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chocolatehandles said: Has Prince released the most music?
Yes. 
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TwiliteKid said: Se7en said: They are counted as "albums" because Prince compiled them that way and sold them that way through his official website at the time (NPGMusicClub/Musicology Store). Your point that they're of previously-released material . . . they were, but not in album form. To your point, any NPGMC songs that did NOT appear on either album are just random catalog songs - like SST, Song Of The Heart, and F.U.N.K. TCI and Slaughterhouse would appear on a Prince discography, for sure. As for ONA:Live . . . it would appear in his discography, but I would not classify it as an album. Yeah, I hear what you're saying, but I still disagree with you. They should appear on his discography, but not under albums. They should be grouped with The Hits/The B-Sides, The Very Best of Prince, Ultimate Prince, and, now that I think of it, Crystal Ball and The Vault. None of these can truly be called albums because they weren't conceived as coherent pieces of work the same way that the other's on this list were. For example: Purple Rain is collection representing artistic intent, and specific moment in time. I don't think you can that of the discs I've mentioned above. In the specific case of The Chocolate Invasion, and Slaughterhouse, the fact that some of the tracks were previously credited to the NPG, not Prince, is evidence of the slapdash nature of these collections. Furthermore, "2045: Radical Man" had been out for [em]four[/em] years prior to its placement on The Slaughtehouse. If that doesn't speak to these albums purpose of compiling the otherwise homelss material of the late 90s/early 2000s, I don't know what does. I know they weren't explictly described this way, but they're a compiliation of singles, nothing more. Look at it this way: If Prince were to suddenly start offering a collection called F.U.N.K and consisting of the tracks you mentioned above, as well as some of the other similarly homeless material from the NPGMC like "Glass Cutter", "Silver Tongue", etc, would you call it an album, 5 years later? I think that Chocolate Invasion and Slaughterhouse should count because they consist of material that never appeared on an album before. It doesn't matter how old the music is. The question is "Has Prince released the most music?" not "Has Prince released the most albums?" I would also say that if Neil Young ever releases his Archives collection that should count as new material (depending on the contents). Crystal Ball should count while something like the Very Best of Prince should not. | |
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The answer is no, Zappa has 50 plus official releases, and many others have more.
The shame is in reading this thread, we go from a mathmatical definitive answer which can be qualified by not including greatest hits, live, or comps to a "well they suck and their music is boring" so it doesn't count. Music is the best... | |
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Buckethead will be another artist who is also extremely prolific..
Since 92 about 30 releases.. From wikipedia..... Studio albums Year Album details 1992 Bucketheadland Released: 1992 (1992) Label: Avant (Avan 007) Format: 2CD 1994 Giant Robot Released: 1994 (1994) Label: Sony Japan (SRCS 7494) Format: CD 1996 Day of the Robot Released: April 30, 1996 Label: Subharmonic (SM-9804-2) Format: CD 1998 Colma Released: March 24, 1998 Label: CyberOctave (COCD 45380) Format: CD 1999 Monsters and Robots Released: April 20, 1999 Label: Higher Octave (COCD 47499) Format: CD 2001 Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse Released: June 5, 2001 Label: Stray (SR0016) Format: CD, 2LP 2002 Funnel Weaver Released: February 15, 2002 Label: Ion (IN 2016-2) Format: CD Bermuda Triangle Released: July 23, 2002 Label: Catalyst (CECD1000) Format: CD Electric Tears Released: October 8, 2002 Label: Meta (MT-0015) Format: CD 2003 Bucketheadland 2 Released: October 14, 2003 Label: Ion (IN 2019-2) Format: CD 2004 Island of Lost Minds Released: March 19, 2004 Label: Bucketheadland Format: CD Population Override Released: March 30, 2004 Label: Ion (IN 2020-2) Format: CD The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell Released: April 20, 2004 Label: Disembodied (BRO370) Format: CD 2005 Enter the Chicken Released: October 25, 2005 Label: Serjical Strike Format: CD Kaleidoscalp Released: November 22, 2005 Label: Tzadik (TZ 7409) Format: CD Inbred Mountain Released: December 2, 2005 Label: TDRS Format: CD 2006 The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock Released: February 17, 2006 Label: Bucketheadland Format: CD Crime Slunk Scene Released: September 15, 2006 Label: Bucketheadland Format: CD 2007 Pepper's Ghost Released: March 1, 2007 Label: TDRS Format: CD Acoustic Shards Released: May 31, 2007 Label: Avabella (CD-320) Format: CD Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot Released: October 30, 2007 Label: TDRS Format: CD Cyborg Slunks Released: October 30, 2007 Label: TDRS Format: CD-R/CD 2008 From the Coop Released: March 9, 2008 Label: Avabella (CD-321) Format: CD The Dragons of Eden Released: September 17, 2008 Label: TDRS Format: CD Albino Slug Released: September 17, 2008 Label: TDRS Format: CD 2009 Slaughterhouse on the Prairie Released: January 30, 2009 Label: TDRS Format: CD Year Album details 2007 In Search of The Released: February 21, 2007 Label: TDRS Format: 13CD-R Music is the best... | |
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aalloca said: The answer is no, Zappa has 50 plus official releases, and many others have more.
