Tickets, Touts, and Taylor

David Gilmour at the Peter Green Tribute Concert, 25/2/20

 When oasis announced their reunion tour, fans made a mad rush for tickets, even though they were hundreds of pounds, and they were slated for it. Even worse, touts were already reselling them for even more, so the band are putting a stop to it by making the tickets exclusively for who bought them, just as Kate Bush had a decade ago for her rare residency at the Eventim Apollo (formerly Hammersmith Odeon). On the contrary, her old friend and mentor David Gilmour is about to have his own tour, and  when I looked at downstates dates coming after another event in the tri-state I would like to attend (story for another day, but I'd stay at the same hotel to save time, even if I'd be on the tube late at nights, or run into his former colleague), one was sold out, and the other a right fortune. Ironically, when I went to an article on Pearl Jam (who boycotted Ticketmaster in 1996) and there was a link to a third-party reseller, both dates were available and had seats at a remotely doable price and distant location in the arena. Last time I went there or the region was to see Paul McCartney. He and Peter Gabriel (you can connect the dots by now) were at Taylor Swifts concert in London a while ago (the old guard come to her). Swifties seem to spend less by going overseas than trying to see her in the US. I know it's too easy these days to write about missus, but even she's a scapegoat of the Live Nation/Ticketmaster monopoly. I'm lucky to get to one name show this year, which is Duran Duran back Upstate at the casino, but I'd have to win the pools well before that since I need time to plan and pay for the lot. I also have to see what they're doing with the Fairfield County do the night of Durans own show at the Garden because it can be too much and they're not that close together since it's a big area. Like most people at this stage, essentials come first in this economy before even considering hols or big shows anywhere.

Identity crisis

The real Arena, 2019.

kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

 If an artist or group has a common or generic name, chances are someone else will have it too. Before the internet, that was the case. If one makes it big, the other may contact their solicitors and settle out of court. I wrote a similar post years ago on our sister retail blog. In recent years, when I try to look up some people, I find mp3s from the wrong ones, who may not realise that the "real" one even exist. Spinoffs and disputes over use of the name by former members isn't exactly what I mean since that's a different post entirely. These are the ones I know off hand, but there are tonnes more out there.

Asia (my Asia settled with lesser known mid-West band and lesser knowns come up for mp3s)

Duran Duran (there are an obscure band called Duran Duran Duran)

Fish (can even be confused with Phish)

Tony Banks (once found an unknown artist with same name)

Ray Wilson (same)

Justin Hayward (there's also a DJ)

Brian May (Queen guitarist and late Australian film composer)

Roger Taylor (drummers for Queen and Duran Duran, which would probably have caused issues back at EMI)

Rush (even the boys have some chancers that are really fly by night calling themselves that, as well as Big Time Rush [please!], Mahogany Rush [also Cancon], Tom Rush, Jennifer Rush, films called Rush)

Savoy (can also get mixed up with Savoy Brown with late Oswego County resident Kim Simmonds)

Jim Diamond (was once a Diamond Jim out there)

PhD (his duo had to contend with a hip-hop one)

Bandit (his earlier band with AC/DCs Cliff Williams and Kate Bush's husband Danny McIntosh)

Status Quo (not to be confused with hip hop artist Stat Quo or song from High School Musical)

IQ (you have to have one to know who the real one are)

Jadis (even them, but could even get conflated with character on The Walking Dead)

Pallas (founder Graeme Murray originally called his band Rainbow, but that's in the same boat)

Magnum (I recently got a CD from the wrong Magnum, which I got rid of)

INXS (was once a shop in the Mohawk Valley)

Visage (was spa run by my doctor likely stopped by Steve Stranges estate if not the state)

Genesis (was once obscure band in the US at the same of the one I know being formed and another in Colombia, and also the late Genesis P-Orridge)

Alan Williams (because of others with the name, the one I used to know used the name Al Chantrey)

Toyah (not to be confused with Toya)

Slaughter (Clark County and Canadian bands)

X (US and Japan)

The Beat (Paul Collins's Beat and The English Beat)

Earth, Wind & Fire (not to be confused with Earth Fire, who Boris wants me to find)

Cinema (short-lived Yes spinoff settled with other Cinemas after becoming Yes proper again)

Tony Kaye (original Yes member and fellow UK pat and director)

Jon Anderson (not to be confused with country artist John Anderson)

Michael Jackson (even the King of Pop had two others with the same name)

Joe Jackson (his dad and the pop/jazz artist)

Paul Young (solo artist and late Sad Café/Mike & the Mechanics vocalist)

Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmores band; original name for Pallas; Sissy Spacek once recorded as Rainbo)

Velvet Underground (band with SU's own Lou Reed; early band with AC/DCs Malcolm Young)

Vanessa Williams (SU alum, Melrose Place co-star [both did Soul Food], and gospel artist)

Bush (UK and Canadian bands)

Arena (pictured; UK band and over a dozen or so different artists with that name)

Hootenanny Singers (Swedish folk band with ABBAs Björn Ulvæus and obscure US band)

Self-titled albums

Julian Lennon, 1987

These artists ought to release a self-titled album sometime, even though some have new albums out already:

Depeche Mode
a-ha
AC/DC
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
King Crimson
Phil Collins
Julian Lennon
Coldplay
Liam Gallagher
Roger Hodgson
Kate Bush

Greatest Hits/Best Ofs

Rihanna in concert, 2011.  She came to Syracuse just months before this show.

I don't usually write about todays Top 40 artists because it's almost too easy (I'll just let Perez Hilton do that), yet there are a number of them as well as some from yesteryear that have yet to release a greatest hits and/or best of album and have enough of a track record now to fill one up.  Russian bootleg ones exist of many of the following, but an official release is imminent for all of these artists:

Rihanna (above; already approaching the tenth anniversary of "Pon de Replay"!)
Beyoncé (Destinys Child have one)
Coldplay (Chris Martin recorded a duet with RiRi which could go on both albums)
Justin Timberlake (there is one for 'NSYNC proper however)
Kate Bush (last one was in 1986, so she has more tracks to collect)
AC/DC (have refused to put one out, yet the end of the band is likely not too far off)
Metallica (also declined to make a compilation and own their masters)
Lady Gaga (just performed with Metallica at Grammys)
Tool (not quite mainstream yet they too don't believe in a collection)
Katy Perry (maybe in 2018 for the 10th anniversary)
Scissor Sisters (overlooked at home and currently on extended sabbatical)
Lana del Rey (yes, even her)
Selena Gomez (includes with the Scene)
Miley Cyrus (not including her Hannah Montana material from more innocent times)*
The All-American Rejects (much of these are on Polydor where I found many of these)
Take That (also underrated in the US yet have enough since their reunion over a decade ago)
The Jonas Brothers (the teenybopper nature of their classics may limit their appeal now)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (including some solo Karen O)
Mariah Carey (compilation and/or boxed set of her Universal-owned albums)
One Direction (now on hiatus)
Taylor Swift (may have to wait until 2018 as new album is out; her ex is in 1D)
John Mayer (Taylors other ex as well as Katys; Mr-Can't-Make-a-Commitment!  Coming soon to CNY)
Calvin Harris (this isn't a gossip column, yet he also used to be with TayTay!)
System of a Down (a new studio album is needed as well)
Little Mix (even them already)
NERD (could throw in solo Pharrell Williams*)
Justin Bieber (even though "Baby" and "Love Yourself" couldn't be more different; Selenas ex)
Susan Boyle (the time has come for a collection; I do admire her for being a late bloomer nonetheless)
David Gilmour (should keep live versions of Floyd proper classics off so he can stand on his own)
Kanye West (he thinks he's the greatest and may also think that of every track he's recorded.  I'm not endorsing this baciagaloop, just saying how even he might consider putting a collection together)
Alicia Keys (may have to wait until later in the year as Here is still fresh in promotional phase)*
Usher (will also have to wait as his latest release hasn't been out that long either)*
Shakira (this one would be of her English-language hits like "Don't Bother" and "Underneath Your Clothes")*
James Blunt (currently has a studio release to plug, but a compilation next year would mark a decade since "You're Beautiful")
Muse (bought a few of their studio albums for you-know-who but even he can't be bothered with cherry picking)
Fiona Apple (could also use another new album first)
Fantasia (only Idol alum here)

*The Voice judges past and present as this pattern occurred.  No past contestants combined however have enough to do a collection just yet!

Vinyl wishlist

Only have the international edition on LP right now.

