Longest Run of Classic Albums?

[Meltingpot]

"Rolled Gold' is good. Gotta admit the Stones take some beating in this poll. How about Pink Floyd from 1967 to 1979 (The Final Cut doesn't do it for me)?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Except Bossa Nova and Trompe le Monde are crap.

Fuck off!

 

[danny la rouge]

Gotta admit the Stones take some beating in this poll.

No, the Stones' albums are boring.

Your suggesting P*nk Fl*yd gives you away.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Bossa Nova is not crap. Tromp le Monde is patchy, but it has Alec Eiffel, U-Mass and Subbacultcha on it. Which makes it better than most albums ever released.

Exactly, even though Trompe Le Monde's not quite as good as their others, it's still a cracker.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

But all the good songs are on Rolled Gold.

Quiet, or I'll take this thread on a completely uncalled-for Van Morrison tangent.

 

[danny la rouge]

Quiet, or I'll take this thread on a completely uncalled-for Van Morrison tangent.

I can list Van's entire run of good albums:




On the plus side, it'd be a cheap telegram to send.

 

[Voley]

No, the Stones' albums are boring.

Stray Cat Blues
Let It Bleed
Bitch
Dear Doctor
Midnight Rambler
Sister Morphine
Sway
Wild Horses
Love in Vain
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
No Expectations
Live With Me
Dead Flowers
Jigsaw Puzzle
Prodigal Son
Factory Girl
You Gotta Move
I Got the Blues
Moonlight Mile
Memo From Turner

A double album of album tracks. Not bad for a singles band.

 

[danny la rouge]

Stray Cat Blues
Let It Bleed
Bitch
Dear Doctor
Midnight Rambler
Sister Morphine
Sway
Wild Horses
Love in Vain
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
No Expectations
Live With Me
Dead Flowers
Jigsaw Puzzle
Prodigal Son
Factory Girl
You Gotta Move
I Got the Blues
Moonlight Mile
Memo From Turner

A double album of album tracks. Not bad for a singles band.

That's not an album, though, is it?

I was told by a friend their classic albums were Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main Street.

Let It Bleed was the best of those, Sticky Fingers was dull, dull, dull, and Exile is a horrible, bloated, disgusting mess.

 

[Voley]

Most of those songs are off the albums you mention.

It's great stuff, danny. You're missing out.

 

[danny la rouge]

Most of those songs are off the albums you mention.

Exactly. Boring.

Their good stuff is all on Rolled Gold. (And even then some have to be skipped).

 

[Voley]

Pearls before swine.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I agree with danny. The stones are the most overrated band in history - fact.

 

[danny la rouge]

It wasn't until I got Rolled Gold that I rated them. Now I understand what they were about.

If all I knew was Exile on Mainstreet, I'd still have them filed under Boring Old Farts.

 

[danny la rouge]

I agree with danny. The stones are the most overrated band in history - fact.

They had good songs. I'm giving them that. But not good albums.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Can: basically all the albums recorded on 2-track and edited by Holger Czukay with a razor blade.

Monster Movie
Soundtracks
Tago Mago
Ege Bamyasi
Future Days
Soon Over Babaluma

 

[Roadkill]

Bowie runs right through to Lodger, surely?

Or even Scary Monsters...?

Dylan. Within roughly two years he put out 'Bringing It All Back Home', Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde On Blonde'. Recorded 'Positively 4th Street' at the same time and it didn't even make it onto the album. I can't think of a more creative period by anyone else, really.

That's true IMO. It's unbelievable how much he achieved in those few years - and that's already with a couple of great albums (Freewheelin', Another Side...') behind him, and, after the motorcycle crash and break, another couple to come before he got to Self Portrait, which was just plain rubbish!

 

[isvicthere?]

The Beatles surely

from Rubber Soul through to Abbey Road (Yellow Submarine doesn't count cos it's a films

Watch out, isitme! There's only one thing worse on urban than expressing misgivings about the gargantuan talent of Girls Aloud. And that's saying you think the Beatles possessed any merit whatsoever. Prepare for abuse.

 

[isvicthere?]

Dylan. Within roughly two years he put out 'Bringing It All Back Home', Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde On Blonde'. Recorded 'Positively 4th Street' at the same time and it didn't even make it onto the album. I can't think of a more creative period by anyone else, really.

^^^^ Plus - after having an almost fatal motorbike accident - he followed these up with "The Basement Tapes" which weren't even released*
and "John Wesley Harding".

*Until eight years later.

 

[kained&able]

bowie and girls aloud. I'm quite serious and about the latter.

well then your a knobbler. They have had 4 albums. Most of the bands mentioned on this thread have at least double that.


dave

 

[Gmart]

REM from 'Green' thru 'Out of Time' to 'Automatic for the People'.

That's three.

It's the 'classic' issue which is important. Many artists put together good albums occasionally, like 'Aladdin Sane' for Bowie, and 'Meddle' and 'Obscured by Clouds' by Pink Floyd, but stone cold classics like 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust' and 'Low' and just in another league!

And you should ask yourself: "How often do I actually play this album?" Coz there are a number of so-called classics which I never play. For example the only Neil Young albums I play in their entirety are 'After the Gold Rush' and 'Harvest', so for me that's two and random great single tracks.

And I play ALL the Pixies albums, and so their run of five is fine for me.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Thunderclap Newman

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[cozmikbrew]

all the bob marley albums leftfields 2 public enemy"it takes a nation of millions"the specials"the specials"stiff little fingers"immflamable material"rudimentary peni"deathchurch" ian dury and the blockheads"newboots and panties"chemical brothers"exit planet dust" could do this all day!!!

 

[ringo]

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Studio:
The Wailing Wailers • Soul Rebels • Soul Revolution • Soul Revolution Part II • The Best of The Wailers • Catch a Fire • African Herbsman • Burnin' • Natty Dread • Rastaman Vibration • Exodus • Kaya • Survival • Uprising • Confrontation

Live:
Live! • Babylon by Bus

 

[ringo]

all the bob marley albums )

Ha, beat me to it!

 

[Artie Fufkin]

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead. 3 classics.

 

[ringo]

Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, Heptones, Black Uhuru, Scientist, Prince Fari, Gregory Isaacs all had very good runs of consistently strong LPs, not bad for a 45rpm led genre.

 

[cozmikbrew]

yes ringo!you know the scorejust reaquired a lot of reggae that had gone by the wayside top ten reggae lps?

 

[ringo]

yes ringo!you know the scorejust reaquired a lot of reggae that had gone by the wayside top ten reggae lps?

That would need a new thread!

Just about to head out but will start it off.

 

[stavros]

Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova, Trompe Le Monde (the only band I can think of with a 100% record)

My Bloody Valentine and The Stooges could challenge, although they've only got two and three respectively.

 

[El Jefe]

Nick Cave. Only made one bad album (Nocturama) in a 30 year career. Unsurpassable IMO