From Which Artists Would You Buy Their Entire Discography?

If only her discography were more complete. Where's the Songs and Stories from Moby Dick album, for example?

 

Beatles /Paul McCartney
Queen
Michael Jackson
Soda Stereo / Gustavo Cerati
Los Prisioneros
The Smiths / Morrissey
The Cure
Erasure

 

Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis & Tool. Everything is awesome and I could go the rest of my life listening only to these artists.

 

None. I'm allergic to disappointment.

 

Well, if you have "Manhattan Research," you don't need "Rock 'n' Roll Symphony." Trust me.

 

Charles Mingus
Tom Waits
Steely Dan

 

as i type this i am in the process of trying acquire the catalogs on both jason isbell and the j. geils band.

not nearly as easy as one might think.

 

I forgot to add Tim Buckley and Nick Drake, both of which I’ve had since the 80’s.

 

A great personality with a lot of knowledge.
No arrogance whatsoever.

I also love how he doesn’t blow with all winds and how he gives very reasonable explanations for that.

Love to watch his clips

 

To add to my above post.
Dire Straits
Santana
Mils Davis

 

Led Zeppelin Van Halen Beatles

 

The Smiths
The Beatles
Stereolab
Cocteau Twins
Led Zeppelin
Red House Painters
Nick Drake
Julie London

 

Teenage Jesus and The Jerks.

 

The big band Coltrane stuff prior to his Prestige era is really non-essential imo. Otherwise, yes!

 

Patty Griffin doesn’t have the ups and downs of some of my other favorite singer/songwriters, so she’s my one certain nominee. Fairly sure my collection is complete. I wouldn’t mind filling in any omissions in my Bonnie Raitt collection. Don’t know if there are any. Same with Emmylou Harris.

 

Beatles
Elvis Costello
Velvet Underground
Smiths

 

Queen
Nirvana
The Beatles
The Smiths
Kraftwerk

 

You're acting like that's unusual.

 

I do have complete CD discogs of the following (official releases minus compilations)

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Rush
Yes
Genesis
Queen
U2
The Police
The Cars
Black Sabbath

...close but not there yet
The Doors (don't have the two albums without Jim)
Van Halen (don't have VHIII)
Rainbow (don't have "Stranger in Us All")
Rolling Stones (all the studio albums, no live albums)

 

Sort of an open question "worth owning". Maybe more than 50% of the artists/bands I like, I'm in for it all.

If I look around at what I have here at work now, and then a few from memory:

The Who
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Yes
Genesis
King Crimson
The Police
Deep Purple
Rainbow
Motorhead
Talk Talk
Steely Dan
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Yo La Tengo
The Cure
Cat Power
Wolf Alice
Dino Jr
The Chameleons
Joy Division
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Robin Trower
UFO
Fugazi
Robert Rich
Jimi Hendrix
Heart
Humble Pie
Beatles
Blind Faith
Cream
Oded Tzur
Frank Zappa
ZZ Top
Rush
Queen
The Cars
Van Halen
Radiohead
Jeff Buckley
Neil Young

Meh, lots more ... I'm bored now.

There's a bunch more where I didn't get the later stuff, if they changed styles, band members, etc. Styx, Journey, Stones, REM, etc.

 

Eric Dolphy

The psychedelic furs

The replacements

Tori Amos

R.E.M.

Sam Cooke

 

Dire Straits

 

Ligeti absolutely. I have all those collections on Wergo, DG, Sony (Ligeti Project) and various others on CD. But can anyone recommend any standouts on vinyl, particularly any that were never issued on CD? Of course, 2001: A Space Odyssey was the gateway drug for Ligeti. The Seattle Symphony had a series of concerts playing movie scores live, as the movie played above the stage. 2001 was quite something.

Zappa is a terrible habit too. Almost there...

My other completist-ish obsessions include The Future Sound Of London, Brian Eno, all those Miles metal box sets, and Robert Fripp (incl. KC, partnerships with Sylvian, Eno, etc.)

 

(Just saw your post now, by the way.)

See, I enjoy Rock 'n' Roll Symphony. It has little to do with rock & roll (although it's amusing to wonder if it did in some folks' minds involved with the project), little to do with symphonies (ditto), and little to do with Raymond Scott's more infamous music, but as an easy listening/pops orchestra album of jazz and pre-rock era pop standards, it's quite good in my opinion. And it does have slight touches of Scott's more characteristic work--"What Is This Thing Called Love" is a good example.

 

Not one of your usual suspects- Wet Willie. Vastly underrated. Nothing like a little southern boogie to get me going. Limit of five pictures.
1971 Wet Willie
1974 Keep on Smilin'
1975 Dixie Rock
1976 The Wetter the Better
1979 Which One's Willie?