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This may only be interesting as a comparison to those of us who buy albums in less than 100s at a time and should be in the context of total collection size (500 in my case), but:
I was just listening to my latest Count Basie, "Kansas City Seven" (not to be confused with And The Kansas City Seven) and thinking, onc again, this may be my favorite so far. So I counted'm.
Count Basie: 22
Emmy Lou Harris: 13
No other had more than 8, Joni Mitchell and the rest of Pop and Jazz, a handful each, at best.
Classical honors, a tie, Beethoven and Brahms with 13 apiece, counting multiple records sets as one album.
Follow Ups:
With 52 titles as Neil Young or with Crazy Horse. That doesn't include anything by Buffalo Springfield or CSNY. I can't be bothered figuring out how many LP's that might be as a number of them are box sets.
It actually surprised me, I didn't realize I had that many. He's made a lot of records!
Well, three 60 cm shelves. Box sets take up more space than single records. The almost complete cantatas, 42 box sets alone. Too many records, too little time!
"The torture never stops"Greetings Freek.
over 20 "stately" sides? : )Actually, I've found quite a bit of HIP (and non-HIP) Bach on Lp which I really enjoy, esp. Collegium Aureum (sp) performances.
I was worried it would all be super slo-mo.
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I have a lot of both, but not sure how many.
Dave
Only kidding: Actually, having kids one gets sick and tired of seeing Nutcracker performances Christmas time.I had a surplus of Diana Krall albums. They were my demo albums for a long time. Billy Holliday sounds good on a AM radio, but not Diana! [Forgot, we're talking vinyl only ;-]
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I have the complete Beatles collection (including the picture discs and colored LP's), but it's probably Miles Davis at my house. My guess is about 125 LP's from Miles alone. Now I'm building a Count Basie and Duke Ellington collections. I suspect I have about thirty to forty Dave Brubeck LP's, and constantly build on that group as well.
gary
Gary
Woody Herman - 42; Art Pepper - 35; Sonny Rollins - 22; Phil Woods - 22. Many others with more than 10: Louis Armstrong, Kenny Burrell, Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Shorty Rogers, Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, Bob Marley, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Scott Hamilton, Sonny Stitt, Gerry Mulligan, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Sviatoslav Richter, Lee Konitz and Freddie Hubbard.
Here are my top 30. This includes duplicates.
Beatles 78
Rolling Stones 62
Tangerine Dream 49
Emerson Lake & Palmer 49
Pink Floyd 46
King Crimson 44
Led Zeppelin 43
Jethro Tull 42
McCartney, Paul 41
Zappa, Frank 40
Rush 40
Grand Funk Railroad 39
AC/DC 37
Electric Light Orchestra 37
John, Elton 34
Yes 34
Mott The Hoople 33
Deep Purple 33
Queen 33
Gentle Giant 32
UFO 30
Moody Blues 30
Schulze, Klaus 29
Who 29
Genesis 28
Bowie, David 27
Steeleye Span 26
Black Sabbath 23
Supertramp 22
Golden Earring 22
It would be a close call among those 3.
Sarah Vaughn would be 4th.
Most records? I have well over 100 by the following artists:
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.
In the case of Crosby and Sinatra, I have a lot of 78s, over 150 by Crosby and about 90 by Sinatra. Tons of Elvis LPs, singles, and EPs.
Looking at the most music, that would have to be Bob Dylan. In addition to about 50 Dylan LPs, I have numerous 7" singles, CDs and countless hours of bootleg concert recordings on cassette tape, CD-R and MP3.
Aside from these artists there's many others well represented in my collection such as Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Doris Day, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, to name a few.
... the leaders in all 4 of the major food groups.
Pretty much everything XTC and the members put on vinyl; the others, just really substantial numbers. It helps that they all have pretty big catalogs, and that I tend to like all phases of their respective careers.