By the cover art can be obtained from Australian Music Corporation Pty. Ltd., Fair use, Link

    Records have been coming back in recent years, although not quite as en masse as decades past, but still making headway. Later titles and editions are rarer and/or more expensive though I found a few of those. Some titles I don't have on LP, but I do on CD or even tape, and others I don't have at all just yet, so here's what I hope to find in the months to come:

ABBA
The Album (1977) autographed

Live (1986)
Live at Wembley Arena
The Singles: The First Ten Years
Chess singles

AC/DC
High Voltage (Australasia) (pictured)
TNT (most tracks are on international edition of previous album)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australasia)
Let There Be Rock (Australasia)
Powerage
Highway to Hell
'74 Jailbreak
Fly on the Wall
Who Made Who
Blow Up Your Video
The Razors Edge
Ballbreaker
Stiff Upper Lip
Black Ice
Rock or Bust

Power Up

a-ha
Stay on These Roads
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Memorial Beach
Minor Earth, Major Sky
Lifelines
Cast in Steel
Morten Harket - Brother
Savoy - See the Beauty in Your Drab Hometown and Under
Magne Furuholmen - White Xmas Lies

True North  

Jon Anderson
Change We Must?
3 Ships
In the City of Angels
Invention of Knowledge (w/Roine Stolt)
1,000 Hands

True

Arena

Songs from the Lions Cage

Pride

The Visitor

Immortal?

Contagion

Peppers Ghost

The Seventh Degree of Separation

The Unquiet Sky

Double Vision

The Theory of Molecular Inheritance

Asia
XXX
Aurora
Aqua
Aria
Aura
Symfonia
Dukes of the Orient (2018) and Freakshow

AFJP - Aviana

Tony Banks
The Wicked Lady
Bankstatement (1989)
Still

The Beatles
Not for Sale (bootleg)
Rubber Soul (US)
Revolver (US/UK stereo)
Magical Mystery Tour (stereo)
White album mono
Yellow Submarine (songtrack)
Greatest Hits Vol 1 (Australasia/Southeast Asia)
Various bootlegs
Reel Music
Past Masters Vol 1-2
Love (Cirqué du Soleil)
Live at the BBC Vol 1-2
Anthology 1-3
1 (2000)

Black Sabbath
Forbidden
Technical Ecstacy
Mob Rules
Live Evil
Born Again
Seventh Star
The Eternal Idol
Headless Cross
Týr
13 (2013)

Boy George
Sold
Tense Nervous Headache
Boyfriend
High Hat
The Martyr Mantras (Jesus Loves You)

SE18

Kate Bush
Kate Bush 12"
Hounds of Love 12"
The Red Shoes
Aerial
50 Words for Snow
Directors Cut
The Fellowship Presents Before the Dawn

Bush
Sixteen Stone
Razorblade Suitcase
Man on the Run
Black and White Rainbows

The Sea of Memories

The Art of Survival
Loaded

I Beat Loneliness

Phil Collins
I Missed Again
Thru These Walls
One More Night
Don't Lose My Number
Serious Hits... Live!
Both Sides

Singles

Crowded House
Temple of Low Men
Time on Earth

Dreamers Are Waiting

Gravity Stairs

Culture Club
Mistake No 3
The War Song
This Time

Def Leppard
First Strike
Adrenalize

Retro Active

Slang

X (2002)

Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
Def Leppard (2015)
The Story So Far
Diamond Star Halos

Drastic Symphonies

Depeche Mode
Live in Berlin
Martin Gore and Dave Gahan solo LPs
Some Great Reward
Catching Up with Depeche Mode (1985)
The Singles 81>85
Music for the Masses
101 (1989)
Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit EP
Exciter
Sounds of the Universe
Songs of Faith and Devotion live
Playing the Angel
Delta Machine
Spirit

Memento Mori

Jim Diamond
Bandit (1976)
Bacco - Cha Cha Me
PhD - Is It Safe?
I Should Have Known Better
I Sleep Alone at Night(s)
Desire for Freedom
Jim Diamond (1993)
Broadway 12"

Dio

Evil or Divine

Sacred Heart

Dream Evil

Lock Up the Wolves

Strange Highways

Angry Machines

Magica

Master of the Moon

The Very Beast of Dio Vol 2

Duran Duran
Arena
All You Need is Now
Big Thing!
Decade
Liberty
Red Carpet Massacre

Danse Macabre

Elf

Elf (1972)

LA 59/Carolina County Ball

Trying to Burn the Sun

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Black Moon
In the Hot Seat
Welcome Back My Friends...
Works Vol 1

Eurythmics
The Tourists (1978)
Peace
We Too Are One singles

Agnetha Fältskog
Eyes of a Woman
A+ (2023)

Fish
Internal Exile

13th Star
A Feast of Consequences
Weltschmerz

Fleetwood Mac
English Rose
Black Magic Woman
The Original Fleetwood Mac (1971)
Penguin
Behind the Mask

Before the Beginning Vol 1 & 2

Alternate Live

Rumours Live

Peter Gabriel
Out Out 12"
Shaking the Tree
Us
Up
New Blood
i/o Bright and Dark Side Mixes

Liam Gallagher

As You Were

Knebworth 2022

2024 album with John Squire (Stone Roses)

Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds

First album

EPs

Back the Way We Came Vol 1

Council Skies

Chasing Yesterday

Genesis
From Genesis to Revelation (mono)

A Trick of the Tail autographed
The Story of Genesis
We Can't Dance
The Way We Walk Vol 1-2
Calling All Stations

BBC Broadcasts

Gentle Giant
Acquiring the Taste (US LP to photocopy sleeves)

Geordie
Hope You Like It
Don't Be Fooled by the Name
Save the World
No Good Woman
Strange Man

David Gilmour
David Gilmour (1978)
Rattle That Lock
Live at Pompeii

Luck and Strange

Gowan
Gowan (1982)
Great Dirty World
Lost Brotherhood

Amy Grant
Unguarded

Heart in Motion
Home for Christmas

Steve Hackett
The Night Siren
GTR (1986)
Wolflight

The Circus and the Nightwhale
At the Edge of Light

Surrender to Silence

Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel
A Closer Look
Timeless Flight
Face to Face
Uncovered (solo)
The Candidate (solo)
Greatest Hits

George Harrison
Wonderwall Music
The Best of Dark Horse (1976-89)
Live in Japan
Brainwashed

Annie Haslam
Still Life
Annie Haslam (1989)

Justin Hayward
Night Flight
Classic Blue
All the Way

Roger Hodgson
You Make Me Love You
London
Supertramp - Autobiography
Open the Door

INXS
INXS (1980)
Max Q (1989)
X (1990)
Welcome to Wherever You Are
Full Moon Dirty Hearts

Elegantly Wasted

IQ
Tales from the Lush Attic
The Wake
Nomzamo
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
The Road of Bones
Resistance

Dominion

Eddie Jobson/Zinc 
The Green Album

Elton John
The Big Picture
Made in England
Songs from the West Coast
Sleeping with the Past
The One
Peachtree Road
The Union (w/Leon Russell)
Wonderful Crazy Night

The Lockdown Sessions (w/various artists)  

Jon & Vangelis
The Best of Jon & Vangelis
Page of Life

Kajagoogoo
Islands/Extra Play (Canada)
Kaja - Crazy Peoples Right to Speak
Limahl - Colour All My Days

Nik Kershaw
Human Racing
Radio Musicola
The Works

Oxymoron

King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
In the Wake of Poseidon
Starless and Bible Black
USA

Denny Laine
Holly Days

John Lennon
Sometime in New York City
Shaved Fish
Two Virgins
Live in New York City
Menlove Ave.
Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack)

Julian Lennon
Mr Jordan
Help Yourself
Everything Changes

Annie Lennox
A Christmas Cornucopia
Nostalgia

Magnum

Magnum II (1979)

Matador

Chase the Dragon

The Eleventh Hour!

On a Storytellers Night

Vigilante

Wings of Heaven

Goodnight LA

The Monster Roars

Here Comes the Rain

Marillion
Marbles
FEAR
Punch and Judy
Brief Encounter
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)
Holidays in Eden
Brave
Afraid of Sunlight

An Hour Before It's Dark

Paul McCartney
Tripping the Live Fantastic!
Wingspan
Tug of War 7"/12"
MTV Unplugged
Run Devil Run
Figure of Eight 12" (album version)
All the Best!
Off the Ground
Driving Rain
Pure McCartney
Electric Arguments (The Fireman)
Amœba Gig

The Boys at Dungeon Lane

Christine McVie
Christine Perfect (1970)
Christine McVie (1984)

In the Meantine

Buckingham McVie (2017)
Songbird

Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy
Barcelona (w/Montserrat Caballé)

Never Boring

George Michael
Symphonica
Older

Mike & the Mechanics
The Living Years
Word of Mouth
Let Me Fly

The Moody Blues
John Lodge - Natural Avenue
Ray Thomas solo LPs
Keys of the Kingdom

Patrick Moraz
Out in the Sun
Timecode

Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill (acoustic)
Under Rug Swept
Alanis Unplugged
So-Called Chaos
Flavours of Entanglement
Havoc and Bright Lights
Live in Montreux, Switzerland 2012
Such Pretty Forks in the Road

Stevie Nicks
Crystal Visions
The Other Side of the Mirror
Timespace
In Your Dreams
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault

Stand Back

oasis
Definitely Maybe 30th Anniversary boxed set
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Heathen Chemistry
Dig Out Your Soul
Beady Eye - BE

