What are some singers/bands that you have everything or as close to everything as you can by? Name no more than ten. Here is mine
Elvis Presley James Brown Otis Redding Hank Williams Sr. Led Zeppelin Jimi Hendrix Robert Johnson Rolling Stones Johnny Cash Iron Maiden
Many more, but I have to follow my own rules.
Falcom Sound Team jdk
EDIT: This is an exaggeration, I only have about four or five of their soundtracks, not "nearly all there is to buy," but I do like them enough, and can't really name anything else.
What style of music is that?
Anyone that hasn't checked them out before, they go way back. A lot of the people here weren't even born when Ys I came out, yet they were putting out bangers like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkyOs1Mj7Cc on PC FM synth chips.
It's video game soundtracks for Falcom games (Japanese dev). They are fantastic though. Half the reason to play Falcom games.
Adventurous, heroic, romantic, barrier breaking
I kneel.
I feel like the trails music is some of the best gaming tunes I've ever heard. Many people don't play the games and get to enjoy these bangers
Tool, Pearl Jam, Queen, Beach Boys, Disturbed, Cypress Hill, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Perfect Circle, CCR
CCR as in Creedence or Cross Canadian Ragweed? Nice grouping. I have all The Beach Boys and Queen
Creedence
I don't have much that I bought anymore. Then the files on my Plex are a mess.
As to music though irrespective of what I have, this is probably my top 10 that I actually listen to the most, in no particular order. I don't necessarily like everything from any of them though: Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, Waylon Jennings, George Strait, Johnny Cash, Beethoven, Chopin
Doesn't really fit together, but it's mostly accurate to listening time spent. The list could go on and on.
Great selection. I have at least some of all of those
Oh god - I really couldn't do a list - I've been collecting music for 45 years. But off the top of my head R.E.M. , The Cure, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, led Zep, Bloc Party, Editors, Brand New, Bring Me The Horizon, Spearhead, They Might be Giants, Silversun Pickups, Dinosaur jr. , Pj Harvey, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, genesis, the Police, Sting, TISM, The Smiths, Thievery Corporation, INXS, Midnight Oil, Powderfinger, Cage the Elephant, Faith No More, Died Pretty, Grant Lee Buffalo, Jeff Buckley, Morcheeba, Soundgarden, Underworld, Portishead, The Sundays, CHVRCHES, The Autuers, The Lemonheads, The Cranberries, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, U2, Stereo MC's, World Party, Jimmy eat World, Placebo, Tenacious D, the Prodigy, the Crystal Method, Alice in Chains, Sugar , Stone Temple Pilots, The Pineapple Thief ..... and that's all I can remember from top of my head
Yea, I could’ve given a much larger list. Great list, and I still need to do Dark Side of the Moon with Wizard of Oz.
I used to own Dark Side of the Moon Limited Edition Pink Vinyl - can't believe I sold it. I sold it about 20 years ago for around $250 - I think its worth about $1200 now
Wow!! I have some Elvis records but don’t think they are worth much. Also Jim Croce and Carpenters. Found at a yard sale
The value of vinyl records can vary greatly. I got out of Vinyl Records before they became popular again so only have a couple left now. A gold Vinyl print of Spandau Ballet's Gold and a few singles. But I still check out all the records at our local Garage Sales (that's what we call Yard Sales) and Op Shops. Picked up some for my father in law last week - some prefect condition Mario Lanza albums from the 50's - not a single scratch. I did also own Michael Jackson's Bad on Picture Disc Vinyl - but I think I only got about $100 for that. The problem nowadays with second hand sales is so many people now know what to look for so finding those hidden bargains and gems is getting very hard. I thought I had a pretty wide music knowledge but I'd never heard of Jim Croce before - any songs you recommend to listen to?
Cool!! I used to have a bunch of Michael Jackson and Jackson 5/Jacksons albums. Yea my collector expertise is in comic books and baseball/football/hockey cards. Anything else I’d have to look it up. Jim Croce was a 70s singer who died in a plane crash. Biggest hit was probably Bad Bad Leroy Brown. My favorite of his is Operator. Another great one is I’ll Have to say I Love You in a Song
Oh I know Bad bad Leroy Brown (baddest cat in the whole damn town?) ,so I have heard him. I know a lot of 70's songs when I hear them but for the life of me I couldn't name most of the artists. But I grew up in the 70's with a Dad who played music everywhere in the car - the bands I can recall from then though are Skyhooks, Captain and Tenille, Sweet, The Who. ELO. My mum wasn't a great influence as all she ever played was Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond. Do you know the Australian Band Cold Chisel?
We'll have to do another thread about Card Collecting - I have about 10 almost complete sets.
Never heard of Chisel. Will have to check them out. What sport do you collect?
I mean... if you put that $250 in the market, it's probably worth about 1200 now...
Us old dudes have been getting 8% for ages. It's all going to crash one day, and it's not going to be pretty.
And I've seen 31 of those live
Elvis Presley (The RCA albums Collection), Judas Priest, Manowar, Wytch Hazel, Charlie Daniels Band, Eagles, Carpenter Brut, Lazerhawk, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Metallica.
