100+ Bands Whose Albums I’ve Collected to Completion

(I’ve always had the impulses of a collector and a completist, and I’m still dedicated to physical media—CDs specifically. Thus, this eccentric little list of all the bands and solo artists whose studio albums I own from the first to the last. I’ve disregarded any artists who released only one album, as well as artists whose work I own in abundance but not fully: James (12 albums), Greg Brown (11 albums), The Cure (13 albums), etc. I’ve arranged the list in alphabetical order and included in parentheses what I regard as the single best album by each artist.)

 

  1. Adem (Homesongs)

  2. Alog (Miniatures)

  3. Ambitious Lovers (Greed)

  4. Aztec Camera (High Land, Hard Rain)

  5. Babble (The Stone)

  6. The Bambi Slam (The Bambi Slam)

  7. The Bees (Free the Bees)

  8. Bernhoft (Ceramik City Chronicles)

  9. Jim Bianco (Handsome Devil)

  10. Big Star (#1 Record)

  11. The Blue Nile (Hats)

  12. The Books (Lost and Safe)

  13. Boondogs (this is the way the world ends)

  14. Boygenius (The Record)*

  15. Billy Bragg (Workers Playtime)

  16. Breathe (All That Jazz)

  17. Phoebe Bridgers (Copycat Killer)

  18. Barbara Buchholz (Moonstruck)

  19. The Bureau (The Bureau)

  20. Kate Bush (Hounds of Love)

  21. Alex Cameron (Jumping the Shark)

  22. The Cars (The Cars)

  23. Neneh Cherry & The Thing (The Cherry Thing)*

  24. Climie Fisher (Everything)

  25. Cocteau Twins (Treasure)

  26. Leonard Cohen (You Want It Darker)

  27. The Creatures (Boomerang)

  28. Cristina (Sleep It Off)

  29. Cyclo. (Id)

  30. Dalis Car (InGladAloneness)*

  31. Dead Can Dance (Aion)

  32. Iris DeMent (My Life)

  33. Dexys Midnight Runners (Searching for the Young Soul Rebels)

  34. The Divine Comedy (Promenade)

  35. Nick Drake (Bryter Layter)

  36. Eurythmics (Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This))

  37. Fine Young Cannibals (Fine Young Cannibals)

  38. FKA twigs (LP1)

  39. Future Bible Heroes (Eternal Youth)

  40. Galaxie 500 (Today)

  41. Hiperson (No Need for Another History)

  42. Holy Other (With U)

  43. Hothouse Flowers (People)

  44. Hybrid Kids (A Collection of Classic Mutants)

  45. Ryoji Ikeda (Dataplex)

  46. Incredibox (The Unreleased)

  47. Jack the Ripper (Ladies First)

  48. Japan (Tin Drum)

  49. The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (The Size of Food)

  50. Joy Division (Substance)

  51. Kings of Convenience (Riot on an Empty Street)

  52. Jessy Lanza (Pull My Hair Back)

  53. Jack Lee (Jack Lee’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1)

  54. Luxuria (Beast Box)

  55. Mariam the Believer (String Variations)

  56. Martin Dupont (Just Because…)

  57. Maxwell (Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite)

  58. Colin Meloy (Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey)

  59. Modified Toy Orchestra (Plastic Planet)

  60. Alison Moyet (Hometime)

  61. Naked Eyes (Burning Bridges)

  62. New Model Army (Thunder and Consolation)

  63. Nilsson (Pandemonium Shadow Show)

  64. Nine Horses (Snow Borne Sorrow)*

  65. No Mono (Islands Part 1)

  66. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto (Insen)

  67. Phil Ochs (In Concert)

  68. Mary Margaret O’Hara (Miss America)*

  69. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (Architecture & Morality)

  70. The Pine Hill Project (Tomorrow You’re Going)*

  71. Poe (Haunted)

  72. The Police (Synchronicity)

  73. The Postal Service (Give Up)*

  74. Q-Feel (Q-Feel)*

  75. The RAah Project (Take Me Elsewhere)

  76. Rilo Kiley (The Execution of All Things)

  77. Rachel Robinson (My Pleasure)

  78. Rockettothesky (To Sing You Apple Trees)

  79. Tamil Rogeon (Son of Nyx)

  80. Kevin Rowland (The Wanderer)

  81. Roxy Music (Avalon)

  82. serpentwithfeet (Blisters)

  83. Richard Shindell (Sparrows Point)

  84. Siouxsie and the Banshees (Juju)

  85. The Sisters of Mercy (Vision Thing)**

  86. The Smiths (The Queen Is Dead)

  87. The Sound (From the Lions Mouth)

  88. Span (Mass Distraction)

  89. Stump (A Fierce Pancake)*

  90. Justin Sullivan (Tales of the Road)

  91. The Sundays (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)

  92. Susanna (Flower of Evil)

  93. Susanna and the Magical Orchestra (Melody Mountain)

  94. David Sylvian (Secrets of the Beehive)

  95. Talk Talk (Spirit of Eden)

  96. This Immortal Coil (The Dark Age of Love)

  97. This Mortal Coil (It’ll End in Tears)

  98. Thompson Twins (Quick Step & Side Kick)

  99. Time Machines (Time Machines)*

  100. True Live (Found Lost)

  101. Uncle Tupelo (Still Feel Gone)

  102. The Vapors (Together)

  103. Vessel (Punish, Honey)

  104. Tom Waits (Rain Dogs)

  105. Wham! (Make It Big)

  106. White (White+)

  107. Wildbirds & Peacedrums (Rivers)

  108. Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club (English Garden)

  109. Steven Wright (I Have a Pony)

  110. Yazoo (Upstairs at Eric’s)

  111. Geno Young (The Ghetto Symphony)

  112. ZX Spectrum Orchestra (Basic Programming)*

    * I’m counting live albums, soundtrack albums, EPs, or remix albums in these cases; otherwise, the artists would be one-album-ers.

    ** But this is almost universally regarded as their weakest album. The consensus favorite is Floodland.

— March 12, 2025


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