Sun Ra "Space Is the Place" and "Solar Myth Approach Vol. 2" in 1972
he averaged (at least) two good albums a year for over a decade imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
haha just noticed that KM post
― rob, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
actually lots of jazz guys did this tbrr
Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life, World Record (both 1976)Peter Hammill – The Silent Corner & the Empty Stage, In Camera (both 1974)
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
First two Led Zeppelin albums were both 1969 I think
― groovypanda, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Linval Thompson 1978: I Love Marijuana, Negrea Love Dub, Rocking Vibration, Love is the Question
and 1979: I Love Jah, Six Babylon, and Cool Down
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Elton John 1973: Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player -> Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadCCR with the three-fer:Bayou Country (1969)Green River (1969)Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
Think I prefer when VDGG did this in 1970 to 1976 tbh - World Record lets that year down a bit imo. Mind you I'm not SO keen on H to He either, so...idk
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
I see your CCR and raise you:Confusion (1975)Expensive Shit (1975)He Miss Road (1975)Water No Get Enemy (1975)
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
Xps. Duh
Dillinger 1976: Bionic Dread, CB 200
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
for a couple of hazy weeks during the winter of 2011/2012 my answer might well have been The Weeknd’s House of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes of Silence trilogy.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
King Tubby 1975: Shalom Dub, E-E Saw Dub, BRass Rockers, Dubbing with the Observer, Dub From the Roots, Presents the Roots of Dub
Scientist 1980: Big Showdown, The Best Dub Album in the World, Big Showdown, Heavyweight Dub Champion
Scientist 1981: Meets the Space Invaders, Scientific Dub, In the Kingdom of Dub, Rids the World of the Curse of the Vampires, World at War, Dub Landing Vol. 1
Scientist 1982: Encounters Pac Man, High Priest of Dub, Dub Landing Vol. 2, Heavy Metal Dub, the Seducer Dubwise, Wins the World Cup
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Low / Heroes
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980)Organisation (1980)
― omar little, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
I can't imagine they were any good but didn't Kiss once release 4 albums on the same day (one for each band member)?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
Leave Home / Rocket to Russia
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Funkadelic 1970: self-titled, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Parliament 1975: Chocolate City, The Mothership Connection
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
Husker Du - New Day Rising / Flip Your Wig (1985)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
But duh, an obvious recent case is Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa’s Scorpion Kings/The Return of the Scorpion Kings one-two, both on my 2019 album ballot.Not to mention there was also their Piano Hub last year, as well as Kabza’s solo Pretty Girls Love Amapiano mixtape. - and just this week the pair dropped another excellent album.Beat that, you Big Thieves people!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
... and The Idiot / Lust for Life, all '77.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance / Dub Housing (1978)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue/Porgy & Bess (1959)Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick/In Color (1977)
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
Tons of punk bands did this. Albums I like:
Be-Bop Deluxe:Sunburst Finish (2/76) / Modern Music (9/76)
The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus (4/77) / No More Heroes (9/77)The Gospel Of The Men In Black (2/81) / La Folie (11/81)
XTC:White Music (1/78) / Go 2 (10/78)
The Jam:In The City (5/77) / This Is The Modern World (11/77)
Joe Jackson: Look Sharp! (1/79) / I'm The Man (10/79)
The Fall:Live At The Witch Trials (3/79) / Dragnet (10/79)Hex Enduction Hour (3/82) / Room To Live (9/82)The Frenz Experiment (2/88) / I Am Kurious Orange (10/88)
YMO:BGM (3/81) / Technodelic (11/81)
John Foxx and the Maths:Interplay (3/2011) / The Shape Of Things (10/2011)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
Moon Duo: Occult Architecture volumes 1 and 2 (2017)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
starting to think this isn't that impressive
― rob, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
cmon dub is cheating
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? / Axis Bold As Love (1967)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
Ferry/Roxy:
StrandedThese Foolish Things
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
and I'd argue DaBaby last year:
Baby on BabyKirk
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Merle Haggard
1967: Swinging Doors (And the Bottle Let Me Down), I'm a Lonesome Fugitive, Branded Man1968: The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde, Mama Tried, Singe Me Back Home1969: Pride in What I Am, Okie from Muskogee, A Portrait of Merle Haggard1971: Someday We'll Look Back, Hag, The Land of Many Churches
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
how so? This kind of output is dictated by economic/marketing opportunities, and dub as a scene at the time was just flush with opportunities. Scientist and Tubby were still cutting tracks and mixing product, I don't see why the actual mechanics of what got put on the albums should matter that much.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home / Highway 61 Revisted (1965)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
This isn't that rare.