Ozzy Osbourne
Bark at the Moon
Tribute
No Rest for the Wicked
Just Say Ozzy
No More Tears

Black Rain
Scream
Ordinary Man

Patient No. 9  

Pallas
The Pallas EP
Arrive Alive
The Sentinel
Knightmoves
The Wedge

The Messenger

Anthony Phillips
Wise After the Event
1984 (1981)

Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (mono)
More soundtrack
Ummagumma
Bootlegs
The Early Years
Works
The Later Years
Live at Knebworth
The Endless River

Live at Pompeii

Live at the LA Sports Arena

Queen
A Day at the Races autographed

Greatest Hits II & III
Flash Gordon
Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet Project
Live Magic
The Miracle 12"
Innuendo
Live at Wembley '86
Live at the Rainbow '74
Queen Forever
A Night at the Odeon Live
On Air: The Complete BBC Radio Sessions/Live at the Beeb

Rabbitt
Boys Will Be Boys
A Croak and a Grunt in the Night
Rock Rabbitt (1978)

Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin (1978)/Beginnings (South Africa)
Face to Face
Wolf
Can't Look Away

Rio

Renaissance
Prologue
Ashes Are Burning
Live at Carnegie Hall (I only have half the UK LP)
Azure d'Or

REO Speedwagon
R.E.O./T.W.O. (1972)
R.E.O. (1976)
Live: You Get What You Play For
The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish!
The Hits

Rush
Rush (1974)

2112 autographed
Feedback
Presto
Counterparts
2112 Live
Snakes and Arrows
Rush in Rio
Chronicles
Test for Echo
Moving Pictures Live
Clockwork Angels
ABC 1974
Spirits of the Airwaves
Clockwork Angels Live

Sad Café
Fanx Ta-Ra
Misplaced Ideals UK LP
Façades
Sad Café (1980)
Olé
Live
Whatever It Takes

Split Enz
Frenzy
See You 'Round

History Never Repeats

Nad Sylvan
Courting the Widow
The Bride Said No
The Regal B------

Spiritus Mundi

Monumentata

Talk Talk
It's My Mix
The Colour of Spring
Spirit of Eden
Natural History

Roger Taylor
Strange Frontier
The Cross - Sh--- It!
Fun on Earth
Outsider

Tears for Fears
Elemental
The Seeds of Love
Ready Boys and Girls 10"
The Tipping Point

Rick Wakeman
The Red Planet

Lisztomania
Criminal Record
Cost of Living
Live at Hammersmith
The Time Machine

Softsword
Return to the Centre of the Earth
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (studio version)
King Arthur (remake)

A Gallery of the Imagination

Roger Waters
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Radio KAOS
The Wall: Live in Berlin and new version
Amused to Death
Is This the Life We Really Want?

Dark Side of the Moon Redux

John Wetton
Kings Road
Wetton/Manzanera (1987)
Jack-Knife - I Wish You Would

Wham!
The Final
Music from the Edge of Heaven

Yes
Geoff Downes - The Light Programme
Steve Howe - Beginnings
Keys to Ascension 1-2
Big Generator
Union
Talk
The Ladder
Magnification
Fly from Here
Heaven and Earth
Progeny
Like It Is (Bristol)
Topographic Drama: Live Across America
50Live

From a Page

The Quest

Mirror to the Sky

Aurora

Subject to change.

Pennsylvania: The Prog State?

From Harrisburg with Love: The state flag.

For some reason if there's one state in the union that knows prog it's Pennsylvania, the Keystone State.  One may be the late DJ Ed Sciaky from the Philadelphia radio market promoted it (mainly Yes and Renaissance).  Another could possibly be a colonial connection, who knows?  It's not that Commonwealth.  I had been in touch with someone in Lycoming County who knew a lot of these (sadly he is no longer with us), and another from there now in Huntingdon County also is a bit of an expert.  I went to a shop in Luzerne County and found Steve Hackett and Mike Oldfield CDs.  ROSfest in Gettysburg (Civil War capital) and the now-defunct NEARfest in the Allentown-Bethlehem area brought in bands from around the globe.  Annie Haslam from Renaissance now lives in Bucks County.  I may have to head that way again once the weather is better and a trip in my time frame and price range is available.
Indie labels MVD Audio have had their offices in Philly suburb Oaks but moved not too far off in Pottsville, and InsideOut Music had their US offices in Pittsburgh but moved them west to LA when they were taken over by indie metal label Century Media.
Philly native Sherman Hemsley boasted of listening to bands like Gentle Giant, Eloy, Gong and Nektar when he was alive despite being even older than the band members themselves and had recorded with Jon Anderson.
While prog will always have fans far and wide, the land of pretzels and cheesesteaks will always hold a special place in America for it all.

THE WORLD OF KATE BUSH: The Red Shoes: Shoedance - UK CD Single (Part 2)

THE WORLD OF KATE BUSH: The Red Shoes: Shoedance - UK CD Single (Part 2)

The Best of Kate Bush

Kate Bush signing copies of her second album Lionheart.

First new post of the year.  Kate Bush for a change.  This may be an unlikely release but here's what a compilation would look like if it spanned her whole career.  The Whole Story in 1986 is the only one so far.

Wuthering Heights
The Man with the Child in His Eyes (single mix)
Them Heavy People
Hammer Horror
Wow (single edit mix)
Symphony in Blue
Don't Put Your Foot on the Heartbrake
Another Day (w/Peter Gabriel)
Babooshka
Army Dreamers
Breathing
December Will Be Magic Again
Warm and Soothing
Sat in Your Lap
Lord of the Reedy River
The Dreaming
Dreamtime
There Goes a Tenner
Suspended in Gaffa
Night of the Swallow
Hounds of Love
The Big Sky
Cloudbusting
Running Up That Hill
Wuthering Heights (1986 version)
Experiment IV
Don't Give Up (w/Peter Gabriel)
Sister and Brother (w/Midge Ure)
Love and Anger
The Confrontation
The Sensual World
This Womans Work (1987 and single versions)
Be Kind to My Mistakes
Rocket Man
Candle in the Wind
Rubberband Girl
Eat the Music (album and 12" versions)
You Want Alchemy
Shoedance
Show a Little Devotion
The Red Shoes
The Man I Love
And So is Love
Moments of Pleasure
King of the Mountain
Sexual Healing
Lyra
She Moves Through the Fair
Deeper Understanding (2011 version)
Wild Man

Waiting for the Gift of Sound and Vision: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Anniversary Post

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5 CD series

In the past few years a new kind of boxed set has been appearing in shops that contain 5 (sometimes just 3) CDs of the same artist (or theme in some cases) in a slipcase with "mini-LPs" but without liner notes or many details.  The price is decent for 5 CDs together.  Sometimes there are titles that have been rare for a long time, which was the case when I bought The Cars set which included Panorama (I'll have to find it by itself now).  All three majors have these.  Warners recent purchase of Parlophone from EMI is bringing out new

Combines solo Limahl and the band proper

Original Album Series sets from Kajagoogoo/Limahl (just got this one), Cockney Rebel (a bit of a challenge but I have that too now), and UFO to name a few.  They already released those with Yes (which I bought), Alanis Morissette (I bought all 5 in hers one at a time, 3 from her old stomping ground) and Fleetwood Mac (which I'm holding out for) even though they'll all have titles I bought separately with bonus tracks (those without can be sold which I did with one old Yes CD).  Universal also have had these but with whole cases for Elton John and Rush but a sleeves only one with Bob Marley is available and I got it last week.  Sonys Original Album Classics (US and EU) have included Sarah MacLachlan (outside Canada), Elvis Presley, REO Speedwagon, Santana and Bob Dylan (he has a couple out now).  Don't think the indies would do this.  EMI UK before they were sold would reissue two at a time in a regular slimline double jewel box with Blondie, Gerry Rafferty and Talk Talk (I have this) to name a few but also without much information.  I wish there was a Kate Bush set but don't count on it so I bought them separately instead even though she had a more elaborate one of her own in 1990 which is scarce now.
This could be a way to get people to buy CDs again with all the downloading but there's always gonna be something new for collectors to spend their money on.  Warners also have trilogies.

Commonwealth of Nations

Commonwealth flag

The Commonwealth of Nations are the successor to the British Empire which includes the flagship UK, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (since 1994) to name a few.  While a tonne of my favourite artists are from Britain, some are from the ex-colonies too (full-time solo in parentheses).

