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 ?

 

 

 

I have all of the above except for Pendragon, Everon, Jadis, Arena, and Steely Dan.  Others that I know that I have and can easily think of are Yes, Rush, ELP, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Tiles, Spock's Beard, Metallica, Queensryche, Led Zeppelin, Earthworks, Chicago, Journey, The Moody Blues, Marillion, Pallas, Queen, Kansas, Styx, IQ, Fates Warning, Vanden Plas, Galactic Cowboys, King's X, Phish, Umphrey's McGee, Primus, The Mars Volta, Neal Morse (although I don't have the extremely religious releases) and Radiohead. 

 

 

In fact, most of the bands I appreciate (or even adore) have made some bad (in my opinion) albums that I don't want to buy at all (well, that's the case for Radiohead's Pablo Honey, but anyway).

I'd name a few of these bands: - Pink Floyd (that's the best exemple for me) I

                        own every Waters-era  and  every Barrett-era (including Relics) albums, but I really don't like Gilmour-era album even if I find Gilmour guitar works in Pink Floyd amazing.

                                                       -  VDGG. Most of their albums are good but I don't like their present stuff.

                                                       - Yes. From The Yes Album to Going for the One, they're one of my              favourite bands (Yes and Time and a Word are pretty good though) but I dislike everything they did after this album.

                                                      - Genesis. Gabriel-era is filled with wonderful albums, but except for Trick of the Tail, Collins-era is awful...

 

Gentle Giant

King Crimson

VDGG

Secret Chiefs 3

Pink Floyd

Jethro Tull

PT

Earthworks

Univers Zero

Spock's Beard

Pain Of Salvation

 

I want to say I'm forgetting (at least) one...as I usually do with lists. I'll edit if need be.

Led Zeppelin

Hope to complete more soon.

 

The Beatles, really? They made a lot of albums.

I personally appreciate more their Rubber Soul to Abbey Road era, they're all great.

 

WOW ! is the only comment I have here and I'll say it again: WOW ! I mean that really is a lot !

And good taste too by the way

 

What I wonder is: HOW DID HE KNOW ???? How could Abstrakt know yours wasn't complete ? Is he psychic ???

 

The Mars Volta

Isis

Tortoise

Mogwai

A Silver Mt. Zion

The Decemberists

 

 

 

Same comment here: impressive list and great taste ! congrat !

Good question.  It never occurred to me before and, since I generally stick to pre-1977 albums there are qoing to be few complete discographies.  Recent reformations have not helped. 

 

Here is the list. A strange threesome.

 

Atomic Rooster

The Beatles

Quintessence

Pink Floyd

Genesis

The Flower Kings

The Black Dog

IQ

Tears For Fears

Porcupine Tree

Van Halen (all the Dave Lee Roth era)

I'll update if I think of any more...

 

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)

 

 

 

Sorry, didn´t notice you had your list in two editions. Which makes yours just as impressive of course .

And we know for quite some time by now we don´t have the same tastes

 

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 ?

 

One of the artists where I own just about everything ( we´re talking full-length albums) is Frank Zappa. I own most of his releases on both LP and CD. Even some of the most obscure ones. I used to be a crazy fanboy. I´ve spend a fortune on Zappa´s music. There are still a few titles the collector in me wants though ( I still haven´t found Uncle Meat on LP in a decent condition).

 

And yes Henk I also own the full TFK catalogue.

 

I own full ( almost) discographies of most of the classic progressive rock acts like Yes ( well I might have skipped a few of the new ones), Gentle Giant, King Crimson ( I still haven´t found The Power and the Glory, but will eventually), Van Der Graaf Generator ( I haven´t got World Record yet. Can´t find it but will eventually), Genesis, ELP and Jethro Tull.

 

Anekdoten

Riverside

Atheist

Cynic

Death

Meshuggah

Pestilence

Dream Theater

Iron Maiden

Black Sabbath

 

...and loads of other stuff.

 

 

 

I don't love real music until I have every studio album of someone????? Poor ol' me.

 

 

Yeah, but obviously you can only love an artiste if you have his entire discography

 

 

Sooo I can't call myserlf a Santana fan if I listen to you.

 

BTW, the MO I don't own is Inner World, because it's not good.

Pink Floyd

 

That's it.

 

You misunderstood me. I was trying to say we can have the same taste with some bands. I even saw you gave Script by Marillion 5 stars where I gave it 4. That makes you even more neo than me. How about that ?

