"the greatest four-record run in rock history"

Ha ha, that's the song that got me started on Beefheart on the first place (and i ain't finished yet)

I'd love to be able to start with Transmissions and go to Soft Bulletin, but the fact that Zaireeka, while actually a good record, really doesn't make the cut, even if it were a less unweildy format than the crazy 4 simultaneous cd release thing. If Zaireeka wasn't wedged in there, I'd even nominate Priest through Soft Bulletin as a five-record run.

Anyway, it wasn't a case for trying to get the Beatles in on a technicality or anything! Magical Mystery Tour is an awesome EP.

me too, Tim. I love what Lucas and Johnston did with it on the Fast 'n' Bulbous album this year. I love Beef--his albums are a bit like James Brown's, I guess, so strong and yet so flawed. No one could keep up that inhuman pace anyway. and speaking of "Sheriff of Hong Kong," sometimes I get into its flow and it sounds incredible, sometimes I feel like I'm riding go-kart on a muddy dirt track with two fat-bottomed gurls...which might actually be a good thing now that I type that...

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[Talking Heads first four albums] stand with any four consecutive albums ever made by anybody. (The Velvet Underground and Public Enemy aside, these are almost certainly the greatest first four albums in all of pop music.)

the smiths > hatful of hollow > meat is murder > the queen is dead

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i will then.

Even so, More Songs ... and Fear of Music are two of the most colossally great rock records. No false notes on either album, especially the latter.

Timothy's monster > Blissard > Angels and deamons at play > Trust us

All equally great.

# Torch of the Mystics LP (Majora) 1990
# Dawn of the Devi LP (Majora) 1991
# Live from Planet Boomerang 2-LP (Majora) 1992
# Bright Surroundings, Dark Deginnings LP (Majora) 1993
# Valentines from Matahari LP (Majora) 1993
# Kaliflower CD/LP (Abduction) 1994

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.

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 80
Prayers On Fire 81
Junkyard 82
The Bad Seed/Mutiny 83

How Curtis Mayfield was overlooked is beyond me.
Curtis 70
Roots 71
Superfly 72
Back To The World 73

I'd say The Sound has an edge over Comsat Angels in that Heads and Hearts doesn't suck.
Jeopardy 80
From The Lions Mouth 81
All Fall Down 82
Heads And Hearts 85

Though I'm a little tired of her at the moment,
Debut 93
Post 95
Homogenic 97
Vespertine 01

Arto Lindsay may be the most underrated artist of the last decade.
Mundo Civilizado 97
Noon Chill 98
Prize 99
Invoke 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.

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

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall
Genesis – Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Gets Next to You
Let's Stay Together
I'm Still in Love with You
Call Me
pretty fair run.

church

Black Vinyl Shoes, Present Tense, Tongue Twister, Boomerang. (I didn't check above--if anyone else mentioned them, colour me astounded.)

Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield

lp5, confield, draft 7:30, untilted

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.

Maybe I have the order that these were released in wrong but:

A Love Supreme
Ascension
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
Meditations

Miles Davis:

In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew
A Tribute To Jack Johnson
On The Corner

Oh wait "in rock history" duh. Scratch those.

nakh you have prompted me to give Draft 7.30 yet one more spin.

Station To Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger.

nice...it's awesome, not a glorious spring day sort of record though

<q>Ween - The Mollusk, White Pepper, quebec, Shinola vol. 1</q>

bow to frogbs, stevie wonder

If only Talk Talk had done something as a group after Laughing Stock.

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

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.

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!

Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield

― 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.

Led Zeppelin IV - Houses - PG - Presence

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.

Eep, I made a math error.

If you count Band of Gypsys (all-new material, not a posthumous/archival release), Hendrix:

Are You Experienced?
Axis: Bold As Love
Electric Ladyland
Band of Gypsys

Black Sabbath wins this. In fact they had the best 6 record run in rock history.

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.

Was going to say Sabbath, but the right dude got there with it.

Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am The Only One, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, Still Life

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

that reminds me , I definitely need to pick up a copy of Over

Crazy Rhythms
The Good Earth
Only Life
Time For A Witness

Giants walk among us:

Wussy: Funeral Dress, Left for Dead, Wussy, Strawberry
Imperial Teen: Seasick, What Is Not to Love, On, The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band
Yo 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.)

Moby Grape?

^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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Imperial Teen: Seasick, What Is Not to Love, On, The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band

^^^ excellent sequence