Best pair of albums by the same artist/band in a single calendar year

cmon dub is cheating

how so? This kind of output is dictated by economic/marketing opportunities, and dub as a scene at the time was just flush with opportunities. Scientist and Tubby were still cutting tracks and mixing product, I don't see why the actual mechanics of what got put on the albums should matter that much.

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home / Highway 61 Revisted (1965)

This isn't that rare.

Eno, "Discreet Music" & "Another Green World"

I seem to remember discussing whether HCTWJ & TTMBYS were released the same year, wiki says yes but I don't trust it.

The Byrds did it a few times

Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot (1972)

Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot / Spotlight Kid (1972), Bluejeans & Moonbeams / Unconditionally Guaranteed (1978)

lol xp

double don

how so?

I think it'd make more sense to credit the studio bands for this output then whoever produced/mixed/remixed it.

than

xxp quadruple Captain

manifold magic band

I think it'd make more sense to credit the studio bands for this output then whoever produced/mixed/remixed it.

fair enough, but in that case I think we're talking about literally dozens of albums of material from the Roots Radics, Aggrovators, Upsetters etc. as qualifying

Catch A Fire (1973)
Burnin' (1973)

- Bob Marley

I guess Ned must be offline right now because the two Sparks albums from 1974 haven't been mentioned yet

The Yes Album & Fragile both came out in 1971 so there's another good one

literally dozens of albums of material from the Roots Radics, Aggrovators, Upsetters etc. as qualifying

Yeah. I thought of them but it'd take hours to wade through and try to figure out the best albums they played on in any one year.

I'm curious how many good examples there are of this past, say, 1981. Feels like the record companies really pushed bands to crank out material in the 70s but that seemed to go out the window when certain LPs of the 80s sold in insane numbers. Nowadays a 3-4 year gap is pretty standard.

I'm on team Creedence here, that is all

Thinking something similar, frogbs. A winner for each decade would be good.

there was basically no reason for anybody to do this in the 70-minute CD/major label bloat late 90s-early 00s era. and then post-internet what constitutes an "album" becomes very questionable - people are streaming mixtapes, etc.

and in the 80s release schedules scaled back as budgets balooned, CDs came in etc.

Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence / Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet (1999)

not even going to look up the keiji haino or acid mothers temple discographies

there was basically no reason for anybody to do this in the 70-minute CD/major label bloat late 90s-early 00s era. and then post-internet what constitutes an "album" becomes very questionable - people are streaming mixtapes, etc.

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DMX tho!

the Rolling Stones did this a couple of years

1965: The Rolling Stones, Now!, Out of Our Heads, December's Children (and Everybody's)

1967: Between the Buttons, Their Satanic Majesties Request

nobody's mentioned the beatles in 1964, 1965, or 1967, so i will

it's probably not even fair to look at jazz guys ... Miles Davis, for example, released multiple albums each year 1953-1961

do you think any pair of them are the best pair released in a single year tho?

Tenuous, but if Dylan had released the "Royal Albert Hall" show in 1966, that and Blonde on Blonde would have been an amazing pair.

Prince - Sign O' The Times / The Black Album (1987)

xp of that run of years, my favorite would probably be 1957, when Miles had moved to Columbia but still had albums coming out on Prestige:

'Round About Midnight, Walkin', Miles Ahead, Cookin', Bags' Groove

I'm not crazy about the last one, but I play the others pretty often ... for a best pair I guess I'd choose 'Round About Midnight and Miles Ahead

The Black Album was not actually released in 1987! It was released in 1994.

xps

also DMX is terrible

yeah true about the black album, i was counting boots though!

Autechre: NTS Sessions 1 (5/4/19), NTS Sessions 2 (12/4/19), NTS Sessions 3 (19/4/19), NTS Sessions 4 (26/4/19),

Black Album was pressed and promoed in 1987, it's fair to count for thread purposes. Thread title only says "by."

in that case you could argue that almost all of Miles' 70s output was recorded in the same year in which case he wins this hands down imo

Someone said Drift in the other thread...

Tim Buckley - Happy Sad / Blue Afternoon (1969); Lorca / Starsailor (1970)

The Nolans - "Nolan Sisters", "Making Waves"

I read somewhere that the DMX thing was due to label pressure - Def Jam were being sold (from Polygram to Universal, as part of what would become the Island Def Jam Music Group) and needed another hit record to drive up their valuation, so they promised him a bonus if he'd deliver before the end of the calendar year.

obv E-40, who has more than a few examples. Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift and Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift from 2010 are all time

xpost ^ oh yeah - last year Underworld put out four "episodes" of their Drift series ranging from 38 mins to 85 mins, plus a box set collecting all of it (inc. a 30 minute episode from 2018) with another two hours of bonus tracks, plus the 70-minute Manchester Street Poem album.

in that case you could argue that almost all of Miles' 70s output was recorded in the same year in which case he wins this hands down imo

the two albums recorded in 1970 both came out in 1971 anyway so this doesn't especially gain anything! nobody's counting Lovesexy as 1987 because one song from The Black Album got used on it, and there's only five minutes from 1970 on Get Up With It

Motörhead released Overkill in March 1979, Bomber in October 1979, and On Parole (recorded in 1976) in December 1979.

Lol good call on E-40. Obv the volume of what he put out diminished the individual impact of each release, but dude was releasing three albums a year (on the same day) and they were usually all fire

Van Morrison: Moondance and His Band & Street Choir (1970)

Neil Young: Tonight's The Night and Zuma (1975)

it’s dark and flesh of my flesh are fucking awesome records

los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster & we are beautiful, we are doomed

oh, foolish consumers if so! but also, lol

imagining an ILM 1994 EOY poll where I get very worked up about them getting votesplit even as Illmatic and Dummy are knocked into surprise 2nd and 3rd place finishes by...Low

Prince in 1982 - 1999/ What Time Is It?/Vanity 6

I know the post specifies "calendar year" but if we just include any 12-month stretch, June 1970 - June 1971 was very good for Tim Hart and Maddy Prior; Hark! The Village Wait and Please to See the King (with Steeleye Span) and Summer Solstice (as a duo)

Also MF DOOM dropping Madvilliany and MM... FOOD in 2004

iirc Holiday was recorded first but some label issue meant it got delayed until after Charm of the Highway Strip (which was their first on Merge)

Help! and Rubber Soul (1965)

Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

The Clash released 5 LPs from December 1979 to December 1980.

The Monkees: More of The Monkees; Headquarters; and Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (All in 1967)

hard to beat Haruomi Hosono doing Paraiso and Cochin Moon in the same year, plus a third of Pacific AND forming YMO and writing a bunch of the first album