Which bands do you own a COMPLETE discography for?

[NightHider]

Wondering what other artists the folks on this board are really serious about besides the Beach Boys?


I own COMPLETE collections (STUDIO albums) for:

Beach Boys
Pink Floyd
Alice Cooper
Beatles
Rollings Stones
Led Zeppelin
Ronnie Lane
Blue Oyster Cult
Captain Beyond
Stray Cats
James Gang
ACDC
Tom Petty
David Gilmour
Roger Waters

[SG7]

Beach Boys
Stereolab
Of Montreal
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Wondermints

[Fun Is In]

Beach Boys
Beatles
REM
T-Bone Burnett
Miles Davis
Decemberists

[Loaf]

How is 'complete discography' being defined? Do you own every BBs single, even the foreign picture sleeve issues and every greatest hits ever released? Or do you just mean the main studio albums, not including multiply-reissued material? Every officially released studio recording? Albums and/or singles?

If it's the former, then there is no band's catalogue i own 'everything' of.

But I do own every proper album by:
BBs/Brian Wilson
Blind Melon
Jefferson Airplane
Beatles
Gillian Welch
Kula Shaker
Stephen Stills

[Aegir]

I'm not counting the bands that have only released one album.

Beach Boys
Commander Venus
Danzig
The Dresden Dolls
Nick Drake
The Misfits
The Moon
The Turtles

Loaf, do you have Just Roll Tape by Stephen Stills?

[NightHider]

How is 'complete discography' being defined? Do you own every BBs single, even the foreign picture sleeve issues and every greatest hits ever released? Or do you just mean the main studio albums, not including multiply-reissued material? Every officially released studio recording? Albums and/or singles?

If it's the former, then there is no band's catalogue i own 'everything' of.

We are talking about STUDIO albums only - live albums or singles not included.

[NightHider]

How is 'complete discography' being defined? Do you own every BBs single, even the foreign picture sleeve issues and every greatest hits ever released? Or do you just mean the main studio albums, not including multiply-reissued material? Every officially released studio recording? Albums and/or singles?

If it's the former, then there is no band's catalogue i own 'everything' of.

But I do own every proper album by:
BBs/Brian Wilson
Blind Melon
Jefferson Airplane
Beatles
Gillian Welch
Kula Shaker
Stephen Stills

Hey Loaf - I own most  of the Hot Tuna albums by Jefferson Airplane alumni and really love those but I have no J.A  in my collection.  Which J.A. album do you recommend as their best?

[Malc]

The Beach Boys (plus all solo stuff of course)
Jan & Dean
Hondells .. and various other surf bands
The Monkees
The Eagles
The Association
Fleetwood Mac
Bread
Mamas & Papas
Abba
Toto (well, apart from the latest 'live' offering)

... plus a few more I'm sure, but just can't recall at present (or perhaps no longer wish to ... The Partridge Family anyone !!  )

[8o8o]

The Beach Boys
Pink Floyd
Nick Drake
Lee Hazlewood
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beatles
Buffalo Springfield
Gram Parsons
Radiohead
Talk Talk
The Band
Townes Van Zandt
Gene Clark
Big Star
Emitt Rhodes
John Lennon
George Harrison
Jeff Buckley
Joy Division/New Order
Love
My Bloody Valentine
David Bowie
The KLF
Nirvana
Scott Walker
Steely Dan
The Who
The Sonics
The Jam
The Smiths
Wilco

[PongHit]

Beach Boys
Brian Wilson
Tom Waits
Raymond Scott
Soul Coughing
Mike Doughty
Camper Van Beethoven
Monks Of Doom
Kraftwerk
Devo
Bauer
Towa Tei
Arling & Cameron
Fay Lovsky
The Bran Flakes
Kaleidoscope
Wendy & Bonnie
Beastie Boys
The Lounge Lizards

[Mahalo]

Joy Division/New Order

 

[MBE]

Beach Boys (plus solo)
Elvis Presley
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jan And Dean (plus solo)
Bob Dylan
Beatles (plus solo)
The Who (plus most solo)
Ike and Tina Turner (plus Ike solo)
The Rolling Stones (plus most solo)
James Brown
Jackson Five (plus all brothers solo)
Small Faces (plus anything with Steve Marriott)
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition (plus solo)
Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens
Johhny Burnette Trio
Jimmy Orion Ellis
Charlie Rich
Roy Orbison
Yardbirds
Creation
Ozzy Osbourne (including all his Black Sabbath)

[Sheriff John Stone]

I own COMPLETE collections (STUDIO albums) for:

Blue Oyster Cult

Way to keep the faith! I bowed out after Some Enchanted Evening....

