like, because it rocks too hard and lacks silly little-fishies-in-the-water cabaret shtickola where her voice gets louder and quieter for no reason? sorry, i don't buy it. she sounded more adventurous when she wasn't trying so hard to sound "adventurous," seems to me.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
"Controversy > 1999, Purple Rain, or Sign of the Times (honest)."
When I moved out, I took almost all of my albums. A small number, due to space issues, stayed behind. Controversy stayed behind, along with diamonds and pearls. Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain, Lovesexy, Sign O'The Time, Parade all made the trip.
Was I horribly mistaken?
Xpost
how many 'copycat' threads has this spawned??
more directly on topic...
I find lots of Contrarian-ist suggestions above.Here's more:Archers of Loaf - all four of their studio albumsPooh Sticks - Orgasm (or Multiple Orgasm) ==> Million SellerFaces - (really stretching the 'rules') the 4 records of the 5 guys .. boxsetFela Kuti -- take your pickTindersticks -- first four
beach boys -- Today!, summer days, pet sounds and smile(y smile)
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Stevie Wonder2. War3. Gladys Knight & the Pips4. Isley Brothers5. Temptations
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
my new nomination, might even beat John Cougar!:
The Best of ZZ TopDeguelloEl LocoEliminator
(And you could probably substitute Tejas for Best of, or Fandango! and Tejas {or Tres Hombres and Tejas} for Best Of and Eliminator if you want).
― xhuxk, Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Don't Take Me Alive....also Haitian Divorce! ....Royal Scam is their "Presence"! Love it.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
-- xhuxk (xedd...), October 27th, 2005.
Agreed, UK Squeeze is surely an underrated album.
― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
d00d, that's SOOOOOO wrong! LtP IS the weakest of the weak...3-4 songs good-10+=VERY BAD!but, hey, they got 3 great albums out before it went to stinky.
CCR is obviously the winner here...
― eedd, Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
"Summer's Last Sound"-->"A Rock to Cling To"-->"Last Dance"-->"It's a Kid's World"
And considering that they're bookended by the "Science" and "Second Language" EPs, it could make a strong case as the best run of records in rock history, period.
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
that's an UBER-NEGATIVE!!!!adore blows it, hands down, even BC himself admits as much...now Gish-Mellon Collie (counting Picese Iscariot) work...
― eedd, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
OK, third-best, but:
1. THE MOTHERSHIP2. Stevie3. Isleys4. Mayfield5. O'Jays
― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post.
― Chuck B, Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
xp #2 Chuck: and and and James Brown and Isaac Hayes and Sly (and the Family) Stone and man putting together a '70s R&B top five is harder than presidenting
― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Get Happy is definitely better than my Aim Is True. I don't know about Trust though.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It For The Money and Uncle Meat are actually Mothers Of Invention albums, whereas Lumpy Gravy is Frank Zappa solo.
Unfortunately however, Ruben And The Jets came between We're Only In It For The Money and Uncle Meat.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I would.
But I wouldn't describe Get Happy as a great album.
Or Trust for that matter.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Good call!
Couldn't we insert Vs. The Greatest Of All-Time for good measure? Although I'd settle for Icky Mettle getting the remaster treatement...maybe in 2008 for its 15th birthday? I digress.
― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
is one hell of a quartet.
didn't I Am Curious Orange come out before the Frenz Experiment?
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
"even not counting the singles as an album, the first four stand up as well as the first four talking heads albums."
I love Pere Ubu but I don't think they have actually legitimately managed four truly great records in a row.
David Thomas otoh (if you count his work with The Pedestrians / Two Pale Boys / The Wooden Birds / The Foreigners / whatever as all being essentially "solo") has probably come just as close, if not closer.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Agreed, and Get Happy! is my favorite Elvis Costello record. I feel so out of step.
Still not seeing anything that tops CCR, mainly because of what someone said at the very beginning--they went on a run like crazy.
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe the thread helps demonstrate / explain why so many canonical acts are / have become canonical acts?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
PureHeadGoatLiarLashDownShowShotBlueBang
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
PsychocandyDarklandsBarbed Wire KissesAutomatic
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe this one's pushing it a bit.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I have a small but persistently nagging suspicion that an infinitessimally small minority of ILM's collective girlfriends / boyfriends / partners / wifes / husbands might just disagree with you ever so slightly on a couple of extremely minor points of detail....
The rest of them would most definitely tell you that you're talking complete arse.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
No. (And I like Frenz more anyway, personally!)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Twin InfinitivesRoyal TruxCats and DogsThank You
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
You've got a hell of a lot of support for Head through Down, at least
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
The Genesis run of no less than 9 most excellent albums in a row ended with "Duke".
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Friday, 28 October 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
beat that progression?
― theo, Friday, 28 October 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link
transmissions from the satellite heartclouds taste metalliczaireekathe soft bulletin
69 love songsi
soul rebelscatch a fireburnin'natty dread
― metfigga (metfigga), Monday, 31 October 2005 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Monday, 31 October 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Monday, 31 October 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link
In a priest driven ambulanceHit to Death in the Future HeadTransmissions...Clouds Taste Metallic
Can't say I've cared for much by them after CTM, but what a run...
My vote personally goes to Cheap Trick, though. If only for the fact that they made 4 almost flawless records and then did nothing but dreck from then on.
― casey (t. fiend), Monday, 31 October 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Outlandos d'AmourReggatta de BlancZenyatta MondattaGhost in the MachineSynchronicity
oh god did i say that
― mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 31 October 2005 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link
simple minds:reel to real cacophony => empires & dance => sons & fascination => sister feelings call(yes i am cheating by counting the last 'double' album as 2 single ones, but i think 'new gold dream' is overrated)
yello:solid pleasure => claro que si => you gotta say yes => stella(and 'one second' almost extends it to 5)
comsat angels:waiting for a miracle => sleep no more => fiction => land(i believe most other comsat fans think the 4th is naff, but i don't)
magazine:would have been in here if the last album hadn't been a bit weak (and a live one would have got in the way anyway)
other hon. mentions - cabs:crackdown => microphonies => covenant => code
devo:nearly make it - though with albums 2->5 or even 3->6 for me (i like their synthpop phase)
t.dream:the phaedra => rubycon => ricochet sequence peters out with 'stratosfear' unfortunately...(oops - creaky puns purely accidental)
the chameleons:if they had released a 4th album in the 80's...
& Dr C is OTM ref. kraftwerk
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
i'd sayafter the goldrushharvesttime fades awayon the beachis the better run.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link