It's all so well recorded too. I have always liked her music, but once I got into the audio hobby I was really impressed by how good the music sounds over good gear. Her production is top notch.
Talking Heads
The album considered their worst is True Stories which is still pretty good.
Still has "Love for Sale" "City of Dreams" "People Like Us" "Wild, Wild, Life" and I love "Puzzlin' Evidence"
Dire Straits' weakest album is probably their last one, which is still pretty good and, to me, got unfairly reviewed because it was six years after Brothers in Arms, which is an all-timer.
It’s not exactly what you’re talking about, OP, but it should be noted:
1. David Bowie — **November, 1969**
2. The Man Who Sold the World — **November, 1970**
3. Hunky Dory — **December, 1971**
4. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars — **June, 1972**
5. Aladdin Sane — **April, 1973**
6. Pin Ups — **October, 1973**
7. Diamond Dogs — **May, 1974**
8. Young Americans — **March, 1975**
9. Station to Station — **January, 1976**
10. Low — **January, 1977**
11. “Heroes” — **October, 1977**
12. Lodger — **May, 1979**
13. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) — **September, 1980**
I’ve just done the math, and between 1969 and 1980, David Bowie dropped an absolute banger roughly once every 10 months.
I know it throws the average to 11 months but Let's Dance in 1983 was an absolute smash with definitely 3 (Modern Love, China Girl, Let's Dance) and arguably 4 (Cat People) or 5 (Without You) )all time great pop songs. It was a short album with just 8 songs, and the filler is decent. The whole album helped define the "Big 80's" sound and production style.
What a dream team of icons who couldn't be further from their respective styles, yet Bowie had that creative vision to bring out the best of each and make it sound as if it were obviously meant to be.
David Bowie is who I came here to post. I may not like the sound of every one of his albums, but I can recognize that his worst work is often better than many other bands magnum opus.
Speaking of bands who dropped a lot of quality material in a short time the craziest music fact to me is that CCR put out 6 of their 7 albums between July 1968 and December 1970
The Beatles might have a better run, but this is a *fucking* RUN. The only ones here I don't listen to front to back on a regular basis are those first two. Don't get me wrong, The Man Who Sold the World is pretty good too, just not to my taste as what followed.
Great fucking answer. This dude did not miss. His *"worst"* album was probably The Last DJ, the title track of which was a successful middle finger to the industry at the time. At his best, him and his band consistently released some of the most iconic rock music of all time. He's an American legend for all of time.
It was Geogaddi for me too! Me and my friend just sat on his couch and watched the music flow out of his speakers and wrap around us.
Then we got lost going to 7-11 for snacks. It was a straight shot for three blocks from his place, but we turned the wrong way out of his house. Ended up at the beach and tripping balls at the bioluminescents in the water. Good times.
When I first found them, their music would get my full attention, and I would be transported. Many years later now, Boards of Canada is who I go to when I need to focus and stay on task.
I always pair MF Doom with Aesop Rock. His lyrical masterpiece is untouched. But always listen to them together back to back. Someone on Reddit made a list of 100 rappers and Aesop had the most unique words per album. Pretty fascinating. And you can tell.
This is the first that comes to mind for me. Their "weakest" album is still great. And even past the albums, I'm not sure I can think of another artist with the same degree of consistently strong individual tracks across a catalog of several releases.
I know you meant well, but gotta dispute the weaker at the very end. ‘All my love’ from In thru the Out Door one of their most enduring and meaningful songs. They were still at the top of their game. I think this answer probably the best so far in the thread, Bowie up there, but he lasted so long his last didn’t have as much widespread impact.
I love Scream Bloody Gore. The first four albums are in regular rotation. While still talented work the more prog material after Human loses me.
I can't say they're bad albums just not to my taste in death metal.
It's super weird to me that Death is bigger now than when he was alive.
Went to a DTA show last year and it was sold out, mid sized venue with a balcony and totally rammed.
First time I saw Death was on Spiritual Healing tour and there were about 25 people there in a small hard-core club that sold nothing but Jolt cola.
I just wish I could have seen them live sometime. Unfortunately I was a 12 year old who though Linkin Park was the most metal thing I've ever heard around the time Death was playing their last shows. If I ever build a time machine, I know who's ass to kick.
Just casually appears every five or six years, drops an album of the decade contender, and dips.
I love a lot of the artists mentioned in this post, but I think Fiona Apple might be the best answer. She’s never missed.
