Which artists and bands do you own the entire discography of?
 

Count demos, bootlegs, EPs, singles and b-sides as you wish...

Hmmm...

Pavement (5 Albums, 1 Compilation)
The Beach Boys (15 Albums, 5 Compilations, not all, but pretty much everything up until '67, and some stuff afterward)
of Montreal (1 EP, 7 Albums, I thnk Im only missing one)
Deerhunter (1 EP, 2 Albums, soon to be 3 October 28!)
Art Brut (2 Albums)
Pixies (1 EP, 4 Albums, 1 Compilation)
The Doors (6 Albums, 1 Compilation)
Led Zeppelin (9 Albums)
Jimi Hendrix (3 Albums)
Joy Division (2 Albums, 1 Compilation)
Neutral Milk Hotel (2 Albums, 1 Single)
Nirvana (3 Albums, 1 Single, 2 Live, 3 Compilation)
No Age (1 Album, 1 Single, 1 Compilation)
Jay Reatard (1 Album 2 Compilation)

* Jimi Hendrix Experience

Hendrix made another album with a band called Band of Gypsys a short while before he died. It was a complete piece of shit though, so you're not missing much.

Personally, I've got quite a few discographies, but hardly any more than 10 albums or so. The ones that are exemplary:

Miles Davis - 42 LPs, 3 or 4 compilations
David Bowie - 25 LPs (everything but Tin Machines I, II and The Labyrinth...and I don't want those ;))

I have:

All Springsteen albums save the expanded version of The Seeger Sessions and the Chimes Of Freedom EP

All Bob Dylan studio albums

Four Sex Pistols albums (NMTB, Spunk, Swindle, Burton-On-Trent)

All six Doors studio albums, plus Essential Rarities

Four Stone Roses albums (debut, Second Coming, Turns Into Stone, Complete SR)

Message In A Box (all Police related material)


I think that's it.

Now there's a man who knows absolutely nothing about Jimi Hendrix. ;) "Band of Gypsys" was an incredible piece definitely worthy of being in any collection. As for myself, I have a lot of complete discographies but my personal favorite (should be obvious after the above statement) is Jimi Hendrix. Thirty-one vinyl recordings from his official catalog plus seven bootlegs.

NMTB is the only official Sex Pistols album...everything else is bootlegs/compilations. Turns Into Stone is a compilation as well.

Compared to Axis: Bold As Love, Are You Experienced? and Electric Ladyland, yes, Band of Gypsys is a pile of utter crap. No defining tracks and everything sounds like a reiteration of his last works (which featured a much more experienced rhythm section, anyways). It doesn't even come close to his first three albums with the experience.

Among bands with larger discographies (if I count existing bands who have only released 1-3 albums, like the Strokes, Art Brut, Shins, etc, I'll be listing all day), I have complete discographies for:

Teenage Fanclub
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Velvet Underground
Suede
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
The Divine Comedy
Saint Etienne
Jesus & Mary Chain
The Cure
The Smiths
Stereolab
The Violent Femmes
The Pixies
Radiohead
The Fall (just kidding...even Mark E. Smith doesn't own every Fall album)

Urban does. Maybe not the 80+ live albums, but he's the only person that could tolerate MES for that long.

i would say about 10-20% of my collection is entire discographies... its an annoying habbit

A lot of albums would fail next to Hendrix's three originals, however calling "Band of Gypsys" **** (how come when I type it - it's edited? f*cking censorship!) is really just a matter of opinion, man (which leads me to again say you know nothing about Hendrix). For most people, the twelve minute version of "Machine Gun" is worth the price of admission alone. The excellent closing rendition of Buddy Miles' "We Gotta Live Together" is another stunner. There's more soul on "Band of Gypsys" than most bands could muster...so pile of utter crap? Far from it.



All six? I thought there were eight (not including the "American Prayer" poetry/music album). I know "Other Voices" and "Full Circle" weren't led by Morrison...but they still had some interesting material on them.

i own everything by say anything including "for sale" and "junior varsity" and
i own all of afi's stuff im pretty sure....

at one time i had every green day album but i sold them

Nahh i'm two songs short

The OP said to count bootlegs, b-sides, etc. if we wanted...I included the Pistols/Roses discs because there is some genuined Pistols material on the Swindle, and you could argue the Spunk is the only true Sex Pistols album, since it has Glen Matlock on it. Turns Into Stone might be a bunch of single tracks, but it holds up very well. Honestly, I think it might have the edge on the debut.


Well, I really don't consider those proper canon, just as most Velvets fans don't take Squeeze into account.

i was wondering why there was more than NMTB on that list...

Joy Division
Nirvana
Radiohead
Elliott Smith
Sex Pistols
The Smiths
Doors
Velvet Underground
Blur
Coldplay

I can understand that, I suppose. I'm probably a bit biased towards including their later work as canon simply because I had the opportunity to hear their last two albums at a very early age. If memory serves, I think I heard "Full Circle" before I heard either "Waiting For the Sun" or "Morrison Hotel".

oh i forgot about nirvana i have all their albums and the unplugged thing

elliott smith.
the beatles.
will oldham.
pixies.

i'm working on getting my hands on everything that's come from the elephant six collective, but that's a task from hell.

