2. music
  3. 156469-118236

Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer

I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.

Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.

Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.

Mike
skyscraper
geoffkait's avatar
geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
Sun Ra rocks. I just ordered Concert for the Comet Kahoutek on CD the other day. 
michaellent's avatar
michaellent
193 posts
 
ZAPPA.
I have  more than 70 Zappa and a few related LPs.  (Flo and Eddie, grandmothers of invention....) Zappa released +/-100 albums before he passed. The family has released a lot more since then.
I have more than one copy of walkajawaka, uncle meat, orchestral favorites, 200 Motels and my favorite, Sleep Dirt.  I bought Freak Out in 1968 from the cut-out-bin when I worked at JC Penney. I was just 18 yrs old. It was $3.88, a lot of cash when min pay was $1.00.   It's mono - no longer playable but I still have it. I had a portable record player. I would lie on the floor and put the speakers next to my ears and Blast. What... Ugh, I can't hear you?

Why do you think I got the nickname Bent?
marlin38's avatar
marlin38
20 posts
 
Another Grateful Dead entry here.  I've got all of the Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, miscellaneous live releases, box sets - plus all of their other studio releases.  Some of the releases aren't exactly reference level listening, since they were mastering live to cassettes in the 80's.  But some of the recordings made by Owsley "Bear" Stanley in the 60's/70's, Bob & Betty Cantor in the 70's are still stunning recordings by any measure.  It makes me still want to have an HDCD option via CD player or DAC, just on the off chance that it actually *does* bring a little higher level of performance on the discs that are encoded with it.  The Grateful Dead might be the only band still mastering CDs with HDCD encoding.  They started back in the middle of the Dick's Picks run, and have continued on.  Additionally, now they also using the Plangent system to correct for tape speed variations.
mitchagain
443 posts
 
The Beatles; Lloyd Cole (+ Commotions); The Kinks (+ Ray Davies);
Joni Mitchell; Morrissey (+ Smiths); Richard Thompson & 
Paul Westerberg (+ Replacements).

@Marlin38: + 1 on HDCD recordings!
hshifi
572 posts
 
Hello,
Pink Floyd
Elton John
Depeche Mode

I know I am all over the place. I never really listened to Floyd until 2016 when my best friend let me borrow his record player and some albums. He had a 1970 something The Wall and a Mofi recording of DSOTM. I have a nice system so when I heard The Wall played all the way through I was hooked. I had to give it back to him in 2018 so I bought my own player and expect recordings of his two Floyd records. I own those two albums in so many formats and recordings. Pink Floyd got me into LPs. I’m sure others could say the same except it happened to me in 2016 when I was 46 years old. 
More to discover