Acts whose entire album output has always been on the incline, with no exception

Antony and the Johnsons
Devendra Banhart

And add:

Avil Lavigne!
Grandaddy
The Unicorns

This is a tough thread for career artists to 'make'.

Also, Camper Van Beethoven seems way, way off to me.

(And maybe Justin Timberlake, including *NSync if that counts?)

i'm prob. the only one who think so,but animal collective

Mr. Bungle.

Enon

Neko Case

Boards of Canada?

Mr. Bungle.

― chap, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:36 (2 years ago)

A strong case can be made for Half Man Half Biscuit as well

Minor lol @ Devendra Banhart love upthread...goes to show that it's difficult to have monotonically improving albums if you keep releasing new ones.

I can barely listen to any of them but you could argue that Animal Collective has improved with every album.

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.

LCD Soundsystem?

no

no

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"

I guess Fountains Of Wayne have dropped out of this list by now. Their fourth album was not at all bad, but still not up there with "Welcome Interstate Managers".

A strong case can be made for Half Man Half Biscuit as well

Dunno, I played their first two a lot, but "Achtung Bono" got one play and I feel that if had been 'better', it'd have got more.

trust fund

I understand others might feel differently but my first thought was Broadcast.

Simon & Garfunkel

This Mortal Coil

My first thought was Japan, and I'm sure the band members that are still with us would agree, but on second thought I think their first album is better than their second.

I posted in the other thread that the Midge Ure Ultravox belonged there. Funnily enough I would also say that the John Foxx Ultravox belong in this thread.

deftones

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub) at 11:43 20 May 05

Belle and Sebastian

Black Flag

God fucking damn, wrong thread, durrrrr

trust fund
sean mccann
youth lagoon/trevor powers
mount eerie
rachel's (during their career)
maybe joanna newsom?

this is tough

Steely Dan

nah

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.

Steely Dan made more than one album?

(FP ME, IDGAF)

but which one did they make, Austin?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/The_Best_of_Steely_Dan_-_Then_and_Now.jpg

Haha, that's what will actually get me FP'd.

jesus, is that a Stonehenge made of cars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhenge

Yep!

Anyway, to answer your question:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1JOM-koWOL._SX466_.jpg

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.

I think 3 albums is the sweet spot:
Vampire Weekend
Janelle Monae
Solange

potential challop: Jawbreaker

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xposts more bands should nick Manic Street Preacher albums for their own.

Beat happening lol

Hum

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).

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