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Are there bands for who you have all they've ever done?

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I was having a discussion at work about bands we collect, like a lot, see whenever they tour, etc. It started me thinking on all the bands where I have everything they’ve ever done. I don’t buy or collect things solely to be a completionist. If I have all of something, it’s because I want it and like it. That out of the way, I have everything the following bands have ever done. This includes studio and live albums.

The Beatles
Wings
Genesis
U2
The Eagles
Dave Matthews Band
Beach Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Steely Dan
Donald Fagen
ELO
Supertramp
Peter Gabriel

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Great idea for a thread…so great, I’ll forgive the fact that you didn’t use The New Thread Thread. 😉

With that said, that’s a tough questsion. For example, I have so many Rush albums, but they’ve put out so many + more, so I’m a few short (first couple and last couple plus one or two live ones).

I’m gonna cheat a bit and list bands that have I have everything from, or alternately they have a lot of albums and I have most of them. I’m skipping bands with just one or two albums.

Aquabats
Architecture in Helsinki
Armcannon
The Beastie Boys
Cake
Cassettes Won’t Listen
The Decemberists
Depeche Mode
Erasure
Flight of the Conchords
Flobots
Frost*
The Futureheads
Goldfinger
The Gregory Brothers (not really albums but I grab almost every song I can)
Headlights
Hum
Johnny Foreigner
Len
Los Campesinos!
Lush
Mates of State
Midnight Oil
The Moon Seven Times
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
New Order
The New Pornographers
The Octopus Project
Poster Children
Psychodelic Zombiez
Ratatat
Reel Big Fish
Rush
Sarge
The Seedy Seeds
So Many Dynamos
The Sundays
They Might Be Giants
Tokyo Police Club
Too Much Joy
Wonderlick

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I guess I’m not that big a music fan because I don’t have everything by any one artist.

I do have every studio album and one live album by U2.

I also have most of the studio albums by The Beatles, ELO, and Aerosmith.

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I’m not including live albums as I’m generally not a big fan of most live albums, and a few of these are kind of a cheat since they only have 1-3 albums, but I think this covers everyone I own the full discography of (in alphabetical order):

  • Arcade Fire
  • The Beatles
  • Bedouin Soundclash
  • The Black Keys
  • Cake
  • Dr. Dog
  • Explosions in the Sky
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Flight of the Conchords
  • Gorillaz
  • Grandaddy
  • Kavinsky
  • Led Zeppelin
  • M83
  • moe.
  • Muse
  • Pink Floyd
  • The Polyphonic Spree
  • Radiohead
  • Secret Machines
  • The Strokes
  • Tenacious D
  • Traffic
  • The Who

I’m close with Queen, Primus, and the Chili Peppers. I’ll probably round out Primus and maybe Queen as well, but doubt I ever will for RHCP.

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Close with:
LED ZEPPELIN
OINGO BOINGO
QUEEN
U2

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RayRogers said:

Close with:
LED ZEPPELIN
OINGO BOINGO
QUEEN
U2

I want to make fun of you again but you’re on-topic for once. :p

JEDIT: I think I have more Oingo Boingo collections and live albums than actual studio albums. I’ve been meaning to go back and check out some full albums but haven’t gotten around to it.

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ChainsawAsh said:

  • Arcade Fire

I like several songs on every album I’ve heard but also thought several songs were clunkers on every album I’ve heard, so I only own a collection of songs and no full albums.

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DominicCobb said:

I guess I’m not that big a music fan because I don’t have everything by any one artist.

You may not be that big of a music fan, but you are a monster.

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(alphabetical)
AC/DC
Chris Issak
Danzig
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Devo
Electric Six
Gorillaz
Madness
Morrissey
New York Dolls
Pixies
Ramones
Reverend Horton Heat
Rob Zombie
Southern Culture On The Skids
Sparks
Stray Cats
Talking Heads
the Aquabats
the B-52s
the Clash
the Cramps
the Hives
the Living End
the Misfits
the Pillows
the Presidents of the USA
the Smiths
U2
Violent Femmes
Wall of Voodoo
White Zombie

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Interesting thread. I assume by “all they’ve ever done”, you mean “all the albums they’ve ever done”, otherwise I’m not sure I believe any of you 😉.

There a few artists for which I have everything, up to a point, the point being when they turned to crap (or the quality dropped below the starting high) and then I have nothing more by them. I’m a fairly loyal listener but once my loyalty has repeatedly been repaid with failure, I’m out forever.

Jack White & Co - At one point I did once have almost everything, albums/singles etc he ever had a hand in but gave up soon after he released a couple of lack-luster solo albums and released so much vinyl on his Third Man Record label that I could never keep up. What I do have will be worth something if I ever felt like parting with it (which I won’t).

Manic Street Preachers - Again at one point I had (almost) every LP, 12", 7", cassette-tape and CD re-issue but the last few albums have dropped off a cliff in quality terms so I have nothing recent.

Pulp - All the albums, compilations, a few singles (solo stuff too).

Eels - All the albums up to a point. Not that he is bad now but it kinda feels like ‘Blinking Lights’ can never be topped. Plus pre/post/also Eels stuff.

Gram Parsons - His BB albums, solo stuff, re-issues, compilations etc. It’s all good, if only he’d lived long enough to do more.

The Smiths/Morrissey - I have everything up 'til the recent years when he’s gone way off the boil and possibly insane.

Radiohead - Everything up to ‘In Rainbows’. Anybody listening past that point is kidding themselves that they are still good LOL

Billy Bragg - Every album re-issue which have all the singles/b-sides too. So pretty much the lot.

British Sea Power - Up to a point (3rd LP) I have everything in all formats (plus solo stuff) and t-shirts. After that I lost interest and the beautiful artwork dried up making it less collectable.