His music on ECM vinyl is top of the pick for me and makes a clear case for the superiority of well recorded music on vinyl.
nt
Just did a survey, and the results at least partly surprised me! Here are my top 8:
L.v Beethoven: 32
J.S Bach: 23
S. Rachmaninov: 23
D. Shostakovich: 22
Pink Floyd: 19
J. Brahms: 19
R. Vaughan Williams: 18
W.A. Mozart: 18
I didn't realise I had so many DSCH or RVW.
This includes duplicates (CD and LP, or in a couple of cases, two vinyl copies)
Alex
Miles Davis - 49
Count Basie -33
Ellington -33
Monk -33
Jazdoc
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I would have to answer Robert Fripp- between all of the King Crimson, and then the individual projects:no exposure; no pussyfooting, I advanced masked, here comes the flood, let the power fall, league of gentlemen, league of crafty guitars, I probably have 23 pieces of vinyl and a few CDs, after that, bach, Purcell or Handel .
Probably Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention along with the Beach Boys, Miles Davis...
Those represent my top holdings. By Roxy Music related, I mean Bryan Ferry solo as well as Eno, Manzanera, Wetton, etc.
Grab 'em whenever I find 'em. Built an annex to the house to store 'em.
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nt
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
nt
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Sandy Denny, Vaughn Williams
recorded players in all of jazz, when considered as leader or sideman, and definitely one of my favorite players of all!
but if had to guess. In classical probably Beethoven, followed by Bach, Stravinsky is there somewhere, and Rimsky, But i have too much classical all together. Jazz probably Goodman, i keep finding it all over the place. other stuff is harder to judge.
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
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"E burres stigano"
1000's of hours of Dead, Bob is probably pushing 200hrs, Miles is limited to "official releases".
Basie, Neil Young and then Miles.
Relax, have a Founder's Double Trouble IPA and listen to Saints & Sinners...
If you count individual albums, then Chris Hogwood's Mozart traversal with the AAM might win out.
Jeff
"Decaf is for cowards."
Jack Kevorkian
How does one forget about Zappa? I'm not at home right now so I can't count them but I may actually have more Zappa albums than Beatles or Ellington.
I'll take all of them :).
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
NOT a chance in HELL!! ;-)
Actually I have few Zappa albums which aren't my cup of tea, but I keep them around because I'm something of a completist.
Thanks for the offer though.
What is it that causes one to be a completist. I too am afflicted!
Dylan, Stones, Brubeck and Davis.
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Including vinyl, tapes, CDs. Probably more by Miles and Mulligan.
Love Art Pepper, but I probably have only 6 to 10 of his LPs (no tapes or CDs).
I did a more detailed count and came up with the following:
* 25 vinyl 12" at 33 1/3 rpm
* 1 vinyl 10" at 33 1/3 rpm
* 1 vinyl 12" at 45 rpm
* 14 CDs
* 1 open reel tape
* 1 commercial cassette
The 45 rpm and open reel tape are dupes of ones on 33 1/3. One CD duplicates an LP.
There are also several Jazz Alive broadcast performances by Art Pepper groups that I captured on cassette and open reel tape during the 70s.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
It's taken me the better part of 60 years to collect them. And I probably shouldn't mention the Bill Evans agglomeration :-)
still...
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
7 - The Animals, Allman Brothers Band, The Guess Who, James Cotton, Johnny Cash, Midnight Oil, North Mississippi Allstars, Patty Griffin, Rod Stewart
8 - Bob Seger, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Winter, Laura Nyro, Paul McCartney (include with Wings), Wilco, The Yardbirds, Yo La Tengo
9 - Butthole Surfers, CSNY, Elton John, The Jayhawks, Jeff Beck, John Mellencamp, PJ Harvey, Rocket From the Crypt, Talking Heads, Tom Petty
10 - AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton, Iggy (plus Stooges), New Model Army
11 - Fleetwood Mac, Al Green, Lynyrd Skynyrd, MC5, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Steve Earle
12 - The Black Crowes, The Doors, Drive By Truckers, Santana, Van Morrison, Richard Thompson
14 - Jefferson Airplane (20 if include Jefferson Starship), Lucinda Williams
16 - The Who, The Beatles
19 - Pink Floyd
21 - Bob Dylan
22 - Rolling Stones
37 - Led Zeppelin
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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We must have similar tastes. Count Basie #1 with Joni #2. If we include CD's., I'd say Richard Thompson, Greg Brown, Patricia Barber.
