Obscure bands with extensive discographies

Billy Childish must've released 150 albums by now, he was on 100 a decade ago I think

Quite a few electronic music artists have extensive discographies. Steve Roach has to be really up there, by my count on his site he has a 164 titles listed and many of these are multiple CD sets. The dude has spent quite a bit of time in the Timeroom.

http://steveroach.com/discography/

I can vouch for the excellence of the entire Black Watch catalog, no duds at all.

Cleaners From Venus is all similarly excellent but Martin Newell's solo albums are rather patchy at best after the first two {Greatest Living Englishman, The White Album}.

Quite a few electronic music artists have extensive discographies

Anyone want to try totting up Conrad Schnitzler's discography? His Contempora Con-tinuous Work series alone lists 830 releases.

Uwe Schmidt and Pete Namlook's various projects really add up too.

Current 93 took more than ten years to really click with me after I first heard them but once it did there was a huge discography to explore. Same with Coil actually.

Another Dutch example is Golden Earring, I know for a lot of non-Europeans they were a bit of a one hit wonder but there's at least two decades worth of world-class 60s/70s psychedelic rock to be found.

Any excuse to post this again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead_discography

I mean, he was in Guns & Roses for a bit, but still... how many people can have heard all of these?

Goddamn it, I just listened to 5 minutes of the most recent one. That was not a constructive use of my time.

No mention of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez yet? The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In are well enough known, but how many people know that Omar put out 12 albums last year - one every two weeks between mid-July and mid-December? That's in addition to his 25 previous solo releases (which used to be on Bandcamp but have since been hidden/taken down).

Has even Buckethead heard all of those 118 albums he released in 2015?
Let's not even think about John Fruscianti either.

Kari Peitsamo, a Finnish rock musician, once said that it took him less time to record his most famous album than what the album actually lasts (because it was all in one take, but some silence was added between the tracks in mixing it). I'm pretty sure the same applies to those 273 Buckethead albums.

Similarly, a big reason why Pete Namlook released 200+ solo and collab albums in 20 years was because he didn't really believe in honing the stuff too much rather than just creating something spontaneously in his studio. According to Mixmaster Morris, the first Dreamfish album he did with Namlook was made in a day. It's still a legendary and awesome ambient record tho.

I guess King Creosote is obscure now?

I thought Sleeve would have mentioned Legendary Pink Dots/Edward Ka-Spel.

Dark Muse.

The Nits really aren't that prolific for a band who've been around that long.

LPD/EKS are not obscure in my world :)

Bill Nelson has a huge solo discography with many fans but I stopped loving it all around 1990.

georgia anne muldrow

oh wait you said no r&b

Nurse with wound somehow not mentioned yet?

Jandek

pretty much every band in that new weird america poll

The Ex

Les Rallizes Denudes

Although arguably they've only put out one, two or perhaps no releases officially, the discography keeps growing. Live '77 used to be the default way in and information in English was scant.

In The Nursery are maybe on the less extreme end of this.

Jute Gyte! Are there many metal bands that prolific?

Graveland

Keji Haino
Merzbow (around 300 albums iirc)

Isn't there a heavy ambient band with "Bull" in there name who put out loads?

Bull of Heaven! Never heard their name outside of RYM, which it seemed like the band existed for. One of their albums lasts 8.5 billion years!

I suppose it's all loops?

Jute Gyte! Are there many metal bands that prolific?

There's a Russian one-man project called Senmuth that managed 163 between 2004-2012 according to RYM. I think some of it's meant to be more experimental/ambient stuff but I haven't heard any of it to be honest.

Njiqahdda (along with their alternate names Njijn and Oaks of Bethel) were very productive for a while, still active but less so now. Some of their stuff's pretty good.

There's Zarach Baal Tharagh who seems to have over 100. What I've heard is pretty shit though.

xp to myself: 163 albums I mean. But that's only as recent as RYM goes, according to metal archives this guy still consistently dumps out a shit-ton of albums every year, including 3 in 2017 already. Doesn't say much for quality control.

I suppose it's all loops?

only one way to find out!!

brb, see u in 8.5 billion years