Eno, "Discreet Music" & "Another Green World"
I seem to remember discussing whether HCTWJ & TTMBYS were released the same year, wiki says yes but I don't trust it.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
The Byrds did it a few times
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot (1972)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot / Spotlight Kid (1972), Bluejeans & Moonbeams / Unconditionally Guaranteed (1978)
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
lol xp
double don
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
how so?
I think it'd make more sense to credit the studio bands for this output then whoever produced/mixed/remixed it.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
than
xxp quadruple Captain
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
manifold magic band
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
fair enough, but in that case I think we're talking about literally dozens of albums of material from the Roots Radics, Aggrovators, Upsetters etc. as qualifying
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
Catch A Fire (1973)Burnin' (1973)
- Bob Marley
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
I guess Ned must be offline right now because the two Sparks albums from 1974 haven't been mentioned yet
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
The Yes Album & Fragile both came out in 1971 so there's another good one
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
literally dozens of albums of material from the Roots Radics, Aggrovators, Upsetters etc. as qualifying
Yeah. I thought of them but it'd take hours to wade through and try to figure out the best albums they played on in any one year.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
I'm curious how many good examples there are of this past, say, 1981. Feels like the record companies really pushed bands to crank out material in the 70s but that seemed to go out the window when certain LPs of the 80s sold in insane numbers. Nowadays a 3-4 year gap is pretty standard.
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link
Just to raise the four album per year record of Fela Kuti 1975. Frank Zappa 1979:
- Sleep Dirt- Sheik Yerbouti- Orchestral Favourites- Joe's Garage Act I- Joe's Garage Acts II & III
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
Sault and Moses Sumney should be on here
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
I'm sure John Zorn has released 25 or so decent albums in a year at some point
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
A couple of those Zappa ones were recorded years earlier though and then held up by some sort of legal dispute? Notwithstanding the fact that it's Frank Zappa so none of the individual albums are that great.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
was going to say '94 Pete Namlook/FAX crew etc, but of course Tuomas beat me to it with his Atom suggestion.
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
I think Gucci Mane is not really highly regarded on ILM (at least his recent output) but he did it a few times over the last few years imo (2019, 2017, 2016).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Sault, otm.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
Sault - 5 + 7Tom Waits - Blood Money + Alice
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Kabza de Small’s tally so far this year (there were four last year, see upthread):February: Scorpion Kings Live (with DJ Maphorisa) (note: it’s a studio album)April: Pretty Girls Love Amapiano, Vol. 2April: Once Upon a Time in Lockdown (with DJ Maphorisa)June: I Am The King Of Amapiano: Sweet & DustThese are long-ass albums, they are a lot to take in, people might even say (and have said, on this thread) they can get a bit samey, but it’s quality stuff and there’s plenty of gold* as well as new and exciting directions explored on all of them.*including song-of-the-year-so-far “Emcimbini” on February’s offering
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
mount eerie - clear moon / ocean roar (2012)
― devvvine, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
Billy Childish has done this several times, in terms of actual numbers of albums it looks like he was busiest in 1987 with 7/8 actual albums not including live and comps, but not sure they were all actually good (they definitely weren't all actually good)
I do rate these though:
1984Milkshakes - Nothing Can Stop These MenMilkshakes - They Came, They Saw, They ConqueredMilkshakes - Thee Knights of Trashe
1986Thee Mighty Caesars - Acropolis NowThe Delmonas - Delmonas 5
1990Thee Headcoats - Beach Bums Must DieThee Headcoats - Heavens To Murgatroyd, Even! It's Thee Headcoats (Already)
1994Thee Headcoats - ConundrumThee Headcoatees - Ballad Of The Insolent Pup
1996Thee Headcoats - In Tweed We TrustThee Headcoats - Knights of the Baskervilles
(warning - do not listen if you hate garage rock/punk)
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
as always with Zappa the sum total of good stuff on those albums is pretty impressive, especially since most of those are doubles
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
thinking we could call this the Kabzappa Phenomenon
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Sault ― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:25 AM
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:25 AM
Sault, otm.― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:48 AM
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:48 AM
Sault - 5 + 7― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 8:23 AM
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 8:23 AM
because it bears repeating.
