How many complete discographies ?

rdtprog wrote: Spock's Bard Glass Hammer Yes Genesis Marillion Gentle Giant Depeche Mode Dream Theater Threshold Visible Wind Anekdoten Arena Asgard Cliffhanger Collage Echolyn Flower Kings Galleon IQ Jadis Kaipa Magellan Mastermind Pain of Salvation Pallas Riverside Satellite Shadow Gallery Sylvan Tangent The Watch  maybe i forgot a couple ... and this list doesn't not include compilation and live album

progrules wrote: Of which prog or related bands do you have all studio albums restricted to those that have made at least 5 studio albums ? Tough question, I know and I will have to start digging myself too. For the moment I know this of:   Porcupine Tree Dream Theater Flower Kings Pendragon Enchant Everon Jadis Ayreon Arena Symphony X Pain of Salvation Steely Dan Shadow Gallery   Must be just about it with these. What is your list ?

Abstrakt wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Abstrakt wrote: The Quiet One wrote: ^oh, no, on a second thought, I'm missing the last one, and one of the middle....so I'll have to take that out after all HA! I miss: Born Again Forbidden Cross Purposes Live Reunion (We Sold our Soul for rock n Roll) IF IT COUNTS Most, if not all of them are pretty hard to find these days. At least at a decent price I don't have Volume 4, Born Again, or Mob Rules.  I do have a compilation called Children of the Grave, however, which has all of the songs from Volume 4.  I'm not really sure why it is labelled differently. You WHAT!!!??? It's some weird album that was made so some weirdo could milk some extra money off Black Sabbath i guess The only difference is the cover and some added live track right?

Yes.  It is all the same songs in the same order with 1 added live track.  It it really kind of weird.  I guess that I've never come across a legitimate version of Volume 4.  I thought that I had a vinyl version of The Mob Rules, but I don't. I am pretty sure that I have heard it before.  I might have a cassette copy of a friend's copy or something like that. 

Sean Trane wrote: progrules wrote: Of which prog or related bands do you have all studio albums restricted to those that have made at least 5 studio albums ? Tough question, I know and I will have to start digging myself too. For the moment I know this of:   Porcupine Tree Dream Theater Flower Kings Pendragon Enchant Everon Jadis Ayreon Arena Symphony X Pain of Salvation Steely Dan Shadow Gallery   Must be just about it with these. What is your list ?         Wow, you've got my deepest condoleances, rezally!!   Never mind the bad tastes (tastes and colours), but the ultimate fanboy  is pushing you to buy every single  album (whether good or bad) >> or you probably think that they're all good????   You really own the entire studio discography of all these groups???? (BTW, I own none of any artiste >> not even Mahavishnu Orchestra)

Mostly every band/artist I've listened to prior to becoming more open-minded, and starting to check many new things, swedish-buffet-style.

Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze pop immediately, since they're my favourites, but even here I'll admit, I don't have every single compilation and soundtrack on CD, nor did I managed to listen to Schulze's boxsets by miracle.

I wasn't the first progger in the house, so as far as Jarre, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Gabriel and the other big names were concerned, some were already fully collected by my father, while in other cases I merely helped complete the collection with apart-from-the-classic albums. I was, however, the new one to embrace bands like Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Porcupine Tree, GYBE. I have all the abovementioned on CD. Meanwhile, my Rush, Yes, Marillion, Nektar, Focus, Zappa collection is, from this point of view, mixed (or "originally incomplete").

This similarly extends further to jazz(-rock) artists like Weather Report, Return To Forever, Mahavishnu, Corea, Jarrett, Garbarek.

Bottom line: I've got the full collectionist syndrome. If I'm to relate to Hugues' idea: yes, no artist is without weak (or stinky) works (VdGG almost pulled it ). But if that artist is from my "favourite tier", I wanna have it all.


Edited by Ricochet - August 13 2009 at 09:43

progrules wrote: Sean Trane wrote: progrules wrote: Of which prog or related bands do you have all studio albums restricted to those that have made at least 5 studio albums ? Tough question, I know and I will have to start digging myself too. For the moment I know this of:   Porcupine Tree Dream Theater Flower Kings Pendragon Enchant Everon Jadis Ayreon Arena Symphony X Pain of Salvation Steely Dan Shadow Gallery   Must be just about it with these. What is your list ?         Wow, you've got my deepest condoleances, rezally!!   Never mind the bad tastes (tastes and colours), but the ultimate fanboy  is pushing you to buy every single  album (whether good or bad) >> or you probably think that they're all good????   You really own the entire studio discography of all these groups???? (BTW, I own none of any artiste >> not even Mahavishnu Orchestra)       Yep, really !! That´s what you get when you love REAL music. You should give them a try ! Might just open your eyes. By the way, I owe many Santana albums as well, sounds familiar ?

Hm..
-Dream Theater
-System of A Down
-Pain of Salvation
-Sonata Arctica

Also Edguy, if I would own Kingdom of Madness. Mostly not the music I regularly listen nowadays..

Let's think.....

Genesis
Peter Gabriel
Yes
Marillion
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin
Mostly Autumn
Radiohead
Rainbow
The Who

You know, I didn't realize how few bands I have every album by.  Some of my favorite bands of all time (Yes, Genesis, ELP, even Gentle Giant) I've just never bothered to get everything.  In most cases, I've HEARD everything......which led me to not purchase everything 

But here is what I do have:

Flower Kings (including all side projects)
White Willow (oddly enough..........but there is only one album of theirs that I find weak, and it's still not bad)

I also have all Asgard, National Health, Citizen Cain, Versus X, The Tangent...............but you said at least 5 albums, so those don't count.

And that's it really.   (well, I do have every Scorpions album on vinyl from my younger days.......but I don't like to talk about that )




Edited by infandous - August 13 2009 at 14:44