POLL: Which band has the best discography?

Then you turned on me for saying the exact same thing itt!

Am I being trolled?

I never troll! I just disagree, vehemently, about the volume of bad songs (30%-40% of the catalog?! That's insane) and the specific songs/albums you cited.

personally I'd put the Beatles hit/success rate at closer to like 90%

I was exaggerating for effect. My actual breakdown would look something like: 25% the pits, 35% eh, good enough, 40% fuck yeah, this is awesome.

The Beatles, more like The Perfects imo

Easy vote for Low - a band whose aesthetic concept should have run into a ditch after three albums, but instead have been endlessly fascinating and wonderful for 25 years and still going—and their most recent album is arguably the best thing they’ve ever done!

Easy vote for Low - a band whose aesthetic concept should have run into a ditch after three albums, but instead have been endlessly fascinating and wonderful for 25 years and still going—and their most recent album is arguably the best thing they’ve ever done!

Voted Sade.

btw this year i’m going to see both deftones and underworld live for the first time :D

I saw Deftones about a decade ago, with Dir En Grey opening. They were really good. (Dir En Grey were amazing.)

this tour poppy and gojira are opening. i expect to die

I have too long an attention span for Poppy, but the prospect of a new Gojira album is extremely exciting. It's been too long.

is there any point scrolling past duke ellington, I don’t think so

is there any point even opening this thread?

depends, do you want to know about the Beatles?

tongue-in-cheek beatles arguments are still a billion miles better than a bunch of dudes masturbating about autechre, so this thread’s been excellent afaic

voted fela kuti btw

We should do a TS, e.g. Abbey Road vs Confield.

another really hard poll

depends, do you want to know about the Beatles?

pretty sure most people who are stanning for the Beatles are wearing depends or will be soon enough

depends with Wings

490

Better yet, only one song

― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 14, 2020 11:59 PM (yesterday)

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

(Madness albums)
One Step Beyond... (1979) (UK No. 2)
Absolutely (1980) (UK No. 2)
7 (1981) (UK No. 5)
The Rise & Fall (1982) (UK No. 10)
Keep Moving (1984) (UK No. 6)
Mad Not Mad (1985) (UK No. 16)
The Madness (1988) (UK No. 66)
Wonderful (1999) (UK No. 17)
The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (2005) (UK No. 11)
The Liberty of Norton Folgate (2009) (UK No. 5)
Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012) (UK No. 10)
Can't Touch Us Now (2016) (UK No. 5)

I haven't heard any of these after 'Keep Moving' and I'm in no hurry to return to that.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:09 AM (five hours ago)

The Madness was a self-titled album by a handful of the members after the band split and can be disregarded.
The singles on the 1999 album were decent.
Dangermen was intended to be pseudonymous - they were playing club shows under the name, doing the sort of covers they played when they were starting out - but it got labelled as Madness for sales' sake.
Liberty Of Norton Folgate is the only album they ever wrote as a cohesive album, is very very good, and launched with a Julien Temple film made for it.
No idea about the recent two.

I actually think the !!! discography is really solid

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:46 AM (five hours ago)

yep yep yep

My "one song" was an affectionate Portishead joke, nb I don't think only having one song is a bad thing

felt it would've been too harsh and potentially triggering to have made the joke about "y'all procrastinating yr regularly scheduled prostate cancer screening exams or ..."

It's still Erykah.

My "one song" was an affectionate Portishead joke

oh lol

Kraftwerk. OK Electric Café was a bit of a dud but apart from that they barely put a foot wrong

Talk Talk

A couple of quick thoughts - I was slightly surprised not to see Slint on the list of options. I may have missed some chat about entry criteria based on number of releases, but still...

And, while delving into some chat about Autechre's NTS sessions, and particularly re the chat about whether their track 'all end' was actually the end of them releasing music (spoiler - it wasn't), I did think that if they did end there that their legacy would be, for me anyway, not far off perfect. However, given the number of live shows that they have released, and the number which I haven't listened to (spoiler - nearly all of them) , it's difficult to stand by that. I still voted for them though.

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Honestly it's either Talk Talk or Autechre

YELLOW

MAGIC

ORCHESTRA

they bridge a gap between styles and generations in the same way roxy music does

I don’t think I voted. Leaning towards Miles even though I’ve only heard like 1/4 of his catalog. And also leaning towards Funkadelic though I haven’t heard Toys and the two post-Electric Spanking records.

in the absence of YMO, i will choose kraftwerk.

what is the kraftwerk release(s) that do not apply? electric cafe? ok, but even on that there's gonna be a fight

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Nothing against Kraftwerk, I love those guys but can you imagine someone with true jazz chops on Electric Cafe.

Seriously though, I do love them but ~40% of their albums are of questionable flawlessness.

an you imagine someone with true jazz chops on Electric Cafe.

i'm not sure what this means!

Pretty good tie for second. (I voted Sade.)

/an you imagine someone with true jazz chops on Electric Cafe./

i'm not sure what this means!

(Answer to what would be an imagined Kraftwerk with jazz chips I mean)

the answer to most of the important questions in life is YMO

Nina Nastasia--never heard of her. I knew I was out of touch, but--seven votes--didn't realize how much.

(Answer to what would be an imagined Kraftwerk with jazz chips I mean)

Nina Nastasia--never heard of her. I knew I was out of touch, but--seven votes--didn't realize how much.

Nina nastasia is one of the great, overlooked artists of the 2000’s. She was very prolific for awhile but dropped out of sight almost a decade ago (her last album was released in June 2010). She’s still out there playing shows and supposedly had something in the works awhile ago but haven’t heard much since. Really wonderful.

Just a reminder that my Roxy Music vote was intended to be a vote for RTX \m/