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This isn't necessarily a measure of favourite acts. It's a combination of factors: of course you have to like them, but also they obviously have to have made lots of stuff. However keen you are on Avril, you're unlikely to have a huge collection of material by her right now. For me, I think a good few of those near the top are widely available cheaply - it's not hard to find Johnny Cash albums on market stalls, in charity shops and at car boot sales, for instance.

My calculation method: 1 for each track, 10 for album-length things with no track listing, as an attempt to count fairly - this is mostly mixes, and you might argue that they shouldn't count at all. I think #32 is the first to benefit from this method. No attempt is made to remove tracks appearing more than once, such as on the single, album and a compilation, because I can't be bothered.

1. Willie Nelson (606)
2. Fall (569)
3. Jerry Lee Lewis (462)
4. Johnny Cash (436)
5. Billie Holiday (409)
6. Elvis Costello (386)
7. Frank Sinatra (383)
8. George Jones (323)
9. James Brown (318)
10. Art Tatum (294)
11. Prince (291)
12. Merle Haggard (279)
13. Tom Waits (264)
14. Pulp (258)
15. Who (238)
16. Bob Dylan (236)
17. Tammy Wynette (235)
18. Charlie Rich (229)
19. Wedding Present (224)(and 50 by Cinerama)
20. Marvin Gaye (218)
21= Aretha Franklin (215)
21= Tom Jones (215)
23. Ivor Cutler (209)
24. Neil Young (205)(and 13 by Buffalo Springfield)
25. Curtis Mayfield (204)(and 116 by the Impressions)
26. Al Green (201)
27. Louis Prima (200)
28. Beach Boys (190)
29. Elmore James (187)
30. Rolling Stones (186)
31. Pet Shop Boys (183)
32. Chemical Brothers (181)
33= Culture (178)
33= Underworld (178)
35. Temptations (177)
36. Fatboy Slim (176)
37. Miles Davis (175)
38. Dolly Parton (174)
39. David Bowie (173)
40. Roni Size (172)
41. Orbital (171)
42. Bobby Bland (167)
43. Howlin' Wolf (166)
44= Gregory Isaacs (165)
44= Van Morrison (165)
44= Little Richard (165)
47. Madonna (160)
48. Isley Brothers (155)
49= Roy Orbison (151)
49= Lee Perry (151)

I must note that if I counted everything produced by Lee Perry he'd be in the top ten, rather than the =49th place for tracks credited to him as performer. Shame to stop a couple of tracks short of Horace Andy, the Four Tops and T. Rex, but 50 is more than ample.

In case anyone thinks I spent hours preparing this listing, I should note that all this is in a database: the listing took about 5 seconds to generate. Total tracks in the database: 55,720. 'Albums' with no tracks listed (mostly mixes): 438.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The question requires math skills that I simply do not have.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I was told there would be no math in this class.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 10 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

well, this isn't really fair- i mean an anal cunt cd might have 99 tracks, so if i had one (theoretically) it would rank higher than talk talk, of which i have 12 tracks but two cd's, and actually love and care about. classical music is gonna muck things up even more.

― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I Love Music Not Math (ILMNM)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

God, I hate to think what sort of funk I would have to be in to itemize my stuff like that.
Have you seen Alan Zweig's Vinyl, Martin?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 12 Man or Astro-man? CD's, and 9 seven inch singles by them. This is by far the most amount of music I have by anyone band. I think this would equal about 170.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure #1 is Unwound, #2 is Fugazi, #3 is Milemarker and #4 is Sonic Youth

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, a lot of the same bands and/or singers are big with me as well (Jerry Lee Lewis, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, Sinatra, Van Morrison, Miles Davis, Dylan).
I refer to them as "hand-span" artists, meaning a stack of CDs from one particular performer exceeds the distance between my thumb and little finger, extended. (And I have big hands!)
Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk are also on that list.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Lee Perry
70+ Larry Levan mixed twelves
Salsoul twelves

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

In the top 10 would be:
The Beach Boys; Alice Cooper; Poison; Smashing Pumpkins; Dinosaur Jr; Lotion; Ramones; Megadeth; Built to Spill...

I buy lots of greatest hits albums these days, and have one or two albums by loads of different musical groups.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm pretty sure the most stuff i have by one band is 808 State (12" singles, numerous CDs, cassettes and about 50 mp3s) with the Prodigy in second place (same formats range as listed above)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I'm not even going to think about doing fancypant advanced mathematicialical formulas like that, but I can say that the band I have most CDs by is King Crimson.
I think I have 18 "items" by them, one of those being the 4CD ProjeKcts box etc.
Second up is either Miles Davis or Melvins.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

All my records/CDs are in boxes due to an imminent move, but if I had to guess, I'd say the Fall and/or Miles Davis. I have sworn to sort them by letter in the new digs for the missus' sake, so maybe I'll get a better handle then.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 12 Man or Astro-man? CD's, and 9 seven inch singles by them.