With the MkII line-up partly broken up (Moran, Ponty, the strings and brass are gone), McLaughlin kept the Walden-Armstrong rhythm section and set out to the Herouville Chateau studios and recorded in the summer of 75 what would be known as the last real Mahavishnu Orchestra, except if you count the 84 reformation. All of the missing musicians of the second line-up were not replaced except for Gayle Moran by organist Stu Goldberg, which for this writer is an improvement. With a bland artwork showing who's the master on board, this album is a difficult one, because it sounds least to the usual MO sound. Much maligned by partly undeservedly so, imho.

Indeed this album often glides between Santana, B Auger's Oblivion Express, Jeff Beck albums (Wired and BBB), which in itself is no flaw, but surprising. With the organ-dominated, but Carribean-beating All In The Family, Narada Walden is in full form, making this 100MPH track a very enthralling opening cut with unfortunately Mc playing the guitar synth, thus taking some of the bite of his sound, but not affecting his playing. Miles Out sounds like Beck's best torture of a string set on a neck, but Mc uses synths to enhance the cosmic sounds, before Armstrong introduces a riff, easing Narada's arrival and the quartet cruises from one galaxy to the other. While very expressive a track (especially during those days), this type of space rock sounds a bit dated, today. Narada sings the next tracks, In My Life and Gita, something that would give a very late 70's/early 80's Santana feel and on other tracks of this album, close to Auger's Oblivion Express. I certainly am not saying Walden's voice resembles Litgerwood's, but the tracks he sings on have that kind of feeling. In either case, all of the sting of the previous MO album are gone, and it is certainly not the short bagpipe tune played on dumb guitar synth (interestingly, Narada is on organ here) that would change things.

The flipside starts on the more convincing Way Of The Pilgrim, but Mc (sometimes) exaggerates with his technology frenzy, helped by Goldberg's mini-moog, but nevertheless, it's one of the album's better tracks. River of My Heart is to bunch with In My Life, where Narada proves that his ideas (this is the only non-Mc track) are not that easy to absorb on an MO album. The ultra funky Planetary Citizen, then the more reflective Lotus Feet, which is from far the proggiest track, loaded with mini-moog and (unfortunately) Mc's guitar synth, are giving a bit of substance to the album, before the two-part title track takes us again in outer space, sometimes taking Jeff Beck tonalities as in Freeway Jam. This ultra bizarre up-tempoed, partly improvised and completely crazy is not a bad outro for an MO exit.

Clearly not MO's best album, Inner World doesn't really deserves all 100% of the bad rap and rep it endures (but 50%, certainly ;o)), many MO fans are may be a little harsh on it, but had it comes with a better artwork (ala Emerald), I'm sure it would've better better with them.

You're the most prolific reviewer, of course.  Even if you don't physically own complete discographies, you managed to hear them. We don't all have a handy library resource like you do (or subscribe to Napster and the like) so owning the album (as much as one can own copyrighted material) is sometimes the way to hear them.  Like with GG, I might dispense with albums that didn't do it for me.  Many have theirs on big harddrives (and don't pay for all, any, or most of them), but just don't delete them even if they don't much care for them.

I wouldn't wish to part with any of my Magma, Univers Zero, Present, or Robert Wyatt albums.  I return to all of them.  I'm very big on Art Zoyd, but I don't plan to ever get or hear the complete discography.  I have many complete discographies, but mostly for bands with few albums.

One might pity some of those obsessive completists wallets (the ones who paid for all of 'em, including albums they didn't really like), but as time is money, I might pity PA's most prolific reviewer.  You've listened to such an amazing amount, I wonder what percentage has really made an impact on you and really got under your skin.  If I like something, I like to listen man times.  I'm not being serious about pitying you, we're all different, and I guess you really enjoy hearing lots of new albums and spending the time on reviewing them (sometimes you do it more on memory and I'm sure you've been into prog for a very long time).  Magma's Merci is not a well-liked album, but I'm really glad I got it and kept it.

 

Spock's Beard

The Flower Kings

Neal Morse

Dream Theater

Gentle Giant

Ayreon

The Beatles

 

I have most of Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson, but don't have some of their '80s albums, so I can't include them. There are a lot more bands that I have their discographies, but they have less than 5 studio albums, so I didn't count them.

