Which bands do you own a COMPLETE discography for?

[MBE]

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.

I like the Clapton singles, but they really got good in 1965. The Page era could have been great land live they were terrific then. Think About It was a great song from the last lineup.

[donald]

Complete or nearly complete collections

BeachBoys
Brian Wilson
Carl Wilson
Both Dennis Albums (bamboo boot)
Beatles
Byrds
CSN,SCNY,CN, SY, and all solo efforts but a few (no one has ALL of the Neil Young albums!)
Jefferson Airplane
Hot Tuna
Jorma Kaukonen solo
Bob Welch F/M and Solo
Grateful Dead (studio and major label release live albums)
95 percent of Joni Mitchell
John Prine

And my Kinks collection may be next to be completed.  Seems I keep picking these up as I find them on CD or Vinyl.

[dogear]

complete or nearly complete or still trying
- Beach Boys (incl. solo)
- Bruce Johnston (incl. production work)
- Terry Melcher (incl. production work)
- P.F.Sloan (incl. production work)
- Gary Usher (incl. production work)
- Gary Zekley (incl. production work)
- Curt Boettcher (incl. production work)
- VDP (incl production and session work)
- Sunrays
- Roches
- Joni Mitchell
- Randy Newman
- Dino, Desy and Billy (incl. Solo)
- Roy Wood
- Nick Lowe
- Elvis Costello
- XTC
- High Llamas
- Pearlfishers

[jmc]

Complete Studio Albums (+ other comps and live gigs):
The Beach Boys
Brian Wilson
Beck
The Beatles
The Beastie Boys
The Doors
A Tribe Called Quest
Jane's Addiction
Alice In Chains
Yo La Tengo
Gillian Welch
The Velvet Underground
David Crosby
Porno For Pyros

Nearly Complete:
The Byrds
Pink Floyd

[melissalynn]

I actually haven't found that many bands that I'm "that" interested in. I've got partial collections like crazy...but only a few 'complete' collections:

-Beach Boys
-Doors
-Bloodrock
-Monkees

and "almost complete":
-Blues Magoos
-Lovin' Spoonful
-Music Machine

[JimC1702]

I actually haven't found that many bands that I'm "that" interested in. I've got partial collections like crazy...but only a few 'complete' collections:

-Beach Boys
-Doors
-Bloodrock
-Monkees

and "almost complete":
-Blues Magoos
-Lovin' Spoonful
-Music Machine

Wow, Bloodrock!!  I was really into "D.O.A." when it came out all those years ago.  Music Machine is a goodie too!

[SloopJohnB]

- Beach Boys
- Brian Wilson
- Van Dyke Parks
- Beatles
- Mamas & Papas
- Nancy Sinatra
- Patti Dahlstrom

...and probably a few others, but these are the ones that came to mind immediately. 

[shelter]

Complete discography (bands with at least 5 studio albums only):

Beach Boys
Beastie Boys
Beatles
Brian Wilson
The Doors
Elliott Smith
Good Riddance
Ignite
Lagwagon
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
Nirvana
No Use For A Name
NOFX
Propagandhi
Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Shelter
Tiger Army
Travoltas
Vision

[lance]

Beatles
the Clash
The Cure
Split Enz
Prince
Crowded House
the Velvet Underground
REM
U2.
I actually don't have complete discographies for all of these at the moment, but I did at one time.

[dsl]

The Beatles
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
The Beach Boys (excluding SIP)
Brian Wilson
Billy Joel
Led Zeppelin
Bruce Springsteen

Currently, I'm working on Bob Dylan and The Who.

[MBE]

I've got some Billy Joel stuff. His first album Cold Spring Harbor is a favorite. Try to find the original pressing. It's not badly mastered as he says, and You Can Make Me Free is much longer turning into a Hey Jude styled jam. Great stuff.

[brianc]

Albums-proper:

Dick Dale
Beach Boys
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Byrds (including solo, and Gram Parsons)
Jimi Hendrix
Velvet Underground (plus Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico solo... not gotten the Mo Tucker solos yet)
Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell
Steely Dan
Tom Waits
Rickie Lee Jones
The Cure
Ramones (vinyl up to 1989, no CDs)
Pixies (plus Frank Black/Kim Deal solo)
Grant Lee Buffalo (plus Grant Lee Phillips solo)
High Llamas
Olivia Tremor Control (plus side-bands)
Neutral Milk Hotel (plus Jeff Mangum/Gerbils/Julian Koster)
Heavy Blinkers (plus Ruth Minikin solo)

Some of these artists, I have various comps, bootlegs, 12" singles, MP3s, CDs., etc. But that level of discography goes beyond complete, IMO.

