Complete works
Posted by: Jonn on 09 April 2012
Sorting through c1000 vinyl albums today prior to re-housing. The collection dates from the '60s to the present day. Quite a few I'd forgotten I had and it was interesting to see how my interest in particular artists changed over time.
Of those that have been around for some time and with a lot of albums I've only Tom Wait's and Steve Earl's complete oeuvre (including some of their later releases on CD). Beatles is next with I think only Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine missing - I'm not a completist so not bothered with albums which are not that good.
Quite a few artists I followed from the beginning but eventually gave up buying after they were past their best e.g. REM, The Doors, Led Zep, Fairport Convention.
So which artists have you stayed with through the good and the bad times and have all their albums?*
* i.e. artists that have been around a while and have an extensive record output.
> Beatles is next with I think only Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine missing - I'm not a completist so not bothered with albums which are not that good.
Sorry I can't make sense of that statement - Magical Mystery Tour is a fantastic album
"Magical Mystery Tour" McCartney 2:48
"The Fool on the Hill" McCartney 3:00
"Flying" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney/George Harrison/Richard Starkey) (Instrumental) 2:16
"Blue Jay Way" (Harrison) Harrison 3:50
"Your Mother Should Know" McCartney 2:33
"I Am the Walrus" Lennon 4:35
"Hello, Goodbye" McCartney 3:24
"Strawberry Fields Forever" Lennon 4:05
"Penny Lane" McCartney 3:00
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" Lennon 3:07
"All You Need Is Love" Lennon 3:57
All the tracks are great, but the ones I have have highlighted would be on a greatest hits album. MMT is up there with Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pepper, White Album and Abbey Road
I have every Beatles' album plus nearly al the solo efforts - when there are mono and stereo version I like to have both. However, the Beatles never had a bad spell. I do have ever Macca album and there are one or two duff ones, but they are mostly excellent. Same's true of the Harrison and Lennon output. I only have one solo Ringo elpee.
Emerson Lake Palmer - I have just about everything - the studio output up to an including Works was superb and still ranks along side anything I own, but why did I buy those official bootlegs - the SQ is so bad I have to read the sleeve notes to find out what they are playing 
Emo's solo work is truly wonderful though and the album Emerson Plays Emerson is exemplary.
The Pretty Things - great up until Parachute - after that what happened? Sure I still bought them hoping for another SF Sorrow, but it never happened and most likely never will.
I have every album Half Man Half Biscuit have released and every Shirley Collins tracks I know of. Most Kinks and Manfred Mann stuff. I think I have a copy of every record by the Move/ELO.
I do have every studio album by Uriah Heap, but not sure why I bought their last album.
There are quite a few more artists I have fairly complete sets of - Sandy, MCC, Joni, Martha & the Muffins, Chas & Dave, CCR/JF solo, Amon Duul II, Can, Kraftwerk, Incredible String Band, Barbara Thompson, Clash, Steeleye Span, Cathedral, They Might Be Giants, Ritchie Blackmore (Purple/Rainbow/Night), Peter Hammill/VDG, Soft Machine/Caravan/Ayers/Hatfield, Captain Beefheart, Kevin Coyne, Chumbawamba, Pearls Before Swine/Rapp ....
All the best, Guy
> Beatles is next with I think only Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine missing - I'm not a completist so not bothered with albums which are not that good.
Sorry I can't make sense of that statement - Magical Mystery Tour is a fantastic album
"Magical Mystery Tour" McCartney 2:48
"The Fool on the Hill" McCartney 3:00
"Flying" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney/George Harrison/Richard Starkey) (Instrumental) 2:16
"Blue Jay Way" (Harrison) Harrison 3:50
"Your Mother Should Know" McCartney 2:33
"I Am the Walrus" Lennon 4:35
"Hello, Goodbye" McCartney 3:24
"Strawberry Fields Forever" Lennon 4:05
"Penny Lane" McCartney 3:00
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" Lennon 3:07
"All You Need Is Love" Lennon 3:57
All the tracks are great, but the ones I have have highlighted would be on a greatest hits album. MMT is up there with Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pepper, White Album and Abbey Road
I have every Beatles' album plus nearly al the solo efforts - when there are mono and stereo version I like to have both. However, the Beatles never had a bad spell. I do have ever Macca album and there are one or two duff ones, but they are mostly excellent. Same's true of the Harrison and Lennon output. I only have one solo Ringo elpee.
Emerson Lake Palmer - I have just about everything - the studio output up to an including Works was superb and still ranks along side anything I own, but why did I buy those official bootlegs - the SQ is so bad I have to read the sleeve notes to find out what they are playing Emo's solo work is truly wonderful though and the album Emerson Plays Emerson is exemplary.
The Pretty Things - great up until Parachute - after that what happened? Sure I still bought them hoping for another SF Sorrow, but it never happened and most likely never will.
I have every album Half Man Half Biscuit have released and every Shirley Collins tracks I know of. Most Kinks and Manfred Mann stuff. I think I have a copy of every record by the Move/ELO.
I do have every studio album by Uriah Heap, but not sure why I bought their last album.
There are quite a few more artists I have fairly complete sets of - Sandy, MCC, Joni, Martha & the Muffins, Chas & Dave, CCR/JF solo, Amon Duul II, Can, Kraftwerk, Incredible String Band, Barbara Thompson, Clash, Steeleye Span, Cathedral, They Might Be Giants, Ritchie Blackmore (Purple/Rainbow/Night), Peter Hammill/VDG, Soft Machine/Caravan/Ayers/Hatfield, Captain Beefheart, Kevin Coyne, Chumbawamba, Pearls Before Swine/Rapp ....
All the best, Guy
+1 The yellow sub is a brilliant album.,both of them.
The M M Tour is also a fantastic album.
The only original CD album i have that got cd rot .
They still get played here every week.
Stu.