Yesterday, I just bought a CD for my wife and helped her complete her collection of albums by – Kasey Chambers. A good artist, to be sure, but not one I would have necessarily tried to search out everything by for myself.

Those three albums, and a live recording (taped off local station WXRT) now ait very comfortable in my collection.

So, are there any artists some of us here may be surprised to find that you have their complete works in your stacks? (And I'm not talking about TimmyJoe and Collective Soul or Stacey and matchbox20... we all know about those love affairs!)

I think the only artists that qualify me for this are Frank Zappa and Jethro Tull. There are other artists that I have all the studio albums but not live releases etc.

Led Zep, Butthole Surfers, Pavement.....

there may be more

Radiohead...much more.

and a bunch of complete collections of artists with one release...heheheh

Slayer, Morrissey, Portishead, Weezer..

Some more with just a couple(1-2) albums...

Probably might surprise some people, but I have all of Missy Elliot's studio albums.

Off the top of my head: Pavement, Smiths, Ryan Adams, Luscious Jackson, Foo Fighters, Blur, Tragically Hip, Doors, VU, Stooges, Pixies, Radiohead, Sloan, Sleater-Kinney, Stone Temple Pilots, White Stripes, Concrete Blonde, Belle and Sebastian and Yo La Tengo.

I have every single Wild Tchoupitoulas album.

I have every Suede (or London Suede or whatever you want to call them) album, e.p and single up until 'Head Music'. After that they went crap so I have all the good stuff. About 30 or so CD's in all.

Built To Spill
CCR
Doves
Dramarama
Galaxie 500
Zeppelin
Morphine
Magnetic Fields
Pixies
Queen
Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age
16 Horsepower
Stooges
Sunny Day Real Estate
Wilco

Flaming Lips (minus "legit" copies of some OOP EPs)
Mouse Mars
Radiohead (minus Com Lag)
Led Zep
Pavement (minus a single or two)

probably a few more, plus several with 3 or fewer releases.

The Shambolic Trumpets
Johnny Taint & The Cans of Piss

wow. you've must have been collecting for years.

Off the top of my head (at least all of the studio albums of artists having more than 3, and in no order):

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Wilco
Collective Soul
Rage Against the Machine
Smashing Pumpkins
The Beatles
Live
Massive Attack
Steely Dan
Beck
Nirvana
Sigur Ros
The Velvet Underground
Sublime


Probably some more I can't remember, and there's a few I'm close to having everything in some format or another. I've almost got all of The Who albums on vinyl now.

radiohead. (but that's really not a surprise.)
modest mouse
death cab
mark farina
a tribe called quest

and a few more that have only 1-2 albums

Tori
Black Heart Procession
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Dead Can Dance
GYBE
Jean-Michel Jarre
Kraftwerk
Led Zep
NIN
Mike Oldfield
Pink Floyd
Portishead (but what do they have...like, three albums out?)
Rachel's
Talk Talk (including several compilations)
Vangelis

lots of others

Not:

Skinny Puppy
Tangerine Dream
Klaus Schulze
Gary Numan
Ulver
Slayer

...just too damn many (well, not Skinny Puppy, but I haven't joined the club yet, so I still need the exclusive stuff), although it's not for lack of trying (I have more Klaus Schulze CD's than any other single artist in my collection, and probably my KS collection is bigger than some of your overall collections).

off the top of my head:
mclusky
radiohead
deadly snakes
modest mouse
ween
pavement
pulp
tribe called quest
dj shadow
i'm sure there's others.

Impressive.

He'll be here all week, folks.

Why don't you just reply for me all the time then, Todd?

Umm...

Oddly enough, I have the complete studio works of the Doors,

REM,
Radiohead,
Miguel Migs( maybe, the guy's busy)
David Garza
I lack Wide Swing Tremolo to complete a complete cat of SonVolt Studio albums

Pumachik, I have Mixer Presents and Connect, should I go for one of the Mushroom Jazz discs, which one? thanks in advance.

Hmm... If we are going for complete studio album works then I have more to mention.

Gentle Giant
The Decemberists
The Fiery Furnaces
The Mars Volta
Primus
Weird Al Yankovic
Ben Folds/Five
Built To Spill
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Super Furry Animals
They Might Be Giants
Phish

You're cool in my book.

Yes, thank you, although, I did not buy them this way. Also, due to some incredible luck, I have acquired other albums that are not part of RYKO's catalogue, including the highly sought after and rare but extremely expensive Civilization Phaze III. However, I do not have albums that are compilations with the exception of Lather, which is a special case.

Oy....

Artist ( # of recordings ) :

Cheap Trick ( 62 )
The Dragons ( 48 )
Jason & The Scorchers ( 35 )
KISS ( 73...not including my 100+ VHS bootlegs )
Kix ( 7 )
The Knack ( 25 )
Material Issue ( 11 )
Replacements ( 95...including solo off-shoots )
Smithereens ( 14 )
Supersuckers ( 55 )
Too Much Joy ( 18 )
Urge Overkill ( 17 )
The Wildhearts ( 104...including solo off-shoots )