Which artists do you have the complete works of?

Blue Öyster Cult
The Monkees
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Go Gos
nine inch nails
Type O Negative

There's a bunch of acts I'm working on: Miles Davis, the Who, U2, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Blondie, to name a few.

np - Instumentally - various artists (It's nearing the final stages, my all instrumental double disc set. Final setlist will be posted in a day or so.)

Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand."

My list (including only artists that have released five or more studio albums). I'll qualify this by putting an asterix by any artist that I have EVERY studio song officially released EVER by them. The number in brackets next to the artist is the number of studio albums they've officially released in their career.

THE BEATLES (13)
THE MONKEES (up to 1970 anyway) (9)
THE ROLLING STONES (25)
LED ZEPPELIN (10)*
PINK FLOYD (14)
GRAND FUNK (RAILROAD) (13)*
THE DOORS (6)
ASIA (7)*
THE BLACK CROWES (6)*
URIAH HEEP (20)*
IRON BUTTERFLY (6)*
MOBY GRAPE (6)
FREE (6)

There are several others I'm working on. The Beatles I have all the essential "canonical" stuff but none of the Anthology and other releases. Really, the only Stones I'm lacking now are a couple of B-sides from the seventies that were on the compilation "Sucking In The Seventies" which was once on CD many years ago but has been OOP for a long time. The only Floyd I'm missing is the stuff from the "Zabraskie Point" soundtrack and the one song each from Works and Relics that can't be found anywhere else.
I have the complete Doors box set, but this doesn't have everything as I've discussed elsewhere.
I know I probably cheated by putting The Monkees on my list since I don't have the two latter-era discs, but collecting all the Monkees material from the classic period availible (including a few fairly hard to find songs buried in the byways of various Rhino releases) is an achievement in itself.
Groups I'd like to have the complete works of someday include Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and Nektar. There are also a number of groups that I'm only interested in collecting one classic era of although they may have released material in the eighties and beyond (like Yes and the Moody Blues and Bad Company, to name just a few).

I don't know if this counts, but I have all 9 Beethoven Symphonies.

I've got all of The Beatles, if you don't Let It be and Let It Be... Naked seperately. Outside of that, the only artist that I have "everything" by is The Doors (though, to echo Todd's comment, it's missing two post-Morrison albums and a few other tracks) and The White Stripes (though that only covers CDs, I still need to track down all their vinyl-only tracks)

I'm going to have to qualify this list as well and limit it to major releases; limited releases, anthologies, side projects and the like aren't included (though they're nice to collect as well). By that definition I also have all of The Beatles albums.

Also (in no particular order):

Van Morrison
Fairport Convention
Richard Thompson
Sandy Denny
Nick Drake
Husker Du/ Bob Mould/ Sugar
Pixies
XTC
Bruce Cockburn (recently competed )
John Prine
Oregon
Tom Waits

I'll also echo the sentiment that there are a bunch of artists that I only like a certain period for, otherwise they'd be on the list (Pat Metheny, Clannad,...).

Not counting artists like the Rutles where the complete works is just one or two CDs, I have:

Beatles
Tori Amos (spot me a b-side or two)
Oasis (ditto)
Billie Holiday (minus a few radio broadcasts, but I've got all her studio stuff)
Bessie Smith (got her complete works three times over and'll buy them again if they keep improving the sound quality)
Hot Lips Page
Blind Willie McTell
Mahler (several times over, different conductors)
Jaurim
Queen
Charlie Parker, minus the more recent finds

In vynyl days, I had the complete recordsings of Pat Metheney, Miles Davis, 10cc and Jimi Hendrix, but I haven't kept up with all the CDs releases.

There are also a few artists like Cheap Trick whose complete works I could have, but it would involve buying some really, really bad albums.

If I ever got around to picking up The Rising I'd have all of Bruce Springsteen's albums (though not the studio rarities box set).

Queen (including the record of B-sides that came with The Complete Works record collection)
Kiss
Billy Joel
The Beatles (and that DOES include Anthologies)
Abba
The Police (in a handy boxset)
Led Zepplin

as far as classical works goes (curious that people seem to be only counting symphonies- surely complete means complete?)
Mahler (all Symphonies- several times- songcycles and other compositions)
lots of complete symphonies- (deep breath)
Beethoven (twice)
Brahms
Bruckner (twice)
Dvorak
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Tchaikovsky
Nielson
Prokofiev
Schubert
Schumann
Sibelius
Haydn (all 104-odd of them!)

any questions?

Well if we include just symphonies, I'd have a lot more to add as well. Mahler was the only one I could say I had everything by since the symphonies account for well over half his total output.

I may have everything by Shostakovitch, but there are still some compositions that, I believe, haven't been recorded.

Sarah McLachlan
Jill Sobule
Henry Phillips
(almost) Diana Krall
(almost) Rage Against The Machine

Going through my collection and forgot to mention at least two: Ma Rainey and Dinah Washington.

Hi! I myself, in the past, have acquired the complete works of one of my absolute favorite British rock/techno/dance/pop groups (a duo actually), the Pet Shop Boys. And the reason for this is because I really love their music!

