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Your top 10 Artists (ranked by # items in your collection)

gavreid

Pretty Words...
Any item - album, single, CD, paid download, bootleg, dodgy tapes, comps, etc. Doubles, triples, box sets count as a single unit. Approximately as follows...

1 Bruce Springsteen (by a country mile, about 140 :oops:)
2 Elvis Costello
3 Tom Waits
4 Miles Davis
5 Squeeze
6 Bob Dylan
7 Billy Bragg
8 The Beatles
9 Bowie
10 Cocteau Twins.
 
Normally I wouldn’t, but you caught me at the right moment (coffee in hand.) Life’s too short to rank them, but I know it will be something like

Zappa (by a country mile, about 37)
King Crimson (actually I lied - 74 when you include the Collectors’ Club releases)
Beatles
REM
Monk
Miles
Keith Jarrett
Bill Frisell
Neil Young
Mingus (down to about 10 by this stage)

Now I can sit back and wait for the first lists of 12, 20, 50, to be posted!
 
Mine is more common I'm afraid.

Genesis
Supertramp
Renaissance
Probably Mahler symphonies and then..
Pink Floyd


Then probably a soup of other stuff
 
No idea how to sort this from the Discogs site, but I suspect it would be:

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Miles Davis (pretty much everything he did, plus all the posthumous bootleg series, complete sessions boxes etc).
John Coltrane (not complete, but certainly a lot, e.g. all Prestige, all Atlantic, most of the Impulse).
Herbie Hancock (complete Blue Note, Warners & Columbia).
Keith Jarrett (complete Impulse, a lot of the ECM).
Thelonious Monk (most of it).

Glen Gould (I’ve got the huge Columbia Bach box).

David Bowie (pretty much everything, just missing some of the mid-80s stuff and not bothered about completing that period).

Lots of other things in era/career-spanning CD boxes, e.g. Beatles, Dylan, Cohen, Springsteen, Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Grateful Dead, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Dexter Gordon, Stravinsky, Boulez, etc.

Most of the above involves CD boxes to some degree as jazz aside I tend not to follow bands for full careers tending to prefer one aspect of their catalogue (usually the start). On vinyl I’d say Coltrane and Bowie were by far the biggest physical span (the Miles is largely on CD, I’ve very little vinyl there). Most on the new-wave and indie that makes up my rock collection were only around for a few albums so don’t take up much space to be complete. Even say Kraftwerk is only about 12-13 albums or so, a drop in the ocean compared to Miles, Coltrane or Jarrett!

PS Edit to add pic of the sheer extent of Miles on CD! The Prestige albums box is tucked behind the various complete boxes. I’m really only missing the Complete Plugged Nickel box, and that’s a tough one to find at a good price.
 
...Frank Sinatra
I have the magnificent 21CD Sinatra - the Capitol Years box, which really should be enough to put him halfway up my list. But sadly there is a cardboard box around all the individual CDs, so under the thread rules he only scores one - putting him at the same level as (quick scan of shelves) ZNR.
 
Leaving classical music aside, as a rough estimate:

Half Man Half Biscuit
David Bowie
Bob Dylan
Julian Cope
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Neil Young
Stevie Wonder
Fairport Convention
Zappa/Mothers of Invention

Very few box sets, apart from the Dylan ‘Biograph’ compilation and a four-CD Zappa set.
 
I have the magnificent 21CD Sinatra - the Capitol Years box, which really should be enough to put him halfway up my list. But sadly there is a cardboard box around all the individual CDs, so under the thread rules he only scores one - putting him at the same level as (quick scan of shelves) ZNR.

I have a lot of his mono albums, and some later on his Reprise label, mostly stereo.

I think I have a triple album of his, but no box sets.
 
(spot the ones influenced by Mrs hc25036 and Miss hc25036!)

Frank Zappa (by a mile)
Richard Thompson
Captain Beefheart
Van der Graaf Generator
Kate Rusby
Rory Gallagher
Neil Young
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
Dougie MacLean
 
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Stone the Crows
Sleaz Band
Deacon Blue
The Associates
Hipsway
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Incredible String Band
The Corries
John Martyn
Goodbye Mr. McKenzie
 
(spot the ones influenced by Mrs hc25036 and Miss hc25036!)

Frank Zappa (by a mile)
Richard Thompsom
Captain Beefheart
Van der Graaf Generator
Kate Rusby
Rory Gallagher
Neil Young
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
Dougie MacLean

(spot the ones influenced by Mrs hc25036 and Miss hc25036!)

They're Dougie Maclean and Kate Rusby...:cool:
 
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But seriously...by sheer numbers it's something like
Coltrane
Miles
Sinatra
Van
Bowie
Prince
Beatles
Duke
Parker
Armstrong
 
I have about 10 albums of a fair number of artists in my collection. Off the top of my head:

Guided By Voices
Mountain Goats
Frontier Ruckus/Matthew Milia (only 7, but Milia's in his early 30's)
Teenage Fanclub
Superchunk
Black Flag/Henry Rollins
Bevis Frond
Flaming Lips
Young Fresh Fellows
Tom Waits
Neil Young
 
Zappa
Durutti Column
Dead Can Dance
Can
Eno
Beefheart
Banco da Gaia
Van der Graaf Generator
Popol Vuh
Carbon Based Lifeforms
 
Leonard Cohen
Loudon Wainwright III
Roy Harper
Chris Rea
Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
J J Cale
David Bowie
Frank Sinatra
The Eagles
 


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