I'm ultimately down with Trust Us, which is probably my favorite record of all time, with AADAP as a great runner-up.
They've recently finished recording the new one, though their drummer left a few months ago so it's made only by Bent and Snah, and the first rumours about a new tour in the spring of 2006 are to be found on the MP-forum. Release is expected somewhere in feb/mar 2006. I guess.
― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
The last one is a compilation of two EPs, but it's been an "album" as far as I can remember, and rivals any of Nick Cave's best solo work.Birthday Party 80Prayers On Fire 81Junkyard 82The Bad Seed/Mutiny 83
How Curtis Mayfield was overlooked is beyond me.Curtis 70Roots 71Superfly 72Back To The World 73
I'd say The Sound has an edge over Comsat Angels in that Heads and Hearts doesn't suck.Jeopardy 80From The Lions Mouth 81All Fall Down 82Heads And Hearts 85
Though I'm a little tired of her at the moment, Debut 93Post 95Homogenic 97Vespertine 01
Arto Lindsay may be the most underrated artist of the last decade.Mundo Civilizado 97Noon Chill 98Prize 99Invoke 02
Am I alone in thinking CCR didn't really make albums? They seemed to me to be just singles collections with filler. For someone like Otis Redding, it works. But when I borrowed the box set of all their albums, I really couldn't get into any of the so-called album tracks.
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Saturday, 4 February 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― let me just add, Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
here we go:
Eno's 4 vocal albums (I know he did Discreet Music in between there, but these kind of form a set)
They Might Be Giants - s/t, Lincoln, Flood, Apollo 18
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am The Only One, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, Still Life
Orbital - Orbital 2, Snivilisation, In Sides, Middle of Nowhere
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty
ELP - s/t, Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, U.F. Orbus, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion
Ween - The Mollusk, White Pepper, quebec, Shinola vol. 1 (ok counting Shinola is kinda lame but it's up there with the rest)
Gary Numan - Tubeway Army, Replicas, Pleasure Principle, Telekon
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The WallGenesis – Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Gets Next to YouLet's Stay TogetherI'm Still in Love with YouCall Mepretty fair run.
church
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Black Vinyl Shoes, Present Tense, Tongue Twister, Boomerang. (I didn't check above--if anyone else mentioned them, colour me astounded.)
― clemenza, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield
― ledge, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
lp5, confield, draft 7:30, untilted
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Mentioned towards the beginning, but there's a good long stretch of Royal Trux I'd consider. In my personal opinion, I might go with Cats & Dogs, Thank You, Sweet Sixteen, and Accelerator. It kinda kills me to stop short and not include Veterans of Disorder, though.
― Henry David Thorough (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I have the order that these were released in wrong but:
A Love SupremeAscensionThe John Coltrane Quartet PlaysMeditations
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Miles Davis:
In A Silent WayBitches BrewA Tribute To Jack JohnsonOn The Corner
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wait "in rock history" duh. Scratch those.
nakh you have prompted me to give Draft 7.30 yet one more spin.
― ledge, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Station To Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
nice...it's awesome, not a glorious spring day sort of record though
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
<q>Ween - The Mollusk, White Pepper, quebec, Shinola vol. 1</q>
bow to frogbs, stevie wonder
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
If only Talk Talk had done something as a group after Laughing Stock.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
also, Stevie Wonder is not rock n roll, sorry
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:22 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
smfh
― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Someone upthread had a problem with Kraftwerk because Radioactivity sits in the middle of Autobahn, Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine and Computer World. I would say this isn't a problem because Radioactivity is a better album than Computer World anyway. Therefore, Kraftwerk is the correct answer.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
It's hard to pick a Genesis run. I slightly prefer the run starting from Selling England... maybe second side of Foxtrot to first side of Trick!
― Träumerei, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield― ledge, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:53 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ledge, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:53 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Can't really agree with this, and I'm a massive Ae fan. Add EP7 in there and we can talk.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Led Zeppelin IV - Houses - PG - Presence
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
MLIR, Parklife, The Great Escape, Blur
^ tempted to say this is a strong contender. TGE is the weakest link, but seems to have undergone a bit of a reassessment of late.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Eep, I made a math error.