The shame is in reading this thread, we go from a mathmatical definitive answer which can be qualified by not including greatest hits, live, or comps to a "well they suck and their music is boring" so it doesn't count. yeah, i got put in my place when i suggested the residents, and if anything, their music is hardly boring. | |
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Anxiety said: aalloca said: The answer is no, Zappa has 50 plus official releases, and many others have more.
The shame is in reading this thread, we go from a mathmatical definitive answer which can be qualified by not including greatest hits, live, or comps to a "well they suck and their music is boring" so it doesn't count. yeah, i got put in my place when i suggested the residents, and if anything, their music is hardly boring. If you were introducing someone to their music, which one thing by them would u recommend? After reading about them they sound kinda interesting? Change it one more time.. | |
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lezama said: Anxiety said: yeah, i got put in my place when i suggested the residents, and if anything, their music is hardly boring. If you were introducing someone to their music, which one thing by them would u recommend? After reading about them they sound kinda interesting? Wow, they've had so many sounds and styles over the years, so I think there's a little something that would click with anyone who has even the most cautious open mind for music. I prefer their older stuff - anything between 1970 - 1980. It's all very whimsical and inventive, and they didn't have the technology to fall back on that they have now, so they had to use toy instruments and found objects for musical instruments a lot of the time. I'd recommend "Meet the Residents", "Fingerprince", "Not Available", "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" (my favorite) or "The Commercial Album". They put out an album just a few years ago called "Demons Dance Alone" that sounds a lot like their old music. I like that one a lot, too. | |
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Lezama if you were asking me,
I suggest Lather by Zappa, good mix of everything he does on 3 discs. For Buckethead I suggest Electric Tears for moody guitar, and population override for Funkadelic type guitar hero grooves. Music is the best... | |
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aalloca said: Lezama if you were asking me,
I suggest Lather by Zappa, good mix of everything he does on 3 discs. For Buckethead I suggest Electric Tears for moody guitar, and population override for Funkadelic type guitar hero grooves. Which Buckhead is the most funky like? | |
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TwiliteKid said: Frank Zappa
Neil Young Bob Dylan Have all released more music than Prince has. Although Dylan and Young may have released more albums, not too sure on the numbers, there is also the aspect of the amount of songs that Prince has released on his album e.g.: Crystal Ball, Emancipation. I always think it a shame that Prince hasn't put out some stellar live recordings (IMO I think O2 was a good chance to put out a classic live album) | |
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Not sure if he's been mentioned, but Miles Davis surely has more albums than Prince. My Legacy
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RealMusician said: But I'm still estimating that making a record in the style of someone like Dylan or Neil Young generally would take less time than making an album in the style of Prince or Frank Zappa. I admit, I don't know exactly how long it takes for Neil Young to write a song (my guess is it differs) - but as I said, this is not only counting the songwriting but all steps in the process. Our singer/songwriter heroes, on the other hand, tend to have more of a "live in the studio"-approach (yes, there are exceptions, I know!) with less overdubs and such. definitely you can't discount the songwriting process in terms of time. Also, even if a recording is simple, that doesn't mean there's not tons of refining done to the arrangement of a simple rock song that allows it to be so powerful despite its simplicity. My Legacy
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Smillan said: TwiliteKid said: Frank Zappa
Neil Young Bob Dylan Have all released more music than Prince has. Although Dylan and Young may have released more albums, not too sure on the numbers, there is also the aspect of the amount of songs that Prince has released on his album e.g.: Crystal Ball, Emancipation. I always think it a shame that Prince hasn't put out some stellar live recordings (IMO I think O2 was a good chance to put out a classic live album) Prince's live catalog is shameful! My Legacy
