Whose music do you have the most of?

Cafe Society
101

I do love the fact that these days I can have more concerts on a hard drive not much bigger than a cassette than a room full of tapes! Not sure exactly how many concerts I have, but the Grateful Dead folder on my drive is close to a terabyte.

102

Flipped for me, Pink Floyd first, then Jethro Tull. PF only wins, though, because of the extra couple-dozen bootlegs. If it’s official commercial stuff, then Jethro Tull.

Honourable mentions:

  1. Nena
  2. Alice Cooper
  3. David Bowie
  4. Blue Oyster Cult
103

The Incredible String Band and Joni Mitchell used to take up the most LP shelf space, back when I had my LPs unpacked and shelved. Have no idea how many tracks or even how many albums.

104

1.) R.E.M.
2.) Pearl Jam
3.) Fleetwood Mac
4.) Tool
5.) Django Reinhardt

105

Beethoven - all the symphonies several times over, all the concerti, all the piano sonatas, all the string quartets several times over, all the violin sonatas, all the cello sonatas, most of the songs. Curiously, I don’t seem to have a copy of Fidelio…
Brahms - all the symphonies several times over, all the piano works, all the quintets/sextets, most of the songs, all the concerti.
Mozart - all the symphonies, all the quartets, all the piano concerti, all the piano sonatas, multiple copies of Figaro, Don G., Cosi and Magic Flute. Multiple copies of the Requiem.
Coltrane - everything released on a label; no bootlegs
Miles Davis - everything up to the seventies; it gets sporadic after that.

There are a few composers, such as Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Richard Wagner where it isn’t that many discs, but I have more than one copy of the complete works…

106

I heard that Webern didn’t write much music, though, and I know his pieces tend to be short. But I like them. :slight_smile: Maybe I should go about trying to listen to all of them.

107

Moby. The dude’s prolific and was good for a long time. I think he burned out completely starting with Destroyed, though. Haven’t kept up with him since that mess.

108

The complete works fits on three CDs, with a few stray works without opus number to catch up to here and there.

I just wouldn’t advise listening to more than one piece at a sitting - they’re brief, but they pack a huge wallop. Rather like a cask-strength whisky - I don’t feel any need to finish the bottle in one night. One glass at a time leads to a much deeper appreciation.

109

Dude! Ya gotta have a copy of Fidelio! Beethoven’s only opera … and while problematic in some ways contains a ton of lovely music.

Do you have both of the sets of Boulez conducting Webern? Both are worth having.

Speaking of Boulez, I think I have every commercially released recording of his music. But such a small catalog!

My Mahler collection is getting really big: multiple recordings over every symphony. But I still have slightly more Bach.

110

Webern for me is the purest distillation of 19th-century Romanticism.

Goes with whiskey rather well!

Totally worthwhile. Such lovely music.

111
  1. Bach
  2. Stones
  3. Zappa
  4. Tull
  5. Pete Seeger
  6. Coltrane
  7. Cafe Tacuba
112

I’m excluding U2 because I bought Apple’s giant exhaustive U2 collection… which turned out to be 2 songs with 200 versions each. (OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But of the 447 tracks, I only play about 50.)

Nightwish (149)
Dream Theater (141) +31 if you count side projects like Liquid Tension Experiment
Metallica (131)
John Williams (115) - Star Wars soundtracks
Howard Shore (113) - LOTR and Hobbit soundtracks
Blind Guardian (108) +27 if you count side project Demons & Wizards
Live (92)
Dark Moor (86)
Falconer (75)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (70)
Def Leppard (62)

113

When I copied my CD’s to iTunes I was surprised to find that I had more Van Morrison CD’s than anything else. I must have had a lot of money to spend on music during that time of my life. I can’t check right now but after that it has to be Paul Westerberg & The Replacements.

114

Clutch

115

Toad the Wet Sprocket
Bush
Tori Amos
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Garbage
Nirvana
Our Lady Peace
Carbon Leaf
Placebo
The Offspring

116

Check out his latest. I think it’s his best since Play.

117

In terms of tracks 252 by Ella Fitzgerald on The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books.

118
  1. Mozart - ~15 hours’ worth
  2. Ke$ha - 10 hours’ worth
  3. Tom Petty - 6 albums
  4. Eminem - 5 albums plus some songs where he’s a featured performer
119

The Beatles. Whoever is in second is a distant second. I have so many versions of the same album, or even the same song (counting live versions, alternate takes, etc.), it’s ridiculous. Not that I’m complaining.

120

The Residents
Frank Zappa / MOI
Joni Mitchell
Black Sabbath