Just checked my Discogs here is my Top 10 (more than 10 since so many ties) The Rolling Stones 31 The Beatles 25 Miles Davis/Bruce Springsteen 23 The Band 21 Queen/The Who 18 Genesis 17 Pearl Jam 16 The Replacements/Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin/Steely Dan 15
Great video Mazzy! Your #1 was no surprise. The number of their records that you have certainly was!! Glad you cleared up no Kinks - a senior moment, Mazzy.
Great idea for a video. I really enjoyed this and the fact that Ry Cooder is in your top 10 makes me want to delve into his music. I hate to admit it, but I have nothing by him at the moment.
I had St. Dominic's in my hand yesterday, gonna go back and get it ! Missing it for years, on vinyl. Mr. Tambourine Man is my favorite Byrds LP.. And yes, too bad Gene didn't stick around a while longer. Meddlle and Wish You Were Here, are my go to Floyd. Saw Bowie Nov. 1973 Celebrity Theatre Phoenix, Az on the Ziggy Tour... my best show ever ! Love love Hendrix, and Cry Of Love is in a 3 way tie for my go to LP's. In The Purple Valley is my fav, and most played.. finally picked up a minty Boomers Story.. I'm not familiar with the Grateful Dead.. Hehe.. will enjoy the rest of your video.. Thanks !
Listened to After the Gold Rush last night after watching this and noticed something I’d never noticed before. Oh Lonesome Me is in mono. It blows my mind that I can still hear new things on an album I’ve listened to for decades. I think watching you has helped me refocus on the music. Thanks!
Of course at age 72 I can relate to all of this. I love Jimi and Stones and Kinks. But Bob is my number one guy, always was, since 64. I could talk about the misses but that is all irrelevant.. Great collection you have. Now I have to subscribe. Because now I know I can relate to your love.
Fantastic Mazzy! You almost looked embarrassed and started to justify why you have so many Beatles albums...I have my very first album gifted by my parents - Beatles -Hard Day's Night to this day. One of the greatest benefits of getting old is that we have had time to collect and now, ENJOY!! Thanks for sharing, you are an inspiration (and justification why I collect so many versions of one artist) 'OnYa
Mazzy, pretty impressive. I tried something like this once, but I included CDs and digital files to determine the ranking. I was wondering what had happened to the Kinks, but you cleared up the mystery. Thanks, Chris
love your videos and I have also spent most of my life (and money) on music. Back to buying vinyl again after years of CDs and digital but having moved many times including countries have lost lots of my old albums but even so 500 Beatles albums that's a lot. Not sure how you've financed all that but glad you have.
Well first if you divide these out over 55 years. Plus ten years in the record biz getting free and cheap records plus friends in the record biz for another decade. Plus being self employed for 37 years with some very good years up until the last five or so plus my son is grown and out of the house and there you have it. Just a priority I guess.
Mazzy, always enjoy watching your videos. But I have a rye smile when you talk about 60's UK first pressings etc. Most of us played those records on Dansette record players. No concerns about the warm sound of Vinyl, we just wanted too turn the sound up to 11. (Well done for giving Dino Valenti a shout out).
You're back from the dark side! You have some great picks in your top 10, especially that one with the prism and the dispersion of light on the album cover. 👍👍👍
Nice video Maz. You mention about On The Beach not getting much love at the time. I have an interesting copy in my collection. It's a first US pressing with the flower pattern inside that I purchased new new in Canada. It has a cutout in one corner so I suspect it didn't sell in the US at the time , got returned and a discount seller here in Canada picked it up.
That’s great that Ry Cooder is your favorite. I became a fan a few years back. Boomer’s Story is one of my favorites. He’s incredible to this day. Also, I LOVE Safe as Milk
Dylan is the biggest artist collection i have. 123 albums (not including 45's, tapes, and CDs). I count the Bootleg Series boxes as one but the mono box is 8 since they're full albums. Great video, Mazzy! Now I want to go count my artist collections to see who my top 10 are.
Always entertaining! You got me on Ry, and I only have 3... Boomer, Paradise, and Chavez (every one needs to know that story and I'm a Dodger fan, sorry) Love back at Maz!!! Peace to all...
I’m glad that you appreciate Ry Cooder and are preaching the word on him. I’ve got them all and like them all for one reason or another. Still looking for a good copy of St. Dom. One day…
I still need to get that Saint Dominic's Preview record. Thanks for the suggestion. Ha, remember the days of having to hide records from Mom and Dad....... A great list, thanks for sharing.
Glad you caught THE KINKS at the end!!! BRILLIANT band deserving their place on your list. I have a ton of albums (nowhere near your vast collection), but XTC is my #1. (I'm only starting to build up my Bob Dylan collection). Thanks again for your wonderful channel. It really helps on direction of what to try next for me. Cheers!
@@garyolshan4177 Yup. Right there with you... The first two have a few excellent songs... but they really come into their own with the third album, "Drums and Wires." Dave Gregory smoothes some of the jagged edges and the band is way more balanced. Cheers!
Great list, Mazzy. I track pretty close to those at much lower cd levels, but same artists. I have to throw Frank Sinatra in also. I don't feel the need to be a completist. Sometimes it's just that certain artist produce a lot of work over a lifetime, it makes it hard to collect there is so much.
Glad to see the love for “Station to Station” like I do! For me, this is my favourite “Berlin period” album even if it’s not (if you know what I mean!). It even makes my top 5 Bowie albums.