Why? All their albums are virtually identical! Why would you possibly need more than one? (I have three of theirs, by the way).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In terms of number-of-proper-albums-of-theirs-I-own:

18=Miles Davis
16=Buckethead
11=Parliament and/or Funkadelic
8=Medeski Martin and Wood
8=Beck (not to mention like 10 singles)
8=Talking Heads
8=Rahsaan Roland Kirk
8=Kool Keith (prob'ly 2 at most under same name)
7=Primus-or-other-Les-Claypool-related-project
6=The Roots

If we count all Mike Patton's projects together (Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Faith No More, solo albums) then that's 13 Patton-related albums in my collecksheeyun.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

My top contenders would be Prince, The Cure, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Severed Heads, Skinny Puppy, Bjork, Massive Attack, The Prodigy and Orbital.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

And above I was obviously totally ignoring the 13 Tom Waits albums that occupy a sacred spot in my collection. D'oh!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't have the statistics and have no free time to work them out... but...

stereolab
minutemen (lot's of short songs)...
fugazi
the ex
smog
palace
lungfish
sun ra
john zorn

i'm not a completist... i prefer variety.
m.

― msp, Monday, 10 March 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I have lots o' (counting rarities & bootlegs)
Neil Young
Captain Beefheart
Bowie
Jazz Butcher
Go-Betweens
Blue Aeroplanes
..
and quite a bit o'
Lou Reed
John Cale
Lloyd Cole
Yo La Tengo
Fall
Pere Ubu

...

+ healthy doses of plenty of other shtuff..

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the misfits
minutemen/firehose
the fall
palace

― ddb, Monday, 10 March 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

XTC, James Brown, obscure rap albums from 1988

― Neudonym, Monday, 10 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the fall, the mekons, billy childish (milshakes, mighty caesers, headcots), louis prima, and homer and jethro.

― pauls00, Monday, 10 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably Stereolab and the Smiths.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually no: Cocteau Twins.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

got 23 Miles Davis cd's (counted Bitches Brew as 1, '64-68 box set as 6)
Lee Perry and King Tubby are closing in fast, however

― oops (Oops), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

John Fail is right of course - I'm sure 209 Ivor Cutler tracks take up a fraction the time the 175 Miles Davis ones do. My database does not record running length, so this is beyond me.

Since people keep saying "I prefer variety" and the like, I'll add that I have at least one track by over 8,000 different acts (another figure that took about 5 seconds to obtain).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the somewehre-in-the-vicinity-of-30-ish-something Miles Davis albums (cd's & vinyl combined, with two-fers counted as 'one item')-- prob'bly the most-represented artist in me home...

...Beefheart, REM, Can, Costello... Zorn, Transglobal Underground,Uri Caine, Natacha Atlas ...Mingus... Hugh Hopper-related stuff ...Neil Young ...not too sure 'bout the exact numbers (without goin' & countin' them (which i can't be arsed) ...& 'm prob'bly forgetting some of the more oft-sighted names on my shelves too

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince, the Beach Boys, Severed Heads, and Game Theory/Loud Family.Followed by Steely Dan & Black Flag. How disorienting! And, if allowed to call all my Go-go 12"s under the name of one artist (I think I should be allowed, for argument's sake; just about all the "bands" are broken up and consisted of the same rotating cast of musicians, for the most part), then I have more of that than anything else.

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And I also left out the 12 Fela Kuti CDs. I'm not good at this game.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

martin, what sort of database software do you use? i index artists and titles in a postgresql database, but i don't keep individual tracks. that would take a lifetime to enter and my carpal tunnel is bad enough already.

just guessing pure numbers of physical items owned (not counting mp3), richard youngs will stand atop my list. i have over 20 records or cd's that he made (usually with collaborators, but i file them all under 'Y'). and oddly enough i like them all, and i think there is something worthy about each one (and i am very anti-completist).

the mountain goats are right behind him probably. i wrote mr. darnielle once or twice when i was younger, perhaps he remembers.

― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the band with the highest ratio of Items Owned by Myself/Released Items is the Smashing Pumpkins.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

If you do percentage of the total material by a single artist. There are a bunch that I have close to 100% of released material, but just shear amount I have the most Bowie (at least 33 cds). Roxy Music (7) Spacemen 3 (7) Sun Ra (7) Low (8) Beck (7) Bjork (6) Zorn (7)

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a fairly rich and complex database that I knocked up myself, in Access. It took a few hours to create the structure and all the forms, and months to enter all the data. A vision of hell for most people of course, but I enjoyed it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got 25+ Fall releases, so I'm guessing they win. I don't think anyone is competing just yet but gimme another year and Rod Stewart might.

Such a symbolic usurping of the title that would be.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, the Fall, Sonic Youth, the Kinks, and Dolly Parton are the top with Costello the clear leader

― jillian (jillian), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I could add Merzbow (9)

"1. Willie Nelson (606)"
Hey Martin how many cds is this?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I dunno Alex, I just had this completist vibe with MOAM?, I think their sound changed alot over the years.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

That's 37 Willie Nelson albums (a box set only counts as one in that count), plus quite a few track on compilations.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the most that pop up:
atom heart, coil, talking heads, aphex twin

― adam west (adamwest), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Costello,Lou Reed, John Cale, The Who

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I have every Fall record, every Smiths record + bootlegs, all the Jandek records, and, for some reason, an unusually large number of Unwound 7"s, which, though I enjoy them, I rarely recall ever acquiring.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe REM win this for me.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

low

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i generally only have a couple of albums by each artist in my collection

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have every Barbra Streisand record. They're always at thrift shops. And there's so many of them.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Including bootlegs, Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits leave everything else standing

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown. Hands down.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

either the fall or the boredoms

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm shocked that no one has admitted to owning a thousand bootlegs of Grateful Dead/Phish/MMW/insert granola-jam band

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Funkadelic. Makes up an even larger portion of my collection if you count all the other P-Funk related releases I've got.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Spacemen 3/Spiritualized would probably be second. And then the Beach Boys.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Moby. Which is kind of sad.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I dunno Alex, I just had this completist vibe with MOAM?, I think their sound changed alot over the years.

That's cool. Lord knows I'm guilty of same when it comes to a few bands. Also, Man or Astroman? are one of THE most entertaining live shows to be seen. And....they rock furiously. Bless'em.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

They've got Tesla Coils at their shows. It's a shame Causey Way broke up.

"all the Jandek records"
Really? all of them?

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm quite proud to say yes. I actually had a printout of seth tissue's excellent site on my wall, with the discography, for a loooong time, and checked them off as i got them.

i must admit I haven't bought the last two acapella ones yet - but I will, at some point.

Ready for the house ran me $100. the rest I got fairly cheap - $15-$50 range usually. My favorite - You Walk Alone - I got for 6 dollars. Proud of that.

I also really love the first CD (i THINK it was the first) Graven Image.

And most days, I can tell them all apart! ha ha ha

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

by # of items [an album in multiple formats counting multiple times]: Midnight Oil (67), Straitjacket Fits (26), Morrissey (18), John Cale (16), Smiths (14). Lots of artists around the 6-8 mark. Oddly, I have no Smiths/Morrissey on vinyl.

― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Roger, can I be you?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:51 (twenty-three years ago)

my top artists (by number of items):

guided by voices 31 skivor
hefner 26 skivor
pulp 26 skivor
badly drawn boy 24 skivor
stereolab 21 skivor
v/vm 21 skivor
cannanes 20 skivor
jandek 19 skivor
boyracer 18 skivor
hood 18 skivor
smog 18 skivor
bis 17 skivor
idlewild 17 skivor
low 17 skivor
my bloody valentine 16 skivor
pavement 16 skivor
radiohead 16 skivor

in terms of number of songs, GbV are the clear winner by a substantial amount. Jandek and Smog trail slightly behind.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

curtis:
"all the Jandek records"
Really? all of them?

-- A Nairn

see? i was asked.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't believe i own 21 V/Vm records. excuse me whilst i throw my credit card in the shredder

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Skivor?