[the captain]

A lot of bands, including a bunch that most people here don't like.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

All of the BB solo albums.
Pink Floyd
Stone Temple Pilots
Garbage
Led Zeppelin
Depeche Mode
Yardbirds
Foo Fighters
Jeff Beck...hell, Rod Stewart too (don't shoot me)
Elton John
2pac
Eminem
Nirvana
New Order (except that last thing they did, without Gillian Gilbert)

[MBE]

What's your favorite Yardbirds lineup. Mine is with Beck

[peerke]

Beatles, Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, Jeffrey Foucault & Kelly Jo Phelps.

[NightHider]

I own COMPLETE collections (STUDIO albums) for:

Blue Oyster Cult

Way to keep the faith! I bowed out after Some Enchanted Evening....

Yes Sheriff, I have to grit my teeth on a few of them, but I really found Heaven Forbid and Curse of the Hidden Mirror a semi-return to form.  Nonetheless, Dharma always provides great guitar...

[punkinhead]

-beach boys
-beatles
-radiohead

[PhilCormier]

Beach Boys
Brian Wilson
XTC
Stew/The Negro Problem
Morphine
Joy Zipper
Wondermints
Beatles
Letters To Cleo
Beck

[Mahalo]

New Order (except that last thing they did, without Gillian Gilbert)

I bought that album, and I tried, and I tried, and I TRIED to dig it....but I couldn't. They lost their edge. I love Gillian though....she really contributed to the feel of the music with her amazing 80's keyboarding and synthesizing....did I mention that I love her?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

It was absolutely terrible.

What's your favorite Yardbirds lineup. Mine is with Beck

Beck for me too. I'm not as crazy about the Clapton era as others are. However, I will say the the Page lineup was the bestas far as  live performance... shame that the material was so weak at that point.

[Loaf]

Re: Stephen Stills.
I have Just Roll Tape, and it's a fascinating document. The sound quality is excellent. Half the songs on it have not been released, and though you can kind of see why, they are much better than the unreleased demos from the Buffalo Springfield box set. It's also great to hear an early version of Treetop Flyer. The 'Stills Alone' version doesn't cut it (that electro-acoustic sound is half the problem...for a guy with an extensive collection of Martin acoustic guitars, he sure manages to get a sucky electro-acoustic sound).

But if you ever hear Stills' King Biscuit Flower Hour solo show from '75-76, that is probably the definitive Treetop Flyer.

Re: Jefferson Airplane.
My personal favourite album is 'After Bathing at Baxter's' which i own several times, but that is their most psychedelic and 'far out' album. If you're a Hot Tuna fan, you might prefer a later album where Jorma gets more songwriting credits. 'Volunteers' is their last great album as a band, and has Jorma's version of Good Shepherd. If i remember correctly, 'Bark' has a song on it called Wild Turkey, that Jorma originally demoed with David Crosby and the Dead during their 1970 jam sessions. i like that one too.

Jorma's best playing has to be on Embryonic Journey from 'Surrealistic Pillow'. Solo acoustic. One guitar, though it sounds like three.

The JA splinter projects of the early 70s were better than the JA albums, albums like 'Blows Against The Empire', which has one of David Crosby's best co-writes Have You Seen the Stars Tonight. Spacy in all senses of the word (or at least three of them).

[8o8o]

New Order (except that last thing they did, without Gillian Gilbert)

I bought that album, and I tried, and I tried, and I TRIED to dig it....but I couldn't. They lost their edge. I love Gillian though....she really contributed to the feel of the music with her amazing 80's keyboarding and synthesizing....did I mention that I love her?

Their last two albums actually were recorded without Gillian, "Get Ready" (2001) and "Waiting For The Sirens' Call" (2005). But I agree, especially "Waiting..." is an uninspired mess. "Get Ready" has some good songs on it, but it's too long, and nowhere near as good as their earlier work with Gillian. But they split up last year, a wise decision......

[Sheriff John Stone]

I own COMPLETE collections (STUDIO albums) for:

Blue Oyster Cult

Way to keep the faith! I bowed out after Some Enchanted Evening....

Yes Sheriff, I have to grit my teeth on a few of them, but I really found Heaven Forbid and Curse of the Hidden Mirror a semi-return to form.  Nonetheless, Dharma always provides great guitar...

I'll have to check out those two albums...And you're right about Buck Dharma (Don Roeser); he has to be among the most underrated musicians. You rarely see his name mentioned these days when the topic of "great guitarists" comes up. But it should!