Nice Collection Mazzy. Pretty much the order as mine.I find that a lot of bands put out great recordings at the start, however, after that it was mostly shit.Great Video
I was surprised Ry Cooder was on the list. I got to see him live opening for E.C. in 1983 (third concert ever at 15) He was really good but as there was no streaming then and finds were severely limited, I never got any of his records I did find the audio of that 1983 RC/EC show recently and it was a fantastic show. My second concert (1982) is on your list - the Kinks. That was a great show. Ray Davies was such a good front man as well as a songwriter
I think that second in my LP quantity count after The Beatles is XTC. I was picking up every XTC record that I could find in the 80's. My CD version of this would have The Kinks, The Beatles, XTC, Richard Thompson and Robyn Hitchcock (Including The Egyptians) as the top five.
Great collection but also a huge tip of the hat to The Beatles for their prolific short time together and their management for marketing the hell out of a large body of work, but let's face it, a relatively short career. Yet they still manage to crank out that many different versions, collections, editions, bootlegs and branch out into all fields of marketing to perpetuate their product and get as much money from their fans as possible. And despite being driven by greed from their fans, they have also managed to reciprocate wealth BACK to dedicated collectors such as yourself by having all of their wonderful merchandise continue to skyrocket 50 to 60 years later! I still haven't played my Psychedelic Pill yet, some 10 years after preordering it so many years ago. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for as they came packaged very much unsealed so it would be virtually impossible for me to prove its never been played. Oh well. Perhaps I'll spin it before I die. Perhaps I will leave that honor to someone else that may not even know it. Maybe I'm 3 beers away from playing it tonight. Ha! As always, it was fun joining you on this little journey. I wouldn't have pegged you as that strong of a Neil Young fan. Cheers!
My list of the top ten that I have a complete or near complete collection with lots of reissues and remastered pressings: The Beatles Pink Floyd Neil Young Mike Oldfield Linda Ronstadt Fleetwood Mac Alan Parsons Project Joni Mitchell Eric Clapton Paul McCartney
Impressive indeed and diverse, not a big surprise but, out side of the 'Dead and Hendrix, I have every one of the records you presented as exemplars of each artist, after Beatles/solo, I probably have more Neil Young than any other artist but like you say, he continues to put out a high volume of work, honorable mentions from my record world go to, The Who, XTC, Zappa BUT not 'collecting'( hate that term for it)' on the same scale as you have. By last estimation I have just under 2000 records but you do have about ten years on me of buying records and working in a couple of record stores/industry probably was helpful to your access to LP's, not a competition of course.....just the facts man. Vinyl community vids are my porn( thats what my wife calls it). Enjoyed the vid, thanks Mazzy.
Hey Mazzy, always a joy watching your videos. Quick question: you are into jazz and I always see the big names of jazz in your collection. But do you like more modern jazz like for example Fourplay, Marc Moulin (sort of fusion jazz), Count Basic (acid jazz)?
Hey Mazzy. You have a fantastic collection. But WOW. I only have around 150 vinyl records all together. But I'm not mad on getting every different pressing or from different countries or different variations and all that APART FROM WHEN IT COMES TO THE BEATLES. Probably out of the around 150 vinyls I have, around 75 are Beatles records. I wanted to get an original 60s UK MONO copy of every album upto and included the white album (which I have), then an original 68-69-70 stereo version of yellow sub, Abbey Road and let it be (which I have), then the original UK 73 red a blue (which I have). Then I wanted an original UK version of all those themed albums EMI and Capitol put out in the 70s and 80s. I.e. Rock n Roll, Love songs, Ballads, etc (which I have apart from Reel Music) then I wanted an an original past masters, an original LOVE Cirque Du Soleil, an original let it be naked, live at the Hollywood bowl original and reissue, original yellow sub songtrack(all of which I have) And then I wanted the original UK 1970 box set of let it be (which I got) the Beatles Box from Liverpool 8 LP box set (which I got), then I wanted all 4 of the Vinyl versions of the 50th anniversary deluxe box sets (which I got) and then I started to collect the late 80s and 90s Direct Metal Master versions of all the albums which I have and some are great and some aren't. AND NOW ALL I NEED IS THE 2019 Singles Box.Reel Music lp The anthologies, live at the BBC and On Air and 1 and then I'll have EVERYTHING I WAS AIMING TO GET. I have all the 2009 Mono and Stereo CDs, and all the 1987 CDs, and half of the XDR versions of the Cassettes. But then after all this what do I do when I have the anthologies, BBC ,1 and Reel Music? Where do I go from there? Will I be satisfied Mazzy?
I have to admit a long standing weakness for Muswell Hillbillies. I got a copy back in the early 1980s when you couldn't find any but the most recent Kinks albums. Blew my mind
I'm always curious to see what others are into. I've always felt that music is such a personal thing, and tastes vary from person to person. For instance, I can appreciate someone like David Bowie, but I've never connected to most of his stuff. Also, I agree with you about Van Morrison for the most part, with "Tupelo Honey" being an album that got me through some hard times in the past. I was lucky enough to work two tours with Van, being his driver (I was there for the Live in Masonic in SF back in 1995 and 1996), but he didn't say much, even though he was always polite. But after that experience and seeing so many of his shows, I cooled on him. I'm surprise as well not to see Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys on your list. I suppose many consider "Pet Sounds:" and "SMiLE" his peaks (albeit it took over 30 years for him to complete the latter), but I find myself fascinated with any artist who puts so much of their soul into their music. And looking at the comments, surprised how many people have XTC and Andy Partridge among their favorites. I have about 20,000 LPs in my collections, and I'm into everything from Buck Owens, to 10cc, to Neil Finn and Crowded House, to Dean Martin, to various soundtracks, to Willie Nelson, to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, to George Fromby, to Nick Heyward. Another favorite is Scott Engel (aka Scott Walker) of the Walker Brothers. Just amazing stuff. I also have 3000 Beach Boys' singles in my collection, as that's been a life long commitment, to document and find any BBoys 7" single I can. I must me mad!! , but the music never fails me and that's what important!! Dig, DmGrk
The Kinks win in my collection. I have over 60 albums including bootlegs, US & British releases, compilations. I also have the God Save The Kinks Box from 1969 that Warner Bros put out as part of their God Save The Kinks campaign before they were welcomed back to the states before the Arthur tour. It came with supposed grass from the Village Green, a puzzle, a compilation called Then Now and Inbetween and other goodies.
