#4329015 - 01/17/17 04:35 AM
Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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How many recording artists are there where you own every single album or at least almost every album from them? For the vast majority of artists I like I'm content with just having their greatest hits collection and that's it. There are a few rare ones though where I have all or almost all of their albums.
The Beatles Genesis Pink Floyd Wings Paul McCartney Billy Joel
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#4329096 - 01/17/17 03:28 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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I have those and also (all or almost all):
Foo Fighters Green Day Nirvana Stone Temple Pilots Offspring Weird Al Phil Collins Bush Aerosmith Alanis Morissette Audioslave Garbage Nine Inch Nails Simon and Garfunkel Traveling Wilburys Velvet Revolver
I think that's it.
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#4329460 - 01/18/17 08:12 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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I'm pretty good with "Greatest Hits" albums too.
My favorite bands I think I own two or three albums. The closest I came was having I think the first four Def Leppard albums...until they started sounding old and lost their hard edge. Might have the first four Bon Jovi...again, until they got too poppy. These were all bought around 20-30 years ago.
So, I'm pretty confident that I don't own any band's complete collection...unless you count a Led Zeppelin master box set I got as a gift about 20 years ago. I didn't ask for it, and not sure why it was given to me...lol. Nothing against Zepp, they rock out some awesome songs, but I really was never THAT into them.
I have a few albums from the Foo Fighters, AC/DC, STP, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Beatles, Tool, etc.
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#4329476 - 01/18/17 09:32 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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On the hardcore side I have pretty much everything by Heart Magnum Laibach Front 242 Electric Light Orchestra Muse Radiohead yeah, I know... weird
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#4330508 - 01/22/17 09:08 PM
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I draw the limit at all studio albums. There is no single artist I have all live, greatest hits and whatever albums. (why buy a greatest hit album when I have all the studio albums? I also prefer watching the band live, not listening to a live album). But plenty I have all the studio albums of. Queen (greatest band ever in the world) Bruce Springsteen A-ha Bon Jovi Alice Cooper Kiss Iron Maiden Nightwish Blind Guardian Loreena McKinnit Clannad Running Wild Therion Rhapsody/Rhapsody of Fire/Luca Turelli's Rhapsody Anathema Amorphis Genesis (even Calling All Stations) Phil Collins To name some
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#4330524 - 01/22/17 10:41 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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Everything...
MUSE
Almost everything...
Mike Oldfield (up to a certain date).I have 4 different versions of my fave LP Hergest Ridge.
Grandaddy
It's not often I can find a group where I like almost all of their stuff but those 3,yes.
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#4330603 - 01/23/17 12:32 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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Genesis (even Calling All Stations)
I really tried to like that album but just couldn't. I gave it several attempts.
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#4330643 - 01/23/17 03:22 PM
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Calling All Stations is an acquired taste. I like about half the songs. Congo is quite good for instance. It's just not traditional Genesis. The loss of Phil affected the group far more than the loss of Steve or Peter.
I buy live albums for the (usually) alternative versions of the songs they perform. The live version of Invisible Touch, for example, is a hybrid of the original release and the 12" remix done shortly afterwards and I prefer it.
The only greatest hits albums I own are of groups that either I don't like enough to buy their albums, or are because they released songs that were never on albums. Phil Collins is one. None of his albums have Separate Lives, True Colors, Against All Odds, or Easy Lover. Only the live and greatest hits albums had those. Had to get Nirvana's to get You Know You're Right. Had to get Wings' to get Hi Hi Hi, etc etc.
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#4330647 - 01/23/17 03:32 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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The only greatest hits albums I own are of groups that either I don't like enough to buy their albums, or are because they released songs that were never on albums. The Jedi Master
+1 I guess overall I could be called a casual music fan because for the vast majority of bands/artists out there, I'm fine with just having a CD of their well known hit songs.
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#4330722 - 01/23/17 06:16 PM
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I come pretty close to being a hardcore fan with Rush, Yes, Genesis, and The Police. It's not so much how many albums I own, it's more my long-term continued interest in their music and backgrounds.
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#4330947 - 01/24/17 01:53 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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For me, the definition of hard core would be someone who bought all those Pearl Jam concert albums. Remember the ones they made from that tour where each show got a separate release? Most artists go on tour and they take the best performances from each song and compile them, so you'll get one song in Rome, another in London, one in NYC, one in Rio, etc.
Not the Jam! Each show was released separately, despite the setlists almost never varying. So what? Buy them! BUY THEM ALL! YOU ARE A FAN YOU WILL BUY EACH ONE.
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#4330993 - 01/24/17 03:06 PM
Re: Hardcore fan vs casual fan
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I got a handful of MP3s from someone's PC almost 15 years ago and that's still all I have. Pearl Jam is my least favorite of the big grunge bands of the 90s. The Jedi Master
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#4331049 - 01/24/17 05:41 PM
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Genesis (even Calling All Stations)
I really tried to like that album but just couldn't. I gave it several attempts. There is a reason there never was an album after it, after all. Worst of the Genesis albums
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#4331112 - 01/24/17 08:44 PM
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It was a rebuilding album. Had they stuck it out I think they would've had a good album or two ahead of them. However, Mike and Tony were too old to want to go through that grind again.
I was really hoping after the reunion for the tour and the reissues that they were going to work with Phil again on something new, but his injury and retirement 4 years later killed that. Of course, after 5 years of that I think he's grown bored with it and come back out of retirement, but I think his drumming days are done.
Still, it was what he wrote the drums to do that was so unique. A good drummer can play the drums like Phil, it's just that no one can write a drum line like he can.
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