POLL: Which band has the best discography?

it's Death for me. YEAH YEAH PVMIC HAHA GET FUCKED

Nirvana maybe close second because even when I got the boxed set with all kinds of b-sides and early versions I loved all that shit too and all of the studio albums and Incesticide, the live albums, like....I drank all things Nirvana and still do

In the end, I voted for Smiths, The. Even though their singer was that guy.

I would never count them as one of my fav bands but they don't have anything I don't like. Which isn't something I can say about my real favourite bands.

Out of these options it has to be Sade. They've never released an album or single that would be less than good, I can't imagine it applies to anyone else. Certainly not Miles Davis or Fela Kuti, whose output clearly got worse in the 1980s. Maybe Portishead qualifies too, but IMO including an act with just 3 albums is kinda cheating.

Hey all I said in the of thread was that the Beatles have some bad songs!

Which they do

Then you turned on me for saying the exact same thing itt!

Am I being trolled?

I propose that there be no further mentions of the Beatles itt under this line

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the beatles

you're a troll otherwise, am i being trolled is this trolling?

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really no idea what my American choice would be, possibly Badu based on actual listening frequency - top 5 is all Brits and out of those I am leaning Broadcast as the others all had much more commercial success

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Sheesh, this poll would be a cinch if only those four loveable mop-tops from Liverpuddle were an option, but now I don't know who to pick. Help!

Echo & The Bunnymen?

The Stone Roses iirc

Never mind, I'm fairly sure it was A Flock of Seagulls.

IMO including an act with just 3 albums is kinda cheating.

It's not cheating, that's the definition of a band who have the best discography, one that's been very sparing with what they release.

But also

The discography of British trip hop group Portishead consists of three studio albums, one live album, one compilation, ten singles and one video album.

Better yet, only one song

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Portishaters should give the third album a shot. I always liked them fine but that one surprised the hell out of me, particularly given that it dropped a decade after I thought they were pretty much over.

Well, it was voted ILM's best album of the noughties…

i should’ve suggested sunny day real estate

^^ a very good suggestion, at that

Came down to D'Angelo and Fugazi for me, but I've never liked 'The Argument'

madness

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madness

I don't really know them beyond a couple of songs

xpost lol, Lads, neither Madness nor !(!!) are in the running for this poll.

The Madness discography is a case study in diminishing returns.

Neither are !!! tbf xp

oh duh :/

but yeah no idea why wham! is here

― american bradass (BradNelson)

When I spotted Wham! on the list, I briefly considered voting for them, non-ironically, until I remembered the first album. 66.6% isn't a great average.
("Make It Big" however, is as wall-to-wall solid as Thriller)

One Step Beyond... (1979) (UK No. 2)
Absolutely (1980) (UK No. 2)
7 (1981) (UK No. 5)
The Rise & Fall (1982) (UK No. 10)
Keep Moving (1984) (UK No. 6)
Mad Not Mad (1985) (UK No. 16)
The Madness (1988) (UK No. 66)
Wonderful (1999) (UK No. 17)
The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (2005) (UK No. 11)
The Liberty of Norton Folgate (2009) (UK No. 5)
Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012) (UK No. 10)
Can't Touch Us Now (2016) (UK No. 5)

I haven't heard any of these after 'Keep Moving' and I'm in no hurry to return to that.

voted Sonic Youth, they have a shitload of albums and they're all at least pretty good, to echo what's been said upthread, that's more impressive to me than like Big Star having three great albums or whatever. Zeppelin would probably be my #2. Coltrane is probably the "right" answer but I haven't heard a bunch of his albums.

pvmic

I actually think the !!! discography is really solid

I don't skip anything on Sgt Pepper, Rubber Soul, or the white album (everyone else is probably right but idc), and only "Hello Goodbye" on MMT, but I actually totally agree about the inconsistency of Revolver: "Love You To", "Yellow Submarine", "Good Day Sunshine", and "Dr Robert" are the ones I like least, esp the first two. The rest of it is incredible, though.

Zep and SY are probably my all-time favourite rock bands. With the former, though, I don't care that much for In Through the Out Door, barely even remember anything on Coda, and TSRTS has some dross on it. I can find something to like in p much every SY release so they might get my vote, since maintaining consistency across a fairly vast discography counts for something vs releasing a few perfect albums. With Miles, Coltrane, and Duke, I haven't heard anything really bad but I just don't feel like I know their entire discographies well enough. Nirvana is a really good answer; a dud or two on the Unplugged album but, generally, v solid. Joy Division's live recordings can be pretty bad, enough to disqualify them imo. "Miserable Lie" alone is enough to disqualify the Smiths. Gorguts/Husker Du/SotL all worth consideration.

gonna make sure d'angelo gets a vote. not that he prob wouldn't anyway, but still.

thread is a good reminder of some artists I scarcely know at all whose discographies I really need to dig into: Sade, Royal Trux, Fugazi

have you ever heard of the Beatles

Is that a deliberate misspelling.

It was the '60s, no one was going to sell albums by a band called the Buttholes.

the best place to start with the Buttholes is with their song "She's a Woman" by Scritti Politti, also that's the best place to stop

Then you turned on me for saying the exact same thing itt!

Am I being trolled?

I never troll! I just disagree, vehemently, about the volume of bad songs (30%-40% of the catalog?! That's insane) and the specific songs/albums you cited.

personally I'd put the Beatles hit/success rate at closer to like 90%

I was exaggerating for effect. My actual breakdown would look something like: 25% the pits, 35% eh, good enough, 40% fuck yeah, this is awesome.

The Beatles, more like The Perfects imo

Easy vote for Low - a band whose aesthetic concept should have run into a ditch after three albums, but instead have been endlessly fascinating and wonderful for 25 years and still going—and their most recent album is arguably the best thing they’ve ever done!

Easy vote for Low - a band whose aesthetic concept should have run into a ditch after three albums, but instead have been endlessly fascinating and wonderful for 25 years and still going—and their most recent album is arguably the best thing they’ve ever done!

Voted Sade.

btw this year i’m going to see both deftones and underworld live for the first time :D

I saw Deftones about a decade ago, with Dir En Grey opening. They were really good. (Dir En Grey were amazing.)

this tour poppy and gojira are opening. i expect to die

I have too long an attention span for Poppy, but the prospect of a new Gojira album is extremely exciting. It's been too long.