I have all but four of the Jandeks, a slew of Muslimgauze, a hell of a lot of Bowie and quite a few things by Prince. But probably the most individual releases, counting both CD singles and albums, would be Depeche.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

If mp3s count, it'd be Boredoms + Bore-related stuff. If not, it's probably AFX or Mike Patton-related stuff.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

skivor = swedish for record i think

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, some of you guys have WAAAYYYYYY to much free time! :)

― Davlo (Davlo), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

erm, i think you mean money. accumulating lots of records doesn't really take that much time.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Man, some of you guys have WAAAYYYYYY to much free time! :) "

The audience of this statement is ILM, so there, your beyond right.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 03:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmmmm

Mike Paradinas, The Orb and Yellow Magic Orchestra (only recently) probably are at the top. I don't tend to buy a lot of albums by a single artist. If someone's got fourteen albums or so they're also bound to have a greatest hits collection os a box set somewhere. Guess which one ends up in my stacks.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably: His Name Is Alive (without counting Defever side-projects). Runners-up: the Residents, Miles Davis, King Crimson.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 04:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Miles Davis is catching up to Bob Dylan -- somewhere around 20 releases for each (two Dylan boxes so he probably still has it.) That D section just goes on forever.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

21 VVM records??!!!??! Does that mean VVM Test Records or ny just the guys themselves? i'm half jealous and half amazed.

Do you have the Caretaker LP?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

that's 21 records just by V/Vm. I have virtually everything on VVM Test excepting the first two 12", the Caretaker CD and the Gorse CD. I've heard the Caretaker one is rather good though.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 04:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i have all 8 colours of the Snooker Loopy 7". i am officially a loser.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

the Gorse 7" is availible for download on the site. it's weird. i love the mainpal / cardiff sinclair 7" tho - amazing

have a favorite vvm release? i was the only one who liked love will tear us apart.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

difficult - "all night long (butcher all night)" is a fave, but the reprocessing of "queen is dead" from the Royal Death 7" is pretty amazing too.. of the non-hack stuff, both versions of Sometimes Good Things Happen CD have some great stuff on.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

never heard the Royal Death 7"!! is it downloadable?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

not yet i don't think. there's only 101 of them (i had to pre-order it months in advance)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck. v/vm do not get enough credit - they plunder as well as Oslwald, but more punk, ya know?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:16 (twenty-three years ago)

plus James Kirby is a really hilarious dude. always helps.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

rolling stones, sun ra, the fall, john coltrane

― duane, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

frank zappa (obviously), david bowie (also obviously), brian eno (probably obviously), rolling stones (not so obvious, but true), neil young (!)

i reckon that there's also a lot of gary numan, smiths, and kraftwerk.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

... and more bauhaus than i would ordinarily admit to

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

& billy childish if you count all his bands & solo things as being by the same entity

― duane, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah & i guess i got quite a few beatle records & bob dylan records & john lee hooker & the beach boys & neil young....i can't find all these things to count right now tho

― duane, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the math skillXors but I'm lazy.

derek bailey, cecil taylor and morton feldman would be up there i think.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The top few will be Dylan, SFA, Beasties, The Clash and perhaps Beck.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha I forgot about INSANE CLOWN POSSE)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not gonna count (in part because I'm not at home), but Pavement, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Stereolab, Guided By Voices I own too much of. I won't even mention all the side project stuff I have by these bands.

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Top three are definitely: 1. Stereolab 2. Sonic Youth 3. Pavement.

After that, probably: Jim O'Rourke, Philip Glass, Sea & Cake, High Llamas.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I own tonna obscure (and not obscure) Beck stuff, but I fell out of love with him. It depresses me looking at the B section---Beck all over with no one to care for him. ANyone want a copy of Stray Blues?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone care to draw any conclusions about me based on what I've listed?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I should note if you really do want that Beck CD it's probably best to write me at mccrabbi@isu.edu which I check a lot more often.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone care to draw any conclusions about me based on what I've listed?

Timbaland is your god.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Fivvy - buy the upcoming issue of Your Flesh - I wrote a feature about Beck that describes your (and my) feelings about the dude perfectly. never has my interest in an artists dropped off so rapidly. I can email you the article if you want, just drop me a line.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The Carter Family, maybe.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not going to use the Skidmore Method, but I'd say Oum Kalthoum and Sun Ra (probably followed by Psychic TV--alas--if you count vinyl).

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

over 50 things with the name George Clinton on them...

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the formula should be based on total number of seconds you own by someone, otherwise a bunch of punk bands with scores of short songs will get unfair representation.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i have my stopwatch ready and am putting the first of the a's on.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

It's impractical for me to make an exhaustive list, but Miles Davis wins by a mile with somewhere over 25 individual titles.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

i have my stopwatch ready and am putting the first of the a's on.

dude, that's what AMG's for

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Adverts.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Frank Zappa probably but that's not really a reflection of how much I like him.

With him having so many records it's kind of unfair on the record buying public, you end up with loads of them by random chance.