[richardsnow]

The Beatles
The Beach Boys
The Byrds
Del Shannon
The Monkees
Simon and Garfunkel
REM ( except I don't have the new one yet)
Cosmic Rough Riders/ Daniel Wylie
McCartney
Lennon
The Smiths
Peter Sellers!

[TdHabib]

Just thought I'd add mine:

The Beatles
Macca
Lennon
Harrison
Beach Boys
BW (-Pet Sounds Live)
Fleetwood Mac (would love to have Buckingham Nicks on CD, but no dice)
Lindsey Buckingham
Flaming Lips
Neil Young (everything that's been put on CD & Time Fades Away on LP)
Steely Dan
Nick Cave
Lou Reed
Velvet Underground
Genesis
Peter Gabriel

most of The Kinks (except To The Bone and everything from Live: The Road on)
working on Paul Simon and a few others
Elvis Costello

[the captain]

Olivia Tremor Control (plus side-bands)

Even identifying all the side bands with OTC personnel is a full-time job, much less finding and buying them all.

[Wrightfan]

Pretty much just the Beach Boys and the Beatles.

I've pretty much got the whole Who discography as well.

[brianc]

Even identifying all the side bands with OTC personnel is a full-time job, much less finding and buying them all.

There was a great guide in the '90s, which made it pretty simple. After about 2000, it was all about just keeping up with the latest post-OTC releases. But I have to admit that, besides Frosted Ambassador, I really only keep up with the Will Cullen hart and Bill Doss side of that personnel.

[the captain]

See, that's just it: Sunshine Fix and Circulatory System, that's easy. But start chasing down the other dozen or so people's other bands, and then realizing they branch out into however many others ad infinitum... The Instruments, by the way, just released a new album, Dark Smaland. (Heather McIntosh leading a group with a few OTCers) Jeff Mangum sings prominent harmonies on a few tracks, as he has done for them on other albums.

[brianc]

Well, it's not just Sunshine Fix and Circulatory System, you also have two Black Swan Network releases and one Frosted Ambassador. Then the two OTC albums-proper, plus the b-sides collection. All of these are available on vinyl, except Frosted Ambassador. So nine albums.

I mean, I DO go way deeper into Elephant Six bands, which all seem to have worked with one another, in some way, shape or form, but I wouldn't consider those to be OTC albums... more like Elephant Six Orchestra albums. That can just go on and on. Although I was really into it during the first wave, from about 1996-2000. I have tons of E6 side-bands and stuff. But since that time, only a few releases really interested me, like albums by Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy. But that's just me. I'm sure there are people who have followed all of the permutations.

Oh, wait, one other OTC thing was that they backed Kahimi Karie on a bunch of tracks from her "Tilt" album, as well as having two tracks on the Sony-Japan BW tribute "Smiling Pets." Both are awesome albums.

[the captain]

I hate Smiling Pets, although I do like the two OTC tunes most. Still, not much at all. I think the best albums coming out of the E6 crew these days are Of Montreal, Instruments and Hawk and a Hacksaw, all of which don't even really resemble the old E6 stereotypes much anymore.

[the captain]

Well, it's not just Sunshine Fix and Circulatory System, you also have two Black Swan Network releases and one Frosted Ambassador. Then the two OTC albums-proper, plus the b-sides collection. All of these are available on vinyl, except Frosted Ambassador. So nine albums.

I wasn't saying that was all there were, btw. I was just saying that following those related bands could get trickier after those, which are pretty easy to find even in indie record stores. Oh, and you're missing an OTC album: the John Peel sessions album.

[brianc]

Ah, yes, I have that one too. Man, it's incredible. I actually like that Peel sessions as much as the other two. I took the time to get most of the '90s E6 stuff I love on vinyl, well, because I was stupid and got obsessed for a few years there, hating on CDs in general. That Peel sessions one was another that never hit LP.

Can't say I've followed much E6 in the past five or six years, but Of Montreal keeps getting better and better. I always considered them a second tier E6 band in the '90s, but they have gotten so incredible. "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal"... oh, man. Also, Robert Schneider's non-Pythagorean experiments were really amazing too.

[brianc]

which are pretty easy to find even in indie record stores.

I've never seen the Black Swan Network ones in any indie store, on CD or vinyl. Frosted Ambassador has gotten pretty scarce too. But, yeah, regular Sunshine Fix, Circulatory System and OTC... pretty simple.

[the captain]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[JimC1702]

Beach Boys
Beatles
Brian Wilson
Johnny Cash
Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young)