D'Juhn Keep on 6/8/2009 at 20:12
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
I can't narrow it down to 1 band. I am too damn moody, so my tastes change faster than my socks.
I suppose I could say that Neil Young's career has touched me the most, if pressed. Great artist.
Did you even read the thread? This is a count up of all the albums/EPs you own.
Pre-emptive "I can't be bothered to do that" response: then get out
fett on 6/8/2009 at 20:58
1) Rush (21)
2) Yes (19)
3) Dream Theater (15)
4) King's X (15)
5) The Beatles (12)
6) Iron Maiden (10)
7) Sting (11)
8) Billy Joel (9)
9) Van Halen (9)
10) Metallica (8)
11) The Police (6)
12) Soilwork (5)
13) Megadeth (5)
14) Alice in Chains (5)
15) Incubus (5)
16) Extreme (5)
17) NIN (4)
18) Prince (4)
19) Sly and the Family Stone (4)
20) P-Funk/Parliment (4)
21) Muse (4)
22) Nick Fucking Cave (0)
Toss in some Gabriel, Radiohead, Galactic Cowboys, Soundgarden, U2, Train, and other shit no one's heard of before.
june gloom on 6/8/2009 at 21:01
Yes. Yes you are.
Rush are pretty great, though.
Kuuso on 6/8/2009 at 21:08
Ergh, can't count right now, but as far as I know it goes like this:
Muse
Placebo
Foo Fighters
Radiohead
Björk
fett on 6/8/2009 at 21:11
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Yes. Yes you are.
Rush
are pretty great, though.
I defy any three piece to top Farewell to Kings or Presto. They can't fucking do it. Funny thing is, I didn't realize I had every album until I counted just now. I guess that's what 20 years of CD buying does for you...
ercles on 7/8/2009 at 00:10
Really have way too much music to be bothered counting, but going off the disk space occupied by each band, two pretty clear winners emerge.
The Mars Volta (1.79 gigs)
Tool (978 megs)
Most other prolific bands that I have collected (Don Cab, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene) all weigh in at around half a gig, but these two were the obvious faves.
Stitch on 7/8/2009 at 00:46
22: Nine Inch Nails
16: Ministry
15: Skinny Puppy
14: KMFDM (erm...), Radiohead (whew!)
13: Nirvana
I stuck to stuff I actually purchased, in general, and multiple disc box sets only count once.
But yeah, that's a lot of KMFDM.
PeeperStorm on 7/8/2009 at 01:36
I wonder if it might be better to rate the acts according to the percentage of their output that you have. It seems like owning everything that was ever put out by a band that only released 3 records should count more than owning three records from a band that put out 26.
Anyway, don't ask me to give exact counts. An inventory would take
days. This is probably typical for an ex college radio dj:
1st: Frank Zappa, no contest. I have a copy of every album that he put out while he was alive, including the bootleg reissues. Additionally I have both vinyl and CD copies of all of his Warner Brothers stuff, because WB let his master tapes
rot, so he had to make new masters from scratch for the CD reissues on his own label. Oh, and a few of his albums on cassette too. For the record, the WB version of "Regyptian Strut" is much better than the reissue.
2nd: Alice Cooper. All of the albums, except for the last two which just didn't float my boat, on vinyl or CD. That includes the movie soundtracks that he contributed to, as well as the soundtrack for the
(http://uraniumcafe-the.com/2009/02/12/flash-fearless-versus-the-zorg-women-parts-5-6/) Flash Fearless vs the Zorg Women musical.
3rd: There were a bunch of groups in SF during the late 80's and 90's that were more or less one big experimental noise collective that shared their members, so I count their stuff as being one act. I've got a bunch of the cassettes (that's what they put out) from Big City Orchestra, Nux Vomica, and the rest.
4th: Alien Sex Fiend. All of their releases, plus a cassette tape with recordings of me interviewing Nick Fiend and Mrs. Fiend on two occasions.
5th: Tom Waits.
6th J.G.Thirlwell, aka Foetus and other aliases.
7th (tied, more or less): Led Zeppelin, Devo, Nurse With Wound, Oingo Boingo, Zoogz Rift, AC/DC, Laibach, Front Line Assembly.
Whew.
june gloom on 7/8/2009 at 01:53
Quote Posted by PeeperStorm
I wonder if it might be better to rate the acts according to the percentage of their output that you have. It seems like owning everything that was ever put out by a band that only released 3 records should count more than owning three records from a band that put out 26.
I think consideration should also be given to stuff like live albums, EPs, splits, singles, demos, etc.- i.e. certain rare stuff would be worth a few percentage points more than just studio albums.
Tonamel on 7/8/2009 at 01:59
This probably won't go so well with me, since I tend to buy just a few albums from a lot of artists, but let's see...
*does a bunch of counting*
Hey! Turns out I was right!
Artists I have three (3) albums by:
Boards of Canada, The Books, Dan Deacon, Conelrad, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Joanna Newsom, London Symphony Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller, Miles Davis, Nine Inch Nails, Nobuo Uematsu, Polyphonic Spree, Psapp, She, Stars of the Lid, They Might Be Giants, Tunng, Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts
Artists I have four (4) albums by:
Akron/Family, Autechre, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens
And finally, the artists I have five (5) albums by:
Animal Collective, Beirut, PDQ Bach
It's not that I have a small music collection, I just usually don't buy more than two albums from a band unless they really strike me as unique, or if they've changed up their sound enough to make it worth owning more. And a few artists would be much higher on the rankings if they'd bother releasing new albums.