Nice! I have some of those on my “have everything list” but I had to abide by my own rules. Love Metallica. I only recently got into Atlanta Rhythm section
Yeah I have most of Iron Maiden, regrettably everything past Brave New World is really hit and miss. I have about 2000 or so CDs, I remember you saying that you once had an enormous collection at one time or another.
Yes but sold or gave them away once I switched to digital which I kinda regret. Whenever I get a house I’ll rebuild my record/tape/cd collection. I buy CDs now for listening to in the car whenever I see them at yard sales. Got a lot of Elvis and Hank Jr CDs at a yard sale last Saturday
I highly recommend Wytch Hazel if you're interested in a Thin Lizzy sounding band with strong Christian themes.
Cool! Always up for good Christian groups
The Protomen are the only band I know that have no bad songs and I have physically bought every piece of music they have, sans the vinyl only ones.
How a Megaman Rock Opera made by a bunch of nerds from the Mason Dixon area ends up being that good I'll never understand, but anyone is doing themselves a disservice by not listening to a few of their songs.
The Hounds is somehow more relevant now than a decade+ ago when it was written.
Phil Collins, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, Sam Cooke, Bill Withers
Great choices. Sinatra and Cooke are ones I have them all by and the rest I have quite a bit. Every December 1st I start listening to the Sinatra and Nat King Cole Christmas album
NKC is a great choice. It's funny I like Sinatra but I don't love him singing carols.
I prefer his regular songs but I love Christmas and that is an iconic album
Sasha and John Digweed
I used to listen to them all the time in the Air Force. Still got some of their music
They are still doing Progressive House/Breaks! I try to see them about once a year and party my ass off. They haven't put out an album together since I think Expeditions, but they still play together a few times a year, both own record lables and produce a lot of music, and tour all year solo. Here's Sasha and a different guy, Hernan Cattaneo, in Denver last year, if you're interested in what Prog House sounds like these days:
https://on.soundcloud.com/dhRFL
Cool!!! I enjoy Prog House. My favorite of that genre is Trance but enjoyed all kinds of electronic music. Remember the PlayStation game MTV Music Generator? I used to make so many songs on that one after listening to stuff like Digweed and Sasha.
I do! Great game. Sasha did the soundtrack to one of the Wipeout games, if you remember those!
Northern Exposure is probably the greatest ever example of the Progressive TRance genre. I've seen them both multiple times.
I think the first NortherncExposure is very important for how groundbreaking it was at the time, but I think the greatest example is Northern Exposure: Expeditions. I think that's really the peak of the genre in the 90s.
Barenaked Ladies, such a disappointing name when you realize it's all dudes. I met them a few months ago.
Castlevania has OSTs. I collect the games as well. I own the skateboard game that has Castlevania as a secret level.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater also has OSTs and I collect for the games as well. I don't have the GameBoy games or the PSP games yet, but I do have every main console game in multiple versions.
Will Smith
Billy Joel
Michael Jackson
Bloodywood only has one album so that was easy.
Windrose is similarly one albumed, but it rocks so who cares.
I have everything b Michael Jackson and J5. Even got a lot of his brother Jermaine’s music
Let's Get Serious is an awesome song
Absolutely. He is a good singer but when your siblings are Janet and Michael you kinda get overshadowed lol
True that.
The only song I ever remember from Tony Hawk is Superman.
You're missing out
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL79550F3D95A08C1B&si=E6OFrqVROO2T6qp7
That's Tony Hawk 3. Some awesome names are in there.
Wind Rose?
Based and dwarf-pilled.
(Also more than one album)
More than one? Crap, I need to get those.
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole...
Great band. I have their complete stuff too. Outside of the live stuff. You still a fan?
I'll just list a few bands that I listen to constantly:
Talk Talk's lack of commercial success is criminal but appropriate considering human behavior. Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock encompass some of the best music of all time.
Especially Laughing Stock, which to me is the pinnacle of musical success -- the crystallization of musicians tirelessly honing their craft. I have yet to come across a better album.
Talk Talk sing It’s My Life right? The one No Doubt covered?
Yes, but they started veering off the pop phase with Colour of Spring. Their last 3 albums - Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden, and Laughing Stock - especially the latter 2 are much more different than their early work.
Tool
Ninkharsag
Atlantean Kodex
Master Boot Record/Keygen Church
The Ocean Collective
I combined a couple that were well known band leaders who went solo.
The Police/Sting, Billy Joel, Volbeat, Alan Parsons Project, Psychedelic Furs, Cake, Soul Coughing/Mike Doughty
MN locals: Alex "Crankshaft" Larson, Gear Daddies, Arcwelder
The Furs' "Book of Days" is a masterpiece!
So is Billy Joel's ex-wife, I guess.
Is Cake still around?
They still tour, no new albums in over a decade though.
Rammstein, Stratovarius, Vangelis, The Rosen Corporation, Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, Dan Terminus, Tyconic, Wolf & Raven.