Pixies - Everything before the new sans-Kim-Deal stuff. No interest in that really.

Kraftwerk - All the main albums, not the pre-Autobahn instrumental stuff.

Honorable mentions…

Bob Dylan - I’ve got 25+ albums. All the important stuff (arguably) but nowhere near complete.

Iggy Pop/The Stooges - I’ve got loads of the albums and compilations but he’s released a lot of rubbish inbetween two or three of the best albums ever recorded.

Elvis Costello - 10+ albums (all genius) but he’s got so many.

Led Zeppelin - Everything up to the last couple of LPs… nobody owns them… even Led Zeppelin themselves LOL.

Probably lots of other bands but I forget.

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Not for me, nope. I don’t believe I’ve listened to a band/artist yet with an oeuvre I love wholly and completely.

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TV’s Frink said:

ChainsawAsh said:

  • Arcade Fire

I like several songs on every album I’ve heard but also thought several songs were clunkers on every album I’ve heard, so I only own a collection of songs and no full albums.

I understand and mostly agree, but my tastes shift enough that I might find myself listening to a track now that I hated a month ago, so if I like enough of an album I’ll just get the whole thing.

I do still think The Suburbs is a near-perfect masterpiece, though.

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I have two full Arcade Fire albums (incl. one deluxe version) and a fair amount of songs off their others, which doesn’t sound like much but for them is actually a pretty good percentage. Enough at least for me to say I’m a fan.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Not for me, nope. I don’t believe I’ve listened to a band/artist yet with an oeuvre I love wholly and completely.

I dunno. I half-expected this thread to turn top-heavy with one-hit wonders. You get the single to Taco’s Puttin’ on the Ritz and Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy and that’s two complete sets right there, and you haven’t even spent a whole dollar yet. Okay, maybe they technically have other songs, but really who’d know?

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CatBus said:

Right Said Fred’s _I’m Too Sexy. Okay, maybe they technically have other songs, but really who’d know?

What about ‘Deeply Dippy’?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZXQOJiqQM

“Deeply dippy bout the way you walk, a contact sport, let the neighbours talk. Deeply dippy I’m your Superman, I’ll explain, you’re my Lois Lane”

Their whole debut ‘Up’ album is a pop classic (first CD I bought in '92). Every song sounds like it could have been a single (half of them were). I could sing every lyric. I’m not joking, really I’m not joking.

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TM2YC said:

CatBus said:

Right Said Fred’s _I’m Too Sexy. Okay, maybe they technically have other songs, but really who’d know?

What about ‘Deeply Dippy’?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZXQOJiqQM

“Deeply dippy bout the way you walk, a contact sport, let the neighbours talk. Deeply dippy I’m your Superman, I’ll explain, you’re my Lois Lane”

Their whole debut ‘Up’ album is a pop classic (first CD I bought in '92). Every song sounds like it could have been a single (half of them were). I could sing every lyric. I’m not joking, really I’m not joking.

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For me, album wise…

Manic Street Preachers
Fine Young Cannibals (not a lot I know - but of my youth)
Deacon Blue
Pink Floyd
Carole King
The Beatles
The Smiths
The Cure
The La’s (not a lot I know)
Cast
Electronic
New Order
Madness
Sheryl Crow
Stone Roses
The Specials
The Beat (aka ‘The English Beat’ for our US friends)
The Last Internationale
The Housemartins
Beautiful South
Echo & The Bunnymen
Elvis Costello
The Bangles

I used to listen to them all at various times - though I likely couldn’t name many songs at all - apart from if I started listening to the albums again.

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TV’s Frink said:

you are a monster.

It’s REMs best album by several miles, so I’ll take it.

TM2YC said:

Interesting thread. I assume by “all they’ve ever done”, you mean “all the albums they’ve ever done”, otherwise I’m not sure I believe any of you 😉.

I was gonna ask how we’re qualifying this. [JEDIT- Anchor said “Albums and live albums”]
As for my list, I only listed bands that I’m missing no songs from. I’ve got more albums, singles, EPs, ect. than I’m missing from all of those artists, and many are actually complete discographies.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Not for me, nope. I don’t believe I’ve listened to a band/artist yet with an oeuvre I love wholly and completely.

I see you don’t listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Although to be fair, the official “live album” put out when he was still alive really sucks. Which truly blows my mind, how does one of THE best live acts in rock/blues history (no exaggeration. Check out some YouTube clips or one of the too-few posthumous live DVDs. (Why aren’t there more of those? There are tons of YouTube clips of obviously pro shot footage but recorded on a vhs tape from tv. Doesn’t Sony realize the financial goldmine they would get buying the original master from the TV station and releasing it in good quality? That already release another live album every year anyway cuz the guy was so good live) he was so good live it was stupid. Almost literally my brain would melt and turn to mush from the sheer majesty of his life performances. So full of soul and passion but also unrivaled technical prowess.) make a bad live album? Supposedly there were recording errors recording the shows that were to become the album so they ended up having to overdub most of it purely for sound quality reasons and as a result all the energy was gone, and due to the difficulty of trying to mimic the timing and spontaneous nature of the original performances (they were very loose live as far as being rehearsed and sticking to a set list or way to play a song… They played things different all the time unrehearsed because they just had such chemistry) it just came out messy. Plus recording their parts one by one in overdub form was foreign to them because they actually recorded their studio albums live-in studio, just with small overdubs to fix little errors and make it “album perfect”, and usually overdubbed singing just to get that extra soul you couldn’t get from playing the guitar and singing simultaneously (although he was amazing at that anyway)

Some cite him being at the height of his drug and alcohol addiction before going clean as the reason the album sucks but I don’t but that because bootleg recordings of him at the time period were still fantastic musically, although you could tell by looking and his talking between songs he wasn’t doing good.