I dread to think how many of his discs his true devotees have.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Just albums, the top 20 (double albums are counted double etc., EPs are counted though I don't have many, some tapes are counted double as I have them on CD or record too):

1 Keith Jarrett 63
2 Johann Sebastian Bach 40
3 Giant Sand 35
4 Neil Young 33
5 Joni Mitchell 27
6 Bob Dylan 26
7 Beatles 24
8 Velvet Underground 24 (at least four duplicates here)
9 Howe Gelb 22,5
10 Cure 20
Yo La Tengo 20
12 Sonic Youth 19
13 Lou Reed 18
14 Miles Davis 16
15 Leonard Cohen 15
Cowboy Junkies 15 (4 duplicates)
Billie Holiday 15
Tom Waits 15
19 Lloyd Cole 14
Doors 14
Jan Garbarek 14
Swell 14

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

this is so weird. i would never has guessed alex had 63 Keith Jarrett records or that esoj had...how many v/vm discs? it puts a new slant on who i thought they were.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

most of those keith jarrett albums i bought almost 20 years ago. i don't listen to them a lot these days. a little bit of a faded love...

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The Stone Roses, Miles Davis, (The) Verve, Spiritualized, Embrace, Idlewild, Orbital. The Roses, Verve, Embrace and Idlewild are unrepresentative though, because they're the only artists I've ever really bought singles by, and, aside from Idlewild's first single of last year and the last two Embrace singles (now long since parted with) I've not boguht singles by anyone in a couple of years or more, and old singles (Blur, Oasis, Chemical Brothers) that haven't got tracks on that I really loved and hadn't got elsewhere have long since gone west. I could do Martin's track thing quite easily at home, but haven't got my database with me (he has way more records in his than I do, but what can I say, I'm a librarian, I like catalogues...). I imagine Miles Davis would win, with The Stone Roses and The Verve second and 3rd.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I would guess that the Grateful Dead top my list (as much down to the amount of live stuff they've brought out as anything, Dick's Picks etc). They'd be followed by either Miles Davis or David Bowie, then probably Bob Dylan.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, I've just realised that if I added different George Clinton acts together, he'd have made my list too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i think mine would be carl craig.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a quick look at the database last night, and surprisingly enough The Clash appeared to have most, mainly cos of Clash On Broadway.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 March 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan, the Cure, Joni Mitchell, Zappa, JD/New Order

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 13 March 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Without really counting (sorry, lack the mathematical skills there), I suppose Phil Collins and Paul McCartney will achieve the highest number when it comes to number of tracks they appear on in my record collection (probably, McCartney wins, because there were rather few tracks on those 70s Genesis albums)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm. David Bowie would also probably come close...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Btw. Peter Gabriel would also be up there, but his participation in rather few Genesis albums, and the fact that his solo career has been rather low-key when it comes to number of releases, means he is considerably behind Phil Collins. After all, I didn't stop buying Phil's albums until the one he released last year.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan, The Cure, Eric Clapton, Siouxsie and the Banshees, U2, Cocteau Twins...in roughly that order.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

mine is either sterolab or ash ra tempel. Actually ash ra wd lose on the track count thing, but there's this great big block ov CDs by them on the shelf which might be bigger than the stereolab one.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Muslimgauze (35), Nurse With Wound (30), Legendary Pink Dots (29), Koji Asano (26), Current 93 (24), The Bevis Frond (22), Otomo Yoshihide (22), Stereolab (22), XTC (20 - and i don't even like XTC. or, for that matter, Muslimgauze. WTF?), Paul Schütze (20), Charalambides (20), Loren MazzaCane-Connors (20), Guided by Voices (20)

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Major correction - can't believe I forgot about Elvis. If I was following Martin's method (number of tracks) he'd be out in front, I reckon. (The box sets alone include hundreds of tracks).

(By the way, I'm surprised to not see Elvis (P) on your list, Martin, given you like Charlie Rich, Johhny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis etc.)

If it was total number of records it'd definitely be Bowie (I've got lots of singles as well as most of his albums).

