Who Dominates Your Collection?

At lunch today, I was updating my excel spread sheet with some recent additons to my collection and noticed that certain bands had way more releases than others. The top contender was:

Motorhead with 27 different releases

followed up by:
Aerosmith - 22
Megadeth / Beatles tied @ 20

Studio albums, live discs, box sets, compilations, ep's, singles, dvd's, etc. Who dominates your music collection?

I don't have my CDs in front of me so I can't tell you the exact #s, but I know I have a crapload of stuff by the following:

Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, KISS, Megadeth, Metallica, W.A.S.P., the Ramones, Overkill, Helloween, Savatage

In almost all of these cases I own the entire studio discography of each band (or close to it), plus live albums, the occasional EP or CD single, and various other odds and ends.

I don't recall any exact numbers. Bu the top five of my collection is the following:

1- Judas Priest
2- Nazareth
3- Kiss
4- Helloween
5- Accept

I think it's Prince with 37 releases. But I have a lot of complete or near complete discographies by a lot of bands.

King's X. All their studio albums [plus some doubles with Japanese presses], all their side projects/solo albums, and about 70 bootlegs dating back to 1980. After that, somewhere around 60 Metallica cds. I own just about every cd-single they ever released. But my Metallica collection will be up on ebay within the month.

Hmmm...let's see.

Top three:

Def Leppard - 63
Therapy? - 53
Ani DiFranco - 44

Some others:

Tori Amos - 38
Monster Magnet - 37
System Of A Down - 36
The Coral - 31
311 - 28
Helloween - 27
Insane Clown Posse - 27

No surprise on the top three, really. Def Leppard is obvious, but Therapy? and Ani DiFranco have just released a ton of material over the years.

The Doors-44

Deep Purple-46

If anyone is interested here is a link to my music collection, minus a few bootlegs and soundtracks:

http://rateyourmusic.com/~manny777

I figured I'd be a little behind with my numbers compared to some of you guys, but wow. Although allot of my discographies are missing some live albums and comps.

Quote :

Insane Clown Posse - 27

Have those destroyed.

I have complete or almost complete discographies of:

Accept
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix ( I have like 35 to 38 CD's, DVD's etc) and many others.

and many others

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I figured I'd be a little behind with my numbers compared to some of you guys, but wow. Although allot of my discographies are missing some live albums and comps.

Quote :

Insane Clown Posse - 27

Have those destroyed.

Dude, I was a fan long before they got popular. I used to own nearly everything they put out but sold a lot of it in the Air Force. I couldn't resist making $300 on a one-track cassette tape, you know. Rare as hell, but...see ya! Haha. When that band blew up, those kids were paying ridiculous amounts of money for their stuff. I probably made close to $5,000 by selling all their rare items.

Aerosmith
Kiss
Ted Nugent
Judas Priest
Thin Lizzy
Motorhead
Mortification

Eyesore wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I figured I'd be a little behind with my numbers compared to some of you guys, but wow. Although allot of my discographies are missing some live albums and comps.

Quote :

Insane Clown Posse - 27

Have those destroyed.

Dude, I was a fan long before they got popular. I used to own nearly everything they put out but sold a lot of it in the Air Force. I couldn't resist making $300 on a one-track cassette tape, you know. Rare as hell, but...see ya! Haha. When that band blew up, those kids were paying ridiculous amounts of money for their stuff. I probably made close to $5,000 by selling all their rare items.

Nothing wrong with making a little coin. But those Juggaloo fans make me weep for our nation's youth.

Fun question.

I don't know without looking (I'm at work) which band I have the most of, but I do know I have more albums with Rob Rock singing than any other vocalist. So, Rob Rock dominates my collection.

What I have:

6 Impelliterri
4 Solo
1 Fires of Babylon
1 Driver
1 Axel Rudi Pell
1 Warrior

14 full albums with Rob Rock as vocalist. Awesome!

