Which artist do you own the MOST of?

Probably Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Coltrane.

I forgot Monk, he's up there, too.

I have the complete Riverside, so that alone puts him over.

xpost That 15-disc Riverside Sessions is a lot of damn Monk.

HA! exactly.

Yeah. I honestly get bored with all the Rouse-Riley-Gales quartet (which I guess there's only a couple discs of - the rest was on Columbia), but the rest is pretty much great.

a tie between will oldham/bonnie prince billy and front 242.

you are one sad bastard.

:)

Herbie Hancock and Fela Kuti, I think.

I seem to remember that I started this same thread a long time ago bu I can't find it so oh well. For me the answer is probably also Miles Davis, with Bob Dylan and Nina Simone close behind.

frank zappa, easily. esp. since had zillions of official records (studio and live), and countless boots.

if we're including artists who have been influenced by a given artist (or, if you prefer, who ripped off a given artist), then the answer would easily be david bowie. i also have just about everything bowie himself has put out over the years (plus a few boots).

other runners-up: wu-tang clan (including all the side projects); depeche mode (!! -- esp. since they aren't even my favorite 80s group, but they have been quite prolific!); elvis costello (though not so much from the 90s onwards).

Oh man, I hate Zappa. More power to ya, though.

Keiji Haino (incl. Fushitsusha, etc), then Mirror/Andrew Chalk

Probably a tie between Zorn and Zappa.

Nurse With Wound.

sun ra, lee perry, miles davis

David Bowie, no contest :)

This will not be a surprise to anybody: James Brown.

Juliana Hatfield - when every CD is $3.99 in the bargain and/or used bin, it's easy to become a completist

Miles is the big winner, with Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble close behind, but Willie Colón is moving up in the rankings fast. I have at least 15 Colón CDs, counting collaborations with Ruben Blades and Celia Cruz and Mon Rivera and Héctor Lavoe and...

Paul McCartney, solo and with various bands.

we had this before. but i can't find the thread. my number 1 is keith jarrett.

i'm suck at being a completist. i'd like to be one, but i can't

Wolf Eyes wins here

i suck

grr

I guess the Porcaros, Greg Phillicanes and David Paich are all up there too :)

And lots of Bowie in my case too. But I believe I have more McCartney than Bowie.

that sucks

lots of Bowie here too, well not lots. i don't need his bad ones

Geir just makes me sad.

yeah i get that too

miles davis, john zorn, paul mccartney, r.e.m., bill frisell, arvo pärt, hoppy kamiyama

1. Bob Dylan
2. Neil Young
3. Glen Campbell

I remember many of these answers from the earlier thread, and soon Tom E. will come in and say Bob Dylan.

-Miles Davis
-Beethoven
-Bob Dylan
-Five Iron Frenzy (lolz)

answer is XTC

Prince - 10 albums
Bowie - 9 + best of
Funkadelic - 9 + best of
Miles Davis - 8 + that awful Columbia Years box

Why is that box awful?

I'm really not much of a completist at all; very rarely do I ownmore than two or three albums by an artist. there are some jazz cats who might be high on my list depending on how you draw the lines (i.e. Grant Green albums + albums on which Green features prominently), but I guess XTC (+ Dukes of Stratosphear) probably wins this one.

(other possibility: Wu-Tang Clan + solo albums and affiliated side projects)

killer hornets

The Fall (35 albums or so) followed by Robyn Hitchcock/Soft Boys and XTC/Andy Partridge.

Why is that box awful?

nonchronological, and only the "Electric" disc makes any sense. it also tries to pass off songs from the Elevator to the Gallows soundtrack as rarities.

The Clash, Fela, or James Brown.

1. Miles Davis/Wagner - I have almost all of Miles' individual albums plus Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, but I have at least one recording of almost all of Wagner's operas plus three Ring cycles that are 14 - 15 discs a piece.
2. Beethoven - Complete symphonies, piano sonatas, string quartets, piano trios, etc.
3. The Fall
4. Neil Young
5. Bowie

lots of similar answers here. ILM or prolific/good artists?

ilm/good artists, perhaps?

cocteau twins. not even my favorites, they just had a pretty massive output, though.

In terms of actual objects/recrds/CDs:
1. Low
2. Sonic Youth
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. No-Neck Blues Band
5. Chic

In terms of digital files:
1. Ricardo Villalobos
2. No-Neck Blues Band
3. Underground Resistance
4. Bob Dylan
5. Excepter

Fifty-some Miles albums, including several of the period-specific Columbia boxes.

Bowie.

Digital would be Sonic Youth, Will Oldham, (Bill Callahan), the Fall, Wolf Eyes, John Fahey, Sun City Girls.

I have at least 10 albums by:

Sonic Youth
Billy Childish's various bands
The Cure
Yo La Tengo
Flaming Lips
Jon Spencer, if you count Boss Hog & Pussy Galore as well as JSBX.

everyone on ilx is a jazz fan now?

Everyone that COUNTS.(/douchebag) Anyway, as noted by Kenan, the monster complete recordings approach taken to jazz reissues makes it easy to grab up a ton of stuff at once.

neil young

Everyone that COUNTS.

;_;

FYI, that "(/douchebag)" was supposed to indicate the preceding statement was a joke.

Still, you should grow some unfortunate facial hair, put on some clunky specs and a kufi/beret and be one of the cool jazz kids.

XTC and Beatles, I think. Surprised no one has said Prince.

