Who's the largest part of your collection?

Belle & Sebastian
The Smiths
Stereolab

 

Zeppelin by a country mile

 

The Beatles
Badfinger
Paul McCartney

 

Sun Ra.....................119 LPs/CDs
Dylan.........................45
Charles Mingus........43

No duplicates

 

I used to collect variant pressings, foreign editions and so on for quite a few bands but I’m managed to cut that down to just M and The Human League these days. In terms of individual discs/tapes those two are at the top. The others are people with substantial back catalogues; Sparks, David Bowie, Bill Nelson, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode

 

I'd never actually checked until now, but it seems the largest part of my collection is dedicated to Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, followed by Electric Light Orchestra/Jeff Lynne then Queen, with Bad Religion coming in fourth and Radiohead a relatively distant fifth - that was quite surprising, as I thought the top two would easily be the other way around! The Beatles would have rated much higher, were it not for me replacing most of their older catalogue with the remaster set, leaving just 1 and the three Anthology collections from before.

 

Grateful Dead by a huge margin, even just counting "official" releases.

Second place would be Zappa.

 

Probably Stones, especially including duplicates. 22 of the main 24 studio albums (anyone looking to sell a Virgin Undercover or Dirty Work? ) plus several duplicates here and there (actually, I just sold six of the 2009 remasters, so it's gone down a little).

Other big collections include Springsteen (all 17 studio albums), Pink Floyd (all 15 studio albums), Tom Petty (all 14 or 15, can't remember the exact number), and probably the Beatles stereo box.

 

Charlie
Led Zeppelin
Rush

 

Olivia, Kylie and ABBA. The Jackson family is up there too with Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, Elton and the Who.
If I count box sets, Beatles and the Monkees, Nilsson jump up in number of discs.
There are bands and singers I love just as much or more but they don't have the library of releases and re-releases like the others.

 

Sinatra, Beatles, Stones, Bob Marley, Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, Chicago, Ray Charles and CCR.

 

My Top 10 in the collection:

ABBA
Morbid Angel
The Beatles
Sex Pistols
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Scorpions
Slayer

 

Grateful Dead > Phish > Richard Thompson

 

The obvious band
Stones (Maybe 1st? Haven't taken a head count in awhile)
Neil Young
Willie Nelson
Nick Lowe and variants
Obvious band members' solo albums (if taken as 1, that would be the largest in my collection)

 

Pink Floyd
Grateful Dead
Flaming Lips

 

Do you have the DSoTM show that the Flaming lips did? How's it sound?

 

Sun Ra...Kapow

 

Zappa
Genesis
Yes

 

Rush (30)
Led Zep (26)
Genesis (25)
Metallica (23)

 

Well according to Collectorz (which is not necessarily complete)
Various Artists (49)
Jimmy Buffett (46)
Moody Blues (24)
Linda Ronstadt (20)
Jethro Tull (15)
Beatles (14)
Eagles, Billy Joel, Dave Mason, Dan Fogelberg (13)
Jackson Browne, Pink Floyd, (11)
Doobie Brothers, Dire Straits (10)
Kinks, Little River Band, Willie Nelson, Santana, Bob Seger, Charlie Daniels (9)
Genesis, Elton John, Marshall Tucker, Elvis, REM, Rush, several others (8)

 

Rolling Stones
NY Dolls/Thunders/Johansen
Mott the Hoople/Ian Hunter
Who/Townshend
Dylan

 

Stones, CD
Who, various hard drives

 

Beatles
Paul McCartney
John Denver
Bob Dylan
Ryan Adams

 

According to my stats at Rate Your Music:

Bill Nelson 75 (+ 15 Be-Bop Deluxe)
Elvis Costello 69
XTC 67
Frank Sinatra 51
Brian Eno 46
David Bowie 39
The Jam 35
Richard Thompson 34
Charles Mingus 30
The Kinks 30
The Beatles 30
Kate Bush 30
Talking Heads 29
Miles Davis 29
Peter Gabriel 28
Neil Young 27
Bruce Cockburn 27
Elton John 27
Japan 26
Bob Dylan 26
King Crimson 25
Squeeze 24
David Sylvian 22

But this includes every format, so singles and multiple copies are represented. Note that several artists' catalogues are not huge but I may have collected various singles 7" & 12", albums represented by the original vinyl release and a CD reissue or two. My gut feeling is that Frank Sinatra, Bill Nelson, Richard Thompson, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus are my largest music collections.

 

Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Fela
Jeff Beck
Richard Thompson
Hendrix
James Brown