Who have you got most music by?

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

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

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.

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.

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+ healthy doses of plenty of other shtuff..

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).

...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

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.

Such a symbolic usurping of the title that would be.

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

Now I'll get back to stroking my chin

Yes
Smashing Pumpkins
Genesis
Mike Oldfield
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd

all around 10 CDs each.

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

for Mac OS X Doh!

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

damn

This is just a guess, but:

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

Stravinsky - 22 CDs

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)

Somehow I have 28 My Bloody Valentine albums.

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.

are 25 of those fake leaked remasters of Loveless? xp

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Somehow I have 28 My Bloody Valentine albums.

o_O

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

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)

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

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