From Which Artists Would You Buy Their Entire Discography?

Beatles
Simon and Garfunkel
Grateful Dead (Studio albums, though I have most of the official live albums too)

Jimi Hendrix (If we just count his output while he was alive, and not all of the posthumous compilations/live albums, though I have a number of each)

Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Tedeschi Trucks Band (So far, at least...)

Might find my way to all of Tom Petty’s albums, but I don’t have them all yet.

... and of course,

Blind Faith
Derek & The Dominos

 

Bee Gees

 

Japan
Talk Talk
The Smiths
Nick Drake
The Police
Porcupine Tree

I was incredibly strict with my line of thinking - no 1 album bands, no all but that one album, no insert favorite era with different lineup

Out of these, Porcupine Tree definitely is the most impressive. I love a lot of records more than the entire discography from them, but they had a run of 10 albums, multiple EPs and live albums that I would like to listen to.

 

Wonderfully eclectic list!

 

Dylan
Doors
Zep

 

I included Hendrix too, with the caveat that I don’t own every single posthumous collection. But all of the output while he was alive (Including Band of Gypsys)? Oh hell yeah.

Have a lot of Clapton, but with him but I lose interest in his 80s output. Nice Blues revival for a time in the 90s, and haven’t cared for much since. Last album I bought from him was (His collaboration with B.B.) Riding with the King. 20 years ago now!

Wanted to include the Allmans, and almost could, but the Arista years were pretty dreadful. Also missing a live album or two.

 

Even the “hot dog” album? Brave soul!

 

Renaissance
Steve Hillage
Type O Negative
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Rammstein
Albert King

 

I bought it on the day of its release. What a desappointment!
However, I listened to it and listened to it again and again.
Today, it's still one of the records I listen to because it contains what I like most about music, songs like "arrows", "house of broken dreams", "yours and mine", "haven't we lost enough", "got to keep it open" are what I love to listen.

 

Have you sought out the promo 7" "Change Of Address" single?
Edit: Also there is the officially released live Hyde Park tracks on the "The Finer Things Box Set."

 

Cream

 

How many Magic Sam releases of different material are there?

 

And I thought you would say The Rolling Stones London years

 

(not counting posthumous demos & outtakes or unauthorised live recordings )

Lightnin' Hopkins
Elmore James
Lonnie Johnson
Skip James
Arthur Crudup

 

Wow collecting Hopkins full catalogue sounds daunting.
I seem to recall a 7CD box set out some years ago that a local Sanity store kept reducing and couldn't sell as they slowly shut their doors!

 

I think I've got 6 or 7 releases including those officially unofficial live releases. I'll list them later when I've got a better handle on them. I hope you understand the delay. All my releases are on cd. There I none I have that aren't worthwhile to essential.

 

Pete Pardo's channel is great. He seems to also have a t-shirt for almost every artist as well.

 

Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Ray Price

 

The only artist I'm going for a fully complete (non-compilation) discography of is Laura Nyro. I've got all of her contemporary albums in stereo and mono where applicable, and I'm working on the singles now. Once that's done, polishing up the posthumous live releases will still take the collection to less than 50 pieces.

 

Me too. I love Deep Purple except for one album, which I have on vinyl and CD. I have two Allmans albums I will never play again and I have them on vinyl and CD.

It's a bit of a sickness and I need to get over it.

 

In keeping to my vow of poverty I've bought everything ever released by the Grateful Dead.

 

If you really mean everything (every box set, compilation, pick, road trip), that must be approaching one thousand discs by now.

 

Bob Dylan is the only artist who I have to have everything. I fell down the completist hole for several artist but clawed my way out years ago.

 

I have 'every' Prince (and related) release.

Besides that, I have a lot of (complete or nearly complete)
- Stevie Wonder
- David Bowie
- Sade
- Parliament - Funkadelic
- The Beatles
- Simon & Garfunkel
- Paul Simon
- Kate Bush
- Paul Heaton - The Housemartins - The Beautiful South
- Crowded House
- Doe Maar (dutch ska/reggae band)

 

Counting just studio albums, EPs, singles, b-sides, officially released outtakes and demos (and many that aren't officially released ; ), but not necessarily all live albums and/or compilations/best-ofs, and not counting bands I love but which only have a few albums (e.g. Bind Melon, Guns 'n' Roses), I'm a completist for:

The Black Crowes
Black Sabbath (only Ozzy albums though)
Blue Oyster Cult
Cake
Cracker
Creedence
Dire Straits + Mark Knopfler solo
Drivin' 'n' Cryin' + Kevn Kinney solo
David Gray
Kings Of Leon
Zep
Skynyrd (only with Ronnie, everything since is a joke)
Pearl Jam
Tom Petty (+ Mudcrutch)
Pink Floyd + Gilmour solo + Waters solo
Red Hot Chili Peppers
R.E.M.
Stones
Rush
Springsteen
Izzy Stradlin
Van Halen (Roth albums only - the rest are "Van Hagar," i.e. a different band, IMO)
Violent Femmes

In the case of the Stones, I buy them more out of an odd sense of obligation, given it's mostly been crap since 1981. With Springsteen, he still sometimes pleasantly surprises (as with Western Stars, and the handful of good songs on most of the albums since Tunnel Of Love), but I really only consistently listen to his '73 - '87 output.

Other bands I might have been completists for had their output not gotten so embarrassingly awful that I finally stopped buying new stuff, such as Aerosmith.