"the greatest four-record run in rock history"

In on the Killtaker / Red Medicine / End Hits / The Argument

Some would say Fugazi had a 6-album run but I never quite got into their first two. Good, but I don't love them. I'm ignoring Instrument Soundtrack too.

If Gala counts I'd start with Kaleidoscope World for the Chills.

Ry Cooder's first four albums (Ry Cooder, Boomer's Story, Into the Purple Valley and Paradise and Lunch).

Alice Cooper: Love It To Death/Killer/School's Out/Billion Dollar Babies

A River Ain't Too Much To Love - Woke on a Whaleheart - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle - Apocalypse.

I could happily push this to five by including Supper if it wasn't for the inclusion of Driving.

Orbital 2, Snivilisation, In Sides, The Middle of Nowhere.

Tubeway Army, Replicas, The Pleasure Principle, Telekon.

The Shape of Jazz to Come / Change of the Century / This Is Our Music / Free Jazz

Head / Goat / Liar / Down

Ten Spot / Funeral at the Movies / Get Your Goat / Pony Express Record

For Respect / Don Caballero 2 / What Burns Never Returns / American Don

Amber, Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5

Streetcleaner / Pure / Selfless / Songs of Love and Hate

The Shape of Jazz to Come / Change of the Century / This Is Our Music / Free Jazz

Some of my favorite rock LPs right there.

Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield

y'all are being absurd so fine

peng/transient random-noise bursts/mars audiac quintet/emperor tomato ketchup
congregation/gentlemen/black love/1965
painful/electr-o-pura/i can hear the heart beating as one/and nothing turned itself inside out

prob beggars banquet thru exile tho

have we named all the rock bands yet

re: Modest Mouse, 'Good News' kinda stinks. now if 'Building Nothing Out of Something' counts ... (which it shouldn't)

We haven't mentioned Status Quo yet.

The Punch Line/What Makes a Man Start Fires?/Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat/Double Nickels on the Dime

Tbh my Jandek post was kind of in jest because we'd jumped the 'name 4 album's shark by then. Many xpost.

a thousand leaves / *SKIP NYC GHOSTS & FLOWERS* / murray street / sonic nurse / rather ripped

album by a band / another album by the same band / next album by the same band / album after that

Little Feat
Sailing' Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now

Menstrual Samples
Let There Be Shit
Fuck Frenzy
Ecstasy Of Death

Little Feat
Sailing' Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now

― henry s, Saturday, October 31, 2015 3:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

co-sign. i might go Sailin' Shoes thru The Last Record Album, though.

X-Los Angeles, Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun, More Fun in the New World.

Top THAT run!

nobody else repping for santana, smdh

From Me To U/Back Like Cooked Crack 1/Back Like Cooked Crack 2/ What The Game's Been Missing

Morning glory, be here now, masterplan, sosg

I know jazz should be probably judged a bit differently than most other popular music, but it's kinda hard to beat Herbie Hancock's record: 14 great albums in 12 years, starting from his solo debut:

Takin' Off
My Point of View
Inventions & Dimensions
Empyrean Isles
Maiden Voyage
Blow-Up
Speak Like a Child
The Prisoner
Fat Albert Rotunda
Mwandishi
Crossings
Sextant
Head Hunters
Thrust

And even after Thrust his studio albums were still pretty good, it's only Feets Don't Me Fail Now, Herbie's 20th LP (and that's not counting various live albums), that's his first mediocre record. That's quite a feat!

Fat Albert Rotunda
Mwandishi
Crossings
Sextant

YES

Tuomas otm!!

I've only heard one Herbie Hancock album :(

and I'm surprised no one has nominated

Road to Rouen
Diamond Hoo Ha
Here Come the Bombs
Matador

Gaz doesn't post here.

I'm currently working my way through the classic late-'60s-to-mid-'70s era of jazz funk/fusion and I, too, agree with Tuomas's assessment.

My own answer to the question posed by this thread depends in part upon whether we count Mt. Vernon and Fairway as a separate album.

Cream's four albums (Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire, Goodbye--their entire discography) each have numerous brilliant songs. Ditto Chuck Berry's first four: After School Session, One Dozen Berrys, Chuck Berry Is on Top, Rockin' at the Hops. And there must be a bigger Elvis P. fan than I am who can figure out his best four-album run.

I'd argue for From Elvis in Memphis, Back in Memphis, That's the Way It Is, Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old), but it's tough to do straight runs in Elvis's catalog because he put out like three albums a year, and two of the three were either live records or compilations with a couple of new tracks thrown in.

1980: Chipmunk Punk
1981: Urban Chipmunk
1981: A Chipmunk Christmas
1982: Chipmunk Rock

Really an unbelievable run in just two years. Even the Beatles can't touch this.

Another Flippin' Party / Anytime Is Party Time / Music Hall Party / Non-Stop Honky Tonk Party

(xxpost) I'd work around that stuff with anyone. For Elvis, I was thinking Elvis Presley/Elvis/For LP Fans Only/A Date with Elvis, which would entail skipping the Christmas album (which I know is highly regarded itself). You also get a lot of Sun stuff scattered across those albums.