― Träumerei, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
If you count Band of Gypsys (all-new material, not a posthumous/archival release), Hendrix:
Are You Experienced?Axis: Bold As LoveElectric LadylandBand of Gypsys
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Black Sabbath wins this. In fact they had the best 6 record run in rock history.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I’d go with Dylan whether you cheat a little (BIOBH to Basement Tapes) or not (BIOBH to JWH). The only thing more amazing about that body of work — the equivalent of at least seven single discs, all of it gold — is the fact that it was all recorded within a three-year period.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Was going to say Sabbath, but the right dude got there with it.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
All the more remarkable when you add the fact that Peter Hammill also had an awesome run of solo albums in parallel with these – The Silent Corner and the Emty Stage, In Camera, Nadir's Big Chance, Over
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
that reminds me , I definitely need to pick up a copy of Over
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Crazy RhythmsThe Good EarthOnly LifeTime For A Witness
― doug watson, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Giants walk among us:
Wussy: Funeral Dress, Left for Dead, Wussy, StrawberryImperial Teen: Seasick, What Is Not to Love, On, The Hair the TV the Baby and the BandYo La Tengo: Painful, Electr-O-Pura, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
(Also second the Feelies.)
― clemenza, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Moby Grape?
― Mark G, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
^i honestly dont think ive heard a note from any of those bands. Ive heard OF Yo La Tengo, but not the other two.
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― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Imperial Teen: Seasick, What Is Not to Love, On, The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band
^^^ excellent sequence
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
My Yo La Tengo (since we're including EPs) would beMay I Sing With Me, Shaker EP, Painful, Electr-O-Pura. After that, cracks started to appear, and they got overwhelmed by crapulence.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wussy: Funeral Dress, Left for Dead, Wussy, Strawberry
Yes Yes Yes Yes! There's not a bad song on any of those records.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Christgau just wrote a long thing on Wussy--he's given every album an A, maybe the first time ever a band's started off four-for-four with him.
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Many-Reasons-to-Love-Wussy/ba-p/7259
― clemenza, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
No one's mentioned it yet but X's run of Los Angeles, Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun and More Fun in the New World is nothing to sneeze at.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
― clemenza, Friday, March 23, 2012 1:31 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh good, im glad to know that Christgau likes them, that way i dont have to go out of my way to try to listen to them, cuz I'll know they suck.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Consistency is not really the best ideal to shoot for in rock, I think. Good artists are consistent, great artists are not. The best 4-record run would be the one in which each album stands apart from the others as a unique creation in its own right. Too many of these suggestions are bands that hit their stride and then put out 4 examples of their signature style before falling off. Admirable, but not really thrilling. I think the best example so far of a band that reinvented themselves over a series of albums while still able to do no wrong was the Beatles from "Rubber Soul" through "The Beatles".
― o. nate, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Using that criteria, I'd say the Velvets hands down.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, in the six years since I last posted, there's at least one band I'd add. Still sort of a cult band that appeals to a small audience I suppose, but hard for me to imagine anyone who likes any sort of guitar rock not appreciating them, and the progress they made with each album.
Colour Haze
Los Sounds de KrautsColour HazeTempelAll
I'd add their earlier albums for a stellar 7 album run, or 8, if She Said ever comes out! I might add Ufomammut soon too...
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Using o. nate's criteria, Neil Young's run of Everybody Knows > After The Gold Rush > Harvest > On The Beach totally qualifies.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
they've been mentioned several times, but sonic youth's run from evol through goo is all-time for me, both by o nate's "constant reinvention" criteria, and just as albums i love from front to back
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
With the Who, I feel like you could start pretty much anywhere, as long as you ended with (or before, I still can't decide) Who Are You (and I'd include Live At Leeds).
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
Using o nate's criteria, I say Black Sabbath.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
You skipped Time Fades Away, unless you're counting it as a live album--I wouldn't. (Even though it is...)
Bill Magill: whatever you think of Christgau, give this a listen--my favourite Wussy song, and one of my favourite songs ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCTCi_NU84
― clemenza, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link