I wasn't referring to the relevance to the thread, just your nomenclature of "album". Just because a release is good doesn't qualify it as a studio album. =/

The Smiths
The Beatles
The Beastiie Boys
Beck
Radiohead
Oasis
Simon and Garfunkel

I don't think I own an entire discography by any band. Even though I love Pink Floyd, I still don't have the rare single 'Point Me At The Sky' although getting hold of the music for 'La Carrera Panamericana' was a bonus.

Close but no cigar:

Fela Kuti (16 releases)
Porcupine Tree (28 releases)
65daysofstatic (6 releases)
Black Sabbath (14 releases)
Ben Harper (8 releases)
Carter (the unstoppable sex machine) (5 releases)
Clannad (10 releases)
Crass (6 releases)
David Bowie (18 releases)
Death (6 releases)
Dreadzone (6 releases)
Elliott Smith (8 releases)
Fields Of The Nephilim (11 releases)
Hawkwind (12 releases)
Iron Maiden (11 releases)
John Martyn (10 releases)
Kate Bush (8 releases)
Megadeth (9 releases)
Pink Floyd (17 releases)
Queen (24 releases)-still never ever heard a full album by them.
Simon and Garfunkel (6 releases)
Slayer (15 releases)
The Beatles (10 releases)
The Clash (15 releases)
The Cure (11 releases)
The Notwist (6 releases)
Thievery Corporation (10 releases)
Underworld (6 releases)
Ministry (22 releases)
My Bloody Valentine (12 releases)

I have:
The Beatles (all studio albums, singles, b-sides and EPs)
Velvet Underground (all four studio albums; I don't count the last one)
The White Stripes (all six studio albums)

And a few bands with just one or two albums.

Most the bands I like have very large discographies, and I can't be bothered to get their mediocre stuff just for the sake of it.

David Bowie
Elvis Costello
Nick Cave
New Order
Talking Heads
Supergrass
Blur
Paul Weller

Led Zepplin
Elcho....they're an awesome indie band from the UK that broke up last year -__- So, not hard to collect all their stuff

PM'd.

Joy division 2 albums 3 compilations
The smiths all studio plus a couple of live and some bootlegs
The cure all albums apart from the new one yet to be released, compilations, a few eps, and many many bootlegs.
Radiohead all studio albums, plus eps and bootlegs.
The beatles all albums and some compilations
Bloc Party all albums plus remix album
Bright eyes all albums
Brittish india both albums
Yeah Yeah yeahs two albums and the is is ep
CSS two albums and ep
Cut copy albums
Daft punk albums and alive
Death Cab For Cutie all albums
Dirty pretty things - two albums
the doors - everything
The dresden dolls- three albums
Elliot smith - all albums 2 compilations
Gold frapp - all albums
The birthday party - everything
Kings of leon - all four
The strokes - 3
The libertines - both
The mars volta - all albums
Nirvana - all albums
Ratatat - all albums and a couple of mixtapes
The presets - both studio albums, a couple of eps and mixtapes
Sufjan stevens - albums
The white stripes - albums
David bowie - albums and a few compilations

heaps of other artists that just are recent or only ever released one or two albums and i have neglected to include

Queen

I'm working on The Beatles.

Almosts:
Porcupine Tree
Johnny Cash
Anberlin
Lagwagon
Placebo

Probably only Jimi Hendrix, although chances are there are some compilations that I'm missing.

The three Experience albums
Band of Gypsys
Live at Montery
Kiss the Sky compilation

Have you heard/do you have Resolve?

If not, it's a very good listen.

Only one I'm missing I'll check it out though

Dead Can Dance + solo
Finally Frank Zappa :p
Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Motorhead
Yann Tiersen

There are so many other good albums out there that were released posthumously. You should check out "The Cry of Love", "Crash Landing", "Radio One", "Blues", "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" and "South Saturn Delta" as well as his "Woodstock" set (to name but a few). Yes, Hendrix is my god (although there are hundreds of other bands I do follow). :bowdown:

Well, again, the OP said "discography," not "albums" proper. Semantics...:)


Oh, and I forgot I own both Traveling Wilburys albums (no oddball comps there!).

Sleater-Kinney are the only band in my collection with multiple studio releases that I actually like their whole discography.

Wtf? I didn't know they had 28 releases...
>.>

System of a Down (excluding singles and whatnot).
Nirvana (including the box set, excluding singles and whatnot).
Korn (excluding Mirror, which I really dislike).
Fair To Midland (first album is out of print, so I think it's fair to exclude it).
Slipknot (excluding MFKR).
Lions.
The Red Airplanes.

Not that much. :/

Haha, I never realised. I've got some downloading to do. Thanks : )

Wasn't "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" supposed to be his official follow up to "Electric Ladyland" which he died before he could finish? Is this album you speak of just demos of the material, or is it live? I must know!

I should get into the posthumous Hendrix, too much of his stuff is overplayed, which is a shame because if it wasn't, I think he'd definately be my favorite artist of the 60's.

The Radio One album is fantastic

Put that one at the top of your list :thumb: