Bands for which you own the most items (music or video)
 

(including side projects/solo albums of those bands)

I have all my music catalogued on Rate Your Music...

Joy Division/New Order related (35)
Sonic Youth related (35)
Cure related (64)
Jesus and Mary Chain related (22)
Stereolab related (40)
Belle and Sebastian related (24)
Genesis related (116...wow, I hope there are some prog fans here)

no contest:

sonic youth, i have 50-plus bootlegs, not counting official stuff and related (solo projects, etc.)

i haven't counted but maybe the second band i have a lot of stuff of is boredoms. actually, that's a fact, i don't know how much stuff by them i have though

116 things of genesis and related? that's a whole lotta genesis...

I have more Stereolab bootlegs than I counted in my previous post....probably 8-10 more discs.

prob. sonic youth and nirvana
30 something each. I havent been getting much bootlegs recently due to the lack or cd-rs.

sonic youth. ten cds, a cd-r, and a kickass poster (the one with the goo cover that announces nirvana and stp are playing with them in portland and seattle).

Sonic Youth, I have about 20 items. Not too many, but I'll easily have 50 by the end of the summer :)

Haha...Yeah. They were my first musical obsession, when I was in Junior High. I was into prog and 70's rock before I discovered alternative/indie.

i've got 25-30 various they might be giant things

i like king crimson a whole lot but i'm very much a newbie to them, i have one album, one official bootleg (burnt) and like three boots.

i'm also getting into 70's era yes. i have nothing against good prog

i've heard some songs from the lamb lies down on broadway and other early genesis songs, i can say i like them. the latter stuff...let's just say it's not my style at all

I'm probably the biggest Gabriel-era Genesis fan on the board, as far as I can tell. But yeah, it was a phase I went through when I first started listening to rock music--entertaining stuff, but a let down for me ultimately. I don't listen to it much anymore. I have all of the albums, but I don't have any bootlegs or anything. I'm not very interested in live concert recordings of any band....

I like Genesis up to a point. Duke (1980) is their last good album, IMO. I still have some of the later stuff (but not all) on cassette, from long ago.

The Lamb is one of my all-time favorite albums.

Of Crimson, my favorites are probably Red, and the 80's albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. I don't care much for the recent stuff, except I do like the Projeckts box set. I'm really more of a Fripp fan.

I recommend Robert Fripp's album of Frippertronics called Let the Power Fall, and his collaborations with Brian Eno.

I like League of Gentlemen, but I prefer the version that is on vinyl, as it has the female vocals that Fripp edited out for the CD version.

Here is what I own from them:

1 King CrimsonRed (1974) Vinyl2 King CrimsonDiscipline (1981) Vinyl3 King CrimsonBeat (1982) Vinyl4 King CrimsonThree of a Perfect Pair (1984) Vinyl5 King CrimsonThree of a Perfect Pair: Live in Japan (1985) VHS6 King CrimsonFrame By Frame [4CD Box] (1991) CD7 King CrimsonThe Great Deceiver - Live 1973-1974 (1992) CD8 King CrimsonVrooom (1994) CD9 King CrimsonB'Boom (1995) CD10 King CrimsonThe Noise: Live At Frejus 1982 (video) (1997) VHS11 King CrimsonThe ProjeKcts (1999) CD

and Fripp:

1 Robert FrippExposure (1979) CD2 Robert FrippGod Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners (1980) Vinyl3 Robert FrippLet The Power Fall (1981) CD4 Robert FrippGod Save the King (League of Gentlemen) (1985) CD5 Robert FrippNetwork EP (1985) Cassette6 Robert FrippThe League of Crafty Guitarists Live (1986) CD7 Robert FrippThe League Of Crafty Guitarists - Careful With That Axe (video) (1991) VHS8 Robert FrippShow Of Hands [& The League of Crafty Guitarists] (1991) CD9 Robert Fripp1999 Soundscapes - Live in Argentina (1994) CD10 Robert FrippA Blessing of Tears (1995) CD11 Robert FrippRadiophonics: 1995 Soundscapes, Volume 1 - Live in Argentina (1996) CD12 Robert FrippThat Which Passes: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 3 (1996) CD13 Robert FrippThe Gates of Paradise (1997) CD14 Robert FrippNovember Suite: Live at Green Park Station (1997) CD15 Robert Fripp & Brian EnoEvening Star (1975) CD16 Robert Fripp & Brian EnoThe Essential Fripp and Eno (1994) CD17 Robert Fripp & Brian EnoThe Equatorial Stars (2004) CD18 Robert Fripp String QuintetThe Bridge Between (1993) CD19 David Sylvian & Robert FrippDarshan (The Road to Graceland) (1993) CD20 David Sylvian & Robert FrippThe First Day (1993) CD21 David Sylvian & Robert FrippDamage (1994) CD