UK:

Asia (John Wetton, Geoffrey Downes, Steve Howe, John Payne)
The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison)
Bandit (Jim Diamond)
Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osbourne)
Kate Bush
Cockney Rebel
Culture Club (Boy George)
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode (Martin Gore, Dave Gahan)
Duran Duran (Arcadia)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Greg Lake)
Eurythmics (Annie Lennox)
Fleetwood Mac (Christine McVie)
Genesis (Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Steve Hackett, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford)
Gentle Giant
Geordie (Brian Johnsons band before AC/DC)
GTR (Hackett/Howe supergroup)
IQ (Martin Orford)
Elton John
Kajagoogoo (Limahl)
King Crimson (Greg Lake, John Wetton)
Marillion (Fish, h)
Marilyn (born in Jamaica)
Mike & the Mechanics (Mike Rutherford)
Modern English
The Moody Blues (Justin Hayward, Denny Laine, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, Mike Pinder)
Naked Eyes (Pete Byrne)
oasis (Beady Eye, Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds)
Pallas (Alan Reed)
PhD (Jim Diamond)
Pink Floyd (David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett)
Queen (Freddie Mercury [born in what is now Tanzania], Roger Taylor [including The Cross], Brian May)
Renaissance (Annie Haslam)
Supertramp (Roger Hodgson)
Tears for Fears (Curt Smith*)
Wham! (George Michael)
Wings (Paul McCartney, Denny Laine)
Yes (Jon Anderson*, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin*, Rick Wakeman)

Canada:

Rush (Cancon kings)
Lawrence Gowan (born in Glasgow, raised in Toronto area)
Alanis Morissette* (favourite Cancon solo)
Mystery (Benoît David was also in Yes)

Australia:

AC/DC (with UK natives)
INXS (have had frontmen from the UK, Canada and New Zealand as well as the US)

South Africa:

Rabbitt (Trevor Rabin*)

*now naturalised US citizens

Life after EMI

Divvied up

Over the past year, the properties of EMI was doled out among four companies as one could not have it all under EU regulations.  Universal received the lions share getting Capitol, Harvest (brought back from dormancy), the EMI label and Virgin; while Warners would get Parlophone which includes Regal, IRS and Chrysalis.  The Beatles, who put Parlophone on the map, will now be with Capitol worldwide, as will solo Robbie Williams (hardly heard of in the States which is the case with his group Take That), who already moved to Universal prior to the merger.  Ironically many pre-2012 EMI refugees now find themselves under UMG distribution, such as The Rolling Stones, Queen, solo Paul McCartney and Mike Oldfield (who moved his catalogue to Mercury only to find it now managed by original label Virgin).  Parlophone artists such as Coldplay, Jethro Tull (on Chrysalis), and Conor Maynard (a newer one) were signed to Capitol in the US but I wonder if Warners' catalogue label Rhino will now be reissuing that material worldwide in future.  Chrysalis US artists such as Pat Benetar and Blondie will now be Capitol ones.  There is some catching up to do.  Some titles may be bought back by the artists and released by indie labels which is possibly the case with some of my prog heroes like Rick Wakeman and Tony Banks.  More as I get it.

Vegetarians and Vegans

Mr "Meat is Murder" himself, Morrissey.

Many of my favourite artists don't eat meat or in some cases even any dairy*.  Even St Francis de Assisi may not have been able to do this!

Alanis Morrissette*
Boy George (may be pescatarian)
The Beatles (even John Lennon was on a vegan type diet for most of the last decade of his life)
Kate Bush
Geezer Butler
Annie Haslam (Renaissance)
Roger Hodgson
JD Fortune (ex-INXS)
Morrissey* (I don't buy anything of his for myself but his devotion to animal rights is unparalleled)
Phil Collins
John Wetton
Steve Howe
Chris Squire
Lawrence Gowan
Jon Anderson (also pescatarian)
Alan White
Brian May
Paul and Linda McCartney (the second missus is also vegan but I'm not gonna put her here!)
Fiona Apple*
Frida
Limahl
Agnetha Fältskog*
Ozzy Osbourne

My Pirate Collection



The Eleventh Hour! by Magnum (not actual CD)

In the past decade, my collection of pirates has grown, especially in the past couple years. I just have to boast about how much I've acquired. CD-Rs don't count 'cos anyone can make those these days. MP3s; oh, please!
All courtesy Boris except * from a shop or elsewhere. Bootlegs will be on another list in future.


ABBA
ABBA (1975)** (Also on Polish LP released in Cold War era)
ABBA The Album (1977-78) (Also on Japanese LP)
Voulez-Vous** (also on UK and Mexican LPs)
ABBA Gold

Live at Wembley Arena
Agnetha Fältskog - A+ (2013)

AC/DC
High Voltage (Australia and international**)
Powerage/Blow Up Your Video*
Highway to Hell***
For Those About to Rock*/**
'74 Jailbreak
Flick of the Switch**
Fly on the Wall (cassette* and CD)
Who Made Who?
The Razors Edge
Ballbreaker
Stiff Upper Lip
Black Ice
Live at River Plate
Greatest Hells Hits (counts as a pirate since it has official tracks in a compilation that the band would never release themselves)*
Iron Man 2 soundtrack (closest thing to an official compilation to date)
No Bull
Back Home with Brian (although a bootleg anyway)
Rock or Bust/Backtracks*
Rarities (may be more of a bootleg compilation)

Volts (from the Bonfire boxed set)

Let There Be Rock (Australia)

Bon Scott & Fraternity - Complete Sessions 1971-72

Ace of Base
Flowers*

a-ha
Hunting High and Low**
Scoundrel Days**
Stay on These Roads*
East of the Sun, West of the Moon*
Memorial Beach
How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head?
Analogue*
Foot of the Mountain
(Used to have Minor Earth Major Sky until I received the EU promo, so I sold the pirate).
Morten Harket - Out of My Hands* and Brother*
Magne F - Past Perfect Future Tense and White Xmas Lies

Jon Anderson
Animation*/**
Deseo
Toltec
Survival and Other Stories
Anderson/(Roine) Stolt (Kaipa/The Flower Kings/Transatlantic/Agents of Mercy) - Invention of Knowledge

1,000 Hands Chapter One

True

Arena

The Theory of Molecular Inheritance

Asia
Astra**

Geoffrey Downes - The Light Programme and Evolution

Asia (featuring John Payne)
Aria (also on US tape)

Rare
Silent Nation

Tony Banks
Bankstatement*

The Beatles
Please Please Me/The Early Beatles**/***
with the beatles (1963)**/Meet the Beatles!*** (stereo original remaster and mono 1987 mixes)
Second Album (1964)***
A Hard Days Night (remaster)**/(stereo mini-LP)/Something New*/***
Beatles No. 5*
Beatles for Sale*/Beatles '65 (stereo and mono old mixes)/(new mix)**/***
Beatles VI*** (also on US and Japanese LPs)
The Beatles (self-titled West German compilations)
Beatles' Greatest (Israel and Japan LP covers)**
Help! (CD Maximum)*/(remaster)**/***
Rubber Soul*/**/***
Yesterday and Today***
Revolver**/***
A Collection of Beatles Oldies*/**

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band**/*** (original UK and US stereo and EU remastered mono LPs and original and remastered CDs)
Magical Mystery Tour (stereo* and mono original and stereo and mono*/** remasters)/***
The white album */**/*** (both stereo CD editions and Japanese LP w/o obi)
Yellow Submarine*/**/***/film DVD
Hey Jude***
Abbey Road*** (pictured above; copy of Japanese release, copy of 2009 EU remaster*, and CD Maximum 2-in-1 w/Hey Jude [The Beatles Again]*/**/***)
Let It Be*/*** (also on original Argentina CD)
Live at the Star Club (given a general release at first though technically a bootleg)*/**/***
Live at the Hollywood Bowl (rough mix not used on 1977 LP)*/**
Anthology 1* (only one from mainland China I've found, unless my copy of Let It Be... Naked is a pirate too)
1 (2000)*
The Early Tapes of the Beatles (with Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)*/**
Mono Masters*
Love*

[Did get Ringo (1973) one year to sell online but I'm not as interested in Starrs solo stuff]

Black Sabbath
(Note: Power Sound 2001/Creative Sounds budget reissues are pretty much grey market, so they don't really count here.)
Sabotage*/**
Technical Ecstasy
Never Say Die!**
Heaven and Hell**
Live Evil

Born Again

Headless Cross*
Týr
Dehumanizer*
The Dio Years
Cross Purposes*
Forbidden
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know*
13 (2013)
The End EP
Gathered in Their Masses
The End: Live in Birmingham

Kate Bush
Lionheart**
The Red Shoes**
Live at Hammersmith '79 (practically a bootleg, but there was once an official full-length release)*

Crowded House
Intriguer*

Def Leppard
Retro Active*
Slang
Def Leppard (2015)
Down 'n' Outz - This is How We Roll (Joe Elliotts side project)

Retromania (compilation of B-sides, bonus tracks, covers, live and other rare tracks)

Depeche Mode
Black Celebration**
Music for the Masses**
Violator**
Songs of Faith and Devotion**
Ultra
Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit² and The Third Chimpanzee EP
Playing the Angel
The Best of Depeche Mode Vol 1
Sounds of the Universe
Delta Machine

Mode: M, O, D, and E

Dio

Holy Diver remaster**

The Last in Line**

Sacred Heart

Dream Evil

Strange Highways

Angry Machines

Magica

Killing the Dragon**

Master of the Moon

The Elves - ...And Before Elf, There Were Elves (Ronnie James Dios early band)