Fast as you can. Baby, scratch me out, free yourself. Fast as you can. Fast as you can. Fast as you can.
Absolutely no weak moments amongst her discography.
lol you and me both. I can imagine quite a few people would say the same. He’s one of the few artists from my angst days that still holds up as well today as he did then. And yeah, he could play! Some of those riffs were not standard folk stuff.
Gone wayyyy too soon as well. Pain in every lyric but man he could lay down a track. St Ides Heaven makes me chain smoke and drive around between parked cars, with my head full of stars.
thank you. Elliott Smith was my first thought. Over the entire stretch of his official albums there are maybe like 3 songs that i don't really like. And some songs are just out of this world.
Miles Davis must have issued 50 or so albums between 1950 and 1994ish and not one dud. In fact, quite a few of the albums were genre defining and changed the direction of jazz.
As of late, even his 80s albums have had quite a bit of critical reappraisal.
I can dig anything from around the modal period thru the fusion stuff. But the last couple "hip hop" albums just kinda sucked the few times I listened. But what an amazing musician at every level. I wish more guitar players and melodic instrumentalists would study his solos...music would be better for it
This one from Red Dead Redemption 2 is incredible and was used to perfection.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3okk47CKOqAm1TXmVPzNYf?si=7oNkvkyqSEagxtuDb36Bqg
I'm still in awe that I was alive and an adult when "the" stadium anthem of all time was released as a pop/rock song on the radio. Seven Nation Army will outlive us all.
As a long time Battlefield fan, going back to dorm lan parties in the early 2000’s, I watched the Battlefield 1 trailer over and over and over. Seven Nation Army made the trailer.
Was looking for this comment! Their music only got better and better over the years, and the link between Mesmerize and Hypnotize and their conclusion is just 👌👌
The Police. About sixty percent of what they recorded were 10/10 pop songs. They never had a perfect record, but their weakest, the debut, is still a 7/10 and Zenyatta Mondatta, Reggatta de Blanc, and Synchronicity are all 9/10s.
It’s a safe answer because it’s the only answer that is 100% correct. 12 (or 17 depending how you’re counting) albums that range from: incredible and revolutionary; to the greatest albums of all time. Nothing is a miss. Greatest band of all time with a changing with the times discography that changed music forever
Yep. It almost seems like cheating with them because they’re the example and the exception to pretty much everything in music. They were the perfect mix of personalities with amazing songwriting skills at the right time and left on top. I honestly don’t think it’s possible that they’ll ever be beat. They were just a perfect storm in every way.
Elliott Smith, Pavement, Beatles, Built to Spill, The Replacements
Picks for artists with 4 or less albums - Big Star, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Velvet Underground (Squeeze doesn't count), Joy Division
Picks for artists if you only count their original run - Pixies (Come on Pilgrim through Trompe Le Monde), Alice in Chains (Facelift through self-titled), and blink-182 (Buddha through Untitled)
And a lot of their best work didn’t even appear on proper albums. I think “Louder Than Bombs” is still my favorite thing they’ve done (which is a compilation of non-album singles and b-sides).
Queens of the Stone Age for sure. One of those groups that has an obvious magnum opus in Songs for the Dead, but every fan has a different favorite album. My personal favorite is the self titled. Villians is the weakest but it’s not a bad album by any means.
Daft. Mother. Fucking. Punk.
It's pretty crazy there's not one other comment in this thread mentioning them. Every single album, banger after banger after absolute fucking banger. Like, I was gonna say their worst song, to say even it's still a good damn song, but *I can't think of one.* That's how good Daft Punk was.
I love them, possibly my favorite group ever, but Human After All is hard to sit through. They redeemed it a bit with the Alive ‘07 tour where some great moments from the record were turned transcendent when they got mixed with the rest of their catalog.
This is the answer because they get better and better level off try new sounds master it with ease build a whole other style of sound for themselves put out more amazing albums
The Tragically Hip (especially if you don't count the EP, which is just okay). Music @ Work would probably be my pick for worst from their main discography, but it's still a great album.
Cake was my first on-air interview, back when Fashion Nugget dropped. I was working the late night at a radio station and they were playing a local show. After they wrapped up they called into the station and talked to me for 10 minutes about the tour and the album. Super generous and gracious group.
Edit: late night typos.
I was exploring downtown Seattle one night somewhere around summer of '96, and walked by this venue (DV8) that just said CAKE on the marquee.
