[Androol]

The Melvins

[Onnozel(h)aar]

uh anybody forgotten Frank Zappa?

[atsonicpark]

no me and some other dude said zappa..

[Rob Instigator]

I have forgotten Frank Zappa since 1992 and it has been nothing if not a BLESSING upon my life.

[Rob Instigator]

and bob marley and the wailers discography is only around 14 records.

all that other shit is rehash, re-release, or bootleg shit released after marley's death.

that shit does not count to me.

[Everyneurotic]

smegma also have a shit load of albums.

[GrungeMonkey]

Surely its The Fall?

[racehorse]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

smegma also have a shit load of albums.

they do?
i've only come across about 20/25 releases.

[terminal pharmacy]

slim dusty released over 100

[the ikara cult]

that Merzbox beats pretty much everything hands down in terms of being available, i got a look at it and i havent ever listened to Merzbow but its nuts how something like that can exist.

[Everyneurotic]

i'm sure they have, or are getting to around 40 albums.

and how about guided by voices? especially for the time they were together, they had like a lot; i'm no expert but i think robert pollard solo alone might have more than sy.

[Savage Clone]

Nurse With Wound and the Legendary Pink Dots have obscenely enormous discogs. Merzbow for sure. Cock ESP have released a shit-ton of noise too.
Psychic TV once released 13 full-length albums in one year.

[atsonicpark]

hahah psychic tv

The band began publishing a monthly series of 23 live albums in 1986, but stopped without explanation after only 17. The tenth, a picture disk most commonly referred to as Album 10, could only be obtained by submitting tokens contained in each of the previous nine releases. The band subsequently earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for most records released in one year.

[GrungeMonkey]

I think the simplest answer to the title of this thread is "No."

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

wolf eyes releases a ton of CRAP. their shit does not count. Any fool can replicate most of their output.

a-fucking-men. i don't see the big deal about wolf eyes at all. it's garbage to me...and i like noise.

with that said, most jazz musicians especially within the free and avant-garde scene have larger discogrophies than sonic youth.

[Everyneurotic]

sun city girls

[Пятхъдесят Шест]

If we're counting the subscription only releases of Einstürzende Neubauten (which Mr. Sonicl can testify to) then they're extremely prolific as well.

[Everyneurotic]

acid mothers temple, bitch.

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by swa(y)

i was about to say something very similiar.

i LIKE noise, but it is kinda rare to find noise that actually comes off as being creative. i also like improvised music. and whats odd is how so many people tend to think noise has to be "improvised". it doesnt. and likewise, improvised music doesnt have to be "noise".

it's so hard to meticulously compose noise, though, because that would almost defeat the purpose of creating something that's formless and structureless. when it gains form or structure or any sort of quality like that, it begins to venture into the realm of that electro-acoustic stuff that can be a little too intellectual for its own good at times. noise is primitive and spontaneous, which lends to the improvised nature of the works. i don't know. it's all sticky, because at the same time, something may be conceptually structured but sonically unstructured, like many early electronic compositions, that weren't technically called "noise".

i don't even know what the fuck i'm talking about. max/msp has fried my brain.

[guitarpro]

Bring on more SY releases