# Whose music do you have the most of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882 "2013-01-11T18:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/81 "2013-01-14T01:34:25Z")
Radiohead (600+ tracks) Tom Waits (400+ tracks) And I actually don’t even have every major Tom Waits album. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/82 "2013-01-14T03:03:37Z")
CDs, tracks on my computer, same answer either way. Toad the Wet Sprocket. Then Bush, Tori Amos, Garbage, Nirvana, Our Lady Peace, Carbon Leaf, Placebo, The Offspring, Linkin Park, Alexz Johnson… ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/83 "2013-01-14T04:21:29Z")
By numbers of songs, my top 6 are: The Beatles (264) Bruce Springsteen (260) Peter Gabriel (114) Aretha Franklin (98) Elvis Costello (79) If you count the Abbey Road medley as one song, then Bruce would move to the top spot. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/84 "2013-01-14T04:45:04Z")
Electric Light Orchestra – 158 tracks (only one album I don’t have on CD, and thus ripped to iTunes), plus 23 tracks by Jeff Lynne Queen – 148 tracks, plus another 14 by Queen + Paul Rodgers Yes – 53 tracks (number somewhat depressed by those albums with only 3 or 4 tracks 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/85 "2013-01-14T05:09:32Z")
Frank Zappa Slayer Beastie Boys ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/86 "2013-01-14T06:41:01Z")
NOTE: These are all in number of albums/CD’s, not tracks. Frank Zappa - 117 Beatles - 18 King Crimson - 17 Genesis - 16 Mike Keneally - 13 That’s the top 5 - I have _many_ artists in the 10 albums range. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/87 "2013-01-14T09:47:00Z")
It’s a tossup between Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/88 "2013-01-14T10:31:07Z")
These are just the results from my iPod – where I generally only have a few tracks from any given artist, since I only add my favorites. Rammstein - 30 tracks Lady Gaga - 28 tracks E Nomine - 23 tracks Corvus Corax - 23 tracks Enya - 22 tracks Figures that Rammstein and Lady Gaga would top the bill, somehow. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/89 "2013-01-14T11:06:06Z")
Corvus Corax rocks, I should definitely get more of their stuff. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/90 "2013-01-14T11:38:44Z")
By number of tracks, including bootlegs and different versions of the same song: **Pink Floyd** 1042 **Bruce Springsteen** 524 **Beatles** 458 **Yes** 421 However, if it was by completeness, **Slowdive** would be at the top of the list, with 201 tracks, because I have, as far as I am aware, everything available by them, including demos, live tracks etc. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/91 "2014-01-14T22:01:21Z")
Just for the fun of it, I looked at the 500 posts I have contributed most recently and this thread was near the beginning of the list. Exactly a year old. Just curious how people’s music collection may have changed in that time. In my own case, I have not added one single recording to my collection. Over the weekend I did tidy up my YouTube Favorites list and learned that I have had at least 50 of them to be dropped due to one thing or another. I may go hunting for them again to add them back. But maybe not. Some were borderline favorites anyway. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/92 "2014-01-15T01:21:22Z")
The Art of Noise Black Eyed Peas Suicidal Tendencies Brassy ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/93 "2014-01-15T03:41:01Z")
Well, I missed this thread the first time around, but my collection hasn’t changed a lot in the last year. I’m not actually going to go count the records, but here are my probable top 5, working from memory: 1. Sonic Youth - Almost everything they’ve released, and a bootleg or two. 2. Man Or Astro-man? - Tons of stuff, including a 5" record that I had to break my old auto-return record player to play. 3. Siouxsie and the Banshees 4. The Rolling Stones 5. The Cramps ---
**Author:** ![Lydia\_Phalfav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Lydia\_Phalfav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lydia_Phalfav)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/94 "2014-01-15T03:50:47Z")
Not going to bother counting, but I’m not much of a music collector. I collect more individual songs than anything, but if an album has 2-4 good songs, then I’ll nab the whole album typically. Rush Pink Floyd Niyaz Loreena McKennitt Breaking Benjamin U2 Delerium Ozzy Adele ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/95 "2014-01-15T04:32:23Z")
Finally checked a year later, and here are my top 5 by number of songs I have from each artist (as I said, a lot of these numbers are accounted for by bootlegs): 1. Prince - 2931 songs 2. R.E.M. - 2675 songs 3. Robyn Hitchcock - 2171 songs 4. Husker Du - 1853 songs 5. The Beatles - 1466 songs ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/96 "2014-01-15T04:59:35Z")
Marvin Gaye - 27 Michael Jackson - 22 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/97 "2014-01-15T05:28:40Z")
There’s some duplication here as I have some compilation albums beside individual ones and I have both UK and US albums, but my top 5 are: The Beatles 614 Eric Clapton 531 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 355 B.B. King 243 Ray Charles 219 ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/98 "2014-01-15T06:17:15Z")
Counting up all the tracks, which includes live versions, remixes, bootlegs etc… 1. Ladytron - 220 tracks - 16hr 47min 2. Metric - 162 tracks - 11hr 10min 3. The Raveonettes - 156 tracks - 8hr 40min 4. Bjork - 147 tracks - 10hr 51min 5. Florence + the Machine - 128 tracks - 8hr 33min 6. Camera Obscura - 128 tracks - 8hr 2min ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/99 "2014-01-15T08:06:27Z")
I think I’ve added a Zappa or two since last year - but I’ve also added a few Zappa DVDs as well. I REALLY like Zappa 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/100 "2014-01-15T11:44:13Z")
Peter Hammill has, I think, 63 official cd releases including the VdGG ones; I have all of them plus all sorts of live stuff on vinyl, tape & cd. Also various odd projects he’s been involved with by Fripp, David Thomas, the Stranglers, etc. I can imagine the total number of tracks I have, including umpteen different live versions of stuff, is over 1000. After that it’s probably the Dead, although the shoebox full of bootleg tapes isn’t very likely to get played again… easily several hundred, I’m sure, on vinyl, tape and cd. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882.md?page=6)