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Anxiety said: lezama said: If you were introducing someone to their music, which one thing by them would u recommend? After reading about them they sound kinda interesting? Wow, they've had so many sounds and styles over the years, so I think there's a little something that would click with anyone who has even the most cautious open mind for music. I prefer their older stuff - anything between 1970 - 1980. It's all very whimsical and inventive, and they didn't have the technology to fall back on that they have now, so they had to use toy instruments and found objects for musical instruments a lot of the time. I'd recommend "Meet the Residents", "Fingerprince", "Not Available", "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" (my favorite) or "The Commercial Album". They put out an album just a few years ago called "Demons Dance Alone" that sounds a lot like their old music. I like that one a lot, too. Cool. Thx! Change it one more time.. | |
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IanRG said: Slim Dusty - Australian Country artist - 103 albums
Slim wins!  | |
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Shango said: John Zorn : http://en.wikipedia.org/w...iscography
117 releases : www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.d...qlgldhe~T2 | |
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NDRU said: RealMusician said: But I'm still estimating that making a record in the style of someone like Dylan or Neil Young generally would take less time than making an album in the style of Prince or Frank Zappa. I admit, I don't know exactly how long it takes for Neil Young to write a song (my guess is it differs) - but as I said, this is not only counting the songwriting but all steps in the process. Our singer/songwriter heroes, on the other hand, tend to have more of a "live in the studio"-approach (yes, there are exceptions, I know!) with less overdubs and such. definitely you can't discount the songwriting process in terms of time. Also, even if a recording is simple, that doesn't mean there's not tons of refining done to the arrangement of a simple rock song that allows it to be so powerful despite its simplicity. Certainly, all of these things are difficult to measure. Take jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, for instance. Since the late 60's, he's released an average of probably 2-3 albums a year. However, many of these are solo piano improvisations or trio performances of standard repertoire (and live recordings, as well) - which means that an album of 60 minutes might basically take him 60 minutes to make. No songwriting, no arranging, rehearsing, producing, etc - just playing. Now, is this less of an artistic achievement? Of course not. Is it, by any means, an easy thing to do? I wouldn't think so. The reason Jarrett (and his bandmates) are able to do this, is of course that they've spent thousands of hours practicing and working on their craft, throughout their lives. With such people, it's usually the strength and uniqueness of their "voice", their artistic expression, that impresses me. Not the quantity of their output. The Keith Jarrett trio could just as well have made one single album, or five hundred - the artistic statement remains the same. For a large output to be impressive in itself, it has to contain many different ideas, different kinds of expression. Frank Zappa, I think, is a good example of that. Also John Zorn, as someone mentioned. Prince, to a somewhat lesser degree. Bob Dylan, even lesser. I consider that a bigger effort, as far as the actual record-making goes - the time and energy they've put in specifically for the product. Not the hours they've spent perfecting their skills in general. (Although they are of course connected) Just because someone says the same thing over and over again - and says it very well - doesn't increase its importance. | |
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chocolatehandles said: Anxiety said: i'd say the residents have released at least twice as much music as prince has.
they've been putting out roughly an album a year since 1970, PLUS collections and live albums and whatnot. and nobody knows who they are.  But that's a band + personally I don't think they're any good. Ok, so no bands then? we should leave out the revolution an NPG stuff when counting the Prince albums. | |
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Prince has released the most music of all of the artist that I would LISTEN 2. | |
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