― jai, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck B, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I had an editor ween me quickly from using the word "arguably" in a review. It's reduntant, since the fact that you're saying it already means it's being argued. Besides, anything and everything can be "argued."
"Brick" is arguably the worst packaged Talking Heads boxed set since the last one.
Anyway, CCR wins.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
springsteen: born to run/darkness on the edge of town/the river/nebraska
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Cats and Dogs, Thank You, Sweet Sixteen, Accelerator, Veterans of Disorder, Pound For Pound (choose any four in order!)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Bad AttitudeOblivionRainbow PeopleHeading To The Light
― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
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― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
like...STEP TO ENCHANTMENT for example
― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Qs and comments.
I def. prefer Get Happy to My Aim is True. My Aim is True has a lot of home runs, but some songs sound slight and/or underdeveloped.
If the Rolling Stones best 4 is not beggar's --?exile, then what? Now --> Aftermath?
Are we saying CCR is CCR --> Willy (doubt it) or Bayou --> Cosmo's (a strong candidate)?
I am a big pavement fan and I'd say they have a great argument for best three-record run, but not four.
Which Randy Newman ? s/t --> Good Old Boys (Is 12 songs being reissued soon?)
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Nope that's just right..first four are by FAR the best!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
other than that, StanM says what I'd say: those first four Nick Cave solo joints are to my mind the most incredible four-album run ever
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
The Return of Doug SaldanaDoug Sahm and BandTexas TornadoGroover's Paradise
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I assume you're going by release date rather than by recording date (i.e. you're not including Mirror Man) in order to make that 4 - but even so, Strictly Personal wasn't exactly one of Don's crowning achievements.
I'd be more inclined to go by recording date (thus conveniently moving Mirror Man back before Trout Mask Replica) ans suggest TMR > Decals > Spotlight Kid > Clear Spot.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― AET, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
american fooluh-huhscarecrowthe lonesome jubilee
over much of what has been argued here.
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
1980 Dirty Mind Warner1981 Controversy Warner1983 1999 Warner1984 Purple Rain Warner1985 Around the World in a Day Paisley Park1986 Parade Paisley Park1987 Sign 'O' the Times Wea
― knife (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
The Name of this Band ... did not make P+J, but Xgau himself liked it (A-) and concluded his review:
Five years and not a misstep--think maybe they're gunning for world's greatest rock and roll band?
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
For consistent brilliance, I repeat the Ramones and add Tom Waits (any four starting with Swordfishtrombones, obvs).
Also, the Replacements -- Hootennany to Pleased to Meet Me. And has anyone said REM yet?
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
It's the weakest one of the four certainly - but it's still better than Strictly Personal or Mirror Man.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
sabbath? nah, i thought of them, but sabbath 4 has too much cocaine and not enough supernaut
forgot i ranked cheap trick's too-much-big-star second so much higher than their way superior first in stairway. guess i was listening to clock strikes ten over and over again that day or something.
prince's self-titled second album is better than anything he did after purple rain (hell, i'll probably take it *over* purple rain).
and nick cave??? i have no words.
(i do like the fall nomination, though.)
john cougar (and my name is john. i reside in chicago) wins, though, i think.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
that's CRAZY!
you're missing out all the good stuff!
― knife (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah but...you're...you know...chuck eddy!
― knife (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
?
though it must be:rubber soulrevolversgt. pepperwhite album(magical... excluded. a 2x7" EP on inital release)
BUT nothing ever tops the velvets...
― AET, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Pavement's actually not such a bad choice, though Wowee Zowee is the weak link in the Slanted & Enchanted -> Brighten the Corners chain.
Bossa Nova spoils this for the Pixies.
You could make a case for Sonic Youth for Sister -> Dirty.
Beefheart I don't think works because either you pick up Spotlight Kid or Strictly Personal or Mirror Man, any one of which are deal breakers.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
The Wonderful and Frightening World of...This Nation's Saving GraceBend SinisterThe Frenz Experiment
is one hell of a quartet.
― Curt Wastor (Curt Soda), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― AET, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― AET, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― AET, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
any fall run would HAVE to include either live at the witch trials or hex enduction hour by definition (if not both, but that's impossible, right? i don't have my calculator handy); avoiding all the mediocrities they made after this nation's savings grace would also be a priority.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
album by a band / another album by the same band / next album by the same band / album after that
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 31 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Little FeatSailing' ShoesDixie ChickenFeats Don't Fail Me Now
― henry s, Saturday, 31 October 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
Menstrual SamplesLet There Be ShitFuck FrenzyEcstasy Of Death
― brimstead, Saturday, 31 October 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― some dude, Sunday, 1 November 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
X-Los Angeles, Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun, More Fun in the New World.
Top THAT run!
― beamish13, Sunday, 1 November 2015 07:48 (eight years ago) link
nobody else repping for santana, smdh
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 20 December 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
From Me To U/Back Like Cooked Crack 1/Back Like Cooked Crack 2/ What The Game's Been Missing
― thomp etty (some dude), Sunday, 20 December 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
Morning glory, be here now, masterplan, sosg
― darraghmac, Sunday, 20 December 2015 12:18 (eight years ago) link
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' OffMy Point of ViewInventions & DimensionsEmpyrean IslesMaiden VoyageBlow-UpSpeak Like a ChildThe PrisonerFat Albert RotundaMwandishiCrossingsSextantHead HuntersThrust
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!
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 December 2015 08:44 (eight years ago) link
Fat Albert RotundaMwandishiCrossingsSextant
YES
― octobeard, Monday, 21 December 2015 09:22 (eight years ago) link
Tuomas otm!!
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 21 December 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
I've only heard one Herbie Hancock album :(
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 December 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
and I'm surprised no one has nominated
Road to RouenDiamond Hoo HaHere Come the BombsMatador
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 December 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Gaz doesn't post here.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 December 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 December 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 21 December 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
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.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 21 December 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
1980: Chipmunk Punk1981: Urban Chipmunk1981: A Chipmunk Christmas1982: Chipmunk Rock
Really an unbelievable run in just two years. Even the Beatles can't touch this.
― dlp9001, Monday, 21 December 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Another Flippin' Party / Anytime Is Party Time / Music Hall Party / Non-Stop Honky Tonk Party
― Michael Jones, Monday, 21 December 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
(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.
― clemenza, Monday, 21 December 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link