They'll be covering this in the Sound Opinions show tomorrow: http://www.soundopinions.org/episodes
“The best grand slams in pop history.” It (show #518) should be available for streaming tomorrow morning, and download in iTunes.
I started writing about four album runs, but got more interested in six album runs, heh: http://fastnbulbous.com/who-had-the-best-six-album-run/
A Quietus review of a Pavement reissue 9 years ago with some hyperbolic statements about that band prompted me to do this: http://fastnbulbous.com/whos-the-best-band-of-the-90s/
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
I control+F'd Kanye on that post and nothing came up
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Well, I tried it and it came up once.
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
Six album run - how bout Nursery Cryme/Foxtort/Selling England by the Pound/The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway/Trick of the Tail/Wind and Wuthering ?
The first six TMBG albums. I don't care, I love 'em.
First six Elvis Costello albums too. Well, you have to kick out Almost Blue.
Gentle Giant from Acquiring the Taste to Free Hand. Flawless, every one of them.
I dunno, Magma? Kinda hard to think of them in terms of albums but 1001 Degrees Centigrade to Attahk is a hell of a run.
Yes, you can go TYA/Fragile/Close to the Edge/Tales/Relayer/GFTO. Now that I like Tales I'd say this one works.
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Grotesque/Hex Enduction Hour/Perverted By Language/The Wonderful and Frightening World Of.../This Nation's Saving Grace/Bend Sinister
nothing else comes remotely close IMO
(if you want to count Slates as an album then the span gets even stronger)
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
the problem with that is that Room To Live is in there between Hex and Perverted, otherwise I totally agree
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
dammit
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
RTL is kind of a mini album though
I still think it's fine.
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Overkill/Bomber/Ace of Spades/Iron Fist/Another Perfect Day/Orgasmatron - after that a definite drop.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
And I'm not sure if you can honestly put Slayer there - unless you're counting live albums, the drop after Seasons In The Abyss is too big.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Call the Doctor / Dig Me Out / The Hot Rock / All Hands On The Bad One / One Beat / The Woods / No Cities To Love
Sleater-Kinney's output is remarkable.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
duty bound to complement this hilarious decade-old thread with On Land And In The Sea through Guns
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
The Residents, first 7 albums.
― Riga Tony (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
Super Furry Animals' five album run from 1997-2003: Radiator, Guerrilla, Mwng, Rings Around The World and Phantom Power. Their golden period. Anything they did after that just couldn't compete, and didn't.
― Turrican, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
4 album run: Judas Priest.
Sad Wings of Destiny / Sin After Sin / Stained Class / Killing Machine
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Gish / Siamese Dream / Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness / Adore
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
steve miller band
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
actually it was a five classic album run:
children of the future/brave new world/your saving grace/sailor/number 5
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
also
santanaabraxassantanacaravanserai
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
bad timing / eureka / insignificance / the visitorkaty lied / the royal scam / aja / gauchosung tongs / feels / strawberry jam / merriweather post pavilionstation to station / low / heroes / lodgeranother side of bob dylan / bringing it all back home / highway 61 revisited / blonde on blondeiv / houses of the holy / physical graffiti / presencehermaphrodite / alien in a garbage dump / strange days / waco taco combo /BONUS- limboreturnal / replica / r plus seven / garden of deleteyoung prayer / person pitch / tomboy / panda bear meets the grim reaper1999 / purple rain / around the world in a day / sign o the timesparanoid / master of reality / vol. 4 / sabbath bloody sabbathbleach / nevermind / incesticide / in uterorubber soul / revolver / sgt pepper / the white albumspiderman of the rings / bromst / america / gliss rifferfreckle wars / way / yesterday's work / who's who in paradise?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
ooo I like the Dan Deacon one. they really are all great records.
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
1999 / purple rain / around the world in a day / sign o the times
Yer missin Parade
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
fuck... i cant cosign on purple rain / around the world in a day / parade / sign o the times
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
The first four Devoes
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
fuck... i cant cosign on purple rain / around the world in a day / parade / sign o the times --flappy bird
Yup, frustrating
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 29 October 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
acrobatic tenement -> in/casino/out -> vaya -> relationship of commandtremulant -> de-loused in the comatorium -> frances the mute -> amputechture
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Throwing Muses -> House Tornado -> Hunkpapa (fuck the detractors) -> The Real Ramona
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Thursday, 29 October 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Pfft the only correct answer is Pink Floyd.