A quick search of Discogs and I think this is my top ten: XTC 136 Robyn Hitchcock 131 Jonathan Richman 99 Bob Dylan 73 Beach Boys 73 Beatles 70 Neil Young 68 John Cale 44 Kinks 39 Boo Radleys 37 Velvet Underground 34 It's probable I forgot someone. In fact I'd forgotten John Cale and added him after saying "It's probable I forgot someone" My list doesn't include solo albums by members of the band or Beatles would be top 3 and probably #1. Velvet Underground would also move way up with my Cale and Reed records (Mo Tucker and Nico too if you count her).
@@toddhill7483 I won an auction with about half of XTC's 45s in it and figured I had to collect the rest.... I have everything but the ever elusive Wrapped In Grey.
@@andysmusicden Looks like 15 are albums: original pressings, reissues, test pressings, signed copies, duplicates... 20 singles and a couple compilations that include other artists (Creation Records • International Guardians Of Rock 'N' Roll 1983-1999 and Seconds Out Round One). There are still a few singles on my want list, but they are hard to come by in the US and international shipping charges often deter me.
Wanky & Cranky top my collections 49 Van or as my spouse says ( Van Moreofthesame) 35 Neil The Fabs 31 Bob 22 Dead 18 Love Station to Station ( 1st concert I attended Feb 76) and the Healing Game and St. Dominic’s but It’s Too Late to Stop Now and Veedon Fleece are up there as well as is the collaboration with Joey DeFrancesco Good video idea!
Thirty-four Jimi Hendrix albums is pretty darn impressive for an artist that not only managed to release a mere 4 albums in his lifetime but from whom there's only about 4 years worth of live performances to draw from. On the other hand, artists like Van Morrison & Neil Young are frustrating for the simple reason that they won't stop releasing new albums and, dammit, it's just impossible to keep up! It'd be one thing if they were creatively spent years ago and you could safely ignore their new albums & know you're not missing anything, but they bot still release some really damm good quality product on at least a semi-regular basis. But the sad fact is that even if his latest record is really good, I already have 25 good-to-amazing Van Morrison records on my shelf and there's just a limit as to how many Van Morrison albums I really need in my life because, you know, there's also other stuff I'd like to have time to listen to. Psychedelic Pill is an Amazing album! and it kinda pissed me off when I heard it & realized no, I couldn't write Shaky off quite yet. How was I ever going to be able to discover and appreciate the worthy current, new artists out there if this cranky old fart hippie is still blowing my mind?
My quantity winners are Hendrix, Bowie (officials plus lots of bootlegs) and Mina (she's been putting out two records a year during 60 years, I don't have them all). Then Beach Boys, Beatles, KingCrimson...
And I thought I had a lot with my 46 Beatles albums, but over 500, that's insane. A real Beatlemaniac. I'm a little bit jealous. Beatles are No.4 with me. My No.3 Uriah Heep with 48 albums, No.2 Deep Purple with 51 albums and No.1 Rolling Stones 72 albums.
Totally agree with the Kinks and the Stones, who really lost their edge and quality of material after the Beatles broke up, since they competed with the Fab Four during the 60s. However, I would rank XTC in the top 3 since al their varied, brilliant, melodic, thought-provoking records were A+ after their sporadic debut, which is understandable prior to Dave Gregory.
Can recommend wholeheartedly Jimi Hendrix live at the Royal Albert Hall from his well filmed and recorded Spring 1969 concert shows, for me it’s the best in terms of sound and film quality that exists. Such a pity it still hasn’t had a major re-release due to many issues! Ummm so did you get the new Grateful Dead vinyl set of the Lyceum shows they did in 1972, exhaustively documented? Plus don’t forget Jimi’s Monterey Pop’s version of Like a Rolling Stone, one of those moments of history imo! Oh and also Led Zeppelin on Radio One, early in January 1969, Communication Breakdown!
Mazzy, right at the end I was getting ready to comment where did the kinks fall short to make the list. Lol great thread. I have actually looked at this list in my collection as well, but I include CDS. If you included CDs would your list stay the same, or would a few artists move around? Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman
Have at least 20 (and in many cases a LOT more) of America, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, June Christy, Glen Campbell, Petula Clark, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, The Dave Clark Five, Deep Purple, Donovan, The Everly Brothers, The Moody Blues, Tommy James, Jan and Dean, Jethro Tull, The Kinks, Peggy Lee, Gordon Lightfoot, Julie London, Dean Martin, Paul McCartney, Kenneth McKellar, Moody Blues, Rick Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Roy Orbison, Poco, Elvis Presley, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Cliff Richard, The Righteous Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Shadows, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, T.Rex, The Ventures, The Who, Wishbone Ash, and if you start including classical or film music composers, the list gets much longer!!!
I'm too lazy to count or sort my collection. I call it the chaos collection. Your collection of Miles Davies is also a large collection of some of the greatest jazz musicians. He recorded with so many greats.
I saw the Kinks absence coming. One step ahead of you on that one. Current artist I'm all in on? That would be Bob Dylan. Funny how people don't like it when he does what he wants to do. He's an artist he don't look back, as they say.
it's o.k. if van morrison gets bumped off your list, because counting up my collection, van actually comes in first place wiith most vinyl, followed by dylan and leonard cohen....very cool idea...peace...rocky
Always enjoy your posts, Mazzy! My vinyl top 10 by quantity (box sets counted as one title): 1. The Rolling Stones 2. Neil Young 3. Bob Dylan 4. The Beach Boys 5. David Bowie 6. The Tragically Hip 7. The Who 8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 9. Rush 10. Bruce Cockburn My CD top 10 by quantity (box sets counted as one title): 1. The Rolling Stones 2. Elvis Costello 3. David Bowie 4. Rush 5. Bob Dylan 6. Neil Young 7. The Tragically Hip 8. The Who 9. Frank Zappa 10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Cheers! :D
I don't have everything in Discogs but I know that Bob Dylan and Van Morrison would be in my top five. I think I may have more albums by Jerry Lee Lewis than anyone else. 500 Beatles albums sounds amazing.