Duran Duran
Sing Blue Silver
Red Carpet Massacre

Future Past**

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)**
Tarkus**
Pictures at an Exhibition**
Works Vol 1 and 2**
Love Beach (also on Canadian and South Korean LPs)**
Black Moon
In the Hot Seat

Fish
Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors**
Internal Exile
Sunsets on Empire
Fellini Days
13th Star
A Feast of Consequences
A Parley with Angels

Weltschmerz

Fleetwood Mac
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac (1968)**

The Pious Bird of Good Omen**
Penguin
Buckingham Nicks (1973)***
Stevie Nicks - The Other Side of the Mirror

Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

Peter Gabriel
Scratch My Back
New Blood

Rated PG

Flotsam and Jetsam

i/o

Dave Gahan
Paper Monsters
Hourglass
Angels & Ghosts and Imposter (with Soulsavers)

Genesis
Live (1973)*/**
Selling England by the Pound**
...and then there were three...**
Three Sides Live*/**
We Can't Dance**

The Last Domino

Extra Tracks 1970-1975, 1976-1982, 1983-1998
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required** and Going Back**

Gentle Giant
Octopus**

In a Glass House**
Free Hand**
The Missing Piece**
Giant for a Day!**

Three Piece Suite

Geordie
Hope You Like It
Don't Be Fooled by the Name
Save the World
No Good Woman
The Singles Collection

Keep on Rockin'

Unreleased Tapes

David Gilmour

Rattle That Lock

Yes I Have Ghosts**

Live in Pompeii (solo version)

Steve Hackett
Defector**

Blues with a Feeling
Till We Have Faces**
Feedback '86
Genesis Files/Revisited 1*
Squackett - Life Within a Day
Genesis Revisited II: Selection and full album with various artists

Under a Mediterranean Sky

Surrender of Silence

Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More

The Circus and the Nightwhale

Live Magic at Trading Boundaries

George Harrison
Electronic Sound
Living in the Material World (also on South African LP)
Dark Horse** (also on UK and Argentina LPs)
Extra Texture* (also on Barbados LP)
Thirty Three & 1/3*/**
George Harrison (1979)**
Gone Troppo**
Cloud Nine*/**

Songs by George Harrison

The Best of Dark Horse*/**
Live in Japan
Early Takes Vol 1

Steve Howe
Beginnings
The Steve Howe Album (1979)**
Turbulence
Not Necessarily Acoustic

Homebrew 5
Nexus w/Virgil Howe

Love Is**

Guitarscape

Tony Iommi

Iommi (2000) (with various artists including Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward on non-Sabbath track, Skin, Billy Idol, Billy Corgan, Henry Rollins, and more)
Fused (with Glenn Highes)

The DEP Sessions (with Glenn Hughes)

WhoCares (charity compilation with Ian Gillan and various artists)

IQ
Ever (don't ever tell Martin Orford!)*
Subterranea
The Seventh House

Tales from a Dark Christmas (for obvious reasons, I must wait until November to have a listen)

Elton John
Empty Sky**
Tumbleweed Connection**
Madman Across the Water**
Honky Château**
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player!**
Here and There**

A Single Man**
Victim of Love**
Rare Masters (includes Friends soundtrack**)
Peachtree Road
The Captain and the Kid**
The Diving Board**
Good Morning to the Night (w/P-Nau)
Diamonds**

Regimental Sgt Zippo**

King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King***
Larks' Tongues in Aspic*/** (signed by Bill Bruford without him knowing the truth!)
Starless and Bible Black**
Red**
USA

John Lennon
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)/Jams & Demos**

Imagine**
Sometime in New York City***
Mind Games (2010 and 2024 editions) */**
Walls and Bridges*/**
Rock 'n' Roll**
Double Fantasy** (also on Canadian and Mexican LPs)
Acoustic
The US vs John Lennon

Jon and Vangelis
Short Stories**
Page of Life

Duncan Mackay

Chimera

Score

The Bletchley Park Project (with Georg Voros)

Kintsugi

Magnum

Kingdom of Madness

Magnum II (1979)

Chase the Dragon

The Eleventh Hour!

On a Storytellers Night

Vigilante

Wings of Heaven

Goodnight LA

Sleepwalking

Rock Art

Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies

The Monster Roars

Here Comes the Rain

Marillion
Real to Reel**/Brief Encounter
Early Stages (complete and highlights)
Sounds That Can't Be Made

With Friends from the Orchestra

Mark Kellys Marathon (2020)

With Friends at St Davids

An Hour Before It's Dark

Brian May
Back to the Light
Resurrection
Another World**

Paul McCartney (and Wings+)
Ram (Paul and Linda McCartney)**/***
Wild Life*/**/+/***
Red Rose Speedway*/**/+/***
Back to the Egg**

McCartney II (1980)**
Tug of War**
Pipes of Peace**
Give My Regards to Broad Street (also on Méxicana LP)*
Снова в СССР (also on LP from there)*

Flowers in the Dirt Original B-Sides, Remixes, Single Mixes and Cassette Demos
Tripping the Live Fantastic!*
MTV Unplugged: The Official Bootleg*
Flaming Pie*
Driving Rain
Electric Arguments (Fireman)*
Back in the US (DVD)* (CD**)
New (regular edition)**

McCartney III (2020)**

7" Singles

Band on the Run Unmixed

Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy
Barcelona (with Montserrat Caballé) original edition and remaster (also on US LP)
The Great Pretender
Original Version/Single Version/Rarities (practically a bootleg)

George Michael
Older

Moody Blues
The Present**

Alanis Morissette
So-Called Chaos

Such Pretty Forks in the Road

Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds (2011)

Ozzy Osbourne
Blizzard of Ozz**
Diary of a Madman**
Tribute

No Rest for the Wicked**
No More Tears
Down to Earth
Black Rain
Scream

Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn**
Music from the Motion Picture More
Ummagumma***
Atom Heart Mother*/**
Meddle**

Live at Pompeii (unofficial and official CDs; also on official DVD)

Dark Side of the Moon Live (also on bootleg)

Animals (2018 remix)**
The Wall**
The Final Cut**

A Momentary Lapse of Reason**

Delicate Sound of Thunder (also on USSR LP and original Brasil CDs)

P*U*L*S*E*
Richard Wright - Wet Dream**, Broken China and Identity (Zee)
The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Everything Under the Sun
Cre/ation (from The Early Years)

The Later Years: Unreleased Live and Studio/Knebworth Concert 1990 (also on separate CD)

Queen
Queen I (1973)** (also on Mexican LP and UK cassette)

Flash Gordon***
Live Killers*/**
Hot Space**
The Works** (also on UK LP and South Korean cassette)
A Kind of Magic**
The Miracle LP* and CD**
At the Beeb*
Innuendo**
Made in Heaven**
Return of the Champions (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
On Fire: Live at the Bowl
The Cosmos Rocks (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Deep Cuts Vol 1-2
Queen Forever
A Night at the Odeon
On Air

Roger Taylor - Strange Frontier

The Cross - Mad, Fab and Dangerous to Know (Taylors side project)

Trevor Rabin
Wolf

Rainbow

Richie Blackmores Rainbow (1975)

Rainbow Rising (1976)

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

On Stage

Renaissance
A Song for All Seasons**
Azure d'Or
Camera Camera**
Tuscany
In the Land of the Rising Sun
Grandine il Vento/Symphony of Light
de Lane Lea Studios 1973

REO Speedwagon
REO (1976)
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
Nine Lives**
Good Trouble**

Rush
Rush (1974)**

(I have bootlegs of the boys too, but that's for another day and a different animal)

Supertramp
Indelibly Stamped**
Crisis? What Crisis?**
Breakfast in America*/**
Famous Last Words*/**
Paris (also on Japan LPs)

Nad Sylvan
Courting the Widow

The Bride Said No

Monumentata

Tears for Fears

The Tipping Point

Traveling Wilburys
Volume 1 & 3*

UK
UK (1978)**
Danger Money**
Night After Night** (All three albums on 2 CDs)

Rick Wakeman
The Six Wives of Henry VIII**/Silent Nights*/**
The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table**
No Earthly Connection**

1984 (1981)**
Phantom Power*

Softsword
Out There
Lisztomania soundtrack (with Roger Daltrey)
Rhapsodies**
The Living Tree: In Concert Vol 1 and Studio (w/Jon Anderson)

The Red Planet

Roger Waters
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Radio KAOS
In the Flesh
The Wall (2015)

Comfortably Numb

The Lockdown Sessions

John Wetton
Caught in the Crossfire (also on Australian LP)

Arkangel** (also on EU compilation with Asia proper with missing tracks)

Sinister/Welcome to Heaven*
Rock of Faith
Raised in Captivity
Icon Zero w/Geoff Downes (formerly self-titled with alternate tracks)

An Extraordinary Life: The Rarities Vol. 1 & 2

Ray Wilson

Makes Me Think of Home

Upon My Life

Propaganda Man

Chasing Rainbows

World Trade

World Trade (1989)

Euphoria

Unify

Billy Sherwood - Citizen: In the Next Life

Yes
Yes (1969)*/**
The Yes Album (1971)**
Close to the Edge**
Tales from Topographic Oceans**
Going for the One**
Tormato*/**
Drama**
Big Generator**
Talk*
Keys to Ascension Vol 1-2
The Ultimate Yes

The Quest
Tony Kaye - End of Innocence

Mirror to the Sky

**Also on official import from the UK, EU or Canada.
***Also on original US LP.

Imports needed

I know this will be on import.

