Band with biggest output?
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Topic: Band with biggest output?
Posted By: BaldJean
Subject: Band with biggest output?
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 07:42
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Who is the band with the biggfest output? As far as I know it is
Hawkwind (the database lists 103 records! Many of them are samplers,
but you easily land in the 50s or 60s with their whole offical and
regular outputs). As a solo artist it must be Frank Zappa (he is listed
with 88 albums, of whom a few are samplers too). Hawkwind are
definitely the band with the most official live releases.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 08:02
| Output and numbers of original recordings are likely to differ considerably. How many different greatest hits compilations can you find for the Beach Boys, Steely Dan etc. - there seems to be a surge of new variants of a greatest hits or compilations issued for the Christmas market every year in this country? And then how many iterations of remastered recordings are there for bands - e.g. how many remaster variants are there now for King Crimson, Yes or Genesis? The blues artist Bo Diddley always visited record shops when he played outside the US to see what repackaging had occurred of his recordings without his approval and worse without receiving any royalties - and for sure he isn't the only one to suffer from this type of rip-off. So taking away repackaging with different track order or different combinations of tracks being included from other recordings, avoiding remasters, and also removing greatest hits compos, then I would suggest Zappa and King Crimson because both groups of artists have issued a number of live albums in an attempt 'to beat the boots'. |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 08:14
Might be Tangerine Dream. I just checked their website and the LPs/CDs list had about 90 albums (+ / - 10 with my poor math  ) . Well they've been around for 35 years now and quite a few of those albums are of course soundtracks but still.. that's a pretty huge amount.
EF is a pretty creative guy. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 09:07
I thought I made it clear that I meant "original output". ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Dick Heath wrote:Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 10:30
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Eventually ............................. but for clarity I felt my input would be helpful, you know how many threads veer off at tangents. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 12:53
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Rick Wakeman has a lot contributed to him here. I dont know how much is orginal material though. But, yes, Zappa is another good chioce. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:28
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Rick Wakeman has 135 releases until now, at least 100 are original. Many are masterpieces but a lot are pure crap. Ivān ------------- 
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