What band do you have the most stuff of?

[Stone]

For CDs, probably in this order (including singles):

Kinks
Bob Marley
New Order
Clash
Stone Roses

All media (including singles and such):

Kinks
Beatles
New Order
Bob Marley
Devo

These are guesses, but I bet I'm close.

[Whooptee]

The most of any band or artist that I own would be the Stones. I think I have around 10 of their cd's, one double best-of and a concert DVD. Here's some others,

The Pixies (5 + 1EP/2Comp/3Breeders/1Amps/2FrankBlack)
Tom Waits (6)
The Gourds (6)
Bob Dylan (4 + 2Comp)
Willie Nelson (6+)
Merle Haggard (6+)
Pavement (5 + 1StephenMalkmus)
Sonic Youth (5)
Pearl Jam (5)
Radiohead (4 + 1EP)

I'm missing some, but that's what I can think of right now.
John

[Jim Clark]

(we are all newbies here now, right? :-))

Demetrio.

Uh, wrong!

jc

[JazzHead]

Dylan is tops - all told somewhere between 80-90 CDs and elpees. Course, he didn't exactly release all of them himself.

Second is probably Coltrane - 40+ and counting.

peace,
jh.

[Grblgrbl]

Mine by sheer numbers:

Beatles: at least 10
Bowie: over 30
Bruce Cockburn: about 20
Miles Davis: 10-15
Deep Purple: 10-15
Fairport Convention: about 10
Peter Gabriel: about 10
Genesis:15-20 (nothing after And Then There Were Three)
Gentle Giant:10-15
Grateful Dead:15-20
Jethro Tull: 25-30
Elton John: at least 10
King Crimson: 15-20
Kinks: 10-15
Led Zeppelin: 15-20
Mike Oldfield: at least 10
Pink Floyd: 10-15
Porcupine Tree: 10-15
REM: 10-15
Stones: 15-20
Roxy Music: 10-15
Rush: 10-15
Siouxsie and the Banshees: 10-15
Steely Dan: 10
Richard (& Linda) Thompson: 25-30
Traffic: 10-15
U2: 10-15
The Who: 10-15
Yes: 10 plus (nothing after Yesshows)
Neil Young: over 40
Van Morrison: over 10

[jack70]

The Kinks (over 100 items of [just] pre-72 stuff)
Zappa (you don't wanna know)

Hey Dave, I started getting Genesis albums from their very first (wasn't even released here in the US), but I pretty much stopped listening much after the original group broke apart. One of my fave items of theirs is the 45 "Twilight Ale House" (non-LP)... not sure if this was included on any of their CDs (I have only 1 CD of Genesis!). As "nice" a cut as any on their early (first 6 LPs) IMHO. Familiar with it?

[MindGoneHaywire]

Can't believe I take this nonsense seriously enough to actually give a detailed answer. I sure didn't bother doing this when this was covered recently on the Asylum. Let's see...my numbers are based on albums I have by each artist, not the actual number of CDs. And bootlegs, though I don't have a great deal of those. I do have a few twofers, that I would count as two albums. However, I count a double album, double CD, multi-CD set, or box set as one album (so I clarify these numbers on some artists). I hesitated to list any artists for which I have less than at least 10 albums, but I made exceptions for some who do not have 10 releases on their resume.

Chet Baker--7 (10 CDs' worth)

Beach Boys--22
Brian Wilson--5

Beastie Boys--8

Beatles--23
John Lennon--11
Paul McCartney--9
George Harrison--3/Ringo Starr 2

James Brown--4 (9 CDs' worth) + a 2-disc JB's compilation

Johnny Cash--10

The Clash--9

John Coltrane--12 (of course, this only includes albums on which he was a leader)

Elvis Costello--14 (both with & without the Attractions)

The Cramps--9

Miles Davis--27 (only one album after 1965's E.S.P., though)

Bob Dylan--22

Green Day--9

Jimi Hendrix--8

Robyn Hitchcock--4/Soft Boys 4

Billie Holiday--7 (19 CDs' worth)

Led Zeppelin--9

Husker Du--7
Bob Mould--4
Sugar--4

Thelonius Monk--5 (9 CDs' worth)

NY Dolls--4
David Johansen--6/Buster Poindexter 3
Sylvain Sylvain--1
Johnny Thunders--13