It's funny that Hendrix has so much out there when he only released three studio records during his lifetime. I'm not at home to count, but if you allow for bootlegs as well, my Top two as far as quantity would be 2. Springsteen and 1. Neil Young. My favorite Neil record is Rust Never Sleeps
I was wondering what happened to The Kinks. I don’t have anywhere the quantity you do but a quick look and my top 5 The Beatles-26 Rolling Stones-27 Bob Dylan -28 Thelonious Monk-29 Frank Sinatra- 39
I have the same version as the Are You Experienced you showed and mine was a Music On Vinyl release and sounds amazing! Grundman mastering and all! But what is missing on mine is The Wind Crys Mary! Is that missing from your copy? My Marino mastered version has it but the one you showed didnt!
@@primeanalogrecords probably but I haven’t seen it. Looks on wiki. You can see the track listing if both. In the US they added the singles. Changed the track listing.
This is an interesting ranking approach. My list according to Discogs incl. 12“, 10“, 7“ and counting box-sets as one item (that‘s why Bowie, The Stones and Black Sabbath don‘t make the Top 10): 01. KISS = 367 02. IRON MAIDEN = 74 03. ENNIO MORRICONE = 67 04. AC/DC = 63 05. ZAPPA/MOTHERS = 56 06. DEEP PURPLE = 53 07. THE BEATLES = 50 08. MOTÖRHEAD = 44 09. JUDAS PRIEST = 43 10. ALICE COOPER = 38
Hi, as much as i would love that everybody`s fav Neil Young album is On the Beach, it`s just not true. Mostly it`s Harvest and After the Goldrush. Be honest, is it getting better than the period between ´74-´76 when it comes to Neil Young? Greetings
Just checked my Discogs here is my Top 10 (more than 10 since so many ties)
The Rolling Stones 31
The Beatles 25
Miles Davis/Bruce Springsteen 23
The Band 21
Queen/The Who 18
Genesis 17
Pearl Jam 16
The Replacements/Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin/Steely Dan 15
Great video ! Thanks for sharing.
Great video Mazzy! Your #1 was no surprise. The number of their records that you have certainly was!! Glad you cleared up no Kinks - a senior moment, Mazzy.
Great idea for a video. I really enjoyed this and the fact that Ry Cooder is in your top 10 makes me want to delve into his music. I hate to admit it, but I have nothing by him at the moment.
I had St. Dominic's in my hand yesterday, gonna go back and get it ! Missing it for years, on vinyl. Mr. Tambourine Man is my favorite Byrds LP.. And yes, too bad Gene didn't stick around a while longer. Meddlle and Wish You Were Here, are my go to Floyd. Saw Bowie Nov. 1973 Celebrity Theatre Phoenix, Az on the Ziggy Tour... my best show ever ! Love love Hendrix, and Cry Of Love is in a 3 way tie for my go to LP's. In The Purple Valley is my fav, and most played.. finally picked up a minty Boomers Story.. I'm not familiar with the Grateful Dead.. Hehe.. will enjoy the rest of your video.. Thanks !
Listened to After the Gold Rush last night after watching this and noticed something I’d never noticed before. Oh Lonesome Me is in mono. It blows my mind that I can still hear new things on an album I’ve listened to for decades. I think watching you has helped me refocus on the music. Thanks!
Did not know that 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, the Kinks!! The most under appreciated band ever!
Of course at age 72 I can relate to all of this. I love Jimi and Stones and Kinks. But Bob is my number one guy, always was, since 64. I could talk about the misses but that is all irrelevant.. Great collection you have. Now I have to subscribe. Because now I know I can relate to your love.
That’s amazing Mazzy, crazy….but amazing!!
Fantastic Mazzy! You almost looked embarrassed and started to justify why you have so many Beatles albums...I have my very first album gifted by my parents - Beatles -Hard Day's Night to this day. One of the greatest benefits of getting old is that we have had time to collect and now, ENJOY!! Thanks for sharing, you are an inspiration (and justification why I collect so many versions of one artist) 'OnYa
Mazzy, pretty impressive. I tried something like this once, but I included CDs and digital files to determine the ranking. I was wondering what had happened to the Kinks, but you cleared up the mystery. Thanks, Chris
Wonderful stuff….👍👏
love your videos and I have also spent most of my life (and money) on music. Back to buying vinyl again after years of CDs and digital but having moved many times including countries have lost lots of my old albums but even so 500 Beatles albums that's a lot. Not sure how you've financed all that but glad you have.
Well first if you divide these out over 55 years. Plus ten years in the record biz getting free and cheap records plus friends in the record biz for another decade. Plus being self employed for 37 years with some very good years up until the last five or so plus my son is grown and out of the house and there you have it. Just a priority I guess.
Mazzy, always enjoy watching your videos.
But I have a rye smile when you talk about 60's UK
first pressings etc. Most of us played those records
on Dansette record players. No concerns about the warm
sound of Vinyl, we just wanted too turn the sound up to 11.
(Well done for giving Dino Valenti a shout out).
You're back from the dark side! You have some great picks in your top 10, especially that one with the prism and the dispersion of light on the album cover. 👍👍👍
🤠🤙🏻✌🏼 ha
Fantastic show. No one makes a you tube video better in my option than Mazzy. I’m all in on his channel. My no. 1 you tube guru !!