Gonna sound like a complete hipster wanker here, but in terms of collecting whole catalogues, I only really have prog, 70s rock, classical and local bands/acts.
So, to go for ten (and mostly avoiding the completely obscure), I have: Alan Parsons Project (vast majority of), Pink Floyd (same), Hunters and Collectors (Australian), Van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac (consistently my favourite band, for much of my life), Vaughan Williams, Copland, and then the Galvatrons (Also Aus), the Blue Mosquitoes and associated projects (from my home state), and finally Goanna/Shane Howard (also Australian).
Almost all of those are on CD, with a few records thrown in (some Floyd, some Parsons).
I go to a tonne of live concerts, though (when I can afford them), so I tend to pick up a bunch of stuff there. I think I have over 50 band/festival tees, at this point, so that's something.
Nothing wrong with that. I have all of Pink Floyd. Just have greatest hits of Alan Parsons. Love Eye in the Sky
AC/DC
Metallica
Alabama
George JonesGeorge Strait
Johnny Cash
Sabaton
Sturgill Simpson
Skillet
Ronnie Milsap
Halestorm (can't forget my girl)
Nice! I definitely have a ton of AC/DC and Metallica. Working on my Ronnie Milano but got all of George Jones and Strait. Wouldn’t be a true Texan if I didn’t love George Strait lol. Need to check out the others
To give you some examples, Sabaton sings about Fritz Haber. "Haber-Bosch, the great alliance, where's the contradiction? Fed the world by ways of science, sinner or a saint?"
Sturgill Simpson - Remember To Breathe
Skillet - Feel Invincible
Halestorm - I am the Fire
Thanks!
She is great. I have quite a bit of her music. Favorite song is Sinnerman. Also have that remixed house version
I think you've mentioned dabbling in French, right? I was introduced to "Sinnerman" via the song "Gibraltar" by Abd Al Malik. Absolutely fantastic if you have a few minutes. His French is so clear and seductive.
Of course... these days the politics of the song is.. well, maybe not important.
Yea I need to stop being lazy and learn. I speak Spanish so that helps. Never heard of Gilbraltar. Will have to check it out. He samples the beat?
The French don't often get their act together, but when they do they're generally the best in the world at whatever they want. Unfortunately, they usually want to do philosophy, pure math and love-triangle films.
Abd Al Malik has an album called 'Dante'. He used Jacques Brel's pianist as accompaniment. For a long time that was the only 'hip-hop' I knew, so I really thought of the genre as an overwhelmingly sophisticated re-imagining of white music (so to speak).
Then I discovered the 'nigga-nigga-bitch-y'all' hip-hop which... you know... has its charms too.
Unfortunately, French music is heavily bound-up with lyrics. Basically, the best lyricist in English, be it Dylan or Prine, is basically average in French. French music, though is a little monomaniacal.
But falling into the web of the French lyrics to a song is so comfortable...
Part of the reason I’d love to learn French. I looked up a French song I heard in Saving Private Ryan called Tu Est Partout. Beautiful
I own every song Moodring has put out, great band. I'm also a big fan of Course of Nature's "Superkala" album, which counts as their whole discography since their other album is hot garbage. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows is a great band as well, released one album in 2011 and returned two years ago to another excellent album, albeit a bit different from their original. The band Suasion is my oldest musical obsession, real good quality music, but they're slightly more difficult to get into as a group due to them seemingly changing rock genres every album.
Need to check them out
If you like Rock, Hard Rock and various forms of Metal you'll probably enjoy at least a few.
Rush and Big Country were always my prime targets at the used record stores, and Duran Duran. Never felt I went wrong with any of them, even if I didn't care much for BC's stuff past The Seer (they changed their sound a lot).
I need to check out Big Country. Love Rush since I first heard them on an episode of Futurama. In the book Ready Player One one of the final quests involved his knowledge of Rush albums and music
The first Big Country album is phenomenal. They were a 'one hit wonder' with the song that everybody knows, but the rest of the album is so well-written and crafted.
It's also one of those racism-demolished albums. I bought it back in 1985, listened to it a million times, and only in 2021 did I realize that the bassist is not just black, but blackity-black. No one cared back then.
If you're in a Scottish mood, Simple Minds are way, way cooler than you think they are (unless you're a fan).
Gonna check it out this weekend
I have everything by Duran Duran but didn't include it in my list above as technically I bought most of it for my wife - that and all of George Michael's catalogue.
:) Not a Wham! fan myself, but I did like Platinum Blonde's first two albums enough to use as regular driving music. Along with Ozzy, who I'd like to include as an honorable, but I only ever owned a couple of his albums; but I heard most of them because friends owned them.
Duran Duran just announced they are re-releasing their first 5 albums - remastered on CD and Vinyl
Uh... tell me you're from Canada without telling me?
Platinum Blonde's first album is legit great, probably one of the best new-wave albums in history, and it still gets an emotional reaction out of me forty (!) years later.
I saw them a few times at big open-air concerts -- not the best for their sound.