"the greatest four-record run in rock history"

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

My Yo La Tengo (since we're including EPs) would be
May I Sing With Me, Shaker EP, Painful, Electr-O-Pura. After that, cracks started to appear, and they got overwhelmed by crapulence.

Giants walk among us:

Wussy: Funeral Dress, Left for Dead, Wussy, Strawberry

Yes Yes Yes Yes! There's not a bad song on any of those records.

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

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.

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, 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.

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".

Using that criteria, I'd say the Velvets hands down.

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 Krauts
Colour Haze
Tempel
All

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...

Using o. nate's criteria, Neil Young's run of Everybody Knows > After The Gold Rush > Harvest > On The Beach totally qualifies.

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

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).

Using o nate's criteria, I say Black Sabbath.

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

I will definitely listen.

I actually think what o.nate says is really OTM, as easy and fun as it is to list great four-album runs, it's hard to do what he's talking about without skipping stuff, like say In the Court-Lizard-Lark's Tongues-Red

also, I think the four Eno vocal albums count! none of them are really like the other ones

Orbital's too. I guess it's not that hard

I am awaiting the fourth Portishead album so I can list them here

also, I think the four Eno vocal albums count! none of them are really like the other ones

yeah, that's easily one of my favorite four-record runs, and the progress from album to album is remarkable