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

The College Dropout
Late Registraton
Graduation
808s & Heartbreak

^my vote

wish i liked late reg more it'd be mine too

wayne:

carter 2
dedication 2
lil weezyana
da drought 3

(this is stretching tho cuz i cherry picked mixtapes)

i've always been butthurt about people not adhering strictly to the 5 singles premise in that thread - i wanted video game soundtrack singles & joy division covers counted against!

of Montreal:

2004 Satanic Panic in the Attic
2005 The Sunlandic Twins
2007 Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2008 Skeletal Lamping

camera obscura's four albums of the decade are pretty strong:

biggest bluest hi fi (2001)
underachievers please try harder
let's get out of this country
my maudlin career

i want to say lucksmiths but two of their six albums this decade are comps, and their last album wasn't very good.

i dig stars albums quite a bit:

# Nightsongs (2001)
# Heart (2003)
# Set Yourself on Fire (2004)
# In Our Bedroom after the War (2007)

z-ro

life of joseph w mcvey
let the truth be told
i'm still livin
crack

project pat!

mista don't play
layin da smack down
crook by da book
walki bank roll

tom waits:

Blood Money (2002)
Alice (2002)
Real Gone (2004)
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)

i like the of montreal one

Rated R (2000)
Desert Sessions 7 & 8 (2001)
Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Desert Sessions 9 & 10 (2003)

High On Fire:

Art of Self Defense
Surrounded by Thieves
Blessed Black Wings
Death is this Communion

FYHCYWLaP
Storytelling
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
whatever that last album was called

Read & Burn 01 (2002)
Read & Burn 02 (2002)
Send (2003)
Read & Burn 03 (2007)
Object 47 (2008)

I guess those first 2 can count as one.. But some of the same songs are on "Send".. so yeah, that's a weird one..

High On Fire might be a serious contender if that new album drops by the end of the year

The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000)
The Blueprint (2001)
The Blueprint 2 (2002)
The Black Album (2003)

haha I dare someone to try this w/Madlib

"remember: strict chronological order, kids"

also really like these runs:

Wilco:

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (April 23, 2002)
A Ghost Is Born (June 22, 2004)
Sky Blue Sky (May 15, 2007)
Wilco (The Album) (June 30, 2009)

The Blueprint 2 (2002)

gtfo

it was worth a shot

OK Calculator (2002)
Young Liars (2003)
Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)
Return To Cookie Mountain (2006)

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!!!