"the greatest four-record run in rock history"

Sell Out / Tommy / Who's Next / Quadrophenia (with Live at Leeds in the midst)

eh? Funkadelic's classic run goes: Funkadelic, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, Maggot Brain, America Eats Its Young.

CCR run I referred to earlier is: Bayou Country, Green River, Willy and The Poorboys, and Cosmo's Factory.

(I find some of these nominations laughable - also, Stevie Wonder is not rock n roll, sorry).

The first four Pouges albums are also brilliant

ps. I am not a nerd (cough)

Fifth dimension to Sweetheart

Turn, turn, turn is a little weak. But Mr. Tambourine Man is their best album (although Sweetheart comes close)

Bringing it All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde on Blonde/John Wesley Harding

...which really has to be the winner.

Consensus? ILM?

And hey Matthew, Series of Sneaks is Spoon's best album! Soft Effects gives it a run for its money though.

In what sense? Was it really shorter than 25 minutes? (Not arguing, just asking.)

>, Stevie Wonder is not rock n roll<

Why? (Odd, hearing this from somebody who nominated Funkadelic.) (Whoever nominated Prince above and says he's not rock confuses me, too.)(Like, because he's not white?? Is there another reason?)

Land Speed Record and Metal Circus > Candy Ass Grey and Warhouse

High Voltage, If You Want Blood, and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (which one came last in Australia?) all > Back in Black

Orbital II/Snivilisation/In Sides/Middle of Nowhere

also (I'm probably the only one here who will rep for all four of these):

Lazer Guided Melodies/Pure Phase/Ladies and Gentlemen/Let It Come Down

"In what sense? Was it really shorter than 25 minutes? (Not arguing, just asking.)"

Originally only 6 songs (on 2 x 7"ers iirc) totalling less than 20 minutes. The other 5 tracks on the album version that's now about were originally the A- and B-sides of various other singles released around the same time.

d'oh! PWND! Well, kinda sorta... skin color doesn't have anything to do with it, its more that Funkadelic made pretty obvious use of rock tropes (LOUD GUITARS, psychedelic reverb effects, etc.) in a way that Stevie didn't.

music of my mind > talking book > innervisions > fulfillingness' first finale

what do i have to do to convince wonder lovers that "songs in the key of life" suxxxx?!?! or is at least not as good as "music of my mind"?

and CCR is seconded.

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Well, that's not an EP (unless, like I said, all those odds and sods added up to less than 25 minutes). But I can see how it wouldn't count (like how Costello's *Taking Liberties,* say, wouldn't count.)

And lots of white bands on this thread don't have guitars as noisy as Funkadelic either, Shakey. I mean, I like CCR better than Stevie myself, but "Superstition" and "Living for the City" sure rock as hard as anything CCR (or the Beatles or Byrds etc) did to my ears.

hehe

Why is that people are disqualifying Stevie Wonder when the impetus for this thread was the Talking Heads? Mentalists.

Stewart, Strictly Personal is awesome and far superior to Mirror Man. Hell, I like it better than Safe As Milk!

And anyway Prince wins everything. Mentalists.

I'm sure there's an REM partisan waiting to make his bid. What about Kraftwerk? They kinda count as rock. Or Motorhead (who definitely do)?

I agree with pretty much everything you say (except wrt Radiohead - personally I think Amnesiac is the best album they've ever done!) however there's a big difference between consistent high quality and consistently high quality, which is what you seem to be demanding.

Bossa Nova and Trompe Le Monde may not be as good as Surfer Rosa and Doolittle; and Something Else and Lola may not be as good as Village Green or Face To Face; but they're still extremely good albums.

If consistently high quality is the criteria, then I'd have to start by taking issue with the suggestion that would then be inherent in the premise of the thread that More Songs About Buildings And Food is as good as '77, Fear Of Music Or Remain In Light - 'cos it just ain't!

"I'm sure there's an REM partisan waiting to make his bid. What about Kraftwerk? They kinda count as rock. Or Motorhead (who definitely do)?"

I already done dat.

I second Sabbath, Velvets, and...

Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green Day, Before and After Science (arguably Discreet Music is somewhere in the middle there screwing things up)

Misfits: Static Age, 12 Hits From Hell, Walk Among Us, Earth A.D.
(arguably one of the most underappreciated runs in punk rock history)

RZA (arguably the architect of these releases, which came out over the course of two years): Wu Tang's Enter the 36 Chambers, Method Man's Tical, ODB's Return To The 36 Chambers, Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., GZA's Liquid Swords (arguably, 5 records)

Wire: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154 (arguably, only 3)

Minutemen: The Punch Line, What Makes A Man Start Fires, Howl and Buzz Under The Influence of Heat, Double Nickel on the Dimes (arguably)

Stooges: The Stooges, Fun House, Raw Power, Metallic KO (argh)

Yeah, this is fun...

yeah, you should HEAR the albums...

*rimshot*

Has Dylan ever done 4 really great records in a row?

You could make a case for three, with "Subterranean Homesick Blues"-"Blonde On Blonde" and "Planet Waves"-"Desire", but four? Not really.

As far as the last ten years, may I submit:
Queens of the Stone Age > R > Songs for the Deaf > Lullabies to Paralyze

The most recent one is far from their best, but I think it's a very admirable run.

The other archetype is when you throw a sprawling, inconsistent double album in the mix eg

Fleetwood Mac > Rumors > Tusk > Mirage

If Tusk had been a single LP we'd be going for it like CCR (who had some filler in there, people).