Meddle - DSOTM - Wish You Were Here - Animals
Although, technically it's actually the greatest 15 record run in rock history. Choose were to start:
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Saucerful of Secrets - More - Ummaguma - Atom Heart Mother - Obscured by Clouds - Meddle - DSOTM - Wish You Were Here - Animals - The Wall - The Final Cut - Momentary Lapse of Reason - Division Bell - newonewhat'sitsname
Pink Floyd rules.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
Al Green Gets Next to You through Call Me
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Asides from PF:
Can was already mentioned and I think they have one of my favorite record runs (6 in total): Monster Movie thru Soon Over Babaluma are all great records. Even their dull moments are interesting to me.
Stereolab is one of my favorite bands so I'm biased but the run of Peng - Dots and Loops (5 records if you don't count b-side compilations in between them) is also a favorite.
Not really rock but Bjork, anyone? Debut - Post - Homogenic - Vespertine is an awesome run.
Also not strictly rock but Jorge Ben also has some amazing album runs in the 60's and 70's.
I kind of wish Fleetwood Mac had released the frankly dull Mirage after Tango in the Night so they could qualify. The run of Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - Tusk is great.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Yes indeed (xp)
― Riga Tony (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Pink Floyd rules but Obscured By Clouds falls kinda short and unfortunately was released between Meddle and DSOTM.
― doug watson, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
As a soundtrack! I think the run qualifies. Soundtracks are commissioned work and since they are supposed to fit a film they rarely fit the rest of their oeuvre.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
checked thread and it appears that this run has not yet been given love :
ELO : Eldorado -> Face The Music -> A New World Record -> Out Of The Blue.
for me, this is a absolutely fantastic run of 4.that said, i could start at FTM and go to Discovery.or even, ANWR and end up at Time (lets ignore xanadu despite the love for picture discs!) however, i would suggest that starting at Eldorado is the perfect year zero for the purpose of this thread.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
The ark: We are the ark/In Lust We Trust/State of the ark/Prayer for the Weekend
That one's as good as it gets.
― cpl593H, Friday, 30 October 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend/Revolution/Four the record/Platinum is pretty good too.
― cpl593H, Friday, 30 October 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
"Pink Floyd rules but Obscured By Clouds falls kinda short and unfortunately was released between Meddle and DSOTM."
Opening of 'Childhood's End' off Obscured by Clouds and how they used the VCS as a clicking throb is pretty much the dry run for the whole Dark Side On the Run/Time segment. I think it is a fairly obscure release between the most popular LP of the rock era and a hit LP, but it's one I want to listen to now as it isn't as played out by classic rock radio. The ambient instrumentals are really good and definitely have some atmospheres, tones and use of slow queue fades they revisited in the next couple LPs, especially on Dark Side as they use that to weave the sides into one big long piece. I definitely think you can look at elements on it and Meddle both that they revisited and refined in Dark Side to perfection.
― earlnash, Friday, 30 October 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
More was a soundtrack too. Although it's probably one of the best things they ever did, and Obscured By Clouds is definitely not.
― Josefa, Friday, 30 October 2015 05:59 (eight years ago) link
the beginning of obscured by clouds reminds me of john carpenter.
― brimstead, Friday, 30 October 2015 06:02 (eight years ago) link
Metallica
Kill 'Em AllRide The LightningMaster of Puppets
I would include the Garage Days EP here because ...And Justice For All was where Metallica started losing me but there's enough solid material there that I can include that in lieu of a covers EP if I must.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 30 October 2015 07:21 (eight years ago) link
Kate Bush: Never For Ever/The dreaming/The Hounds of Love/The Sensual World
― cpl593H, Friday, 30 October 2015 12:18 (eight years ago) link
modest mouse- long drive, lonesome crowded west, moon & Antarctica, good news
― all my friends are vampires (art), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
bee thousand, alien lanes, and under the bushes under the stars + the first two pollard solo albums released around that run ~ not in my airforce and waved out. dude was on fire
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
Two great Jandek runs:
Ready For The House/Six And Six/Later On/Chair Beside A WindowModern Dances/Blue Corpse/You Walk Alone/On The Way (and you could add the Living End)
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
The other way round if anything, anyway I'd rather listen to OBC than DSOTM any day of the week.
― Riga Tony (Tom D.), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
Hm, well tbh it's been a while since I've listened to OBC, maybe it's time to revisit. Have always thought More was lovely though.
― Josefa, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Show is up - http://www.soundopinions.org/show/518Greg - Stevie Wonder, Sleater-Kinney, Kanye West, Hüsker DüJim - Led Zeppelin, Blur, XTC, The Velvet Underground
Haven't listened to it yet, but it should be entertaining hearing Jim justify Blur.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
She's The Boss -> Primitive Cool -> Wandering Spirit -> Goddess In The Doorway.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
I know this is overgrumpy but there should be a diff thread for Good-to-Great Four Album Runs and this one for The Greatest Four-Album Run In History
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 30 October 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link