What album or cd have you bought the most times?

Damned Damned Damned by The Damned. I have it five times: Original UK Stiff LP, German Stiff 2LP package coupling it with their second album, Sanctuary CD reissue, remastered 3CD anniversary edition, and finally as part of the Play It At Your Sister 3CD box that compiles all of their recordings for the Stiff label.

 

Pet Sounds:

Capitol Duophonic LP
Capitol Mono LP
Warners Mono CD
1990 CD (No Noise, woo hoo)
DCC CD
Box Set Sampler CD in stereo
Box Set
DVD-A
and then somebody gave me the stereo / mono cd for Christmas last year...

The White Album:
Two US Apples (numbered)
US Apple Repress (not numbered)
US Capitol Cassette
US Capitol orange label
US Capitol purple label
UK Apple
1987 CD release
20th Anniversary CD
Mono Box
Stereo box

Actually, I probably have at least 6 copies of every single US and UK Beatles album...

Monkees Headquarters:
Colgems mono LP
Colgems Stereo LP
Rhino stereo LP
Arista CD
First Rhino CD
Sessions box set
Rhino Deluxe edition

Oh, God. It's shameful.

 

For me, this question is interesting but complicated to answer. Many albums have passed through my hands over the years. I have bought some of my key favorites and simply held on to them. The completist bone in my head has compelled me to purchase certain albums in multiple versions and formats.

I've owned several copies of "The Beatles".

I haven't purchased many albums because mine wore out, but I bought many Badfinger albums because I was afraid that they would. To this day, I could probably assemble 8-10 complete boxed sets of sealed Badfinger LPs, including Apple, Warners, and even the Iveys if you count the 1980 pirate. I have Licorice Pizza to thank for that; in the late 70s, they sold most of the Apple releases sealed with no cut-out marks for $2.99-$3.99. I also have two copies of each cassette, an unplayed set of 8-tracks, and bunches od CDs.

Several years of living in Japan left me with many pressings of the Carpenters albums - first, I bought the Canyon reissue pressings; then, I picked up the King originals. Just before I left there, I bought their boxed set of albums on CD - yeah, the original white one from 1988. Of course, I have always had their US LPs on A&M.

The winner by far seems to be Akiko Kobayashi's "Fall in Love", her debut album from 1985 on Japan's Fun House label. In collecting her records and CDs, I've purchased some multiple-item lots in order to get one in particular. Sometimes, misunderstandings with foreign selers have lead to superfluous copies. This LP was also released in Hong Kong on four different vinyl colors; my quest to obtain all four has brought me a few extras.

I just verified at least 25 copies: 16 LPs, 6 CDs, and three cassettes. Oh, and to those that care about such things, my CD copies are black triangles.

 

Jethro Tull "Aqualung"

Cassette
First spanish vinyl edition
First english original edition
uk chrysalis cd
25th ann remaster
dcc
classic records lp

 

Band on the Run
Capitol LP
Columbia CD
Capitol CD without Helen Wheels
Capitol CD with Helen Wheels
Capitol Box set


The Beatles (white Album)
US Apple Lp
UK Apple LP
US White vinyl LP
Original cd #001334
Slipcase reissue
2009 Remaster

 

Got a few Wish You Were Here and a few different versions of several of the Doors albums (just found a Doors S/T DCC yesterday), but for me the album I'm addicted to buying is the Dark Side of The Moon:

1) Vinyl - Harvest
2) Vinyl - 30th Anniversary
3) CD - Harvest US 1st issue (Japan pressing)
4) CD - Capital US issue (US pressing)
5) CD - Harvest UK issue (pressed in UK)
6) CD - 20th Anniv (Dutch issue)
7) CD - 20th Anniv (US issue)
8) CD - 1992 Remaster (didn't realize it was the same mastering as the 20th)
9) CD - 30th Anniv hybrid SACD
10) CD - Japanese mini-LP

Still haven't found a good deal on an MFSL, but I could kick myself for not buying one of those when I used to see them in the stores in the early 90's. I was a teenager and not into spending $20+ on a CD back then.

 

That's the one.

 

Mine isn't a matter of multiple copies but I bought the first Ramones album 4 or 5 times.

First time: loved it, wore thin quickly, traded it in.
Second time: loved it, wore thin quickly, traded it in.
Third time, etc. : you get the picture.
This even carried on into the CD era with "All the Stuff and More."

The late Robert Palmer described the Ramones in terms something like "a one joke band." Now I actually like them, but am completely satisfied with Rhino's "Ramones Anthology." That one I've kept.

 

I have multiples of lots of releases - all of Zep, Stones, Doors, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Beatles, etc. But the all-time champ is:

Led Zeppelin IV

I have

LP'S:
U.S. Porky/Pecko Duck
U.S Pecko/Pecko Duck
U.S. LP AT/GP
U.S RCA Record Club pressing (yechh)
UK K 5008
Canada SD 7208
Japan P-10125A
Classic 200 gm

CD'S:
Japan Red Target
West German Green Target
U.S. non-target original mastering
Remaster
Remaster within the 'Complete Studio Recordings' box

and an 8-track somewhere in the attic at my parent's house

And yes, I can still enjoy it all the way through..



