So what other bands are you guys into around here?

[becca]

I'm not sure there are many bands I have as much by as I do of Fleetwood Mac and pretty close to all Mac related solo recordings or anything they were significantly involved in...

Gene Clark and The Byrds might rank second place.

Totally unrelated, but Stereolab I seem to have everything by up to the early 2000s, something around 50 releases including vinyl.

The Beatles I probably have everything by but not so much of the later solo years.

I have loads of Yes and related things too, but really mainly play the first four albums and any Chris Squire or Steve Howe dominated productions.

Fairport Convention and sandy Denny are coming on strong the last few years. If I have books and DVDs about the artists it's getting serious.

The Hollies, up to the mid-'70s. Really underrated in America.

The Rolling Stones... but only the Brian Jones years so far really. As with Yes I have later stuff but it sits ignored mostly.

I also have every Miriam Makeba on vinyl up to the '70s, but that was a shorter lived completist obsession. Los Machucambos seemed to start me on the vinyl completist trail, they are/were a France based south American folk combo who were most popular in the '60s and '70s.

A Vancouver group called The Collectors and then Chilliwack was another vinyl obsession where I got as far as all non-LP cuts on singles. Same for Ottawa's Staccatos, and Toronto's The Paupers and Edward Bears. Luke & The Apostles/Kensington Market still have a few major vinyl gaps (especially this one release on a 'Stone' label).

Mamas & Paps/Cass Elliot I was heavily into once, but got everything together fairly quickly. Havin some obscurity to chase tends to keep the obsession burning. Also very into The Three Suns as arranged by Charles Albertine for a brief but intense time. Then a lot of folk Decca recordings by Scottish artists Archie Fisher, Barbara Dickson, Rab Noakes and Bread Love & Dreams.

Oh yes, and there was a fling with Japanese pop starting with Shonen Knife and ending in Pizzicato Five sometime back in the '90s. Lolita #9, Mummy The Peepshow, Dizzy Joghurt, Puffy Ami-Yumi. I drag them all out every other year.

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