Which band has the best discography?

'80s Miles:

The Man With The Horn has its moments
The 1981 comeback live band rules (We Want Miles, Miles! Miles! Miles!)
Star People and Decoy are just OK; Decoy is better
You're Under Arrest is really good
Tutu is a masterpiece
Amandla is pretty good, as is Siesta
Doo-Bop is a solid EP if you delete all the tracks with vocals (in fact, delete every track Miles ever recorded with a vocalist)
Any and all '80s live material is better than the studio stuff. His bands were uniformly hot from 1984-1989.

but i do think it's a bit much to consider sabbath for this thread xp

I've never made it all the way through Aura.

(in fact, delete every track Miles ever recorded with a vocalist)

truthbomb. the lone vocal on Birth of the Cool is abysmal.

Underworld would be a decent choice if we forget their first two rock albums, which they might want us to forget.

underneath the radar is a good single, a shame he looks like Francis rossi in the video

if we replaced those two with the two Freur albums then yeah totally it works

fwiw I think Change the Weather is a decent LP, not killer but kind of a guilty pleasure

Underneath the Radar would be alright if every song was shortened by a minute

WTF no way would Sabbath qualify for this thread. If they'd stopped after Sabotage and maybe regrouped for Mob, Heaven, and Born again and then stopped completely, sure.

second freur album is a bit dull imo

its one of those albums I dig that I suspect nobody else really does, its just full of catchy tunes front to back

really could use a remaster though, it sounds like garbage

unperson OTM; some 80s Miles is great, most of it is good

but his 80s lows are the deepest of his discography, thanks to poor decisions about production, guitar tones, and synth presets (and, yes, vocals)

otoh Aura is good not bad

even his fashion choices then were hideous

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/8/27/1282918078033/Miles-Davis-in-1989-006.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=e07ee1888c864f9d32057974b9375ced

Thanks for the lolz Miles

I've never made it all the way through /Aura/.

american bradass (BradNelson) at 1:30 31 Jan 20

Born Again is in that zone of records that's been "underrated" for so long I think it's almost becoming overrated

pfft one listen to "disturbing the priest" or "zero the hero" would disabuse you of this notion

I've heard it!

Miles would win best wardrobe - 80s included.

xp i assumed! :)

xps to frogbs: this is the pre-underworld compilation I put together a while back

01 The Screen Gemz - I Just Can't Stand Cars
02 Freur - Doot Doot
03 Freur - Steam Machine
04 Freur - The Devil and Darkness
05 Freur - You're a Hoover (Dun Difrunt)
06 Freur - The Piano Song
07 Freur - Bella Donna
08 Freur - This is the Way I'd Like To Live My Life (Snippet)
09 Freur - Hey Ho Away We Go
10 Freur - Alabaster White Thing
11 Underworld - Underneath The Radar
12 Underworld - Bright White Flame
13 Underworld - The God Song
14 Underworld - Stand Up
15 Underworld - Mercy
16 Underworld - Sole Survivor

guess yours would be a bit different

WGTIFH...TYFYS is definitely a solid comeback album but i would argue that it's the ONLY tribe album which, if you removed the vocals, would be somewhat boring to listen to.

now i agree BR&L and TLM are lyrically not the strongest albums. but the thing people sometimes forget is, the production on there is INCREDIBLE and a lot of the beats are by the GOAT himself (Dilla) ... so, if you think the love movement is bad album, try listening to the instrumental version and you may change your opinion !

lol why would I judge a rap album just by the instrumentals

actually I'm gonna say everything I've heard by clipping. has been 100% fire

also has anybody nominated Sun Ra yet

btw the Dilla beats on The Love Movement were the main things I found objectionable

I did, upthread.

xp

Amazed no one has mentioned Insane Clown Posse, tbh.

The Amazing Jeckel Brothers sucked hardcore and everything the did afterward was incredibly variant in quality, usually bad. Also, the debut is terrible.

but every Juggalo is a classic

actually I'm gonna say everything I've heard by clipping. has been 100% fire

btw the Dilla beats on The Love Movement were the main things I found objectionable

fair enough, but would you agree with me that they are better than the ones on WGTIFH...TYFYS

OP: take in every single thing a band has recorded from start to finish – albums, B-sides, loosies

adding in things that were deliberately not released at the time, only decades after the band split and a member or two died (as with Beatles and Go-Betweens), means that every other act in the thread also ought to be judged by the material they thought was too bad to release.

yup

Ghost (from the Far East)

ooh that's a good one. they really don't have any bad records!

Sleater-Kinney have a pretty good ratio?

Yes, but their debut is not good.

i love bands with perfect discographies other than their shitty debut, cf. sleater-kinney... jimmy eat world... idk there are others

I was thinking about Ghost but that album with Damon and Naomi is not great imo

they have two and I love them both!

Herbie Nichols
Derek Bailey
Fushitsusha

yeah was gonna say Fusitsusha or High Rise

Latter-day Fushitsusha records are not nearly as good as the ones with the classic lineup. Also Allegorical Misunderstanding, the one they did on Zorn’s Avant label, is pretty weak.

i love bands with perfect discographies other than their shitty debut, cf. sleater-kinney... jimmy eat world... idk there are others

Spoon! (Although I still haven't heard Telephono, which more people appear to ride hard for in comparison to the first SK or Jimmy Eat World)

i love bands with perfect discographies other than their shitty debut, cf. sleater-kinney... jimmy eat world... idk there are others

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 January 2020 10:37 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stina Nordenstam's debut album isn't shitty but there's a big leap between that and her second album, and she maintained a near-perfect discography thereafter.

as you guys noted above, duke, miles and coltrane were extremely consistent. i would add thelonious monk and charlie parker to that list as well

Only reason I would exclude Monk is Monk’s Blues, his last studio record, and...not a good one.

But Charlie Parker, definitely.

Mentioned GangStarr above but they def are another "perfect discography with shitty debut" group. Actually iirc correctly their debut has 1 classic & rest is, er, forgettable.

i kind of love monk's blues lol... but i feel u tho it has some cringey moments for sure. by the way it's not his last studio album, he actually recorded some dope underrated albums in the early seventies, such as 'something in blue' with art blakey

drive like jehu never fucked around

Maybe Boredoms? Although I guess fans of their late-period drum-oriented stuff might not be down with the early noise-dada stuff.

Several of the Super Roots EPs seemed kind of throwaway