In fact, two days ago, I just bought their new-for-2006 album, "Fundamental". Actually, it's the two-CD special edition, with the bonus disc, "Fundamentalism" consisting of remixes of the tracks from "Fundamental" and two new tracks, one of which is with that great rock legend, Elton John!

And as for the Boys' earlier albums that I have owned, there are:

Please-1985
Disco: The Remix Album-1986
Actually-1987
Introspective-1988
Behavior-1990
Discography: The Complete Singles Collection-1991
Very-1993
Very Relentless-limited edition, also 1993
Disco 2-1994
Alternative-B-sides compilation, 1995
Bilingual-1996
Nightlife-1999
Nightlife Extra-limited edition, also 1999
Release-2002
Disco 3-2003
PopArt-21st century compilation, 2004
"Miracles"-non-album single, 2004
"Flamboyant"-non-album single, 2004
and most recently...
Fundamental/Fundamentalism, 2006

Ths thing with the PSB is that, some of the time, their b-sides are actually better than the singles that are officialy released! I discovered this when I bought the 30-B-side-track collection "Alternative" a few years ago, and guess what? I liked 25 out of the 30 tracks. That's not bad for songs that one would not ordinarily have been able to hear if you just buy the album of songs and not the individual singles!

Now, I am in the process of listening to all of my PSB CD's from the beginning, and enjoying it all the way! I highly recommend this group (duo) to anyone who likes great music!

Back on July 2004 on this board, I expressed a desire to finish my collection of the complete works of Nektar. I've since done that in my own CD collection, and this morning I discovered that the legendary prog band's complete works are availible online (studio and live albums). Although you don't appear to be able to download the tracks, you can listen to them online at your leisure.

http://www.nektar.us/nn/media/media_audio.asp

One live album that is unfortunately not contained there is 2002's Greatest Hits Live, which I personally consider up there with Springsteen's 1975-1985 package and the Band's Last Waltz as one of the greatest live albums ever made. There's an explanation for this at the website however.

And now, guess what? Since my post in 2006, the PSB came out with Disco 4, yet another remix compilation. It's not as good as Disco 3, which was almost all new songs, but it sure is a lot better than Disco 2, which was totally terrible!

I do believe Neil and Chris are working on a new album of original material, but I have no idea when it will come out. I suppose I'll just have to go their website and look it up!

My collection of artist complete works since I last posted on this topic. Again all studio works, all artists with five or more studio albums)

ALICE COOPER - 25 albums, 261 songs
ASIA - 10 albums, 2 outtake collections, 134 songs
BAD COMPANY (through 1982) - 6 albums, 58 songs
THE BEATLES - 13 albums, 2 singles collections, 211 songs
THE BLACK CROWES - 6 albums, 67 songs
BLUE OYSTER CULT (through 1988) - 10 albums, 91 songs
BREAD - 6 albums, 72 songs
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (through 1995) - 12 albums, 129 songs
DEEP PURPLE (through 1998) - 16 albums, 145 songs
DOORS - 6 albums, 62 songs
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - 13 albums, 118 songs
GRATEFUL DEAD - 13 albums, 105 songs
HUMBLE PIE - 10 albums, 95 songs
IRON BUTTERFLY - 6 albums, 54 songs
IRON MAIDEN (through 2000) - 12 albums, 111 songs
JOURNEY (through 1986) - 9 albums, 91 songs
JUDAS PRIEST (through 1990) - 10 albums, 112 songs
KANSAS - 13 albums, 133 songs
LED ZEPPELIN - 9 albums, 83 songs
LUCIFER'S FRIEND (through 1981) - 8 albums, 62 songs
MOBY GRAPE - 7 albums, 76 songs
THE MONKEES (through 1970) - 9 albums, numerous outtake compilations, 170 songs
NEKTAR - 11 albums, 93 songs
PINK FLOYD - 14 albums, 1 singles collection, 152 songs
PROCOL HARUM (through 1977) - 9 albums, 1 singles collection, 87 songs
THE ROLLING STONES (through 1998) - 22 albums, numerous singles and outtakes collections, 299 songs
RUSH (through 1981) - 8 albums, 50 songs
STATUS QUO (through 1998) - 22 albums, singles collection, 244 songs
STRAY - 8 albums, 80 songs
URIAH HEEP - 21 albums, numerous outtakes collections, 258 songs

Pet Shop Boys Neil and Chris have released another CD simply called "Yes." it will be released in the U.S. on April 21st.

I've already heard it, as I was brought a copy from Europe, where it's already out.

Oh, and they also released "Disco 4" two years ago.

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Neil and Chris are now touring to promote "Yes", and have released a live CD/DVD, "Pandemonium". Their last good live DVD was "Montage" back in 2001, when they were touring to promote
"Nightlife".

I don't know if anyone else here likes the Pet Shop Boys, but I will definetly be buying their new one!

I was just in Germany again last month, and during that time the Pet Shop Boys released yet another compilation called "Ultimate PSB". It is a single disc of hit songs previously released, and it has one new song, "Together". So I bought it after listening to it first, as the store I was in has try-before-you-buy stations. I like that,I wish you could do that here in the states!

The Boys are back again. Last September they released "Elysium", their 11th full-length studio album. They have also released four hits compilations, two collections of b-sides, four remix compilations, and two live albums.

Basically, if it's something with new original material by them, I will definetly be getting it!