I need these on import to fulfill my already vast collection:

ABBA
Greatest Hits Vol 1-2+++
Thank You for the Music (boxed set)
Agnetha Fältskog - Eyes of a Woman LP
All singles
Any bootlegs

AC/DC
Let There Be Rock: The Movie, LP and Australasian editions
Bonfire
Backtracks
Iron Man 2 soundtrack LP
Rock or Bust LP
Bootlegs
Tokyo 1981
Power Up LP

Ace of Base
Most singles
Happy Nation (Scandinavian release)
The Golden Ratio
Playlist
My Story (Jenny Berggren)
Hidden Gems (pictured)
New boxed set

a-ha
45 RPM Club
All singles except "Crying in the Rain" 30 cm and "Analogue (All I Want)"
Solo Magne F(uruholmen)
Any bootlegs
The Singles 1984-2004
The Swing of Things
Cast in Steel LP

True North LP

Morten Harket - Human Grace

Jon Anderson
1000 Hands LP
Lost Tapes of Opio
The Lost Tapes
Live from La La Land
The Big If+
Open+
Zamran Experience+
Anderson Ponty Band - Better Late Than Never

Fiona Apple
Tidal LP
Extraordinary Machine (bootleg edition)
The Idler Wheel...
Fetch the Bolt Cutters LP

Arena

Live & Life

The Visitor LP

Immortal? LP

Contagion LP

The Seventh Degree of Separation LP

The Unquiet Sky LP

Double Vision LP

Lifian

XX
Arena: Live (2013)

Re-Visited Live!

From the Beginning

Asia
Americana (Asia featuring John Payne)+
America - Live in the USA (AFJP)
Live in Buffalo
Live in Osaka
Live in Philadelphia
Fantasia
Live in Massachusetts
Under the Bridge
AFJP - Risen Sun Live
AFJP - Recollections: A Tribute to British Prog
Dukes of the Orient (2018) LP and Freakshow LP
Live at Pabst Theatre

AFJP - Aviana

Live in England

Indigo+

Tony Banks
The Wicked Lady
Soundtracks+++
Strictly Inc (1995)
A Chord Too Far

Syd Barrett
Barrett (1970) LP
Opel LP
An Introduction to Syd Barrett
The Madcap Laughs LP
Peel Sessions EP

The Beatles
Reel Music
Japanese albums boxed set+
Let It Be DVD
Sgt Peppers boxed set+
The Alternate Abbey Road
Not for Sale
Yellow Submarine songtrack LP
Work in Progress, Outtakes 1963+
Casualties
Rarities (US track listing)+++
Any bootlegs including solo except Ringo Starr
Across the Universe... Again++
Christmas Album singles

Black Sabbath
Seventh Star (BS feat. Tony Iommi w/Glenn Hughes) LP
Live at Hammersmith (Odeon, now the Eventim Apollo)
Headless Cross LP
Cross Purposes LP
Týr LP
Past Lives LPs
Forbidden LP
The Rules of Hell (has all Dio-era titles in boxed set)
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know LP and Radio City Music Hall
Any bootlegs
Gathered in Their Masses CD
Cross Purposes Live

Boy George
High Hat
Tense Nervous Headache
Boyfriend EP
The Martyr Mantras (Jesus Loves You)
All singles except "When Will You Learn?"
The Unrecoupable One-Man Bandit Vol 1
Yum Yum (The Twin)
Ordinary Alien
This is What I Do
Cool Karaoke Vol 1

SE18

Kate Bush
The KT Fellowship Presents Before the Dawn
This Womans Work (includes the first six studio albums with bonus discs)
Gold Ballads
The Red Shoes LP
50 Words for Snow LP (wait until it's cold!)

Bush
Deconstructed (as Bush X in Canada)
The Best of '94-'99
The Sea of Memories LP
Man on the Run LP

The Art of Survival LP

Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023 LP

I Beat Loneliness LP

Bob Catley

Live at the Gods

Legends

Middle Earth

Spirit of Man

Immortal

Phil Collins
Tarzan
Brother Bear
Remasters of 1990-93 albums on LP
Greatest Hits (bootleg)
The Singles Collection

The Cross
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know LP
Live in Germany

Crowded House
Temple of Low Men LP
Together Alone LP
Farewell to the World LPs
Afterglow LP
Time on Earth LP
Singles

Dreamers Are Waiting LP

Gravity Stairs LP

Culture Club
Culture Club (boxed set)
From Luxury to Heartache LP
VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Moments
The River Sessions
So '80s
Live at Wembley
Runaway Train RSD EP

New album TBA

Def Leppard
First Strike (bootleg)
Early Years (bootleg)
Warchild (bootleg)
Most singles
Mirrorball LPs
Slang (deluxe edition) LP
Def Leppard (2015) LP
And There Will Be a Next Time...Live from Detroit
The Story So Far

Hysteria Live at O2

The Hits Live

Hits Vegas

Diamond Star Halos LP

Drastic Symphonies LP

Depeche Mode
Catching Up with Depeche Mode LP
Any bootlegs
101 LPs
Exciter LP
The Remixes 81>11
Touring the Angel

Tour of the Universe 
Recording the Universe
Recording the Angel
Live in Berlin LPs
Spirit LP
Spirits in the Forest DVD
Singles

Memento Mori LP

Jim Diamond
Bandit (1976)+++
Bacco - Cha Cha Me
Broadway 12"
Jim Diamond (1988)+++
Desire for Freedom LP

Dio

Holy Diver Live LP

Sacred Heart LP

Intermission

Inferno/Last in Live

Dream Evil LP

Lock Up the Wolves LP

Stand Up and Shout: The Anthology

The Very Beast of Dio Vol 2

Strange Highways LP

Angry Machines LP

Magica LP

Live at Donington '87

Hammersmith Apollo

Master of the Moon LP

Live: Evil or Divine

Geoff Downes
Vox Humana
The Work Tapes (w/Glenn Hughes)
DBA - Pictures of You and Trauma

Duran Duran
Liberty LP
Astronaut LP
Live at Hammersmith '82
A Diamond in the Mind
Reportage+
Big Thing LP

Danse Macabre LP

Elf

Elf (1972) LP

LA 59/Carolina County Ball LP

Trying to Burn the Sun LP

Live 1973

Emerson Lake & Palmer
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival LP?
A Time and Place
Live in Poland
Greg Lake and Gary Moore - King Biscuit Flower Hour
Greg Lake - From the Underworld Vol 1-3
Greg Lake - Songs of a Lifetime
Live at Royal Albert Hall
Return of the Manticore
Live at High Voltage Festival
Live at the Mar y Sol Festival/From the Beginning boxed set
Greg Lake - Live in Piacenza
Live at Montreux

Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (remaster)
Any bootlegs
In the Garden (remaster)++
Revenge (remaster)
Most singles
Peace (remaster)
All Tourists/Catch albums and singles

Neil Finn
Try Whistling This
7 Worlds Collide
The Sun Came Out
Goin' Your Way
Dizzy Heights

Pyjama Club (one-off with Sharon)

Tim Finn
Escapade
Big Canoe LP
Tim Finn (1989)
Say It Is So
Feeding the Gods
Imaginary Kingdom
The Conversation
North.. South.. East.. West.. The Anthology
The View is Worth the Climb

Finn Brothers
Finn (1995) LP

Everyone is Here LP

Fish
A Gentlemans Excuse Me 12"
The Company 12"/30 cm
Sashimi
Communion
Uncle Fish and the Crypt Keepers
Return to Childhood
Farewell to Childhood

Complete BBC Sessions
Fellini Nights
Bouillabaisse
Any other live releases except Fortunes of War, and singles starting with "A Gentlemans Excuse Me"
Scattering Crows
Gone Fishing
Weltschmerz LPs

The Last Straw

Vigils End

NEARfest 2008

Fleetwood Mac
English Rose LP
Black Magic Woman (compilation)
Live in Boston (1970)
Vaudeville Years
Rumours expanded remaster
Live at the BBC
Behind the Mask LP
Before the Beginning LPs

Madison Blues
Time
The Dance DVD
Live in Boston (2003)
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie (2017) LP

Peter Gabriel
i/o LPs
Live Blood
Growing Up tour CDs
Bootlegs
Us LP

o/i

Genesis
Fantasia (bootleg)
Most singles
Archive 1967-75
Archive #2 1976-92
The Vertigo Years
Other bootlegs

BBC Broadcasts

Gentle Giant
Out in the Woods
Scraping the Barrel
Prologue
The Edge of Twilight
Under Construction
King Biscuit Flower Hour
The Missing Face
Live in Stockholm '75
Way of Life
Memories of Old Days
Live at the Bicentennial '76