I'm not sure I'm done - still don't have a German lp pressing... or a reel tape... or....

 

I have doubles of countless, 1 cd and 1 vinyl. But a couple exceptions:

Less Than Jake - GNV FLA - CD
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA - LP (180g black w/black 7")
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA - LP (180g black w/black 7")
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA - LP (180g green splatter w/green splatter 7")
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA - box set (3 7" random colored records, CD, DVD, Poster, collector box)

Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview - CD
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview - LP (blue)
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview - LP (Picture Disc)
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview - Box Set (Seven 7" records, 45rpm adapter, box)

Less Than Jake - Pezcore - CD
Less Than Jake - Pezcore - LP (yellow)
Less Than Jake - Pezcore - LP (Picture Disc)

Less Than Jake - Losers, Kings And Things We Don't Understand - CD
Less Than Jake - Losers, Kings And Things We Don't Understand - LP (gray)
Less Than Jake - Losers, Kings And Things We Don't Understand - LP (gray)

Ha! For some reason its all Less Than Jake.

 

Re: LZ IV:
Forgot to add the German cd within the UK lp-sized HMV box - has channels reversed!

 

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
2 domestic LPs, 2 domestic cassettes, Japan Pro-Use LP, first domestic CD, version in Shine On box, 30th anniversary LP, SACD.

Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
PolyGram domestic LP, 20th Century on gold vinyl, UK version with black instead of green sleeve, 80s German edition, domestic cassette, remixed version on cassette, MFSL CD (which remains my choice... I never bought the deluxe edition).

Alan Parsons Project: I Robot
3 different pressings of the domestic LP (BMG, PolyGram, Capitol), Japanese LP, cassette, original CD, remastered CD.

Much of Tangerine Dream's 70s and early 80s albums I have bought more than three times

 

Like hell it is. Those two albums are fabulous.

Have you ever gotten to hear the German direct-metal White Album? I bought a copy off eBay last year, someone was selling what they thought was a scratched copy... turned out it just needed to be cleaned.

Anyway, I brought it over to my friend's house, and we compared it against a UK original. Very interesting experience. If memory serves, the UK original had a bigger drum-punch with the treble, but my DMM has an amazing bass sound.

 

All of the Beatles albums, Parlophone/UK and Capitol editions at least a dozen times each over the course of my lifetime.

Evan

 

Same for me, plus the original Capital CD with extra tracks.

 

This surprised me as I thought it would be Reggata De Blanc with 9 but turns out I've 12 Synchronicity CD's


38XB - 10 track
38XB - 11 track
Japan For US (Denon)
Japan For US (Sony 3x CSR)
Japan For US (Matsushita, with non standard CD logo on front art)
WG for Europe
D33Y
Early DADC US for US
Early DADC US for US (CRC version)
MFSL
SACD Hybrid digipak
the one in Message In a Box

plus I still need a WG for US, why on earth I don't know....

used to have the 90's remaster but ditched it, as it was too crappy to justify the space it took up

 

Love, Forever Changes - 2 vinyl purchased in mid-80s (when vinyl tended to be of poor quality), 1st CD, then 2001 remaster. Didn't bother with the Deluxe Edition.

 

The album I have purchased the most times is the Nat King Cole/George Shearing collaboration. I have ten individual versions plus a couple of duplicates:

Original Mono LP
Original Stereo LP
EMI LP
Music for Pleasure LP
German LP
Mobile Fidelity LP
Alan Dell EMI LP 1987
1987 CD
2000 CD
Bear Family box CD version

 

To me:

- the entire Camel discography;

- the entire Porcupine Tree discography;


Demetrio.

 

Probably Led Zeppelin II.

first,

cassette 1969
original U.S. LP 1971
eight-track (for my high school mechanical drafting class !) 1974
later pressing U.S. LP ~1980
original cd ~ 1987
remaster cd ~1994

 

I have 5-10 versions of each of the first 6-7 Procol Harum albums.

 

EAT A PEACH & WHO'S NEXT

 

Kiss - Unmasked

Mexican Green Vinyl
Multicolored Vinyl (also made in Mexico)
West German Swirl CD
West German Silver CD
1997 US Remaster

KISS - S/T

Mexican Polygram Vinyl
US Casablanca Vinyl
West German Sun-ray CD
1997 US Remaster

David Bowie - Scary Monsters

West German Vinyl
US Ryko CD
EMI Europe SACD

T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Reprise 180-gram Vinyl reissue
Reprise/Warner original CD
Rhino US remaster with bonus tracks
A&M Euro remaster with outtakes

 

Jackson's Off The Wall: 5x
Jacksons' Destiny: 4x
Jacksons' Live: 6x
Buckley's Grace: 6x
Jackson's Thriller: 10x (wow I didn't realize..)
Blondie's AutoAmerican: 5x (but I've bought Rapture 19 times including remixes.)

 

Good to know others here share the same madness.