Louis Armstrong
Dylan
Sinatra
Thelonious Monk
Van Morrison

Madness, David Bowie, Foetus and Age of Chance.
oh, and if we can include Adrian Sherwood/On-U as a single entity ..

Including live stuff autechre = over 7% of my collection - 1.9 days of material out of 26.2

wow. i thought i liked autechre.

Yeah, I didn't realize jazzbaggery was so widespread on ILM. Unfortunately my jazz collection is rather slim. For me, it's either Prince or the Wu-Tang Clan, depending on what counts.

(major xposts, because I didn't realize that this didn't get posted an hour or two ago when I wrote it)

Surprised no one has said Prince.

Three people did.

Dunno, probably Dylan (two boxes & several albums, including the old cds, which I just never got rid of)

probably:

1. the fall
2. things involving sly & robbie
3. rem

neil young
john fahey
richard youngs
the dead c
charalambides (especially if you count side projects/solo records.)

1. Akvarium/solo Boris Grebenshikov, strangely enough
2. Tori Amos (the "Piano" box set helped)
3. R.E.M.

Captain Beefheart, Can, Miles Davis, Neil Young, and the Grateful Dead are the artists that I own the most records by. The Parson Sound/Int'l Havrvester/Trad Gras och Stenar axis is moving up the list, too.

1. Bob Marley
2. Prince Jammy stuff
3. Talking Heads

Bach

yah i love how Kristin's gotten 3 references arleady :-) (or more?)

1. Motorpsycho
2. Sonic Youth
3. Bjork
4. Meshuggah
5. Zappa

haha that bachx is ridiculous. 155 CDs? how many have you listened to?

I think my dad's got that collection. If we're going on the CDs we have at home, the top 30 are probably all classical artists...

1. P-funk, Bootsy etc
2. Neil Young and assoc
3. Stevie Wonder (am i really the 1st person to say Stevie?)

1. Sonic Youth (15)
2. Stereolab (11)
3. Sea and Cake + Sam Prekop + Archer Prewitt (6+2+2=10)
-. Beach Boys + Brian Wilson + Dennis Wilson (8+1+1=10)
5. Belle and Sebastian (8)
6. Philip Glass (7)
-. Steely Dan (7)

That's albums and EPs.

David Bowie
The Lucksmiths
Sleater-Kinney

Wait, is that Bach thing really 155 CDs for $109? WAHT???

Still, you should grow some unfortunate facial hair, put on some clunky specs and a kufi/beret and be one of the cool jazz kids.

-- Oilyrags, Monday, June 18, 2007 3:27 PM

hi dere

u forgot fedora

Unsrprisingly that Brilliant label Bach box is not the only one out there. i own this on several dvds:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-172-CD-Set-Bach/dp/B00004WJLX

and that be 172 cds.

I own I think 35 miles davis albums. And when I look through them, I constantly realize that the one I want to hear, I don't have.

1. Severed Heads
2. Depeche Mode
3. Einsturzende Neubauten

otm xpost

Muslimgauze
Nurse With Wound
Legendary Pink Dots
The Fall

we seem to have a million Acid Mother Temple albums although we never listen to them. I'm always moving them out of the way to get to other albums, it seems.

1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Talk Talk

John Cale, Miles Davis and the Beach Boys.

Prince, McCartney and Beach Boys (BB's by miles, if I include bootlegs).

Bowie, Prince, Fall, Cure, Costello all come to mind

ah yes, and Sonic Youf

Including bootlegs, live tapes etc. then Captain Beefheart must be the most.

Also, just off the top of my head, I suspect I've probably got far more by each of the following than most sane people would probably consider necessary:
- Beach Boys / Brian Wilson
- David Bowie
- Ornette Coleman
- The Damned
- Miles Davis
- Bob Dylan
- The Fall
- Faust
- Flaming Lips
- Charles Mingus
- Pere Ubu / David Thomas / etc.
- The Vibrators
- Tom Waits
- XTC / Andy Partridge
- Frank Zappa

I own 65% of Prince. But the lawyers who control the other 35% are bastards.

Since the last time we did this thread, man like Derek Bailey remains the undefeated champion.

Oi .oi ..oi ...suddenly I recall that I got still stacks of vinyl here and there (and, a little bit, everywhere), which means that among mine most-of's loomin' large be also, heheheheh -- Jethro Tull.

Sort of a bizarre mixed bag (>5 unique albums):

Mainly vinyl:
Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead (+ side projects)
Bob Dylan
The Beatles (not really a big fan, but they accumulate)
Joni Mitchell
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Holly Near
Beethoven
Mahler

Mainly CD:
Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown
Wilco/Uncle Tupelo
Ella Fitzgerald
Sleater-Kinney
Cafe Tacuba
Carlos Vives
Rachid Taha
Leonard Cohen
Holly Cole
The Roots
The Low Road/Slo-Mo
Mozart
My wife's aunt (10 CDs worth of classical piano)

Last week I got a 40 CD Duke Ellington set, so that puts him over the top ... as a friend said, "Lift with your legs."

After that, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Dylan, Beatles, R.E.M., the Cure.

1) Zappa (duh)
2) Melvins
3) Puffy Amiyumi
4) Skinny Puppy
5) Madonna

excluding jazz, i think gang starr

unless i exclude jazz rap lol

Blondie, if you count all the 12 inch singles I collected for the sleeves. Otherwise, Sparks... but maybe I have as many or more Zappa.