hell, add the new one and that's three in just over a year.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 30 July 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 July 2020 07:45 (four years ago) link
Let us not forget Elvis Costello's 1986: King of America / Blood and Chocolate
― SlimAndSlam, Thursday, 30 July 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
The Doors 1967: The Doors and Strange Days
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 30 July 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
Heldon, 1975: Allez Téia / It's Always Rock and Roll
(the latter is a double LP)
― panburger partner (unregistered), Thursday, 30 July 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Conquistador! were both released in 1966, at least according to Wikipedia.If you count each disc that makes up the Cecil Taylor In Berlin ‘88 box as an individual release — which is how they were most widely available, as the box sold out quickly — then it’s around seven or eight utterly classic records of his all released in 1989.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 July 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Damn how has this thread gone on for so long without any mention for Iggy Pop in 1977:
The IdiotLust for LifeKill City EP
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 31 July 2020 07:12 (four years ago) link
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:48 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Friday, 31 July 2020 07:51 (four years ago) link
Amon Duul II, 1972: Carnival in Babylon and Wolf CityAlice Coltrane, 1971: Journey Into Satchidananda and Universal Consciousness
― InternationalWaters, Friday, 31 July 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
The Idiot would have been a 1976 release if not for Bowie holding it up
― Josefa, Friday, 31 July 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I think Atom Heart's record of 7 great albums in 1994 (amongst the 10+ albums he made that year) is almost unbeatable, at least in electronic music.
Underworld from '93-'94 might have that topped in terms of sheer amount of great music - the 5 CD dubnobass reissue doesn't even cover everything
― frogbs, Friday, 31 July 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Xxpost: my bad I searched iggy pop with no results. Still, no mention of KILL CITY which is magnificent.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 31 July 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
Underworld from '93-'94 might have that topped in terms of sheer amount of great music
For those not familiar, they only released one formal album in this time, but breaking down the output of the new lineup of the band in their early years:
warming up in 1992: a neat CDs-worth of 12"s (79 minutes), if you leave out one track they put on the album the next year. - PLUS 2 CDs worth of remixes for other artists (1 hr 45)
1993: a tidy 48-minute LPsworth of four songs, on 2 12"s. (Two remixes of one of 'em could take up 13 minutes on a CD reissue.) - PLUS 3 CDs worth of remixes for other artists, nearly all over ten minutes each (3 hr 10) {one of these is from 1994 but let's compile them together}
1994, barely: a real actual 72-minute CD-length double album, released three weeks into the yearand 2 CDs worth (2 hr 20) of B-sides - up to 20 minutes long - and a couple of self-remixes, almost all probably also recorded in 1993
- the 5 CD dubnobass reissue doesn't even cover everything
Across this and a couple of other archival projects c. 2014, they also released over two and a half hours (3 CDs worth) of demos recorded 1991-93.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
Well, if non-album tracks, tracks made for other people and even unreleased tracks count, then surely Prince outranks most people in this thread? The 1999 box set alone has 4 CDs worth of B-sides and unreleased songs from the same era the album was made, and it doesn't even include stuff he wrote, produced and mostly played the instruments for that was released by other acts, such as The Time and Vanity 6,
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 July 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
Underworld doesn't actually count, I was just annotating, but albums Prince made under other names totally does imo
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
I think for me the current champion is Sault with '5' and '7' during 2019 (+ 'Untitled' within 13 total months).
― Soundslike, Friday, 31 July 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
(Reading after posting--very happy to see others had the same thought re: Sault.)
― Soundslike, Friday, 31 July 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
holy shit, the two towering pinnacles of my Magnetic Fields binge (The Charm Of The Highway Strip and Holiday) came out within 6 months of each other in 1994!
― imago, Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
The close release dates of the two albums meant that some magazines reviewed the albums together, which annoyed Merritt.[7] It has also been speculated that this would have meant consumers would buy one of the two albums, but not both.[7]
― punching the clock on a tambo (morrisp), Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
oh, foolish consumers if so! but also, lol
imagining an ILM 1994 EOY poll where I get very worked up about them getting votesplit even as Illmatic and Dummy are knocked into surprise 2nd and 3rd place finishes by...Low
― imago, Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
Prince in 1982 - 1999/ What Time Is It?/Vanity 6
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 20 February 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
I know the post specifies "calendar year" but if we just include any 12-month stretch, June 1970 - June 1971 was very good for Tim Hart and Maddy Prior; Hark! The Village Wait and Please to See the King (with Steeleye Span) and Summer Solstice (as a duo)
― vexingvexillologist, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
Also MF DOOM dropping Madvilliany and MM... FOOD in 2004
― vexingvexillologist, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
iirc Holiday was recorded first but some label issue meant it got delayed until after Charm of the Highway Strip (which was their first on Merge)
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
Help! and Rubber Soul (1965)
Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
The Clash released 5 LPs from December 1979 to December 1980.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
The Monkees: More of The Monkees; Headquarters; and Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (All in 1967)
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
hard to beat Haruomi Hosono doing Paraiso and Cochin Moon in the same year, plus a third of Pacific AND forming YMO and writing a bunch of the first album
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link