Which bands do you try to have absolutely everything they have produced?

Die Ärzte.
Except live albums. I hate live perfomances, no matter the band.
My favourite song is “Geschwisterliebe”, which is about a guy laying his 14 year old sister.

I have the three sets of Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven Symphonies 1–9, from 1963, 1977, and 1985.

But otherwise I don’t focus narrowly, even with a pretty huge music collection.

No bands, but I’m trying to collect every book John Grisham ever wrote.

Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler solo
Have most of The Beatles
Fairport Convention
Lots of Tom Rush, Tom Paxton, Joni Mitchell…....

I had a good collection of Frank Zappa’s output on vinyl which didn’t survive a divorce. I still have a few of his CD’s and I used to trawl YouTube to see if any concert material had been uploaded. I have quite a good collection of MP3 files. Zappa himself made a point of recording all his concerts and he kept the tapes in his ‘vault’ in Laurel Canyon. Now this house has been sold I don’t know what has happened to this material. Most of it was never released commercially.

The Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Winter.

Madness
Depeche Mode
Tears for Fears
Sex Pistols
U2

What a GREAT question…my favorite one here EVER! +6

My list is a mile long but I will limit to a few…
Frank Zappa
Frank Marino
and saving the best for last….
Steve Morse I have every album all 3 have every recorded and I am talking vinyl.

Ghost
Insomnium
Superdrag
Guided by Voices
Enshine

@Brian1946 Sweet!

@Brian1946 This hendrix album?

@Cruiser I’m a huge Deep Purple fan, even after Ritchie, and I love Steve Morse. He’s a consummate professional in everything he does.

@ragingloli I’m generally with you on live albums but there are exceptions, especially if they are well produced. Have you seen Die Arzte live?

First time I heard CHICAGO I flipped and bought every LP that was available at the time. But I have to confess I never listened to them all. I love many bands but CHICAGO’s the only one I felt I HAD to own completely.

Oh, and I’ve tried to collect everything Frank Sinatra ever recorded—first on LP, then cassette, then CD.

James Taylor, Eagles, Elton John and Queen and Linda Ronstadt.
As you can tell, just old stuff.

The Beatles.

Crosby, Stills, and Nash. And Young. And all the permutations and combinations and solo and otherwise accompanied.

Me: Loreena McKennitt.

My husband: The list is incredibly long, and most of the names will be entirely unrecognizable to all but the most devout metalhead, but the more popular names include Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix, and Deep Purple.

Tafelmusik. Ensemble Polaris.

@Rarebear I had the unique experience to do stage crew, sound and lighting for the Dixie Dregs 7 times in the late 70’s early 80’s. Steve was cooler than cool except for the time I accidentally un-pluged the entire PA system during his set. He was none too happy but rolled with it. Super classy dude and best guitarist ever!

@Cruiser The one thing I really like about him is that he’s not a one-trick pony like, say, Yngwie. Steve is as comfortable with prog jazz as he is with metal.

@Seek I like Loreena also, although I don’t have everything she has. Just The Mask and the Mirror, Elemental, and the Christmas one (can’t remember the name off hand)

@Rarebear I love his work in Flying Colors seen him live twice and looking forward to their tour this summer. Steve has always played with the best, but Flying Colors not only keeps his trusty sideman David LaRue on bass but puts mad man Mike Portnoy on drums backing him up. Crazy good, yummy, tasty music

@Rarebear – That’ll be either A Midwinter Night’s Dream, To Drive the Cold Winter Away, or A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season.

The Mask and the Mirror is one of my favourites, along with The Book of Secrets.

I walked down the aisle at my wedding to the last song on An Ancient Muse. I can’t believe that album is ten years old now.

The Beatles. I have everything released, and quite a bit of unreleased bootlegs.

@Cruiser I went on Cruise to the Edge last year and saw Portnoy play with a bunch of bands. This year he’s going again, but I’m going on the Moody’s cruise instead to see Caravan. Casey McPherson played as did the Neal Morse band.

Anyway, I love Flying Colors. If you watch this video you can see how much fun they’re having.

That is so freaking cool you have done that! I have seen more than a few YouTubes from those cruises! Lucky you! I had never seen Cory or Neil before and to see them live in Flying Colors with Steve and Mike made it obvious why the best drummer and guitarist chose to form a band with them! Swap in the best bassist and as good a guitarist (who has a fab voice) and you have Winery Dogs

Any music created by Jack White and Eddie Vedder.

None really. Not even my favorite bands.

Neurosis, for example, underwent a significant stylistic shift fairly early on in their career. So I don’t really listen to anything prior to their third album.

Coil – well, acquiring every scrap of official material they put out would be a gargantuan (and seriously expensive, if you insist on having the physical item, and not just digital files) task.

And I don’t bother with bootlegs*.

(*One exception there being a Mercyful Fate live bootleg that was recorded around 1984/85. When I was a 13 year-old burgeoning metalhead, just starting to look beyond things like Metallica and Megadeth, my sister’s boyfriend gave me a cassette tape of this bootleg. It unnerved me at first. Then later I fell in love with it, and Mercyful Fate served as my introduction to black metal.)

@Darth: King is totally on our list.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Robert Schumann, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Felix Mendelssohn, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini, Bela Bartok, Hector Berlioz, Anton Bruckner, Edward Elgar, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein.

@odatin You have complete recordings of all of those composers of everything?

Yes, but not in a cd format. They’re high resolution lossless audio files that I bought online. I have it stored on my personal hard drives and a cloud storage backup.

Well, cool! I have all the Beethoven symphonies and violin quartets, but not all the piano stuff. I have all the Bartok piano pieces, though.

Great. Keep it up. If you’re into Mozart, there was a new complete edition box set released in late october of his work. Over 6,000 box sets sold in just 5 weeks since its release. Mozart 225

DMB
NIN
The Smiths (Which is easy because they broke up a long time ago.)

You know, I think I had all of Led Zep’s albums. And all of Donny Osmond’s records.

@odatin Of the three big German high classical composers, I prefer Beethoven as I like the drama. I’m partial to the 20th century composers anyway. I forgot—I have a complete collection of Arvo Part’s compositions including the one he just published.

If you enjoy Beethoven, look for composers that were heavily influenced by him. There is a chance you will enjoy their work too.