... but somewhere along the way lost the interest and stopped collecting everything.

(inspired by this thread http://www.prince.org/msg/8/404779)


for example, I bought every Madonna album up until and including I'm Breathless, but for unknown reasons turned pretty cold towards her releases after that, so I quit.

Queen. got everything up to The Works, but that Radio Gaga crap sealed it for me. got nothing afterwards.
Though I'll give it to them despite really trying hard they never managed to turn completely shite, and had a handfull of nice songs in their later days as well.

Anita Baker. I loved her in college, and tried to hang in there, but she was off the scene for a while, and I didn't care when she came back.

Erykah Badu. I just couldn't anymore...

Robert Randolph. I just didn't like the last album I bought, so I didn't buy anymore.

Sting

Bryan Ferry

Depeche Mode

The Cure

Janet Jackson

Paul McCartney

Pearl Jam

Paul Simon

Annie Lennox

Air

Tori Amos

A-Ha

Artic Monkeys

Adele

Arcade Fire

The Beatles

David Bowie

Blur

Kate Bush

Bjork

Beck

Jeff Buckley

Jarvis Cocker

Common

Daft Punk

Nick Drake

Erasure

Foo Fighters

Guns N Roses

Jimi Hendrix

Janet Jackson

The Jam

Lenny Kravitz

Kanye West

Ray Lamontagne

Led Zepplin

Living Colour

Manic Street Preachers

Method Man

Muse

Mundy

NERD

Oasis

Outkast

Placedo

Pulp

The Roots

Jill Scott

Joss Stone

The Smiths

Tricky

The Villagers

Paul Weller

The White Strypes

Just offa the top of my Head

edit: Just realised it USED to collect.....I never give up on artists I'm into....the joy of ART...I still collect all of above whenevr they release stuff

[Edited 1/31/14 13:47pm]

There have been loads when I got into phases and bought all their albums on initial discovery, but only a few I regularly used to wait and pre-order or buy on the days of release for a sustained period:

Madonna - Nothing since Confessions on a Dancefloor

Janet Jackson - Nothing since Damita Jo, which was pretty decent. Broke my run of buying anything and everything Jackson related.

Fun Lovin Criminals - for some reason I loved their first 2 albums so much, I regularly bought the next 3 with crushing disappointment each time. Took me a while to realise they really were a 2 album wonder.

Sananda Maitreya/Terence Trent D'Arby - That Demons & Angels shit online really took the cake. I couldn't get on board with his pretentious rambling on his website and completely lost interest.

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1. Prince (sorry)
2. Mary J Blige
3. Janet Jackson
4. Public Enemy
5. Sting for now since I didn't get the last one yet

Public Enemy (they really had some classics to live up to)

A Tribe Called Quest (after classics like Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders; I really was disappointed with Beats Rhymes and Life, then The Love Movement just made me sad)

De La Soul (i plan to resume. because i haven't heard that they ever REALLY fell off unlike ATCQ)

TTD - nothing since Wild Card

Brand New Heavies - After N'Dea left then came back, I'd lost interest by then

hmmm, there has to be more, but i'm drawing a blank

i used to, obviously, buy everything by prince, and i guess i still do,

although i've actually skipt 1 album - "planet earth" of which i don't

own a physical copy. i no longer feel the need to buy everything he

puts out in physical format, like singles and such. but i will buy the

digital copy.

/

used to buy everything tori amos released, but stopped right after

scarlet's walk (well, i did buy the welcome to sunny florida dvd).

i just don't care for her music anymore at all. the old stuff i still do

listen to quite often and it's brilliant. but she went to shit all of a

sudden, sadly. she has a new album coming out this year and i'm

curious. i still listen to her new stuff at least once to see if she's

getting back to something of her former self, but sadly so far it's

been awful.

/

every pet shop boys album up to and including "Very". after that

it was hit and miss. i started paying attention again when they

released "pandemonium" and "yes" but i've never enjoyed any

of their albums as a whole anymore. bits and pieces are still very

good but they don't release great albums anymore so i don't buy

them anymore either.

/

erykah badu. i just lost interest. her music is still good but just

like the albums by some of the other artists on my list, i don't

enjoy her albums as a whole anymore.

/

bjork kind of lost me with "volta". i'm still interested, but i'm not

buying her stuff anymore. i got a download of "biophilia" though

and that's rather good. but all the singles and such, no more.

/

smashing pumpkins, i used to collect everything from them but

after Machina II, the band was basically gone. i've checked out

most of the stuff since, just out of curiosity but it's mainly just

pale copies of what it used to be. still some interesting stuff to

be found in between the rubble, but not much and certainly not

good enough to purchase.