Thank you 🥺❣️
Wow.What a collection!
Nice video Maz. You mention about On The Beach not getting much love at the time. I have an interesting copy in my collection. It's a first US pressing with the flower pattern inside that I purchased new new in Canada. It has a cutout in one corner so I suspect it didn't sell in the US at the time , got returned and a discount seller here in Canada picked it up.
That’s great that Ry Cooder is your favorite. I became a fan a few years back. Boomer’s Story is one of my favorites. He’s incredible to this day. Also, I LOVE Safe as Milk
Mazzy you and Ritchie Vinyl have the best musical taste bar none 🎩 off to you both!
I just got epidural but will post my P for Police review soon
Dylan is the biggest artist collection i have. 123 albums (not including 45's, tapes, and CDs). I count the Bootleg Series boxes as one but the mono box is 8 since they're full albums. Great video, Mazzy! Now I want to go count my artist collections to see who my top 10 are.
Oops, actually 132
I like Bob, well most of his albums ( especially 1964 to 1976) but I am happy with my 10 or so albums of his.
Always entertaining! You got me on Ry, and I only have 3... Boomer, Paradise, and Chavez (every one needs to know that story and I'm a Dodger fan, sorry) Love back at Maz!!! Peace to all...
I’m glad that you appreciate Ry Cooder and are preaching the word on him. I’ve got them all and like them all for one reason or another. Still looking for a good copy of St. Dom. One day…
I still need to get that Saint Dominic's Preview record. Thanks for the suggestion. Ha, remember the days of having to hide records from Mom and Dad....... A great list, thanks for sharing.
I've always loved The Kinks but never heard their 60s albums in full, which I now love, with Arthur being the best. One of my favorite 60s albums.
I must check that one out, especially as it has the track Australia and I am from Oz.
I love you too. Thanks.
I do love that you played it on your @st time. 💜
Glad you caught THE KINKS at the end!!! BRILLIANT band deserving their place on your list. I have a ton of albums (nowhere near your vast collection), but XTC is my #1. (I'm only starting to build up my Bob Dylan collection). Thanks again for your wonderful channel. It really helps on direction of what to try next for me. Cheers!
Agree. XTC all their albums are brilliant except the first one, which is understandable prior to Dave Gregory
@@garyolshan4177 Yup. Right there with you... The first two have a few excellent songs... but they really come into their own with the third album, "Drums and Wires." Dave Gregory smoothes some of the jagged edges and the band is way more balanced. Cheers!
@@johnmavroudis2054 Well said., John
XTC my favorite since 1980.
Excellent presentation. Ry Cooder was surprinsing for me, an artist that I barely know.
Great list, Mazzy. I track pretty close to those at much lower cd levels, but same artists. I have to throw Frank Sinatra in also. I don't feel the need to be a completist. Sometimes it's just that certain artist produce a lot of work over a lifetime, it makes it hard to collect there is so much.
Guess There's only so many rabbit wholes you can go down like that,
You have such a impressive an immense collection , My hats off to you!
Glad to see the love for “Station to Station” like I do! For me, this is my favourite “Berlin period” album even if it’s not (if you know what I mean!). It even makes my top 5 Bowie albums.
My Bowie best!!!
My favorite Bowie.
Harry Maslin sure was a good producer for Bowie. Unfortuately for Maslin by the next year he was producing the likes of The Bay City Rollers.
I agree...Station To Station is my favourite Bowie album with Black Tie White Noise and Blackstar close behind.
Nice Collection Mazzy. Pretty much the order as mine.I find that a lot of bands put out great recordings at the start, however, after that it was mostly shit.Great Video
Just having all the albums from your top 10 list would be an impressive collection
Loved the video, makes me want to do my own count, just ordered the Ry Cooder , Sinuendo lp, by the way , thanks for the tip !
Enjoy it 🎸
Terrific video! My number 1 by quantity: 105 unique titles (including compilations, didn't count multiple pressings) from Willie Nelson.
Willie makes many records in one year 🥺✌🏼
@@mazzysmusic He does. It's like chasing confetti.
Superb collection by a crazy old man!!! :):)
I thinks that’s a compliment 😵💫😎🤠
@@mazzysmusic You know it is! :):)
I was surprised Ry Cooder was on the list. I got to see him live opening for E.C. in 1983 (third concert ever at 15) He was really good but as there was no streaming then and finds were severely limited, I never got any of his records I did find the audio of that 1983 RC/EC show recently and it was a fantastic show. My second concert (1982) is on your list - the Kinks. That was a great show. Ray Davies was such a good front man as well as a songwriter
I think that second in my LP quantity count after The Beatles is XTC. I was picking up every XTC record that I could find in the 80's.
My CD version of this would have The Kinks, The Beatles, XTC, Richard Thompson and Robyn Hitchcock (Including The Egyptians) as the top five.
GOD SAVE THE KINKS. Was waiting for them to appear. You featured their best three LP's
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Fun video. I KNEW you forgot The Kinks. And, of course, #1 and #2 were obvious.
Thanks for the Bowie. He wrote Golden Years with Elvis in mind. Imagine that as a cover !
Great collection but also a huge tip of the hat to The Beatles for their prolific short time together and their management for marketing the hell out of a large body of work, but let's face it, a relatively short career. Yet they still manage to crank out that many different versions, collections, editions, bootlegs and branch out into all fields of marketing to perpetuate their product and get as much money from their fans as possible.
And despite being driven by greed from their fans, they have also managed to reciprocate wealth BACK to dedicated collectors such as yourself by having all of their wonderful merchandise continue to skyrocket 50 to 60 years later!