Firesign Theater.
..nothing too earth shattering there.
See ya. Dave
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On the classical side, naming conductors rather than composers I would imagine I have more music conducted by Ansermet than any other conductor.
This is a little embarrassing but due to a run in with nearly the entire Command label output at a thrift once, I probably have more Enoch Light records than any other artist.
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upwards of 80 IIRC
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
nt
I have more Neil Young albums (24) or Bruce Cockburn (19) than another artist or group. After those two, without going to the shelves and counting,it's most likely...
Emmylou Harris, or
Boz Scaggs, or
The Stones, or
Eric Clapton, or
Ry Cooder, or
The Beatles, or
Ryan Adams, or
Marshall Tucker, or
Fleetwood Mac or...
Regards,
Tom
Tom
Then Bach, Mozart & Chopin.
For performers, George Benson, Eroll Garner, Ella Fitzerald, Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter, Frank Sinatra, Carol King/James Taylor, Bill Evans and Ramsey Lewis.
At one point, decades ago, I was seriously attempting to own everything by Mingus and Miles on record. I didn't succeed, but I sure have some rare records now.
In the last decade it has been Chopin and Beethoven. I have several sets of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and the complete Chopin piano music by Garrick Ohlsson. The Ohlsson set is 13 or 14 CDs by itself and I have another dozen CDs of the same music by other pianists. I have a few sets of the complete Mozart piano sonatas and a couple of sets of the Hayden sonatas and a couple of sets of Shubert's complete piano music.
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"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
Without counting I'd say I have at least 30 Monk LPs. And for Miles certainly more than 20. Mingus, only about a dozen or so.
I also have at least 20 Brubeck albums (hey, how'd he get in here?)
Then there are maybe a dozen for the Kingston Trio but that was from high school and college days. blues4ever, were you pulling our collective legs there?
The thing for me is with most artists I'm content with one or two of their albums. I just don't find enough interest for what to my ears is largely duplication. Now I'm sure some may question my love for Monk based on that. All I can say is I like hearing the same number on maybe ten different albums because each is a little different, and I love whatever he does. There are just not many artist that I own more than half-dozen of their records -- Beefheart, Dylan, Doors, Talking Heads, Armstrong, Basie, Mulligan, Getz, Weather Report.
Obviously I'm excluding classical composers here.
"You can’t know what the “best” is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn’t any such thing." HP
The first album I ever bought was "College Concert"; it was the second album of the second iteration of The Kingston Trio. It was the spring of 1962 when I was 13 years old. I have a ton of Kingston Trio on vinyl, quite a bit of their music on CD and some on DVD.
As a matter of fact, I'm listening "Make Way!" by the first iteration of the Trio right now. I still like those guys.
Never got tired of their spirit, humor and harmonies.
Somewhere I posted my attempts to connect with Nick Reynolds to express my appreciation and hear his stories. A few things interfered and then suddenly it was too late. He lived about 20 miles from me.
"You can’t know what the “best” is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn’t any such thing." HP
..........I saw the Trio in concert at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico when Nick was still playing with them. It was one of the best and most fun concerts I ever attended. I think Nick had retired back in the 70's or 80"s, then rejoined the group in the 90's, then retired again late in the 90's.
I lived about two hours away in Las Cruces, NM. My band mate Bob and I drove over after work (the concert was on a weekday; Tuesday sticks in my mind but I'm not too sure). After the concert, Nick, Bob and George were available at a local night spot to autographs and mingling for a few bucks a pop. I did't want to stay because I had to be at work at 6:00 AM the next morning, so we passed on the chance. I kick myself in the ass to this day for not staying for the get-together.
I've seen the Trio probably 6-8 times since then, but Nick had re-retired by then. I always thought he would have been a lot of fun to talk to.
His son Josh posts occasionally at the Kingston Trio Place on the internet.