Nirvana (I have 5-6 posters, every CD, the boxset, quite a few shirts and other various things)
Sonic Youth (7-8 CDs [and still counting] and a shirt)

I don't own anything Nirvana related.

I never understood Nirvana.

that's a great collection of crimson/fripp stuff. the official boot i was talking about is this: King CrimsonB'Boom (1995)

you are also probably the only person i know who prefer the 80's crimson as opposed to the 70's or the 90's/00's eras

Nirvana: I've heard most of their stuff here and there and I like it, but I've never wanted to buy an album or anything. I think I missed the boat and now it's too late.

i have in utero and nevermind on tape, bleach and incesticide on cd-r, the live tonight sold out boot vhs; and the colour and the shape and one by one (both cd-r) by the foo fighters.

that's my nirvana and related collection...oh and the probot cd-r, expecting to be replaced by vinyl soon!

Sonic Youth is easily #1

Some other bands I have lots of:
Minutemen
REM
Replacements
Husker Du
Devo
Cure

oh...and here is the one I recommended...I didn't realize I never added it to my RYM list.

Robert Fripp & The League of GentlemenThe League of Gentlemen (1981) Vinyl

Didn't Sara Lee play bass with Robert Fripp then before she joined Gang Of Four? She's a good bassist.

Meh, I went through one of those Nirvana phases where I was obsesed with everything and got everything that was Nirvana-related~

I definitely have a lot of Nirvana, Hole probably comes 2nd.

Cool pic, EMMah...is that you?

and YES! Sara Lee is the chick whose vocals Robert Fripp totally edited out of the album when he re-released League of Gentlemen. You can only hear her vocals if you locate the out of print vinyl.

sonic youth (over 60)
einsturzende neubauten (over 20)

SY
and then Neutral Milk Hotel

Why did he do that? Didn't she play bass too?

He did it because he's an A-hole, in addition to being a brilliant guitarist...and yeah, she played bass. If you can find the album, check it out. Her vocals are really cool.

Sonic Youth.
WMP says I have 409 SY songs.

Sonic Youth

4 CDs
3 CD-Rs
Corporate Ghost DVD
t-shirt
Psychic Hearts on vinyl

so that's ten. i think next is Primus, with 5 (all CDs).

EDIT: holy fuck, how could i forget Nirvana? 10 (7 CD-Rs, two books and one t-shirt).

I think I have about 25 Talking Heads/David Byrne related items.

I'm not going to count, but Sonic Youth and Frank Zappa.

1. The Stooges
2. Sonic Youth
3. Wolf Eyes
4. Bob Dylan

I dont have an obsessive amount of any of those bands though

I feel the exact way. I like the band, I just wish I lived through that era.

wilco and jeff tweedy. I must have about 40 shows, and 6 dvds. next is sonic youth, then elvis costello.

Pink Floyd, owing back to my highschool days. Don't remember how many traded cdrs nor cassetes I have, the bulk being bootlegs I used to trade for blanks (ahhh the good old days). Heck I even used to have a poster on my wall. Stopped short of the t-shirt though.

The Fall, by some way. But there is so much stuff (official and semi-official) that that's hardly surprising. Then Sonic Youth, then Aphex Twin. Both of those are nearly exclusively CD, with a limited (ie one or two items) amount of vinyl.

The most vinyl is The Smiths - LP's, 12" singles and 7" singles.

Nirvana/Pixies/Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth:

20 CDs
1 LP
Corporate Ghost
1991: The Year Punk Broke
2 T-Shirts

grateful dead. endless bootlegs, a few videos, need a few more.