I still haven't played my Psychedelic Pill yet, some 10 years after preordering it so many years ago. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for as they came packaged very much unsealed so it would be virtually impossible for me to prove its never been played. Oh well. Perhaps I'll spin it before I die. Perhaps I will leave that honor to someone else that may not even know it. Maybe I'm 3 beers away from playing it tonight. Ha!
As always, it was fun joining you on this little journey. I wouldn't have pegged you as that strong of a Neil Young fan.
Cheers!
Ive guessed it - am I right?? - Ive just got in from the pub - you didn't disappoint me one bit - all GREAT choices
Well theses are calculated based on math . Not personal choices 💱
You have a amazing collection, and i was thinking what are you playing them on, i would love to know.
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I love you mazzy, I wondered, wtf where are the Kinks? Love the way you came on with your coda. It gives the Kinks some extra push. Take care.
Hi Norman just wondering if you bought the Neil Young archives vol 2 cd box set. Thanks
My list of the top ten that I have a complete or near complete collection with lots of reissues and remastered pressings:
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Neil Young
Mike Oldfield
Linda Ronstadt
Fleetwood Mac
Alan Parsons Project
Joni Mitchell
Eric Clapton
Paul McCartney
Impressive indeed and diverse, not a big surprise but, out side of the 'Dead and Hendrix, I have every one of the records you presented as exemplars of each artist, after Beatles/solo, I probably have more Neil Young than any other artist but like you say, he continues to put out a high volume of work, honorable mentions from my record world go to, The Who, XTC, Zappa BUT not 'collecting'( hate that term for it)' on the same scale as you have. By last estimation I have just under 2000 records but you do have about ten years on me of buying records and working in a couple of record stores/industry probably was helpful to your access to LP's, not a competition of course.....just the facts man. Vinyl community vids are my porn( thats what my wife calls it). Enjoyed the vid, thanks Mazzy.
Yay!!!! I was hoping you didn’t forget the Kinks !!!!!!
Thanks Sir always enjoy your videos, what's your most prized album,
Hey Mazzy, always a joy watching your videos. Quick question: you are into jazz and I always see the big names of jazz in your collection. But do you like more modern jazz like for example Fourplay, Marc Moulin (sort of fusion jazz), Count Basic (acid jazz)?
Not those but some newer young artists. I love vibes player Joel Ross who is on Blue Note.
Great recommendations
Hey Mazzy. You have a fantastic collection. But WOW. I only have around 150 vinyl records all together. But I'm not mad on getting every different pressing or from different countries or different variations and all that APART FROM WHEN IT COMES TO THE BEATLES. Probably out of the around 150 vinyls I have, around 75 are Beatles records. I wanted to get an original 60s UK MONO copy of every album upto and included the white album (which I have), then an original 68-69-70 stereo version of yellow sub, Abbey Road and let it be (which I have), then the original UK 73 red a blue (which I have). Then I wanted an original UK version of all those themed albums EMI and Capitol put out in the 70s and 80s. I.e. Rock n Roll, Love songs, Ballads, etc (which I have apart from Reel Music) then I wanted an an original past masters, an original LOVE Cirque Du Soleil, an original let it be naked, live at the Hollywood bowl original and reissue, original yellow sub songtrack(all of which I have) And then I wanted the original UK 1970 box set of let it be (which I got) the Beatles Box from Liverpool 8 LP box set (which I got), then I wanted all 4 of the Vinyl versions of the 50th anniversary deluxe box sets (which I got) and then I started to collect the late 80s and 90s Direct Metal Master versions of all the albums which I have and some are great and some aren't. AND NOW ALL I NEED IS THE 2019 Singles Box.Reel Music lp The anthologies, live at the BBC and On Air and 1 and then I'll have EVERYTHING I WAS AIMING TO GET. I have all the 2009 Mono and Stereo CDs, and all the 1987 CDs, and half of the XDR versions of the Cassettes. But then after all this what do I do when I have the anthologies, BBC ,1 and Reel Music? Where do I go from there? Will I be satisfied Mazzy?
You’ll never be satisfied. Be in the moment 😵💫🥺😎😬. But enjoy it as you continue to collect ✌🏼
The Bowie Station to Station is just great
I have to admit a long standing weakness for Muswell Hillbillies. I got a copy back in the early 1980s when you couldn't find any but the most recent Kinks albums. Blew my mind
I'm always curious to see what others are into. I've always felt that music is such a personal thing, and tastes vary from person to person. For instance, I can appreciate someone like David Bowie, but I've never connected to most of his stuff. Also, I agree with you about Van Morrison for the most part, with "Tupelo Honey" being an album that got me through some hard times in the past. I was lucky enough to work two tours with Van, being his driver (I was there for the Live in Masonic in SF back in 1995 and 1996), but he didn't say much, even though he was always polite. But after that experience and seeing so many of his shows, I cooled on him. I'm surprise as well not to see Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys on your list. I suppose many consider "Pet Sounds:" and "SMiLE" his peaks (albeit it took over 30 years for him to complete the latter), but I find myself fascinated with any artist who puts so much of their soul into their music. And looking at the comments, surprised how many people have XTC and Andy Partridge among their favorites. I have about 20,000 LPs in my collections, and I'm into everything from Buck Owens, to 10cc, to Neil Finn and Crowded House, to Dean Martin, to various soundtracks, to Willie Nelson, to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, to George Fromby, to Nick Heyward. Another favorite is Scott Engel (aka Scott Walker) of the Walker Brothers. Just amazing stuff. I also have 3000 Beach Boys' singles in my collection, as that's been a life long commitment, to document and find any BBoys 7" single I can. I must me mad!! , but the music never fails me and that's what important!! Dig, DmGrk
Thanks for your comments. Remember these are ranked by quantity so larger catalogs have more albums ✌🏼
Did you have your storage shelves, tbat are directly behind you, especially designed and built? They look awesome, great job!