If it's total playing time, then maybe the Dead would still be top.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Never much cared for Elvis, really - certainly nowhere near as much as Jerry Lee or Little Richard. I don't have very much by him at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Including bootlegs & everything, I'd have to say the people I have the most stuff by would be Bob Dylan, Bruce SPringsteen, Frank Zappa, Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Ramones, and Sun Ra - sort of in that order, maybe.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 22 March 2003 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

o bompos

― le bomp, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(Okay, so maybe 42 is a lot of CDs. I could swear I saw another list where practically everyone had a 100 CDs by one artist.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

GBV or The Fall win hands down.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Sonic Yoof or the Beatles.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not gonna get up and count, but probably Cabaret Voltaire.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Beatles
RAMMS+EIN

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I counted the number of albums and included solo/side projects, didn't count double albums twice/ here are bands I have more than 10 albums by-

Bauhaus 11
Cabaret Voltaire 11
Chameleons 17
Christian Death 12
Coil 14
Depeche Mode 11
Killing Joke 11
KMFDM 17
Led Zeppelin 11
New Order 11 / Joy Division 7
Siouxsie and the Banshees 10
Skinny Puppy 22
u2 10
Ultravox 12
Wire 11

Seeing that I buy any form of 80's pop I find at thrift shops/flea markets, not caring if I'm just going to listen to it once, you could probably glom all that stuff together and say "a carload."

― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, good, a database question...

... based on counting the same track occurring on multiple albums as _one_ track; with live and studio versions, remixes etc counting as different tracks, but (at the moment - I'm sometimes tempted to go back and change this, but it would be a big job) original and remastered versions as the same track....

I estimate I've only catalogued about 70% of my stuff at the track level, but I suspect I've covered all the artists who would make this list.

My highest count barely scrapes into Martin S's Top 50!

Top 30 by count of Tracks:

167 Bob Dylan
157 REM
153 David Bowie
123 Sonic Youth
112 Captain Beefheart
106 Joni Mitchell
105 Hüsker Dü
103 Curtis Mayfield
96 Low
94 Yo La Tengo
91 The Rolling Stones
83 Arab Strap
83 The Clash
83 Teenage Fanclub
78 Todd Rundgren
78 Tindersticks
77 Tom Waits
75 The Byrds
75 Gang Starr
75 Pavement
72 Mark Eitzel
72 Laura Nyro
72 Neil Young & Crazy Horse
71 Neil Young
70 Mogwai
68 Big Youth
68 Nirvana
67 Cat Power
66 Aretha Franklin
65 Julian Cope

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Half Japanese/Jad/David vs The Fall

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and THE RAMONES if we're going by amount of songs. amount of songs vs. number of albums; both yield very different results.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

37 records by Television Personalities

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Either Ash Ra Tempel or Stereolab, strangely enough neither are my favourite band, but there's a _big_ block of CDs from each band on the shelf

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fall and then Sonic Youth then Pavement running close behind

― Michael B, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I have more Tijuana Brass Plays.. x compilations than anything else, I should imagine. Lixi probably has more Klaus Wunderlich records than Prolapse but then again...

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

call yourself indie!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yes I know it makes me sound like a pseud, but Miles Davis & John Coltrane

Now I'll get back to stroking my chin

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim if you own more records by a band called "Call Yourself Indie!" than any other band I shall fly over to Australia and personally buy you a snakebite & black.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I own 5 Mouse on Mars LPs and one single. However, I mostly listen to electronic music and rap, and there aren't that many artists in those fields who would've released more than 5 LPs.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

topping my list:

Yes
Smashing Pumpkins
Genesis
Mike Oldfield
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd

all around 10 CDs each.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim if you own more records by a band called "Call Yourself Indie!" than any other band I shall fly over to Australia and personally buy you a snakebite & black.

hahah that gives me an idea for a fiendish plan!!!!1

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

O well...
JP Almeida's list suddenly reminds me of something I somehow didn't mention in my last year's post. Erm, those 15 lp's + a 2cd by, um, Jethro Tull, all stacked away in a cupboard in a house in the country. D'oh.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

*furrows brow*

B-b-but now&then I forgot also those few dozens of vinyls, resting in a cupboard in a house in the country for years now, with music by Vivaldi...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagine it's probably Tom Waits, Prince, The Stones, Chet Baker, & Pavement.

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i have 62 Wu Tang and family albums...

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, not knowing that i'd encountered this thread i was just going to post my exact same response above (it still holds true!).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

John Coltrane in the lead, by a ridiculously large margin...
followed (I would imagine) by Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Mingus, Beatles and Captain Beefheart.

If sheer number of songs was the only factor, Minutemen would be near the top, as would Parliament-Funkadelic if they were considered a single entity. And as for ex-Beatles and their spouses, I've got more solo stuff by Yoko Ono than by the four moptops themselves put together.

― Scott, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

I just reran my script to calculate this. The Fall have overtaken Willie Nelson, Al Green has moved up ten places to 16, Hank Williams is the highest new entry at 22, followed by T. Rex at 27, Lightnin' Hopkins at 30 and Joe Tex at =49th. The Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Van Morrison and Bobby Bland have been pushed out of the 50, to 51-54 in fact. If I added up all the Wu stuff I have they would come in 5th, but that's recorded as about ten different acts, of course, as are Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions (would be top ten), Kevin Saunderson/Inner City/Reese/etc (top 40), Rod Stewart/Faces (would be top 50). Probably others I am forgetting too.

