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    Posted: July 05 2021 at 05:29
In other words, which are the top ten prog discographies you'd most like to own in full?

Here's my wish list:-

Camel & Peter Bardens solo - worth checking out. Thumbs Up
The Moody Blues & all of their solo albums too, including Patrick Moraz. Wink
Mostly Autumn - all 25 five-star albums, mostly Smile
Mike Oldfield - halfway there already. Thumbs Up
Renaissance, Illusion & Annie Haslam - I might as well have my cake and eat it too. Tongue
Santana & Carlos Santana - 31 albums currently owned, so almost there. Thumbs Up
Tangerine Dream - too many albums to count. Shocked
Vangelis - I'll probably give Beaubourg away to a charity shop though. Smile
Rick Wakeman - obviously, apart from the Norman Wisdom album. Wink
Yes - including Open Your Eyes. Yes, really! LOL

Okay, so I've greedily chosen some of the longest prog discographies for my wish list.  Tongue
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Between LP's CD's and digital files, I already have complete discographies of my favourite Prog bands.
This also includes tons of bootleg concert recordings as well.
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None. There is not any discography by any band, I'm aware of, that has put out seven or more albums that are all worth owning. I don't want to own a stinker release just to be a completist. 
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Not a completist. Any band that's around too long wears out their welcome. So I have all the original studio albums of the Beatles, Hendrix, the Doors, Zeppelin and Nick Drake, but every band that's been around a significant time (decades), like Yes, Genesis, Tull, Floyd, Sabbath, The Who, The Stones, Moody Blues, etc. have albums that suck. I won't buy albums that suck just to complete a discography.
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I'm not really a completionist, my favourite prog bands have all produced stuff that I really don't want to own.
Having said that, I do have every official release from Lifesigns and I Am The Manic Whale but neither of them have released that many albums yet.
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It looks like this thread is going to fizzle out like a damp squib. Tongue
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If I was going to be a completist it would probably be on Pendragon now.
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I’dl like to own everything by Can, Magma, and the Soft Machine. I think I’m pretty close already with all three.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

If I was going to be a completist it would probably be on Pendragon now.

Rick Wakeman would be my number one choice for owning a complete discography. I currently only have his first five albums in a CD box set (not counting Piano Vibrations), but I'd like to own all but one of his 107 albums. Smile
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To be brutally honest...nothing. Even my favorite groups have a stinker or two that I would never play and I am not a completist who has to have every thing by all the bands I like.
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I can't actually think of any other than King Crimson, mostly because I never got around to replacing the vinyl copies I sold back in the 1990s. I already have some groups complete (as in just their studio albums), but as others have said, the longer a group exists the more likely there will be an album that just doesn't seem like the effort is worth it to acquire it just to complete things.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

To be brutally honest...nothing. Even my favorite groups have a stinker or two that I would never play and I am not a completist who has to have every thing by all the bands I like.

For me it depends on the band. For my absolute favorites I am more or less a completionist. For most other bands just their best albums. For example I like Santana, Chicago and ELO but I do not want to own everything they did. For Rush, Yes and Genesis I do.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

If I was going to be a completist it would probably be on Pendragon now.

Rick Wakeman would be my number one choice for owning a complete discography. I currently only have his first five albums in a CD box set (not counting Piano Vibrations), but I'd like to own all but one of his 107 albums. Smile
"all but one" wouldn't be complete then. WinkLOL

I think you should go for the complete Phrozenlight collection myself.
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^And don't leave us hangin' here man !!!

WHICH ONE ??

I mean...you'd buy 106 of them but just not one? That makes no sense whatsoever.


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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

^And don't leave us hangin' here man !!!

WHICH ONE ??

I mean...you'd buy 106 of them but just not one? That makes no sense whatsoever.
Rick Wakeman's collaboration with Norman Wisdom - I mentioned it at the top of the thread. I'd be straight down to the charity shop with that dreadful album. Smile
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Ahhh, so you did...missed it, sorry.

Well, just got back from the WeTubie site and I gotta say...even Emerson never jump the shark like this one.
Wakey must have lost a bet with the drunken lout at the end of the bar in his local pub. Truly cringeworthy, even his new age and christian music pale in comparison.
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Very few bands have discographies with no weak albums, from my personal perspective I'll go with 

Univers Zero 
King Crimson 
Samla Mammas Manna
Henry Cow
Present
Thinking Plague

If I'm looking from pure size of catalog

Art Zoyd
Tangerine Dream
Klaus Schulze
Radio Massacre International
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King Crimson, Magma, Univers Zero, 
Other I don't consider prog, but are on PA:
Swans, Dead Can Dance
not on PA
Cocteau Twins, Wolfgang Press
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I kinda agree with what someone else said. I'm a studio album completist when it comes to bands I really love, though I'll admit some choice albums aren't really on my wishlist (like, say, Calling All Stations and Van Halen III). However with bands I enjoy but aren't huge favorites of mine, or with artists who really trail off significantly in quality at some point in their careers even if I really love them otherwise, I'm not likely to whip out much more than a buck for an album I don't really need in my collection.
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TBH Miles Davis.

That's it.

Everything else is full of "It's all good except track(s)...".

Miles' career is one long record broken up by days happening to get in between them.

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