Geordie
No Good Woman LP
A Band from Geordieland
The Singles Collection
Can You Do It?
Brian Johnson and Geordie
Singles with Brian Johnson

Glass Tiger
Diamond Sun LP
Simple Mission LP
Solo Alan Frew
Live

Martin L. Gore
Counterfeit EP
Counterfeit² LP
VCMG

Gowan
Gowan (1982) LP
Great Dirty World LP
Lost Brotherhood LP
Home Field
Solo Live: Au Québec
Dr Starlight and the Watchmakers+

GPS
Window to the Soul (bonus tracks a plus)
Two Seasons
Dreamscape+

David Gilmour
David Gilmour (1978) LP
New Game (bootleg)
Live in Gdańsk
Rattle That Lock LP
Luck and Strange LP

The Luck and Strange Concerts

Amy Grant

Unguarded LP
The Collection+++
Lead Me On+++
Home for Christmas+++
Time Again
A Christmas to Remember
Simple Things
Greatest Hits 1986-2004
Somewhere Down the Road
How Mercy Looks from Here
In Motion: The Remixes
Tennessee Christmas
A Christmas Album LP
The Christmas Collection

Lead Me On Tour

The Me That Remains

Steve Hackett
The Night Siren LP
Live Archive NEARfest
Time Lapse
Tokyo Tapes (BluRay)
Out of the Tunnels Mouth LP
Live Archive 70s 80s 90s 03 04 NEARfest (defunct Lehigh Valley prog festival)
Somewhere in South America
Hungarian Horizons
Live Rails
Beyond the Shrouded Horizon LP
Genesis Revisited II (complete) LP
Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith and Royal Albert Hall
The Total Experience: Live in Liverpool
Premonitions
Wolflight LP
Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham
At the Edge of Light LP

Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith

Surrender to Silence LP

Foxtrot at 50 + Hackett Highlights : Live in Brighton

Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel
A Closer Look (compilation)
Face to Face: A Live Recording
The Candidate LP
Greatest Hits
Yes You Can
Stranger Comes to Town
Anytime: A Live Set
Unplugged
The Cockney Rebel: An Anthology
Cavaliers
Birmingham: Live with Orchestra & Choir
The Quality of Mercy
Acoustic: Live and Pure

George Harrison
Best of Dark Horse 1976-89 LP
Electronic Sound LP
Wonderwall Music LP

Annie Haslam
Still Life
Annie Haslam (1989)/Moonlight Shadow (Japan)
Blessing in Disguise
Live Under Brasilian Skies
The Dawn of Ananda
It Snows in Heaven
One Enchanted Evening
Woman Transcending

Justin Hayward
Night Flight LP
Moving Mountains LP
Sings the Moody Blues Hits
Spirits of the Western Sky
Spirits Live
All the Way
Live in San Juan Capistrano
Sings the Moody Blues Hits

Roger Hodgson
Rites of Passage
Open the Door LP
Classics Live 1 & 2

How We Live (with h of Marillion)
Dry Land
Europeans?

Steve Howe
Beginnings LP
Homebrew 1, 2, 4 and 6

Lunar Mist (w/Virgil Howe)

Michael Hutchence
Max Q (1989)

INXS
INXS (1980) LP
Welcome to Wherever You Are LP
Taste It: The Collection
Stay Young (includes first two albums)
The Years

IQ
Seven Stories Into Eight/'98 LP
Nomzamo LP
Are You Sitting Comfortably? LP
Subterranea (studio LP and live editions)
The Seventh House LP
IQ45: The Weekender Live
Niadems Ghost - In Sheltered Winds (spinoff with Peter Nicholls)
The Archive Collection: IQ20
The Archive Collection: IQ30
The Road of Bones LP
Bay area bootleg
Resistance LPs
A Show of Resistance

IQ 40: 40 Years of Prog Nonsense (live release)

Remixed

Dominion LP

IQ 45: Riding the Frequency Live

Jadis

Jadis (1989)

All LPs

Eddie Jobson
Zinc/The Green Album
Any UK bootlegs and live releases

Elton John
Lady Samantha+++
Most singles
To Be Continued... (US/Canada CDs 2 & 3 or UK edition)
The Red Piano
Number Ones/Rocket Man/Just Like Belgium
Your Songs LP
Wonderful Crazy Night LP

Jewel Box

Who Believes in Angels? LP (w/Brandi Carlile)

Kajagoogoo/Kaja
Gone to the Moon
Death Defying Headlines EP
Too Shy: The Very Best of Kajagoogoo or other compilations
So '80s
Islands/Extra Play LP
Crazy Peoples Right to Speak LP

Nik Kershaw

Human Racing LP

Radio Musicola

The Works

You've Got to Laugh

No Frills

Ei8ht

Live in Germany

Oxymoron LP

The MCA Years (1984-89)

King Crimson
The Night Watch
Epitaph
The Road to Red
USA LP

Denny Laine
Ahh...Laine!+++
Holly Days
Memory Laine
All I Want is Freedom
Birmingham Boy
Arctic Song
Spreading My Wings
Posthumous album+

John Lennon
Menlove Ave. LP
Peace, Love and Truth
Live in New York City LP/One to One
Gimme Some Truth
Most singles
The John Lennon Anthology
Double Fantasy Stripped Down (John & Yoko)
Signature Box

Julian Lennon
Valotte+++

Lucy
Mr Jordan LP
Help Yourself LP
VH1 Behind the Music collection

Annie Lennox
Any solo singles except "Precious"
Songs of Mass Destruction LP
Nostalgia LP

Limahl
Love is Blind
The Best of Limahl
1983 (2012 single)

John Lodge

Natural Avenue LP

10,000 Light Years Ago

B Yond

Live in Birmingham

Magnum

Marauder

Keeping the Nite Lite Burning

Into the Valley of the Moonking LP

Invasion Live

The Spirit

The Last Dance

Stronghold

Days of Wonder

The River Sessions/Live from London

Wings of Heaven Live

Escape from the Shadow Garden Live

Live from Symphony Hall

Chapter and Verse

Mirador

Foundation

Road to Paradise

Evolution

The Valley of Tears

The Ballads - Dance of the Black Tattoo

Hard Rain (1997)/Perpetual Commotion (spinoff)

Hard Rain - When the Good Times Come

All LPs and singles

Marillion
Christmas fan club releases
Any bootlegs***
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) LPs**
Live in Montréal (2009)
A Singles Collection/12 of One, Six of the Other LP***
Brave LP
Marbles Live (2004)
Anoraknophobia LP
Anorak in the UK
FEAR LPs
Happiness is the Road LPs
Recital of the Script** (final show with Mick Pointer)
Live from Lorelai (1987)**
The Gold
A Sunday Night Above the Rain (Nederland and Canada)
The h band - Live Body Live Spirit
Size Matters
Mirrors
With Friends from the Orchestra LP

An Hour Before It's Dark LP
An Hour Before It's Dark Live

All with h except **Fish and ***both.

Brian May
Star Fleet EP
Singles
Furia soundtrack (not by the late Australian composer Brian May)

Paul McCartney
Off the Ground LP
Good Evening New York City LPs?
Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 (bootleg compilations)
Any solo bootlegs
Pure McCartney LPs

JMA Dome bootleg DVDs

7" Singles Boxed Set

One Hand Clapping LP

Man on the Run soundtrack

Christine McVie
(née) Christine Perfect [maiden name] (1970)
Christine McVie (1984) LP
In the Meantime
Buckingham McVie LP
Blue Horizon sessions

Songbird LP

Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy LP
Barcelona (w/Montserrat Caballé) (original edition) LP
Solo boxed set (includes the above)
Lover of Life, Singer of Songs
Messenger of the Gods 45s

George Michael
Five Live EP (w/Queen et al)
Last Christmas LP

Older LP
Upcoming posthumous releases

Mike + the Mechanics
Favourites
The Singles 1985-2013 (Complete)
Living Years 25th Anniversary and LP
Let Me Fly LP

Modern English
Most singles
Mesh and Lace*+++
After the Snow+++
Stop Start*+++
Pillow Lips*
Life in the Gladhouse
Someone's Calling
Everything is Mad
Any live releases
Soundtrack (studio album, not a film OST)
Blister EP
Take Me to the Trees LP

The Moody Blues
Any bootlegs
This is the Moody Blues+++
The Polydor Years 1986-92
Icon
Collected
Hall of Fame
Natural Avenue (John Lodge) LP
The Promise (Mike Pinder)+++
Ray Thomas - Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
The Very Best of Moody Blues
Prelude
Live at the BBC: 1967-1970
Say It with Love
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
December
Collected
Time Traveller
Lovely to See You
Timeless Flight
Days of Future Passed Live LP

Patrick Moraz (formerly of the above and Yes)
The Story of I+++
Out in the Sun LP
Patrick Moraz (1978)+++
Timecode
Change of Space

