fuck... i cant cosign on purple rain / around the world in a day / parade / sign o the times --flappy bird
Yup, frustrating
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 29 October 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
acrobatic tenement -> in/casino/out -> vaya -> relationship of commandtremulant -> de-loused in the comatorium -> frances the mute -> amputechture
― flappy bird, Thursday, 29 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Throwing Muses -> House Tornado -> Hunkpapa (fuck the detractors) -> The Real Ramona
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Thursday, 29 October 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Pfft the only correct answer is Pink Floyd.
Meddle - DSOTM - Wish You Were Here - Animals
Although, technically it's actually the greatest 15 record run in rock history. Choose were to start:
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Saucerful of Secrets - More - Ummaguma - Atom Heart Mother - Obscured by Clouds - Meddle - DSOTM - Wish You Were Here - Animals - The Wall - The Final Cut - Momentary Lapse of Reason - Division Bell - newonewhat'sitsname
Pink Floyd rules.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
Al Green Gets Next to You through Call Me
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Asides from PF:
Can was already mentioned and I think they have one of my favorite record runs (6 in total): Monster Movie thru Soon Over Babaluma are all great records. Even their dull moments are interesting to me.
Stereolab is one of my favorite bands so I'm biased but the run of Peng - Dots and Loops (5 records if you don't count b-side compilations in between them) is also a favorite.
Not really rock but Bjork, anyone? Debut - Post - Homogenic - Vespertine is an awesome run.
Also not strictly rock but Jorge Ben also has some amazing album runs in the 60's and 70's.
I kind of wish Fleetwood Mac had released the frankly dull Mirage after Tango in the Night so they could qualify. The run of Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - Tusk is great.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Yes indeed (xp)
― Riga Tony (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Pink Floyd rules but Obscured By Clouds falls kinda short and unfortunately was released between Meddle and DSOTM.
― doug watson, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
As a soundtrack! I think the run qualifies. Soundtracks are commissioned work and since they are supposed to fit a film they rarely fit the rest of their oeuvre.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
checked thread and it appears that this run has not yet been given love :
ELO : Eldorado -> Face The Music -> A New World Record -> Out Of The Blue.
for me, this is a absolutely fantastic run of 4.that said, i could start at FTM and go to Discovery.or even, ANWR and end up at Time (lets ignore xanadu despite the love for picture discs!) however, i would suggest that starting at Eldorado is the perfect year zero for the purpose of this thread.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
The ark: We are the ark/In Lust We Trust/State of the ark/Prayer for the Weekend
That one's as good as it gets.
― cpl593H, Friday, 30 October 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend/Revolution/Four the record/Platinum is pretty good too.
― cpl593H, Friday, 30 October 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
"Pink Floyd rules but Obscured By Clouds falls kinda short and unfortunately was released between Meddle and DSOTM."
Opening of 'Childhood's End' off Obscured by Clouds and how they used the VCS as a clicking throb is pretty much the dry run for the whole Dark Side On the Run/Time segment. I think it is a fairly obscure release between the most popular LP of the rock era and a hit LP, but it's one I want to listen to now as it isn't as played out by classic rock radio. The ambient instrumentals are really good and definitely have some atmospheres, tones and use of slow queue fades they revisited in the next couple LPs, especially on Dark Side as they use that to weave the sides into one big long piece. I definitely think you can look at elements on it and Meddle both that they revisited and refined in Dark Side to perfection.
― earlnash, Friday, 30 October 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
More was a soundtrack too. Although it's probably one of the best things they ever did, and Obscured By Clouds is definitely not.
― Josefa, Friday, 30 October 2015 05:59 (eight years ago) link
the beginning of obscured by clouds reminds me of john carpenter.
― brimstead, Friday, 30 October 2015 06:02 (eight years ago) link
Metallica
Kill 'Em AllRide The LightningMaster of Puppets
I would include the Garage Days EP here because ...And Justice For All was where Metallica started losing me but there's enough solid material there that I can include that in lieu of a covers EP if I must.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 30 October 2015 07:21 (eight years ago) link
Kate Bush: Never For Ever/The dreaming/The Hounds of Love/The Sensual World
― cpl593H, Friday, 30 October 2015 12:18 (eight years ago) link
modest mouse- long drive, lonesome crowded west, moon & Antarctica, good news
― all my friends are vampires (art), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
bee thousand, alien lanes, and under the bushes under the stars + the first two pollard solo albums released around that run ~ not in my airforce and waved out. dude was on fire
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
Two great Jandek runs:
Ready For The House/Six And Six/Later On/Chair Beside A WindowModern Dances/Blue Corpse/You Walk Alone/On The Way (and you could add the Living End)
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
The other way round if anything, anyway I'd rather listen to OBC than DSOTM any day of the week.