Many people ask. These are IKEA Bonde shelves. They look almost custom. Love them. Unfortunately they were discontinued about ten years ago.
The Kinks win in my collection. I have over 60 albums including bootlegs, US & British releases, compilations. I also have the God Save The Kinks Box from 1969 that Warner Bros put out as part of their God Save The Kinks campaign before they were welcomed back to the states before the Arthur tour. It came with supposed grass from the Village Green, a puzzle, a compilation called Then Now and Inbetween and other goodies.
A quick search of Discogs and I think this is my top ten:
XTC 136
Robyn Hitchcock 131
Jonathan Richman 99
Bob Dylan 73
Beach Boys 73
Beatles 70
Neil Young 68
John Cale 44
Kinks 39
Boo Radleys 37
Velvet Underground 34
It's probable I forgot someone. In fact I'd forgotten John Cale and added him after saying "It's probable I forgot someone"
My list doesn't include solo albums by members of the band or Beatles would be top 3 and probably #1. Velvet Underground would also move way up with my Cale and Reed records (Mo Tucker and Nico too if you count her).
Nice. There’s always one or two we forget 😵💫
It's impossible to have too much XTC or Robyn Hitchcock.
@@toddhill7483 I won an auction with about half of XTC's 45s in it and figured I had to collect the rest.... I have everything but the ever elusive Wrapped In Grey.
Wow! How do you manage to get to that many Boo Radleys albums?
@@andysmusicden Looks like 15 are albums: original pressings, reissues, test pressings, signed copies, duplicates... 20 singles and a couple compilations that include other artists (Creation Records • International Guardians Of Rock 'N' Roll 1983-1999 and Seconds Out Round One). There are still a few singles on my want list, but they are hard to come by in the US and international shipping charges often deter me.
Wanky & Cranky top my collections
49 Van or as my spouse says ( Van Moreofthesame)
35 Neil
The Fabs 31
Bob 22
Dead 18
Love Station to Station ( 1st concert I attended Feb 76) and the Healing Game and St. Dominic’s but It’s Too Late to Stop Now and Veedon Fleece are up there as well as is the collaboration with Joey DeFrancesco
Good video idea!
Schlep 🥸😬😎🤠. Yeah this was just a fun one. Looks like we overlap which is not difficult with these artists.
Thirty-four Jimi Hendrix albums is pretty darn impressive for an artist that not only managed to release a mere 4 albums in his lifetime but from whom there's only about 4 years worth of live performances to draw from.
On the other hand, artists like Van Morrison & Neil Young are frustrating for the simple reason that they won't stop releasing new albums and, dammit, it's just impossible to keep up! It'd be one thing if they were creatively spent years ago and you could safely ignore their new albums & know you're not missing anything, but they bot still release some really damm good quality product on at least a semi-regular basis. But the sad fact is that even if his latest record is really good, I already have 25 good-to-amazing Van Morrison records on my shelf and there's just a limit as to how many Van Morrison albums I really need in my life because, you know, there's also other stuff I'd like to have time to listen to. Psychedelic Pill is an Amazing album! and it kinda pissed me off when I heard it & realized no, I couldn't write Shaky off quite yet. How was I ever going to be able to discover and appreciate the worthy current, new artists out there if this cranky old fart hippie is still blowing my mind?
😀I was thinking, The Kinks have to be in there. 👍✌️
My quantity winners are Hendrix, Bowie (officials plus lots of bootlegs) and Mina (she's been putting out two records a year during 60 years, I don't have them all). Then Beach Boys, Beatles, KingCrimson...
I like the concept behind this .. it’s probably been done before but I hope a few people do a response..
My humble collection has most of Grateful Dead. This is followed by Joni Mitchell I think.
Great stuff ya just can't say what it's all about but it is a history of art.
I apologize,but I can't hear well: did Cooder coloborations include Buena Vista Social Club,Longriders Soundtrack,Paris Texas, Pecos Bill?
My Quantity off top of my head.
Beatles, Bowie,Zeppelin.
540 Beatles albums? Nice!
Mazz..Check out m.i a. ‘s latest 3 albums. I never heard anything like it . Hard to find on vinyl too.
500 Beatles records...wow! I knew that was your number one but wow! I thought I had a lot at about 200.
I might check it out but if would have been nice if the book was 12" X 12".
And I thought I had a lot with my 46 Beatles albums, but over 500, that's insane. A real Beatlemaniac. I'm a little bit jealous.
Beatles are No.4 with me. My No.3 Uriah Heep with 48 albums, No.2 Deep Purple with 51 albums and No.1 Rolling Stones 72 albums.
It’s very insane but it’s fun.
Totally agree with the Kinks and the Stones, who really lost their edge and quality of material after the Beatles broke up, since they competed with the Fab Four during the 60s. However, I would rank XTC in the top 3 since al their varied, brilliant, melodic, thought-provoking records were A+ after their sporadic debut, which is understandable prior to Dave Gregory.
Love xtc. But this is a quantity in my collection ranking not simply favorites ✌🏼
Can recommend wholeheartedly Jimi Hendrix live at the Royal Albert Hall from his well filmed and recorded Spring 1969 concert shows, for me it’s the best in terms of sound and film quality that exists. Such a pity it still hasn’t had a major re-release due to many issues! Ummm so did you get the new Grateful Dead vinyl set of the Lyceum shows they did in 1972, exhaustively documented? Plus don’t forget Jimi’s Monterey Pop’s version of Like a Rolling Stone, one of those moments of history imo! Oh and also Led Zeppelin on Radio One, early in January 1969, Communication Breakdown!
Yeah love Hendrix at Monterey. I might have pre ordered the big Dead box 😬🤷🏻♂️
Springsteen no1 for me by a country mile. Followed by Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Miles Davis, Squeeze, Dylan, Billy Bragg, Beatles, Bowie,
You have over 500 Beatles records?