Alanis Morissette
Alanis (1991)
Most singles
Live at Montreux 2012

The Mute Gods
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me LP
Atheists and Believers LP

Mystery
Unveil the Mystery
Tales from the Netherlands
Second Home

Caught in the Whirlwind of Time

Redemption LP

Naked Eyes
Live DVD
The Best of Naked Eyes
Fumbling with the Covers
Piccadilly+
Fuel for the Fire LP
Burning Bridges LP

Disguise the Limit

Stevie Nicks
Buckingham Nicks (1973) (w/Lindsey Buckingham) - official edition LP+++
The Other Side of the Mirror LP
Most singles
Enchanted
Live on Air
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault LP
Live at Red Rocks/in Denver 1986
Beauty and the Beast (no relation to the Disney franchise)
Bootlegs except At Yasgurs Farm

oasis
Any singles except a few
Liam Gallagher  - As You Were LP
Familiar to Millions
Lord, Don't Slow Me Down
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds Council Skies LP, other LPs and EPs

Martin Orford
Classical Music and Popular Songs
The Old Road (better make these real CDs 'cos of his anti-piracy stance)

Ozzy Osbourne
Just Say Ozzy LP
Live and Loud
The Ten Commandments
Prince of Darkness
Memoirs of a Madman
Ordinary Man LP
See You on the Other Side

Patient No. 9 LP

Pallas
The Sentinel LP and singles
Arrive Alive
The Wedge LP
Knightmoves EP
The Cross and the Crucible LP
Moment to Moment
The River Sessions 1-2
XXV (2011) LP
Solo Alan Reed
wearewhoweare
Real to Reel
The Messenger

No Sleep Till Rotherham

A Song for Tomorrow+

Anthony Phillips
The Geese and the Ghost*+++
Wise After the Event*+++
Sides*+++
Invisible Men+++
Radio Clyde
Anthology
Harvest of the Heart

Ph.D.
Is It Safe?+/+++
New posthumous album+

Pink Floyd
Works
P*U*L*S*E* LPs
Is There Anybody Out There?
The Endless River LP
The Early Years
Most singles and RoIOs
The Later Years
Bootlegs

Live at Pompeii official release LP

Live in Venice: The Complete PBS Broadcast

Queen
Live in Ukraine (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Return of the Champions DVD (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Absolute Greatest
Live Magic
Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl DVD
Live at the Beeb (BBC) LP/On Air: The Complete BBC Radio Sessions
Queen Rocks
Queen Rock Montréal
Deep Cuts Vol 3
Live at the Rainbow '74 LPs and DVD
Queen Forever LP
A Night at the Odeon LP
Queen + Adam Lambert - Live Around the World LP

Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin (1978)/Beginnings LP
Face to Face
Wolf LP
Can't Look Away
90124 (2003)
Live in LA

Rio LP

Rabbitt
Boys Will Be Boys
A Croak and a Grunt in the Night
Rock Rabbitt
Any compilations
Any singles

Rainbow

Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow (1975) LP

Rainbow Rising LP

On Stage LP

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll LP

Live bootlegs 1975-78

Renaissance
Prologue LP
Ashes Are Burning LP
Live at Carnegie Hall LPs (only have half the UK LP)
Time-Line+++
Tales from Renaissance Days
Tales of 1,001 Nights Vol 1-2
Da Capo
Live at King Biscuit Flower Hour
Live at Union Chapel
Live 2011
de Lane Lea Studios LP
Live in Chicago

REO Speedwagon
REO (1976) LP
Live: You Get What You Play For LP
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish LP
Life as We Know It+++
The Hits LP
The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken
The Ballads
Building the Bridge
Find Your Own Way Home
Not So Silent Night LP
Live

Rush
ABC 1974 LP
R30
Presto LP
Spirit of the Airwaves LP
Replay x 3
Chronicles LPs
Any DVDs (NTSC)
Snakes and Arrows Live DVD
Moving Pictures Live (though the same tracks are on Time Machine: Live in Cleveland, which I bought in Canada)
Live on Air
The Very Best of Rush Broadcasting Live: Rare Gems

Rush 50

Sad Café
Misplaced Ideals (UK album)
Live (1981)
The Politics of Existing
Whatever It Takes
Saving Grace (last two albums together)
The Best of Sad Café/Anthology
Solo Paul Young compilation (not the same one who sings the covers of "Come Back and Stay", "Everytime You Go Away", "Love of the Common People", or "Oh, Girl")

Savoy
Lacklustre Me LP
Savoy (2004)/Whalebone
Savoy Songbook Vol 1
See the Beauty in Your Drab Hometown LP

Under

Split Enz
Mental Notes+++
Second Thoughts+++
Dizrythmia+++
Frenzy
Waiata/Corroboree+++
History Never Repeats LP
See Ya 'Round
Spellbound
The Beginning of the Enz
Enz of an Era

Supertramp
Any singles up to 1983 except "Dreamer (live)"
Is Everybody Listening?
Bootlegs recorded up to 1983
The Autobiography of Supertramp LP

Nad Sylvan
Courting the Widow LP
Angels of Mercy CDs
Life of a Housewife
The Bride Said No LP
Sylvanite
The Regal B------ LP
Spiritus Mundi LP

Monumentata LP

Talk Talk
History Revisited
London 1986

Roger Taylor
Strange Frontier LP
Electric Fire LP
Fun on Earth LP
The Lot (includes all of the above plus The Cross)
Best Of
Outsider LP
Outsider Tour Live

Violence Insane in a Beautiful World

Tears for Fears
Live from Santa Barbara DVD
Sowing the Seeds of Love 12"/30 cm
Pale Shelter (1982) 12"
Suffer the Children (1982) 12"
Secret World Live
Curt Smith - Halfway Pleased
(Curt is) Mayfield (1998)
Curt Smith - Aeroplane EP
Curt Smith - Deceptively Heavy
Curt Smith - Soul on Board+++
Covers 10"
The Tipping Point LP
Rule the World

Threshold

Wounded Land

Extinct Instinct

March of Progress

For the Journey

European Journey

Rick Wakeman
White Rock 1+++ & 2
Rock 'n Roll Prophet Plus+++
African Bach
Cirqué Surreal
Fields of Green
Themes
Can You Hear Me?
The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live
The Time Machine LP
Vignettes++++
Classic Tracks
King Biscuit Flower Hour
Out of the Blue (with Damian Wilson)
Voyage
Live at the BBC (1976)
In the Nick of Time
King Arthur re-recording
++++with Adam Wakeman
The Red Planet LP

Yessonata
A Gallery of the Imagination LP

Return to the Red Planet

Roger Waters
Music from The Body (w/Ron Geesin)
The Wall - Live in Berlin (w/various artists) and recent release on LP
Is This the Life We Really Want? LP

John Wetton
Wetton Manzanera (1987)/One World (w/Phil Manzanera) LP
Monkey Business (w/Richard Palmer-James)
Chasing the Dragon
Live in Tokyo
Duncan Mackay - Score (ex-10cc/Cockney Rebel) LP
Jack-Knife - I Wish You Would (now coupled with Dickie)
Raised in Captivity (Japanese release)
Amorata
Amata
Live at Sun Plaza
Live via Satellite

Wetton Downes (Icon)
Never in a Million Years
Acoustic TV Broadcast
Heat of the Rising Sun
Urban Psalm

Ray Wilson
Swing Your Bag (Guaranteed Pure)
She (Stiltskin)
The Minds Eye (Stiltskin)
Millionairhead (cut_)
Genesis Klassik (live in Germany and Poland)
Genesis vs Stiltskin (studio and live)
An Audience and Ray Wilson
Unfulfillment (Stiltskin)
Stiltskin Live
Time and Distance
Up Close and Personal
Ray Wilson Live

The Weight of Man LP

Yes
The Word is Live
Keystudio
In a Word (1969-[2002])
YesYears CDs+++
The Yes Album (1971) (Steven Wilson 5.1 mix)
House of Yes
Union Live boxed set
Bootlegs of recent tours
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Live at the NEC
Chris Squires Swiss Choir (festive season solo album)
Progeny (boxed set)
Topographic Drama: Live Across America LP
From a Page

The Quest LP

Mirror to the Sky LP

Live at Roosevelt Field 1976

Aurora

Non-US made only (even if its just the disc or tape itself). Singles can also be thrown in if I don't have them already. Do contact me if you're interested in a trade or sale. CD-Rs do not count! Pirates are OK though. If you think somethings missing, then I have it already. Subject to change at anytime. Will make reasonable offers. If you suggest VHS cassette or DVDs, make sure it'll play in an NTSC player.  I can possibly convert PAL and SECAM DVDs, but the tapes I'd have to go to a specialist for, so do ask first or copy it for me, please. I may list what video titles I'd like at a later time, but it is painstaking and time-consuming. Mainly CDs I need right now though wanted LPs are now in a separate list to avoid confusion. Subject to change.

+ Yet to be released.
++Pending
+++I only have this on LP and/or cassette right now which isn't as convenient for me anymore.
* Also on Boris's list.
***On the way.