The number with at least 100 tracks by that counting method is now 116, with a total of 278 with at least 50 tracks. I have at least one track by a total of 8,748 acts. Good grief.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

er...

while this thread is bumped does anyone have any good suggestions for a database type program which can read the necessary information from ID3 tags/folder names?

I want to make a start on this while I still have a managable CD collection (250-ish, but that's probably trebled it in size over the last two years... I'd like to get insurance at some point)
If I can get that started I'll probably find the will to add my cassette/vinyl in there as well, but the thought of hand typing it all makes my tendons scream.

― i lurk on ilm (i lurk on ilm), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Try MP3 Collector (www.collectorz.com). It's great.

― Melson (ArchCarrier), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Derek Bailey - 231 albums, as leader, co-improviser or sideman.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 October 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit!

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

bookmarked for later, cheers! :)

― i lurk on ilm (i lurk on ilm), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, Marcello wins. I knew Bailey did a lot but my.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

while this thread is bumped does anyone have any good suggestions for a database type program which can read the necessary information from ID3 tags/folder names?

for Mac OS X Doh!

― i lurk on ilm (i lurk on ilm), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

dylan, easy.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

JamesBrown

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 15 October 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost my entire collection is in my computer, so this comes directly from my media library.

1. Mountain Goats
2. Elvis Costello
3. The Beach Boys
4. Johnny Cash
5. Bob Dylan
6. The Beatles
7. Hank Williams
8. The Who
9. Merle Travis
10. Ray Charles

Wow, didn't expect it to be so weighted towards old white men...

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Friday, 15 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, is there anyway you can put your program up somewhere for others (i.e me) to use?

231 Derek Bailey albums! Crikey, that's 230 more than me, and most people I suppose.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Nurse With Wound
Enoch Light / The Light Brigade
J. S. Bach
Miles Davis
Coil
Borbetomagus
Mystic Moods Orchestra
Swans
Ray Conniff and his Singers
Iannis Xenakis
John Coltrane
Bob Dylan
John Cage
Misfits/Samhain
Autechre
Aphex Twin
Sonic Youth
Voice Crack

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 15 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i have no derek bailey album at all. what does he do? some kind of avantgarde rock close to free jazz? where to start?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hendrix, Cure, Dylan, Depeche Mode

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephin Merritt (20 CDs)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy, you would need to get MS Access on your PC. If you have that, I can email it to you with the basic instructions. I'm afraid I don't have a version that allows me to make it into an independent executable.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 15 October 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I have somewhere between 50 and 60 Miles Davis albums (that includes counting double-disc sets as single releases, and five boxes counted as one CD each, which hardly seems fair since one of 'em is the 20-CD Complete Miles At Montreux, but whatever).

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 15 October 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Aphex Twin
Nine Inch Nails (yeah i know)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 15 October 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

felt like tallying up the artists I own the most CDs by. I treated 2-CD sets as two individual CDs, 4-CD box sets as two individual CDs, etc. (exception: I counted the 10-CD Cocteau Twins box set as two CDs because all of the material could be (and has been) crammed onto just two discs.

Cocteau Twins - 10

Beach Boys - 8

Throwing Muses - 7
+ Belly (3) and Kristin Hersh (1) = 11

Talk Talk - 6
+ Mark Hollis (1) = 7

Mark Lanegan - 6
+ Screaming Trees (4) = 10

Byrds - 5
+ Gene Clark (2), Flying Burrito Brothers (1), Gram Parsons (1), and Dillard & Clark (1) = 10

Velvet Underground - 5
+ John Cale (4) and Nico (2) = 11

it's kind of a boring list, but it's just about what I expected. it doesn't necessarily reflect what I like the most or listen to the most; frankly it has more to do with whose CDs I can buy for peanuts at the record store.

downloading music has affected my record-collecting habits in weird ways, but I won't get into that now.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 4 April 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

(bah, should read "4-CD box sets as four individual CDs," obviously)

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 4 April 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

I don't have to do any math to know it would be Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices for me.