Elvis Presley--4 (16 CDs' worth)

Ramones--28 (plus one solo album each by Joey, Dee Dee, & Marky)

Velvet Underground--11
Lou Reed--15
John Cale--7

The Replacements--11

Rolling Stones--23

Sonny Rollins--10

Frank Sinatra--10 (21 CDs' worth)

Bruce Springsteen--9 (14 CDs' worth, which is a lot considering I was never really much of a fan. Quite a bit of these I CDR'd from vinyl given to me as a hand-me-down. I have grown to like & appreciate the Boss more than I ever did before, but I can say with some confidence that he will never become a great favorite of mine)

Tom Waits--13

The Who--11

Neil Young--12

I have 28 Fela Kuti albums on CD, but I'm not a huge fan. I just happened to come into a lot of Fela stuff not all that long ago. I dig his Afrobeat, but it's not something I listen to a great deal of the time.

Then there's ("Various Artists") compilations...I have 11 jazz compilations, 17 that would be considered either rockabilly or garage rock (27 CDs' worth), 7 that would be considered strictly blues, and 13 R&B and/or Soul collections that consist of 51 CDs.

I'll try to finish this post later...I've got to get up to flip the record.

[Dusty Chalk]

Miles Davis--27 (only one album after 1965's E.S.P., though)

Just out of curiosity -- is there a particular reason for this? Do you not like anything later than that, or did you just stop following him? And which release is it?

[MindGoneHaywire]

Just don't like 'em. The only one I have is Doo-Bop, which is more conventional than a lot of what he did in the 70s & 80s. I used to have Nefertiti & On The Corner & Jack Johnson & dumped 'em; I've heard more than half of the rest of his output after E.S.P., and have never heard anything that I even remotely wanted to own. It's possible I might like something on Miles Smiles; I actually haven't heard that. But I know there's a tangible stylistic progression from E.S.P. onwards to Bittches Brew (this forum would not permit me to list the title correctly), and I hate fusion. But it's just not my cup of tea; I ain't gonna be one of those whiners complaining about how it's this or that or it's not music, you know, lots of people did that starting in the mid-60s with Miles & Coltrane...you know all this. It offends me. I just don't like it, is all. And while I don't love everything Coltrane did after A Love Supreme, I actually do kind of like Ascension, so it's not like I have one of those 'he made all these great jazz records, but then he just started making this unlistenable noise.' Yeah, some of it sounds like unlistenable noise to me, but it's hardly Metal Machine Music (which was kind of a joke anyway), it's an artist I respect following his muse. Hell, it doesn't bother me that Wes Montgomery had to play Beatles covers because he was broke--I mean in terms of an artist sacrificing his integrity (obviously I think it's horrible that he was broke). Anyone who said that his doing so did a disservice to jazz...does a disservice to HIM. So...I do think the Miles stuff sucks, but I look at it as a case of an artist always changing, always trying new things. Doesn't always work, but I respect him for it (and Madonna, too, though I am not making a direct artistic comparison). I think it would've been great if he'd made more great jazz albums like the ones from 1955-1960, but as much as I hate fusion, I wouldn't say he did a disservice to music by not re-plowing that ground. I've told people who think he 'sold out' that while I didn't agree with that, if anyone had earned the right to sell out, it was Miles. Really, without overstating the case, did anyone ever change music as significantly as he did in as many ways as he did? If so, I don't know who the hell it was. It's easy to point to groundbreaking pioneers--Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Les Paul, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Jordan, Elvis, the Beatles, Louis Prima, Billie Holiday, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, the Ramones, et al, and of course there's hundreds I could name, but MOST of 'em only changed music in ONE very important way, sometimes two, rarely more. Now, Miles can't get the credit for bebop, but he was on board with Parker in the mid 40s; of course there's cool, while some other stuff he was doing could be considered at the forefront of hard bop (and since hard bop was begun as a counterpoint to cool, it's an accomplishment that he bridged the two), he proved to that a big label like Columbia wasn't wasting its time with jazz during a transitional time for the music; he did the modal thing, obviously; he did the fusion thing; he then added heavy funk; he did whatever he did through the rest of the 70s & 80s, which I can't speak to with much knowledge in terms of how innovative it may have been; and the last thing he did before he died was to start recording a rap record. Unlike other leaders, he WANTED not only superior players in his band, but players who had ideas that he might not have thought of, ideas that would make the music better (as opposed to, say, Cab Calloway firing Dizzy Gillespie for playing 'that Chinese music'). And I never got the sense that it bothered him that most consider his best 50s work to be something of a collaborative effort with Coltrane in some ways (as opposed to, say, a Charlie Parker record). He also, back in 1949, didn't care how it looked that he had white guys in his nonet. Maybe someone can list Les Paul's accomplishments, and perhaps he can rival Miles in this area, but then again, Les Paul's catalog has not remained a steady seller as Miles' has, either, not that that's all that important, but it's part of the equation. Sorry for the rant. I had it in me because I didn't waste it on some aficianado over on Music Lane who said the other day that he doesn't like Miles' music because he wasn't a great player.

