― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess Nick Drake works, though.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Belle and Sebastian sounds fair enough to me.
My Bloody Valentine seems fairly obvious.
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Spoon (although there may be a debate between Gimme Fiction & Kill The Moonlight)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― elgolfo (elgolfo), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
unless of course you think they peaked with "sunny sundae smile," which they damn well might have.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
More impressive, Stars of the Lid have got better with each of their six albums.
Devendra Banhart? Oh me oh my... < Black Babies < Rejoicing in the hands < Nino Rojo
The National? Sad songs for dirty lovers < Cherry Tree < Alligator
― dmun drive-in (dmun), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 20 May 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― dmun drive-in (dmun), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Antony and the JohnsonsDevendra Banhart
And add:
Avil Lavigne!GrandaddyThe Unicorns
This is a tough thread for career artists to 'make'.
― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― mitch dub (ano ano), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 20 May 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Camper Van Beethoven seems way, way off to me.
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
(And maybe Justin Timberlake, including *NSync if that counts?)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Friday, 20 May 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm prob. the only one who think so,but animal collective
― Zeno, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Mr. Bungle.
― chap, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Enon
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Neko Case
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Boards of Canada?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― chap, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:36 (2 years ago)
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 20 November 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
A strong case can be made for Half Man Half Biscuit as well
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 20 November 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Minor lol @ Devendra Banhart love upthread...goes to show that it's difficult to have monotonically improving albums if you keep releasing new ones.
― seandalai, Saturday, 20 November 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I can barely listen to any of them but you could argue that Animal Collective has improved with every album.
― skip, Saturday, 20 November 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of yeah, though I'd say Strawberry Jam < Feels quite significantly. Once you put out a bunch of albums it's hard to keep the always-inclining crowd happy.
― seandalai, Saturday, 20 November 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem?
― Mark, Saturday, 20 November 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
no
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 20 November 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― based lord sotosyn (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 November 2010 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Supergrass fit in here for a long time, until they took a slight dip on "Road To Rouen" and then a more ill-advised and bigger one on "Diamond Ho-Haa"
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 20 November 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
fugazi
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Meat is Murder has the title track on it, so no
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Hatful Of Hollow isn't an album! basically an early Greatest Hits
Fugazi are contenders for sure but The Smiths S/T 1st one is way better than MIM for me.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
maybe portishead
― mookieproof, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:23 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ding ding ding
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
this might be a minority opinion but Amon Tobin!
Could make solid arguments for Slowdive, Rival Consoles, Angel Olsen, and Jon Hopkins
― octobeard, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
british sea power are a good answer to this imho
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
Aesop Rock, IMO. His older stuff doesn't hold a candle to his newer stuff, and he seems to get better constantly.
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
can't really get behind Bazooka Tooth as better than Labor Days
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
oh wait I'm on the wrong thread. BSP offtm
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
xp yeah I realized that immediately after posting. I tend to forget about that album.
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
The Sound― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 9:19 AM (three hours ago)
Gerald, you're my favorite poster here for a reason.
I'm gonna venture outside of the popular music area for a bit and say Gustav Mahler and Franz Schubert.
Trying to think of a jazz person that this could apply to, but those folks all have huge catalogues, so it's hard.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
really the only candidates for this thread are ones with pretty limited/proscribed discographies. Anyone who's been recording for more than a decade is going to have some clearly identifiable peaks and valleys.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
trust fund is a great answer because they split up this year having released an album about splitting up that also happens to be an indiepop monument - i.e. there's an actual arc to their whole recording career
their four albums basically went: decent juvenilia -> again, with stronger tunes and more of a sense of self -> super little weird record -> masterpiece
i basically just wanted to talk about them, but there have been some cool wrong suggestions itt since
― imago, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
Steely Dan
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
nah
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
I mean Gaucho is great but my favorite album is actually the first one lol
yeah my favorite atm iis Aja but it's often Gaucho and The Royal Scam is a solid 3rd behind them.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
Steely Dan made more than one album?
(FP ME, IDGAF)
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
but which one did they make, Austin?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/The_Best_of_Steely_Dan_-_Then_and_Now.jpg
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Haha, that's what will actually get me FP'd.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
jesus, is that a Stonehenge made of cars?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhenge
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Yep!
Anyway, to answer your question:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1JOM-koWOL._SX466_.jpg
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Buncha things to respond to itt:
> Meat is Murder has the title track on it, so no
I heard "Meat Is Murder" when I was 17 so I'll admit to some temporal bias but I still love every heart-on-his-sleeve bit of it more than the rest of their catalog. It's full of amazing sounds (especially given that my copy included "How Soon Is Now").
> British Sea Power
Their catalog has been inconsistent for me, and I'll rep for most of it. The debut is great, then a couple of good but lesser albums until "Valhalla Dancehall" which I adore, then lesser returns on the next couple of albums (not counting the soundtrack work, which is fine but not my thing).
> Gerald, you're my favorite poster here for a reason.
Cheers, Austin! The Sound is one of those amazing bands where each album feels like a triumph for very different reasons. "Jeopardy" is a punch in the face, "From The Lions Mouth" tones it down but adds wonderful texture, "All Fall Down" is a left-turn full-on post-punk masterpiece, "Shock Of Daylight" is a perfect pop EP, "Heads And Hearts" takes that pop and inverts it and "Thunder Up" crystallizes everything Borland was trying to accomplish. And then his solo albums almost continue that upward climb but "Brittle Heaven" and "Cinematic" are a bit weak.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
I think 3 albums is the sweet spot:Vampire WeekendJanelle MonaeSolange
― enochroot, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
potential challop: Jawbreaker
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
post flagged
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
xposts more bands should nick Manic Street Preacher albums for their own.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Beat happening lol
― nostormo, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Hum
― nostormo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Radiation City (3 albums)Scrawl (6 albums!!)Secret Cities (3 albums)
Someone mentioned Joanna Newsom - only up to "Have One On Me" though ("Divers" < "Ys" in my opinion).
― ernestp, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
clipping
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link