THE REAL NEW ETERNAL SLAP-FIGHT of the PREPOSTEROUSLY PROLIFIC

MES needs to take this.

I wish I could vote for MES, but it's still Neil for me

Really, really tough call for me between Neil and Pollard. I mean, in direct answer to the question posed, Neil has the higher hit to miss ratio - but my heart always holds a special place for good ol' Bobby and his prolific scatterings of shit in the wind.

I shouldn't vote since I don't know Jandek's or Pollard's work at all. But will vote for Dylan anyway.

What about Duke Ellington: 50+ years, almost 2000 compositions. These kids have nothing on him.

I was just about to post that J)hn D probably has like 4 or 5 hundred, but Tuomas just blew that out of the water.

Sun Ra, and he didn't really start releasing a lot of albums will he was in his 50s

Billy Childish must be catching up with Duke Ellington by now.

Someone mentioned Acid Mothers Temple on the first try at this thread. Let me hereby state that their approach to releasing music is abysmal, and it is the single reason why I have not really bothered with them. FFS get one fucking editor and release your best material in annual installments you dicks.

^ See also R. Pollard

I DON'T CARE IF YR COMMUNICATING W/ THE COSMOS I MEAN CMON HELP ME HELP YOU HERE DUDES

Bob Dylan has the biggest hits.

I don't know if his worst (excl Dylan/Dead, live albums) are exactly terrible, but I'm not qualified to comment on Neil, Bobbert, Janny..

Mark E Smith I've yet to hear a 'terrible' album by, just some are more 'hits with me' than 'don't think it's his best, others do' sort of thing.

Actually, his solo albums, OK the first one being the only one I've heard, was painful listening, so: that.

Yeah, with AMT you have to strain a lot of cosmic diarrhoea to find a few solid chunks.

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Prince

oh I am totally in need of getting into Prince

Prince is a good answer: in 31 years he's released around 400 songs on his official albums alone, and there's gotta be at least 400 more if you count his side projects, B-sides, non-album singles, Internet releases, etc.

Plus there's his legendary vault of unreleased songs, which is rumoured to have hundreds and hundreds of tunes.

the Guided by Voices database lists 1390 songs :-P http://www.gbvdb.com/tracks.asp

Mmm, but Prince's hit ratio is damn low!

of those listed here, Neil for sure.

(but would've definitely voted Sun Ra over everybody)

Sun Ra had more than a few misses though.

Not more than Pollard surely?

No, and at least Sun Ra was putting in a bit of effort most of the time

i think i'm the only one who fears prince's legendary archive of 1000s of songs more than i want to hear it.

like hearing actually how godawful the stuff he did with miles would actually be.

"Not more than Pollard surely?"

Pollard was all misses.

I would like to vote Jandek just to rep for the guy, but it is MES in a landslide for me.

I'd vote for Jandek if I wasn't obligated to vote for Neil.

Anyway of the original 5 I think that Smith probably has the highest ratio of hits to misses with Young running a close-ish second.

to me, dylan and neil don't really fit that much...they don't seem like being prolific is one of their "things" like with MES or Pollard or (esp.) Jandek

so i guess i will vote MES cuz of those three that is the best band, after neil and bob are disqualified.

Pollard was all misses.

Okay, this is just wrong. Many, many misses? Yes.

I don't like him, what can I say.

Just playing the part of fanboy. I've only heard a couple Jandek albums and decided he is really not for me, but I wouldn't go ahead and dismiss his entire oeuvre as being without a hit.

Hah see I think Jandek is actually one of those artists who you actually can do that with.

Fair enough, I suppose, haven't heard enough to really argue that one.

I'd vote for Jandek if I wasn't obligated to vote for Neil.

Hahaha dude you better HOPE he doesn't read this.

Fuck a ratio, a truer test of the prolific artist is the number of hits per year, the misses don't count. Pollard's profligacy is actually audible, so he wins.

Ahhh, R. Stevie Moore might beat them all for prolifocity. Prolificitude? Prolificness? And unlike Prince, everything gets released!

Mmm, but Prince's hit ratio is damn low!

― Mark G, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:14 AM Bookmark

Recently, sure, but unlike any of the poll options, I actually have some use for him.

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I voted Mark E Smith but wondered how many songs George Clinton has to his name?

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