[mad rhetorik]

I don't like most of it either, but In A Silent Way is pretty cool I think. It's complex and features electric piano and guitar, but is actually listenable unlike B-tches' Brew which followed the year after. IMO it's one of Miles' best albums. I can understand why some wouldn't like it, but to each his own.

[3LB]

I think Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree are running neck and neck.

[Finch Platte]

The Beatles- damn near all of 'em.

[luvtolisten]

Beatles
Don Henley
Who
Eagles
Springsteen
Gordon Lightfoot
Burton Cummings
Beach Boys
Jimmy Buffet
Dixie Chicks

[Finch Platte]

Burton Cummings

lLOl- what's he got, like 3 discs?

[ForeverAutumn]

I think Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree are running neck and neck.

3LB, not that I mind, but what's with the 7-yr-old thread?

[luvtolisten]

lLOl- what's he got, like 3 discs?

But they are 3 very good discs! Actually 10.

[3LB]

3LB, not that I mind, but what's with the 7-yr-old thread?

cuz why not

[ForeverAutumn]

Alright. I'll go with the flow...

Rush and REM.

[dean_martin]

big thread tent revival

went through a bootleg and rarities phase in the mid to late 90s and ended up with a lot of cds, vinyl and video from Sonic Youth, Beck, REM, Nirvana, Dinosuar Jr and Babes in Toyland. It was fun looking for boots and rarities like Peel Session recordings, fan club exclusives, etc. but much of it sounds really bad.

[Rae]

Oh good, let's play this game. I was away the first time around.

I used to be a lot more of a completist when I worked at a record store and I could come by used CDs relatively cheaply, but I've gotten rid of a lot of that stuff. At one time I'm sure I had more than 30 Tori Amos CDs, or Replacements, or Prince... now my collection is mostly vinyl. Scanning the spines on my shelf, here's who I appear to have at least a half-dozen releases from:

Harry Belafonte - 6
Elvis Costello - 6
Dillinger Four - 6
The Hidden Chord - 6
Husker Du - 6
Liars - 6
Milemarker - 6
Graham Parker - 6
Neil Young - 6
Miles Davis - 7
Simon & Garfunkel/solo Paul Simon - 7
Steve Forbert - 8
The Soviettes - 8
Bruce Springsteen - 8
The Dismemberment Plan - 9
Sicbay - 11
Bob Dylan - 12
The Lucksmiths - 12
Loudon Wainwright III - 22

~Rae

[Stone]

Pablo Cruise - 27

[GMichael]

In order (or at least to the best of my depleted memory)

Rush
Yes
Pink Floyd
Van Halen
Aerosmith
Black Saboth
Billy Joel
Kansas
Genesis
Styx
Ted Nuggent
Led Zep
Boston

[Mr MidFi]

I was going to respond to this thread, but it appears that I already did... more than 7 years ago.

The only one I'd add to the list now would be Porky Tree. I've picked up 8 of them since 2003, not counting Jar's excellent 'best of' comp. And Radiohead, which I now own 6 of.

[Jim Clark]

The Lucksmiths - 12
Loudon Wainwright III - 22

~Rae

I think I've been ignoring the Lucksmiths to my own detriment. Stone turned me on to one of their releases years ago. It's awesome but for some idiot reason I never bought any more. Stupid, huh?

jc

[Finch Platte]

Pablo Cruise - 27

Riggggghhhhhhhht.