 

 

No offence meant here, so don't take it personally these are general stateme,nt that I strongly believe in. -

 

I'm not tryig to ridicule you here, but it's just that I find buying every album from someone a bit.... of a waste of time §let alone money, butthat not my concern) since there are litteraly  thousands of artistes worth checking out and awaiting your discovery.... So buying the weaker  Ayreon or latest Pendragon sound soooooo... redundant and counter-productive to me..... And it certainly doesn't show an open mindedness either, since you are limiting your horuzons to just one style of prog., which sonically speaking is one of the more limited (save eventually post rock)

 

 

as for Script...... I grew up with it, but you'll probably find that I also liked Brave..... so I don't systematically hate neo-prog..... it's just the sheer mass of group sounding the same, most of them having whining vocals and the same sonic universe......

 

Hopêfully my message went through

 

As for being prolific, my buddy Zowie is a lot more prolific.... he'll probably over-take me in a few months time  >>> I hope anyway, cos I'm tired to be the guy "who has nothing better than to review everuything he listens to"

.

 

Well I'm the type of guy that keeps only the worthy stuff. the last thing I want is a huge collection filling shelves occupying an entire room..... sooo I trim whatever I buy..... cos I buy tons of stuff (and I have friends that are lernding lme as I lend them) that my library system doesn't have. I'd say that I ordered stuff without having an idea about what I might find on it.... sometimes ending up with crap >>let's say that there s plenty that gets under my skin, but in terms of percentage, there is more that irritates my skin

 

It's true that my hunger for newer soundscape can makeme forget thaty some disc might be worth more listens, but in the long run, this gets done antway.... I hardly listen to the 70's classics cos I know them byheart. This gives me time to discover Sun Ra or Terry Riley

 

 

I don't deal with MP3 (not computer litterate enough to dowload.... and I need the physical object) eiter.

 

Readya

 

H

 

PS: A lot of my reviews (especially the ones in prog-related) are done from memory (I swung the Zep reviews in two hours, the doors eben less), BOC I onlu borrowed two albums (I haven't got any)..... so my time spent reviewing is probably less than you may think.

 

These are the ones with five or more studio full length albums:

The Beatles

Kate Bush

Camel

Dream Theater

Iron Maiden

King Crimson

The Mars Volta

Metallica

Opeth

Pink Floyd

Pekka Pohjola

Radiohead

Rush

Sigur Rós

Talk Talk

Yes

 

I could even rename it as to "how narrow minded can you be " by concentrating all of your effots one genre or a few artiste..... but I won't since I promised atruce.

 

As for review writing..... ZZ observed a long break after reaching 2112 (i took less than a week), but I figure next spring....

 

Put it this way.... during the week, in North Holland, I listen to music from 6 or 7 PM until midnight (i don't have TV and no wek access at home) , this between four and five times a week >>> soo you can imagine that I have time to write reviews. 

 

my Brussels WE, I forget reviewing even though I still listyen to much music, but I have my social and family life to woory about plus I have a TV and web access

 

Let's also count my six to eight hours in the car per week where I also listen to music closely, I take mental notes of what's to say about the music.... so when I write the review.... it flows freely and effortlessly.

 

And if you sometimes find that a review is poorer, it's because I was probably not ready enough but had to write the review or rent another week the album. These are generally the thursday evening reviews....

 

 

 

 

But enough thread high-jacking.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judas Priest

Megadeth

Helloween

Running Wild

Testament

Black Sabbath

Accept

Symphony X

Shadow Gallery

Vanden Plas

Threshold

Genesis

Jethro Tull

Yes

Renaissance

Camel

Uriah Heep

Nazareth

Saga

Magellan

Iceberg

Manferd Man's Earth Band

 

and  another 8 or so complete discographies I can't rember now the bands

 

Just counting the complete discographies, it comes to about 45 , compilations, lives and fanclub releases excluded.

The Decemberists

Muse

Led Zeppelin

 

I just started collecting vinyls (and albums in general) so I don't have a lot of albums.

Rush

Opeth

Blind Guardian

Black Sabbath

Fate's Warning

Van Der Graaf Generator

Peter Hammill

Rainbow

Queensryche

Deep Purple(Only official releases)

 

Let me put it this way: complete Zappa, complete Dylan, complete King Crimson. Leave me alone. :P

'kin 'ell! All of John Zorn? How much space have you got, my PC runs out of RAM before his page here is loaded!

 

Edit: OK, just seen the 'kidding' part. All is well again.