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Blues Guitarist

Blues Guitarist

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Oct 19, 2020
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St Johann in Tirol
Stato said:
This started out as the question: 'Do you own too many albums by a particular artist?' Okay, so the obvious answer might be 'Yes, I've got Queen's Greatest Hits', but what I meant was: Do you have a musical artist, who you like and who you keep buying the back catalogue of, despite being consistently disappointed by your previous purchases of their stuff?

For me, step forward: 'The Beach Boys'. Yes 'Pet Sounds' is a contender for the Greatest Album ever made. Yes everyone's life would be made better by a compilation of their Greatest Hits. Yes, Brian Wilson's erratic genius means that there is something valuable in 'Smiley Smile', 'Surf's Up', 'Wild Honey' etc. but why do I keep buying copies of their early albums? They were churning out two a year, they all have a couple of singles on that I already have and the rest of the album is filler. Not counting compilations and live albums, I now own eleven of their 29 studio albums. I know it's too many. I also know that if I spot another of the handily packaged 2 albums on one CD sets that I don't own, I'll probably find myself buying it.

I've just driven home listening to their fourth album: 'Little Deuce Coupe'. It has 14 songs. 11 are about cars. One is about a plane, one is about someone dying in a car and the other is Mike Love's appallingly naff 'Be True to Your School'. The title track and 'I Get Around' are the only two songs of note and I already have them on compilations. It's not on vinyl, so won't be collectible. I have Spotify and didn't even need to buy it. Still did and don't even really regret it.

I started this thread asking about music, because that's my weakness, but I realised whilst rambling, that the question is wider. It's about the inability to say no to adding to any type of collection, even when you're completely aware of the diminishing returns. I have a problem. Completism? Obsession? Charlie Brown and the football levels of not learning from my mistakes? I don't know. I'm just looking for some assurance that others are sometimes just as weird.
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I did that with Jan Akkerman (the guitarist from Dutch prog rock band Focus back in the day).

I had every studio album Akkerman or Focus or for that matter, Van Leer (Focus keyboard player and flautist) ever put out. Specifically for Akkerman, I had the original albums released on Atlantic, then the Polydor version, and CBS and later releases on Charly. Every UK release, plus some from the US, Japan and mainland Europe.

Now it's all on the internet and I've sold my record, CD and tape collections.

So am I cured?

No - I now have seventeen guitars. Actually 17 and a half if you count the half-built acoustic guitar in my workshop.
 






















Clive Walker

Clive Walker

Stand Or Fall
Jul 5, 2011
3,678
Brighton
I had a fantastic collection of all my favourite music on CD. Years later I threw them away and am delighted with the vast amount of music I have on streaming services.

Since Xmas I’ve spend about £1000 buying the very same albums on vinyl. I know it’s mental but I just can’t help it.
 


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Binney on acid

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Nov 30, 2003
2,747
Shoreham
Jackson Browne is my all time musical hero, slightly edging it over Springsteen. Since 1976 i've bought pretty well everything that he's released, or been associated with. That includes loads of inferior quality bootlegs. In reality, he's released nothing that I could eulogise over since "I'm alive", in 1993. I only ever end up playing a few of his tracks, mostly from 'Late for the sky', (1974) and 'The Pretender', (1976). They are the two finest albums that I've ever heard.
 






happypig

happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,384
Eastbourne
Albion my Albion said:
What's the difference between a normal heart attack and a sheer heart attack?
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Presumably the latter occurs on this little beauty :
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(it's The Admiral Scheer, the second Panzerschiff of the Deutschland class)
 








happypig

happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,384
Eastbourne
Bob Dylan.
When I was unpacking my CDs I found I had 20+ albums. I reckon I'd actually choose to play about half of them. Ok, a third.
 




Stato

Stato

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Dec 21, 2011
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Binney on acid said:
Jackson Browne is my all time musical hero, slightly edging it over Springsteen. Since 1976 i've bought pretty well everything that he's released, or been associated with. That includes loads of inferior quality bootlegs. In reality, he's released nothing that I could eulogise over since "I'm alive", in 1993. I only ever end up playing a few of his tracks, mostly from 'Late for the sky', (1974) and 'The Pretender', (1976). They are the two finest albums that I've ever heard.
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Are you saying that he's been running on empty?

Thanks. I've a few of his albums and have been tempted by used copies of others going cheap on the web. If I add more, I'll be careful not to start with the later stuff.
 






Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
58,339
Faversham
Binney on acid said:
Jackson Browne is my all time musical hero, slightly edging it over Springsteen. Since 1976 i've bought pretty well everything that he's released, or been associated with. That includes loads of inferior quality bootlegs. In reality, he's released nothing that I could eulogise over since "I'm alive", in 1993. I only ever end up playing a few of his tracks, mostly from 'Late for the sky', (1974) and 'The Pretender', (1976). They are the two finest albums that I've ever heard.
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Late for the Sky is sublime.

I didn't bother after that, though

I have to say also that Born to Run is also sublime, and I bought the follow up, but thought it was largely dull. I never bothered with Springsteen again. I couldn't avoid hearing The River (dirge) several times on the radio and eventually learned to run screaming from the room. Born to run, I was.

I never gave up on the Clash, though despite the disappointment of GEER, their worst album despite Safe European Home and English Civil War being amazing tracks.

Music is a funny old game.
 


Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam
Jan 31, 2013
2,019
Walthamstow
chickens said:
In my youth, absolutely, I had to track down every track that bands I liked had ever released. The internet has taken a lot of the challenge out of it though. In the past I had to send off to import places for variations on singles I already owned just because there was an unheard track as a b-side on the Japanese release.

The commodification of music via Spotify/Apple Music etc. has been good in terms of availability of rarer tracks, but something has been lost along the way.

Grampa Simpson Grandpa GIF by MOODMAN
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I find Spotify is absolute pants for rarer tracks. Almost every playlist I try to put together 1 in 8/9 tracks is either absent or a crappy version.
 


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