― Riga Tony (Tom D.), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
Hm, well tbh it's been a while since I've listened to OBC, maybe it's time to revisit. Have always thought More was lovely though.
― Josefa, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Show is up - http://www.soundopinions.org/show/518Greg - Stevie Wonder, Sleater-Kinney, Kanye West, Hüsker DüJim - Led Zeppelin, Blur, XTC, The Velvet Underground
Haven't listened to it yet, but it should be entertaining hearing Jim justify Blur.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
She's The Boss -> Primitive Cool -> Wandering Spirit -> Goddess In The Doorway.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
I know this is overgrumpy but there should be a diff thread for Good-to-Great Four Album Runs and this one for The Greatest Four-Album Run In History
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 30 October 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Is this not the "name four albums in a row without missing one?"
― Mark G, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
Ha ha, yeah Jandek. He might make my top 500? I'm sure Matt DC is joking about solo Jagger.
Regarding the Sound Opinions show, they do a great job talking about music, but not sure they can pull off justifying Songs in the Key of Life, The Hot Rock, 808s And Heartbreak, Candy Apple Grey, Mummer, or all the Blur albums!
Greg doesn't defend the bloaty Songs in the Key or 808s, but does a decent job with The Hot Rock (S-K are lower in my own list). Jim justifies Led Zep III but doesn't really need to. I like all these artists, but Blur? Come on! I liked them at the time, but don't listen to them anymore because their sum is lesser than their parts. You just can't justify ranking them over The Jam, The Kinks, erm The Beatles (I assume they are counting the TV soundtrack Magical Mystery Tour to count them out?).
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
idiocy - magical mystery tour is my favorite beatles record
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Friday, 30 October 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
don't be so hard on yourself
― some dude, Friday, 30 October 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
this is a long drive...the lonesome crowded westthe moon and antacticagood news for people...
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 30 October 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
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cosigned - and they're all double albums!
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 October 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Born Sandy Devotional/In The Pines/Calenture/The Black Swan
Brave Words/Submarine Bells/Soft Bomb/Silver Bullets
Smeared/Twice Removed/One Chord To Another/Navy Blues
L'Echappee Belle/Immobile/Faux Mouvement/Autour De Lucie
Realistic/Apartment Life/Long Distance/In The Clear (not forgetting Guestroom)
Gala/Spooky/Split/Lovelife
Don't know if these all qualify for *greatness* but I love 'em.
― agincourtgirl, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
In on the Killtaker / Red Medicine / End Hits / The Argument
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
If Gala counts I'd start with Kaleidoscope World for the Chills.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 30 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
Ry Cooder's first four albums (Ry Cooder, Boomer's Story, Into the Purple Valley and Paradise and Lunch).
― banjoboy, Friday, 30 October 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death/Killer/School's Out/Billion Dollar Babies
― henry s, Friday, 30 October 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
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.
― yugi ex, Friday, 30 October 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
Orbital 2, Snivilisation, In Sides, The Middle of Nowhere.
― Turrican, Friday, 30 October 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Tubeway Army, Replicas, The Pleasure Principle, Telekon.
― Turrican, Friday, 30 October 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
The Shape of Jazz to Come / Change of the Century / This Is Our Music / Free Jazz
― cock chirea, Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― cock chirea, Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
Amber, Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
Streetcleaner / Pure / Selfless / Songs of Love and Hate
― cock chirea, Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
Some of my favorite rock LPs right there.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
y'all are being absurd so fine
peng/transient random-noise bursts/mars audiac quintet/emperor tomato ketchupcongregation/gentlemen/black love/1965painful/electr-o-pura/i can hear the heart beating as one/and nothing turned itself inside out
prob beggars banquet thru exile tho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
have we named all the rock bands yet
― brimstead, Saturday, 31 October 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link
re: Modest Mouse, 'Good News' kinda stinks. now if 'Building Nothing Out of Something' counts ... (which it shouldn't)
― alpine static, Saturday, 31 October 2015 03:03 (eight years ago) link
We haven't mentioned Status Quo yet.
― Mark G, Saturday, 31 October 2015 07:28 (eight years ago) link