Inspired by this:
For me, I think it’s only Low - I rarely listen to The Invisible Way or Long Division but I actively listen to the rest (11 albums). Can’t think of any others.
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If you’re including main bands, solo & side projects & live albums
Probably only The Cure/Robert Smith … maybe a couple of problematic faves not worth mentioning
Sure, why not
Osees (comfortably with John Dwyer’s various other projects) and possibly The Fall, just.
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So yeah;
Robert Smith (Cure, Glove, Banshees)
Bowie
Paul Simon
Morrissey (Smiths & Solo)
Roxy Music & Prince almost make the cut, as do Harrisson & McCartney
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Neil Young - the six albums from Everybody Knows this is Nowhere to Zuma, Rust Never Sleeps, Ragged Glory, Sleeps with Angels, Mirror Ball and Greendale all get regular plays.
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Good question.
Low and The Necks are the two that come to mind.
Even my favourite artists with large back catalogues (Yo La Tengo, Dylan/Van/Young, Bowie, Cowboy Junkies) I would tend to reach for 5 or 6 albums most of the time.
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No one
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The 10 R.E.M.s are Murmur - New Adventures In Hi Fi, and the 10 Sufjans are Michigan, Seven Swans, Illinois, Age Of Adz, Carrie & Lowell, Greatest Gift, Planetarium, The Ascension, A Beginner’s Mind, Javelin btw (and his silly little instrumental projects and Christmas albums and A Sun Came get revisited every now and then) btw.
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Could probably come up with 10 Springsteen albums worth listening to
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Suede.
Manic Street Preachers.
Ash (at a stretch. Can’t say I like much of their new stuff)
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Yeah REM are big for this.
I’d say Bruce and Bob too. If we count solo Westerberg then him and the Replacements
Probably just Pet Shop Boys. Maybe Bowie. If Blur squeeze out another album then probably them, but the Magic Whip and Leisure don’t get much attention.
Neil Young
Guided By Voices
Otomo Yoshihide
Neither Ornette Coleman nor John Coltrane quite make it, but I intend to ensure they do by the end of the year. Some jazz sidemen definitely do, but not as band leaders (pretty sure Charlie Haden and Don Cherry would)
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Prince or Pet Shop Boys.
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Achievement that it is, the longer running acts obviously have a bit of leverage here, so yeah NY/Dylan/Bruce/Cure/REM
Out of the last 20 years got to be Bright Eyes. If you add in all the little side projects Conor did it’s a ridiculous tome. Mountain Goats too.
Fucked Up are at 9 but with their live albums and buttload of EPs they’re honorary as it comes.
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Conor would work between bright eyes, solo, desa & BOCC
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For ones I actively return to, still has to be at least 20-25 from the main studio albums, plus Suitcases, side projects, Bob solo, Toby solo … might be approaching 50 total there
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Even just Bright Eyes you could leave off the last 2 records and have a great run from the early collection to down in the weeds.
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For sure:
Bjork
Sonic Youth
Stereolab
Ennio Morricone
Sarah Davachi
With caveats
R.E.M. if we can include Chronic Town
Jenny Hval including collaborations like Lost Girls
Broadcast if we include various compilations.
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