Looking for fellow prong-ies here who have quite a substantial collection of output by any one artist/band.
If you have literally truckloads of albums by a particular band or whatever…share the wealth with us.
Mine would probably be:
Melvins (18)
Nurse With Wound (15)
Merbow (15)
John Zorn (12)
Sonic Youth (12)
That’s not much…I know. A friend of mine owns over 50 Merzbow and 40 John Zorn related cds. But anyway…I have a more substantial vinyl collection than he does does.
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Neubauten - tonnes.
Nick Cave - Ditto
David Bowie - Ditto
Oh! OK. Cool topic.
Merzbow 23
The Cure 20
The Beatles 20
Mike Patton (related projects) 23
Also have a heap of Aphex Twin and Bill Laswell stuff that I’ve literally lost count of. Same goes for Neubauten too.
The only notable pile of records I own in my collection is the 25 Fields Of The Nephilim albums (including bootlegs)
I’m not going to go down into the basement and count it all, but if you add up cds mp3s and vinyl the top names are probably:
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
Current 93
Marilyn Manson
KMFDM
The last two I no longer have much interest in collecting, though.
counted: Legnedary Pink Dots + related = 93 total.
man, I’m still missing TONS of stuff too.
probably the Cult.
I have over 30 Ministry releases, not including side projects. A similar amount of Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, etc.
Shoot, when I had the money:
DHR/Alec Empire
Aphex Twin
Skinny Puppy
Ministry
NIN
anything Chris connelly
KMFDM
Pigface
Phil Western
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Zappa - 25
Miles Davis - 74
The Cure - 20
The Fixx - 37
Simple Minds - 47
Skinny Puppy - 37
U2 - 43
Trisomie 21 - 30
Siouxsie & The Banshees - 27
New Order - 34
Nitzer Ebb - 27
John Coltrane - 53
Cabaret Voltaire - 34
Smiths - 19
Wire - 17
R.E.M. - 22
Rush - 28
Pink Floyd - 25
Ministry - 38
Iron Maiden - 21
Killing Joke - 34
Journey - 26
Front Line Assembly - 41
242 - 20-something, a little un-organized at the moment
LPD - 31
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well over 100 ministry and related relases+ roughly a dozen or so vinyls
Misfits/Samhain/Danzig 39 +Samhain Box and a first edition Coffin + limited edition how the gods kill box with puffy 3d giger cover+ two lost tracks of Danzing one in the normal font and one still sealed in the fucked up “groovy” font + roughly a dozen or so vinyls
Guns N Roses-35 +6 vinyls+ 3 3" CDs
Jello/Dead Kennedys 32+ roughly a dozen or so vinyls
Rage Against the… 32 +3 Vinyls
Slash related projects-14 (Velvet… and …Pit -not counting guns)
Primus- 12
Circle Jerks- 8
Late,
grmpymrf
Ministry definitely has put the biggest dent in my pocketbook, with seventeen physical releases. I own every Type O Negative album, with a few singles and compilations thrown in, as well. Skinny Puppy, Black Sabbath, Pigface, KMFDM, and Paradise Lost all come somewhere in third place.
Depeche Mode - 59 (includes the 36 singles released in DMBX 1-6)
KMFDM - 43
Smashing Pumpkins - 33
The Cure - 32
Marilyn Manson - 29
Nine Inch Nails - 29
Ministry - 28
There’s always more to collect though. These are the artists that I currently own 20+ releases of (according to WMP). All on physical media (CD) later converted to mp3 for iPhone/Car. Actual CD numbers are higher due to multipart singles and multidisk albums/different versions.
Some of my rare things…
Depeche Mode - X1 + X2
KMFDM - Trust
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (6 track UK CD)
Pig - Shit For Brains (CD)
I’d probably say Sly & Robbie due to the truck loads of records they play riddim section on?
As for others… Justin Broadrick’s stuff, Melvins & Ministry/Lard/Cocks…
well over 100 ministry and related relases+ roughly a dozen or so vinyls
That’s REALLY crazy.
REALLY.
I think I own maybe 6 or 7 Ministry…INCLUDING side projects.
Guns N Roses-35 +6 vinyls+ 3 3" CDs
What did you think of Chinese Democracy?
I had a listen online and thought it pretty forgettable - not TERRIBLE but forgettable nonetheless.
Rage Against the… 32 +3 Vinyls
Oh dude…I can’t STAND them. Sorry!
I own 3125 Chaka Khan records. I have no room in my apartment for anything other than my massive Chaka Khan collection. I do not shower as the bathtub is filled with fabulous Chaka Khan albums.
It is true that I rule!
[reply]well over 100 ministry and related relases+ roughly a dozen or so vinyls
That’s REALLY crazy.
REALLY.
I think I own maybe 6 or 7 Ministry…INCLUDING side projects.
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You realize this forum caters to obsessives, right?
I’ve got almost 7 hours of Ministry on my ipod - all b-sides, live tracks, remixes, unreleased tracks, etc.
I can’t do counts easily unless they fill a 30xCD long box or more. That said off the top of my head artists who do:
Killing Joke
Justin K Broadrick (jesu/Godflesh/Techno Animal/final/ICE…etc)
Bob Mould (Husker Du/SUGAR/solo)
Aidan Baker (Nadja/solo)
Beatles
Pink Floyd
Rush
There’s a couple that fall just shy of their own boxes tho… Mark Lanegan/Screaming Trees, NIN, Clutch and Napalm Death are all headed for a 30+ cd mark… Ministry w/ Sideprojects etc is close as well.
Generally, if i like a band, i own their discography. That’s hard to do but I just have to own the songs, I’m not obsessive about promo’s/singles etc, if the tracks are comp’d etc. I don’t need doubles of any kind - just every cut.
Mine are pretty much the same as what’s been said so far, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, NIN, KMFDM, etc…
My largest however is Ozzy/Black Sabbath stuff.
I have every Sabbath album with Ozzy on vinyl, cassette and cd. Also own the Black Box set of Sabbath as well. And I have all Ozzy albums up to Live and Loud on cassette, have them all on cd, (sometimes twice with the remastered stuff), and a few of them on vinyl.
What did you think of Chinese Democracy?
I had a listen online and thought it pretty forgettable - not TERRIBLE but forgettable nonetheless.
It’s ok… I suppose. I don’t know about “forgettable” but we’ll see how often I listen to it in a year or two. I have had the Leaked demos for a couple of years and they are ok…I actually prefer some of the demos over the finished product.
But over all, to answer your question… I don’t care for it as a Guns N Roses record. It’s pretty good Pop music in the vein of Lincoln Park and other such bubble gum bands. But as a Guns Record, it’s not that good… The chord progressions are pretty decent on about half of the songs but there isn’t one solo on that record that isn’t stale! I would imagine the guys that laid down the solos never even heard the songs… I would imagine Axl just said, “hey, lay down a bunch of solos in the Key of E at 100 bpm.”
My “favorites” include (in this order)
Better
Madagascar
IRS
Catcher in The Rye
Street of Dreams
This I Love (Only for the Piano. I love piano music!!! his lyrics sound like a damn nursery rhyme!)
It’s too bad you can’t get into RATM…Tom Morello is pretty bad ass with the guitar noises he comes up with and De La Rocha has a pretty strong social Conscience (which i happen to agree with, which probably makes it easier to listen to) I love the anger in the Zacks voice if he’s faking it, he’s a damn good actor!
Late,
grmpysmrf