How big is your house?????
Great, thought-provoking video as always, thanks.
Mazzy, right at the end I was getting ready to comment where did the kinks fall short to make the list. Lol great thread. I have actually looked at this list in my collection as well, but I include CDS. If you included CDs would your list stay the same, or would a few artists move around? Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman
My guess with CDs the ranking would stay close to the same order but I’m not exactly sure ✌🏼
Have at least 20 (and in many cases a LOT more) of
America, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, June Christy, Glen Campbell, Petula Clark, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, The Dave Clark Five, Deep Purple, Donovan, The Everly Brothers, The Moody Blues, Tommy James, Jan and Dean, Jethro Tull, The Kinks, Peggy Lee, Gordon Lightfoot, Julie London, Dean Martin, Paul McCartney, Kenneth McKellar, Moody Blues, Rick Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Roy Orbison, Poco, Elvis Presley, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Cliff Richard, The Righteous Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Shadows, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, T.Rex, The Ventures, The Who, Wishbone Ash, and if you start including classical or film music composers, the list gets much longer!!!
Id love to see who has more beatles...you or mean mr mayo. I wonder how many more beatles records could you own? Get back dvd and cd is coming out. :)
I'm too lazy to count or sort my collection. I call it the chaos collection. Your collection of Miles Davies is also a large collection of some of the greatest jazz musicians. He recorded with so many greats.
He was a great talent scout. That’s for sure.
Love Neil Y
I saw the Kinks absence coming. One step ahead of you on that one. Current artist I'm all in on? That would be Bob Dylan. Funny how people don't like it when he does what he wants to do. He's an artist he don't look back, as they say.
it's o.k. if van morrison gets bumped off your list, because counting up my collection, van actually comes in first place wiith most vinyl, followed by dylan and leonard cohen....very cool idea...peace...rocky
Same taste as me
Always enjoy your posts, Mazzy!
My vinyl top 10 by quantity (box sets counted as one title):
1. The Rolling Stones
2. Neil Young
3. Bob Dylan
4. The Beach Boys
5. David Bowie
6. The Tragically Hip
7. The Who
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. Rush
10. Bruce Cockburn
My CD top 10 by quantity (box sets counted as one title):
1. The Rolling Stones
2. Elvis Costello
3. David Bowie
4. Rush
5. Bob Dylan
6. Neil Young
7. The Tragically Hip
8. The Who
9. Frank Zappa
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Cheers! :D
By that list my guess is you are Canadian ✌🏼🤠
Loving The Beach Boys love in your collection, they are by a long shot my number one by quantity and also In personal preference!
You are correct, sir. And Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Gordon Lightfoot sit just outside the top 10 too. :D
I don't have everything in Discogs but I know that Bob Dylan and Van Morrison would be in my top five. I think I may have more albums by Jerry Lee Lewis than anyone else. 500 Beatles albums sounds amazing.
Nice and interesting video. Do you count both CDs and LPs?
Only LPs this time ✌🏼
Did you only count only vinyl or include CD’s ?
This was only counting vinyl.
It's funny that Hendrix has so much out there when he only released three studio records during his lifetime. I'm not at home to count, but if you allow for bootlegs as well, my Top two as far as quantity would be 2. Springsteen and 1. Neil Young. My favorite Neil record is Rust Never Sleeps
Yeah there’s a wealth of great live Hendrix material.
The Grateful Dead would be super high on your list if you counted every disc within a box set.
Have all Byds lps except two on reel to reel
I was wondering what happened to The Kinks. I don’t have anywhere the quantity you do but a quick look and my top 5
The Beatles-26
Rolling Stones-27
Bob Dylan -28
Thelonious Monk-29
Frank Sinatra- 39
I was wondering where the Kinks were!
The man van . Into the mystic
I have 7 Black Sabbath albums ( with Ozzy) and 6 solo Ozzy , so I am not sure if to count them separate or as " one artist ".
I’d say that’s one ✌🏼
I have the same version as the Are You Experienced you showed and mine was a Music On Vinyl release and sounds amazing! Grundman mastering and all! But what is missing on mine is The Wind Crys Mary! Is that missing from your copy? My Marino mastered version has it but the one you showed didnt!
Yeah it was on the American edition and not in the UK Different track listing
@@mazzysmusic So you are saying my MOV version mirrors the UK version?
@@primeanalogrecords probably but I haven’t seen it. Looks on wiki. You can see the track listing if both. In the US they added the singles. Changed the track listing.
@@mazzysmusic You are a wealth of knowledge my friend!!! Thanks
Kinks and J.Giels while you were waiting for a New Rolling Stones album to come out!🤓
Unfortunately many people forget about the Kinks.
This is an interesting ranking approach. My list according to Discogs incl. 12“, 10“, 7“ and counting box-sets as one item (that‘s why Bowie, The Stones and Black Sabbath don‘t make the Top 10):
01. KISS = 367
02. IRON MAIDEN = 74
03. ENNIO MORRICONE = 67
04. AC/DC = 63
05. ZAPPA/MOTHERS = 56
06. DEEP PURPLE = 53
07. THE BEATLES = 50
08. MOTÖRHEAD = 44
09. JUDAS PRIEST = 43
10. ALICE COOPER = 38
Very.cool Mazz, but there were hardly any surprises in the top 11. I think that 12 to 20 or 25.(or 6 to 4) would be more interesting.
…not a request for Chicago … but maybe Zappa.
Hi, as much as i would love that everybody`s fav Neil Young album is On the Beach, it`s just not true. Mostly it`s Harvest and After the Goldrush. Be honest, is it getting better than the period between ´74-´76 when it comes to Neil Young? Greetings
Sorry, it’s really Silver and Gold.
@@JimMorrisonslizard Or Silver and Gold.