best FOUR ALBUM RUN of the 2000s (aka the Stevie Awards)

Okkervil River:

2003 Down the River of Golden Dreams
2005 Black Sheep Boy
2007 The Stage Names
2008 The Stand Ins

The Fiery Furnaces (how about seven?):

Gallowsbird's Bark (2003)
Blueberry Boat (2004)
EP (2005)
Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
Bitter Tea (2006)
Widow City (2007)
I'm Going Away (2009)

now a huge fan of I'm Going Away

you're really gonna stan for the not-really-ever-released "Ok Calculator EP" rather than mention the awesome new TVOTR album?

yup

you're ridiculous

However,

TVOTR would be the hands down, no question, no dispute winner of this if they actually released four albums this decade

which they didn't so take that shit to another thread

i know we're supposed to doing "canonical" stuff but i knew no one else would agree anyone and it hadn't been mentioned yet..

if ok calculator is anything, it's definitely interesting.

anyway*

i really wish TVOTR would just release another album and sweep this

But Young Liars is their best release..

It's an EP

604
Light & Magic
Witching Hour
Velocifero

could you guys at least post the band name when doing fifth-tier indie rock acts so everyone doesn't have to wiki it

Most of my answers to this questions shouldn't qualify so just ignore mine..

But if little cheats here and there do count, my real answer is the Queens/Desert Sessions one I listed first.

haha ladytron

:)

little cheats don't count at the stevies!

Innervisions wasn't an EP!

YOB:

Catharsis
The Illusion Of Motion
The Unreal Never Lived
The Great Cessation

I posted it above but didn't label it. They're all ace.

do live albums count?

liars

* They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001)
* They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (2004) - CD/LP
* Drum's Not Dead (2006) - CD+DVD/LP
* Liars (August 2007) - CD/LP

What if I just called mine a Josh Homme 4-in-a-row?

Good call on Liars

The Getty Address
New Attitude EP
Rise Above
Bitte Orca

Liars is a great call!!!

I JUST SAID EPS DONT COUNT EEN!

(I figure they don't for the same reason dj-mixes wouldn't) xxxxpost

they don't

mass romantic
the electric version
twin cinema
challengers

agree but

Mass Romantic
The Electric Version
The Slow Wonder
Twin Cinema

kinda down with Josh Homme too

this one is pushing it...

Ween:
White Pepper (2000)
Quebec (2003)
All Request Live (2004)
Shinola Vol 1 (2005)

I just can't bring myself to include La Cucaracha, especially since All Request Live is so awesome and it's technically live-in-studio..

I don't know Black Dice well enough but I'm sure they would work for this.

re: ween

one of those is a live album and one of those is a B-sides comp and you're essentially trolling me at this point

haha sorry

hahaha i was just going to post all the Burial EPs but couldn't bring myself to count Moth/Wolf Cub as an EP, BUT MAN THINK OF THE TROLLING THAT COULD'VE GONE DOWN

also i'm sure there are plenty of Dirty Projectors fans who would've put Slaves' Graves and Ballads in there but i just don't get that one

There are at least a dozen great NWW albums in the 00's, but I don't think there's a run of four without some sort of dud.

so many rules for this thread

girls aloud

# 2003 – Sound of the Underground
# 2004 – What Will the Neighbours Say?
# 2005 – Chemistry
# 2007 – Tangled Up

the doldrums
worn copy
house arrest
lover boy

(ariel pink's haunted graffiti)

trembling blue stars just sneak in

# Broken By Whispers, February 2000
# Alive To Every Smile, October 2001
# The Seven Autumn Flowers, January 2005
# The Last Holy Writer, April 2007

have you guys LISTENED to those project pat albums!?!? come on!!

totally forgot liars which may actually be my answer

stephen malkmus
pig lib
face the truth
real emotional trash

phoenix

2000 - united
2004 - alphabetical
2006 - its never been like that
2009 - wolfgang amedeus phoenix

Bersuit Vergabarat:
Hijos del Culo
De la Cabeza
La Argentinidad al Palo
Testosterona

I love The Cookbook so Missy is in; T.I. shd be in w/I'm Serious, but even if you count T.I. vs. T.I.P. the average is so high with Paper Trail that it shouldn't matter.

flood
heavy rocks
akuma no uta
boris at last - feedbacker

eps count def - an ep is an album theres no real dif - sry whiney yr overruled

you know, I hate the guy who trolls the annual best-of threads with "another shitty year for music", my reaction is usually "yeah there were TONS of great albums you didn't hear"

but this thread is making me bummed about the oughties

closest I can get to agreeing on is lightning bolt, and even one of those albums is not particularly good

luv the cookbook too

# Miss E… So Addictive (2001)
# Under Construction (2002)
# This Is Not a Test! (2003)
# The Cookbook (2005)