A good book is "The Kingston Trio on Record" by Benjamin Blake, Jack Rubeck and Allan Shaw. However, I'm not to sure it's in print anymore.
Can't believe I have that many Herbies. Embarrassing!
Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and The Beatles. Probably in that order.
nt
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Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
I acquire lots of albums, but I am always thinning out my collection to the one's I like enough to listen to at least a couple of times a year. Once I spent three years putting together a 63 Fleer baseball set. I even built a special box to keep it in. Then when I had it all it board me so I sold it. I'm just not a collector, if I don't use it often or in this case listen to it often then I don't keep it long. I have friends who keep everything and they don't get me and I don't get them, but we're still friends.
Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
I used to play a clarinet and I fell in love with his jazz. When I was a teenager I used to practice his songs by listening to his records in order to figure out all the notes he was playing. I had a turntable with the slow speed of 16⅔ rpm so I could slow down his music and figure out all the notes. Then I would practice until I could play the pieces up to tempo. I now often try to find better copies of his records because I wore them out when I was a teenager. ;-)
Best regards,
John Elison
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the latest version of Itunes makes counting very hard. But last time I was able to count all the single CD releases, Road Trips, Dick & Dave's Picks, various box sets and all the bootlegged and traded albums, I'd say it was over 600 when I counted last.
Beatles probably second with over 12o.
These are CDs on a HD, not vinyl.
I have a lot of vinyl of both too.
Are these the 2 I listen to mostly? Not at all.
With 140,000+ songs on the HD and listening probably 80-90% of the time to a combo of various genres that changes often and is shuffled in a random mode, I get few GD or Beatles hits.
EDIT: If I just counted the vinyl I would say I had every release made of both artists. There not being nearly as much on vinyl as on CD/Digital.
Edits: 07/19/14
I recently upgraded to a newer version of iTunes. If I view by "albums" they show in order of artist/albums. So if I select the first lp by an artist and then select the last lp by that artist the number of LPs, total run time of the LPs, and number of bytes, of all the artists albums shows up down at the bottom of the page. It's a pita but if your tags are right it's not too bad if you want your GD or Beatles count.
In foobar it's even easier as if you view by artists the number of artist lps shows up in parenthesis after the artists name.
None of which is relevant if one hasn't consistently tagged all along.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
thanks, but I have the Dead for instance broken down into various sub-titles.
GD Bootlegs
GD Farewell to Winterland
GD Road Trips
GD Dave's picks
etc etc...
18 of them.But since I made the Dead it's own Genre for a large part of their material I can look under Genre and see that I have 533 albums in there. I also know that the remaining Dead material is in the Rock genre. No easy way to count the Dead in that genre....I gave up at 75 and I was half way thru the alphabet!
Not pictured is the CSN/CSNY catalog and Just Roll Tape. Sorry, too lazy to take another picture.
I realize some of these aren't solely "Stills" efforts, but he's the reason I own them.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
nice collection of Ellington I am sure. Now if it was also 22 of Basie and Mingus as well, I would be profoundly jealous.
If you're talking just jazz vinyl, it's Miles by a mile, followed by Count Basie. Lots of Ella on vinyl too. Classical....Vivaldi or L von B.
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nt
Pink Floyd. Combination of 47 cd's, LP's and high rez downloads.
"Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells."
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
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Beatles, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Ornette Coleman, James Brown, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald, Bernard Hermann, Frank Zappa, Thelonius Monk, Tangerine Dream, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young, John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu) and Six Organs of Admittance. In roughly that order.
Still spinnin'...
;^)
Genesis is a toss up with Kate Bush or Moody Blues.
Over 100 LPs/CDs by each.
Mostly LPs.
Funny thing is I'm not even much of a big band fan...
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Ornette Coleman, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Duke Ellington, and James Brown.
I have oodles.
Ventures or Beatles
"Lost my shape - trying to act casual."
If I include duplicates then I would say The Beatles but other than that I would say Duke Ellington.
Coincidently both would make my top five 'desert island' artists.
Opus 33 1/3
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