Also his Avantasia appearences.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I figured I'd be a little behind with my numbers compared to some of you guys, but wow. Although allot of my discographies are missing some live albums and comps.

Quote :

Insane Clown Posse - 27

Have those destroyed.

Dude, I was a fan long before they got popular. I used to own nearly everything they put out but sold a lot of it in the Air Force. I couldn't resist making $300 on a one-track cassette tape, you know. Rare as hell, but...see ya! Haha. When that band blew up, those kids were paying ridiculous amounts of money for their stuff. I probably made close to $5,000 by selling all their rare items.

Nothing wrong with making a little coin. But those Juggaloo fans make me weep for our nation's youth.

I think I've mentioned the time in an Arkansas mall where some little kid shouts from about 200 feet away, "What's up, Juggaloooooo! Much clown love. Woop woop!" And he was throwing up some signature RF gangsta retard claws.

When I realized he was talking to me, I was mortified. Never wore an ICP shirt again. Prior to 1996, no one ever knew who that group was and I could rock a shirt without incident. After that...well, it was a tad frightening. Haha.

I'm in the process of creating my own Excel sheet. Haven't gotten so far, but those up now:

Kiss - 37
Alice Cooper - 24
Annihilator - 13
Stryper - 11
Blind Guardian - 10

hahaha I had those same experiences Eyesore but my ICP collection is all gone.

My biggest collections are

Helloween
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Kiss
Def Leppard
King Diamond
Blind Guardian
Megadeth

I should realy go through my stuff and see what everything tallys up to be.

Just 3 off the top of my head

Maiden
Overkill
Megadeth

and Stryper(If you count CD's,Vinyl,Cassettes and singles)

The Angels - 17
Styx - 15
Jethro Tull - 14
KMFDM - 13
Michael Stanley - 13
AC/DC - 12
Tony Carey - 12
Edguy - 12
John Mellencamp - 12
Pink Cream 69 - 12
Gotthard - 11
Ministry - 11
Nightwish - 11
Blue Oyster Cult - 10
Dropkick Murphys - 10
Less Than Jake - 10
Blind Guardian - 10

Deliverance and Living Sacrifice for sure have the biggest presence.

Here's mine in order (I have the entire discography of some, and almost the entire of others):

1. Sodom (everything they have ever done, minus a few rare bootlegs and live albums)

2. Clan of Xymox (everything except their new one)

3. Virgin Steele (everything but their last one)

4. Depeche Mode (everything)

5. Manowar (most)

6. Stryper (most)

7. Mortification (most, but I've been thinking of selling. a bit burnt out on them lately)

8. The Cure (most)

9. Sonata Arctica (most)

10. Petra (most)

11. White Lion (all)

KISS
Black Sabbath
Thin Lizzy
Alice Cooper

Motley Crue, King Diamond, and Suicidal Tendencies have dominant spots due to all the multiple versions and formats that I always feel compelled to get. I've lost count how many different times I've bought Abigail.


Many years back I found a ICP in-store promo disc in a dump bin. At the time they were just starting to get a lot of publicity so I figured I'd spend a dollar to see what all the controversy was. I didn't hate it at all, although they were radio friendly mixes so I probably was missing out on them in their full glory. A friend of a friend later traded me a bunch of Dropkick Murphy's discs just for that one promo.

If singles and all that count...

Judas Priest - 24
Iron Maiden - 21

Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Helloween
King's X

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Here's mine in order (I have the entire discography of some, and almost the entire of others):

1. Sodom (everything they have ever done, minus a few rare bootlegs and live albums)

2. Clan of Xymox (everything except their new one)

3. Virgin Steele (everything but their last one)

4. Depeche Mode (everything)

5. Manowar (most)

6. Stryper (most)

7. Mortification (most, but I've been thinking of selling. a bit burnt out on them lately)

8. The Cure (most)

9. Sonata Arctica (most)

10. Petra (most)

11. White Lion (all)

Looking at our lists MB, I think you and I are the most "all over the place" so far.