U2

Prince

The big two for me are Madonna and Nine Inch Nails.

At one point, I owned every Madonna album except for the Evita soundtrack, but after listening to Hard Candy, my relationship with her was over.

I realized I had outgrown Nine Inch Nails after I got almost nothing out of Year Zero. The magic was gone.

The Cure is another band with whom I had to part ways after liking them for a very long time. I bought and then sold their self-titled 2004 album and that was the end.

prince

janet jackson

usher

brandy

toni braxton

jill scott

the time

I gotta be honest.....

Prince---the last Prince album I bought was 'Rave' and I wasn't even that thrilled with it.The albums that followed,I simply listened to 'em and downloaded the tracks I like.I say this all the time,'TGE' was truly his last brilliant album.

Prince

De La Soul (though I recently topped up my collection with the free offering of their entire discography)

A Tribe Called Quest/Q Tip

Lenny Kravitz

The Beatles

Suzanne Vega (I will now buy only original material)

Prince(lost interest but had to complete the collection anyway)

Boys II Men(nothing after "evolution")

Mary J Blige(gave up after "share my world")

Sting(until "10 summoner's tales")

Bob Marley(nothing after his death)

Whitney Houston(just before the "preacher's wife" fiasco)

em... um ... P.M. Dawn(complete collection although I lost interest after "the bliss album")

[Edited 2/23/14 20:52pm]

The Barkays. The last album I bought was "48 Hours" in the 1990s. Once they finally did sell out to shit hop and neo stool in the 2000s, I dropped their asses too.

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The same with The Time and Jesse Johnson also. I didn't buy their last album either.

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Either make funk or go the rock route since R&B is dead these days. But sell out to the current R&B sound and I'll drop that ass like a hotcake.

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[Edited 2/23/14 22:57pm]

SoulAlive said:

I gotta be honest.....

Prince---the last Prince album I bought was 'Rave' and I wasn't even that thrilled with it.The albums that followed,I simply listened to 'em and downloaded the tracks I like.I say this all the time,'TGE' was truly his last brilliant album.

I am sooo with you there...Gold was his last truly great album I reckon. Since then, if he sharpened the better tracks and cut the fluff there's probably another two good albums amongst the likes of 3121, Musicology, Planet Earth etc...in my opinion anyway. Having said that with my two fave artists, Prince and Madonna, I buy everything whether its rubbish or not; come too far to stop now

Springsteen would be the one I use to buy everything but stopped. Haven't brought his last two...his stuff just started sounding far too samey for my liking, like he gave up taking risks and just reverted to type

-Lenny Kravitz - at a certain point his music became too generic for me so I lost interest

-The Cure - they stopped producing a sound that was interesting to me in the early 00's but

everything before that I still love

-Siouxsie - I love her as a person and I bought Mantaray but I think I'm not there with her anymore. I have everything else she's ever done but I dont think I will buy more

- Nine inch Nails - I think I outgrew them

- Marilyn Manson - I got his last album but I didn't even listen to it but twice, I dont think I will buy another unless its miraculously perfect. His energy and my energy aren't aligned anymore.

- Dead Can Dance / Lisa Gerrard - I got their last album but its just not the same anymore. Its not fresh anymore. Same with Lisa Gerrards solo albums. I've lost interest. Brendan Perry if he puts another solo album out I MAY potentially buy it but I'm on the fence.

Billy Joel: last album for me was The Bridge (manily bought for the Ray Charles duet)

DaveT said:

SoulAlive said:

I gotta be honest.....

Prince---the last Prince album I bought was 'Rave' and I wasn't even that thrilled with it.The albums that followed,I simply listened to 'em and downloaded the tracks I like.I say this all the time,'TGE' was truly his last brilliant album.

I am sooo with you there...Gold was his last truly great album I reckon. Since then, if he sharpened the better tracks and cut the fluff there's probably another two good albums amongst the likes of 3121, Musicology, Planet Earth etc...in my opinion anyway. Having said that with my two fave artists, Prince and Madonna, I buy everything whether its rubbish or not; come too far to stop now

I agree! I think alot of it has to do with his "divorce" from Warners.When we was with them,his albums were more focused and consistent.Now that he's free,there is no more quality control.He releases what he wants.The albums are less satisfying,imo.

Prince, of course

Earth, Wind & Fire

Ohio Players

Isley Brothers

Parliament / Funkadelic

..... just to name a few ......

Yes I am a 70's child...............