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 April 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

Derek Bailey - 231 albums, as leader, co-improviser or sideman.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, October 15, 2004 9:15 AM (6 years ago)

damn

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 4 April 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

This is just a guess, but:

1. Thelonious Monk
2. Nina Simone
3. Slim Whitman
4. Bob Wills
5. Chris Knox

― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

Stravinsky - 22 CDs

― corey, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

Using unregisterd's calculation method:

the Who - 99

Miles Davis - 87

Cecil Taylor - 74
(includes one CD by Coltrane, but originally issued under Taylor's name, FMP CDs co-credited to collaborators, and a split LP with the Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce band)

Sun Ra - 64
(I was sure the 28-disc Detroit Jazz Center Residency would put him over the top, but no)

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

Somehow I have 28 My Bloody Valentine albums.

― kelpolaris, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

Beethoven. I have an enormous CD binder (between 300 and 400 capacity) filled with nothing but. And that leaves out the MP3s.

Non-classical- either The Fall, Sun City Girls or Robyn Hitchcock.

― Beast the Measles (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 April 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)

are 25 of those fake leaked remasters of Loveless? xp

― corey, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:40 (fourteen years ago)

haha - one is! I've just managed to accumulate every EP the band has ever released (including from the Conway-era of the band), obviously their 2 LP's, rarities, unreleased songs, their Peel session, solo-work by Kevin Shields (La La La Human Steps, Lost in Translation) and Bilinda Butcher (her bizarre backing vocal for failed Brit rap group Collapsed Lung) that just managed to be tagged as MBV after downloading.

So, in actuality, there's really only around 15 proper albums and a lot of mis-tagged bullshit floating around. The band's discography is far more vast than most people think it is, tho! I have at least 125 songs by the band.

― kelpolaris, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

this is also all stuff i've had to scour the web for, digging thru archives and fan-sites in order to attain: not just packaged into some convenient PirateBay entire-discography torrent. on a self-pitying note, this has might be the totality of what my life amounts to.

― kelpolaris, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

wau, this hits so close to home that I could cry. that is, I would cry if I hadn't invested all my emotional energy into acquiring 114 Stina Nordenstam songs, including her never-released soundtrack work; and her collaboration with a dude from the Feelies; and "Common Miracle" a song that even people on her fansite speak of in hushed tones; and some weird Swedish lullaby; and a live set (!); and her guest appearances on other Swedish people's albums, many of them utter crap.

there's a certain egotism involved in trying to amass the largest collection of [x artist]'s mp3s in the whole world/internet, but it mostly comes down to the excitement of hearing some hidden gem for the first time by an artist whose discography you thought you had played and replayed to the point of exhaustion. also it's kinda fun to play librarian.

I've still only ever heard Isn't Anything, Loveless, and Ecstasy and Wine, so I have my work cut out for me one of these days.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:28 (fourteen years ago)

Frank Zappa - about 75-80 discs, including albums of other groups (big bands, chamber groups) performing his work.

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:32 (fourteen years ago)

Somehow I have 28 My Bloody Valentine albums.

o_O

― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:38 (fourteen years ago)

I prob own abt 20 or 25 Aphex Twin CDs/LPs/EPs/12"s/etc.

― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

browsed thru iTunes---- set my threshold at 300 or greater songs, ended up with a good top ten!

David Bowie: 34 albums, 604 songs (obviously a few compilations in here, 2xCD reissues, bonus trax, Sound & Vision box, etc.)

The Cure: 28 albums, 533 songs (incl. Join the Dots box set, bunch of 2xCD reissues, etc.)

The Fall: 39 albums, 517 songs (whole lotta Fall stuff. doubt i need all of this?)

The Beach Boys: 12 albums, 500 songs (a lot of these are the two-albums-per-CD reissues, plus a couple box sets... hence the low album/high song ratio)

R.E.M.: 23 albums, 433 songs (i keep buying R.E.M. albums, even the bad ones, and all the compilations!)

Prince: 28 albums, 409 songs (and i still don't have the Crystal Ball thing! yikes)

Sonic Youth: 34 albums, 382 songs (guess all those SYR EPs add up, huh?)

Radiohead: 17 albums, 346 songs (i found that damn s/t box set that came out a couple yrs. ago for $20(!!!!) and bought it, which means 7 duplicate albums... may resell that thing)

Echo & the Bunnymen: 19 albums, 324 songs (Crystal Days box set in there)

Tom Waits: 22 albums, 322 songs (still need to get the two Early Years comps, think i have all the LPs, though)

― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

got at least another 25-30 ppl with 200-300 trax each :/

― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:34 (fourteen years ago)

I think my top artist as far as the most records I have are as follows..(off the top of my head)

AC/DC
E-40
Neurosis
Slayer

I ain't trying to figure out no point system though... lol

― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 06:37 (fourteen years ago)

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