Best pair of albums by the same artist/band in a single calendar year

The Black Album was not actually released in 1987! It was released in 1994.

xps

also DMX is terrible

yeah true about the black album, i was counting boots though!

Autechre: NTS Sessions 1 (5/4/19), NTS Sessions 2 (12/4/19), NTS Sessions 3 (19/4/19), NTS Sessions 4 (26/4/19),

Black Album was pressed and promoed in 1987, it's fair to count for thread purposes. Thread title only says "by."

in that case you could argue that almost all of Miles' 70s output was recorded in the same year in which case he wins this hands down imo

Someone said Drift in the other thread...

Tim Buckley - Happy Sad / Blue Afternoon (1969); Lorca / Starsailor (1970)

The Nolans - "Nolan Sisters", "Making Waves"

I read somewhere that the DMX thing was due to label pressure - Def Jam were being sold (from Polygram to Universal, as part of what would become the Island Def Jam Music Group) and needed another hit record to drive up their valuation, so they promised him a bonus if he'd deliver before the end of the calendar year.

obv E-40, who has more than a few examples. Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift and Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift from 2010 are all time

xpost ^ oh yeah - last year Underworld put out four "episodes" of their Drift series ranging from 38 mins to 85 mins, plus a box set collecting all of it (inc. a 30 minute episode from 2018) with another two hours of bonus tracks, plus the 70-minute Manchester Street Poem album.

in that case you could argue that almost all of Miles' 70s output was recorded in the same year in which case he wins this hands down imo

the two albums recorded in 1970 both came out in 1971 anyway so this doesn't especially gain anything! nobody's counting Lovesexy as 1987 because one song from The Black Album got used on it, and there's only five minutes from 1970 on Get Up With It

Motörhead released Overkill in March 1979, Bomber in October 1979, and On Parole (recorded in 1976) in December 1979.

Lol good call on E-40. Obv the volume of what he put out diminished the individual impact of each release, but dude was releasing three albums a year (on the same day) and they were usually all fire

Van Morrison: Moondance and His Band & Street Choir (1970)

Neil Young: Tonight's The Night and Zuma (1975)

it’s dark and flesh of my flesh are fucking awesome records

los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster & we are beautiful, we are doomed

I forgot the first two Damned albums came out in 1977 but only the first one is good.

Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars, not sure they're the best Beach House albums but the release of U.F.O.F. and Two Hands the same year reminded me of them

and I had the same response, I didn't want to engage too much with the second album, it felt like too much

Same

Ferry/Roxy:

Stranded
These Foolish Things

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

For Your Pleasure was the same year as well.

Scott Walker - Scott 3 & Scott 4 in 69

Al Green - Let's Stay Together & I'm Still In Love With You in 72

Scott Walker - Scott 3 & Scott 4 in 69

Was just going to post this and point out he put out another (not-so-good) album between the two.

Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind and Talking Book

Elton John - s/t and Tumbleweed Connection (he did this other times but this is the best one probably)

imo the beatles are not a good example of this bc usually one of their two LPs from a given calendar year is a lot better.

has there ever been a single year with three artists releasing three different all in the same year and where the albums have been so nice, other than 1969?

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classic post

― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago)

listen i'm pretty sure i bumped the "wtf typos" thread right after that, there were ghosts in the keyboard that night

The Nolans - "Nolan Sisters", "Making Waves"

> Autechre: NTS Sessions 1 (5/4/19), NTS Sessions 2 (12/4/19), NTS Sessions 3 (19/4/19), NTS Sessions 4 (26/4/19),

and technically these were all double lps at 2 hours each

that doesn't make them not albums

Black Album was pressed and promoed in 1987, it's fair to count for thread purposes. Thread title only says "by."

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!

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This is wrong. Scorpion Kings is by DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small, whereas Return of the Scorpion Kings is by Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa

Obviously that is a joke, but it is slightly annoying they are not grouped together in my Apple Music library

You are absolutely right tho, Fred - I was this close to raising the same issue with the Singing Nolans: one album by was by “The Nolan Sisters”, the other by “The Nolans” for godsake.

What went wrong between you and the Scorpion Kings tho? Did you vote-split both albums outside your ballot? I had you down as one of my fellow voters.

A couple examples of artists releasing multiple great albums in one year:

Lucette Bourdin in 2009:
Silver Moon
Radiant Stars
Golden Sun
Under Currents

Uwe Schmidt/Atom Heart in 1994:
Orange [Monochrome Stills]
A.D.
Softcore
Morphogenetic Fields
Dots
Flextone
Halograms

Both of them actually released even more albums in those years, but the ones I listed are the best.

x-post: I just didn't really rate them as albums, I think. Overlong, a bit samey. Didn't vote for Sha Sha either, though it's hardly overlong. But did put Lorch at seven on my track ballot.

Or rather, I just listened to a lot of albums this year, and there's only 25 spots on an album ballot. Feel like I left off a lot of incredible jazz as well.

Coltrane 1961 - Africa/Brass, My Favorite Things

guys, how could we forget Use Your Illusion 2 and whatever the other one was called?

Neil Young - On the Beach, Tonight's the Night
and then Tonight's the Night, Zuma

and Comes a Time, Rust Never Sleeps

On the Beach and Tonights the Night were released 11 months apart, but in different years

oh, my bad. but i reckon Live Rust and Rust Never Sleeps fits the criteria.

xp to Fred: that’s fair, I guess. (I wouldn’t call the Sha Sha “samey” tho, if that’s what you were implying).

Oh no, that one really went places over a pretty short runtime :)

Frank Sinatra released 2 or more great albums every year from 1957 to 1962 except 1960. It would be hard to choose between

1957: Close to You; a Swinging' Affair!; Where are you?
1958: Come Fly with Me; Frank Sinatra sings for Only the Lonely

Peggy Lee was doing the same thing during the same period. My pick would be

1958: Jump for Joy; Things are Swingin'; Sea Shells

Gentle Giant - Three Friends & Octopus, both released in 1972

1973 Waylon Jennings- Lonesome On'ry & Mean/ Honky Tonk Heroes

Blondie - Plastic Letters and Parallel Lines in 1978

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