 20 titles

and the King of my collection:

1: Frank Zappa - 41 titles

So how about it - who dominates your collection?

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I have just about, if not, everything by:

Killing Joke
Gang of Four
Shriekback
Gary Numan
The The

But of all genres of music, my Jazz collection takes the cake. About 1/3 of my CD’s are Jazz or jazz comps.

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Frank Zappa has the most in my CD collection 63 titles

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Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Beatles
The Who
David Bowie
Steely Dan

Have to give Frank Zappa a try, I guess.

5

Rush
Queen
It would be Cowboy Mouth if they had more titles out.

6

Hendrix

The Who

Jethro Tull

Warren Zevon (have just about everything he’s done)

Neil Young (ditto)

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Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, in roughly equal amounts. If I count the Waits bootlegs he wins massively, but it feels like cheating :slight_smile:

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Bob Mould seems to be the winner in my collection with 25:

Husker Du - 10

Bob solo - 9

Sugar - 6

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Depeche Mode easily wins that title with drumroll please 85 cd’s. This includes bootlegs and different editions of the same single (i.e. Only When I Lose Myself, I have 2 American versions and one British version).

BTW, this doesn’t count Videos and DVD’s.

I thank you.

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I have the most cds by:

Tori Amos
Nirvana
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Red Hot Chili Peppers

with honorable mention to bands with too few cds:

Bush
Guster (their 4th comes out in the fall!)

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Never actually heard these guys music but I have heard they rule! For me:
Pink Floyd (19)
Iron Maiden (15)
Black Sabbath (9)
Megadeth (9)
Metallica (9)
Sentenced (8)
Slayer (7)
Sepultura (7)
Rush (7)
and of course the very versatile and multi- talented Various Artists (19).

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Andrew Lloyd Webber cast CDS–about 30 in 20 different languages.

Julian Lloyd Webber (37)

pre and post-ABBA ABBA (17)

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I have (I think) every Jimmy Buffett album ever put out, including the overseas releases.

I also own every Weird Al Yankovich album, his movie (UHF) and tapes of his TV show.

Peculiar?

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A man after my own heart. DM takes up the largest part of my collection, though not NEARLY as much as this. :slight_smile:

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I have one of those database thingies, too. Let’s see:

Blur (17)
Joy Division (16)
David Bowie (14)
Band of Holy Joy (11)
Felt (10)
Lush (9)

And a whole bunch of 8’s and below.

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Make that 300. This is my day for crappy posting.

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After seeing above I forgot about my Bowie collection (which I stopped collection on after that Blue Jean album)

Ruadh: Joy Division has 16 releases? I only know of about 4 of their records.

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Opengrave: yeah. Killing Joke is pretty cool. If you’ve not heard them you should check out the CD “Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!” it’s a good comp of their better tracks.

You might also want to avoid the albums “Brighter then a 1000 suns” and “Outside the gate”. Those were, umm, not their best work.

“Revelations” is perhaps my favourite of their albums. Lots of drums and things that go “bzzzzzz”

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Without knowing exact numbers (my collection, such as it is, is in a bit of disarray), I’d speculate:

  1. Dead Can Dance: I have all of their “official” (non-bootleg) releases, as well as the boxed set, and numerous soundtracks / compilations which were purchased solely because Lisa Gerrard performed in one or more songs. I also have all of Lisa’s, and Brendan’s single, solo albums.

  2. Black Tape for a Blue Girl: Don’t have nearly all of their albums, but I do know I have several. And, as above, numerous compilations in which they appear on one or more tracks.

  3. Delerium: Somewhere between five and eight albums. As I said, my collection is not terribly organized.

  4. They Might Be Giants: Only valid if this includes cassettes, since I have all of their older stuff on that medium. I think I’ve only got about three or four CDs (a couple of which are duplicates of the cassettes), though.

  5. Depeche Mode: Again, several cassettes, but only a few CDs. I do know I am missing a few albums, though.

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Electric Light Orchestra - 34
Tori Amos - 34
Beatles - 33
ABBA - 18
Genesis - 17
Kate Bush - 12
Blondie - 9