Black Flag
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
God fucking damn, wrong thread, durrrrr
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
trust fundsean mccannyouth lagoon/trevor powersmount eerierachel's (during their career)maybe joanna newsom?
this is tough
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Black Flag― MaresNest, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 2:11 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkGod fucking damn, wrong thread, durrrrr― MaresNest, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 2:13 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― MaresNest, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 2:11 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Please argue the case for it anyway.
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
Simon & Garfunkel is a good one
Many xps
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
Paramore
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Glass Hammer are a good example of a prog band who did this for like, 10 straight albums or so
Lemon Demon/Neil Cicierega is another good one
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
The Sound
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Chastity Belt
― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
the Beatles
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
I agree their early albums are borderline unlistenable, but no.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
maybe portishead
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
maybe not, lol
there are very few "good" answers to this, probably
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
you could say the 1975
i'd disagree with you, but you could say it
― austinb, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
the Smiths
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
A case could also maybe be made for the MC5 (or even the Stooges?), and I think I know people who could make the case. But not me.― xhuxk, Friday, May 20, 2005 4:28 PM (thirteen years ago)
I would have agreed with the Stooges thirteen years ago (when Chuck posted that), but then other albums came along...
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Daphne & Celeste
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
> the Smiths
No way. High point is either "Hatful of Hollow" or "Meat Is Murder".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
― austinb, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 11:34 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
too early imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
fugazi
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
― 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