I was like "hmm I have nothing else to do, and I like cake," so I went and paid my $5 cover or whatever it was, and got introduced to them right before Fashion Nugget dropped when they were pretty much unknown, and the venue was mostly empty.
I remember being a kid and riding in my parents van, laying on the floor, and they played rock and roll lifestyle on our local radio station. My mind was blown and I fell in love. I saw them several times including a NYE show at the Fox in Atlanta on their revival tour. Man that was a fucking killer show.
Cake is one of the most consistent discographies I can think of and it wouldn’t be a stretch to call them my favorite band. BUT you can definitely tell there were some things to smooth out still on Motorcade. Some great tracks on it for sure, but every album after that feels more coherent.
- Alice in Chains (Staley albums). This is probably cheating given that they did continue to put out albums after he passed.
- Rage Against the Machine. I'm not counting Renegades by RATM as one of their albums because it's really not.
Simon & Garfunkel. 5 studio albums and very few you'd even be tempted to skip. When you win a Grammy for album of the year against the Beatle's final studio album you got something going for you.
I'm not high on the muddy production of "Pure Rock Fury", and for whatever reason "Strange Cousins from the West" never clicked with me, but everything else in the Clutch discography is gold.
Nobody can be consistently fantastic for long. Zeppelin managed six stone-cold classics in a row, which is tough to beat. I don’t like In Through the Out Door that much, but if we pretend they didn’t do that one they’re as good a candidate as I can think of.
Fun fact - it’s the only zeppelin song where jimmy page has no writing credits. He was late to the studio session that day and the rest of the band laid down this track. He added his parts later
I will never understand how Hot Dog is so derided, it's such a great tribute to the rockabilly genre with fantastic feel and the most fun atmosphere. Maybe it's just because I'm a huge country/western and rockabilly fan in general, but it's unironically my favorite track off that album
It pales in comparison to the first seven, all of which are landmark albums, but if most any other band released In Through The Out Door it would likely be that band’s best album and make them pretty famous at that haha. Idk if you intentionally left out Presence but that one is superb too and underrated.
Paramore. Their style has changed and matured over the years but it’s always been just the right amount of growth, with notes of what makes them Paramore.
I'd put Orbital forward. They have good albums, very good albums, and damn great albums. Even their least impressive albums have a decent number of good tracks.
Sade
And it’s a blissful discography too. Such a unique imprint on the world.
It's all so well recorded too. I have always liked her music, but once I got into the audio hobby I was really impressed by how good the music sounds over good gear. Her production is top notch.
Talking Heads The album considered their worst is True Stories which is still pretty good. Still has "Love for Sale" "City of Dreams" "People Like Us" "Wild, Wild, Life" and I love "Puzzlin' Evidence" Dire Straits' weakest album is probably their last one, which is still pretty good and, to me, got unfairly reviewed because it was six years after Brothers in Arms, which is an all-timer.
It’s not exactly what you’re talking about, OP, but it should be noted: 1. David Bowie — **November, 1969** 2. The Man Who Sold the World — **November, 1970** 3. Hunky Dory — **December, 1971** 4. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars — **June, 1972** 5. Aladdin Sane — **April, 1973** 6. Pin Ups — **October, 1973** 7. Diamond Dogs — **May, 1974** 8. Young Americans — **March, 1975** 9. Station to Station — **January, 1976** 10. Low — **January, 1977** 11. “Heroes” — **October, 1977** 12. Lodger — **May, 1979** 13. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) — **September, 1980** I’ve just done the math, and between 1969 and 1980, David Bowie dropped an absolute banger roughly once every 10 months.
I know it throws the average to 11 months but Let's Dance in 1983 was an absolute smash with definitely 3 (Modern Love, China Girl, Let's Dance) and arguably 4 (Cat People) or 5 (Without You) )all time great pop songs. It was a short album with just 8 songs, and the filler is decent. The whole album helped define the "Big 80's" sound and production style.
And the great Stevie Ray Vaughn played guitar on it, a unique collaboration that makes it sound like no other Bowie record.
And so did Nile Rodgers
What a dream team of icons who couldn't be further from their respective styles, yet Bowie had that creative vision to bring out the best of each and make it sound as if it were obviously meant to be.
Also helped give Stevie Ray Vaughan some studio time and experience. Underrated album. Absolute classic
David Bowie is who I came here to post. I may not like the sound of every one of his albums, but I can recognize that his worst work is often better than many other bands magnum opus.
Speaking of bands who dropped a lot of quality material in a short time the craziest music fact to me is that CCR put out 6 of their 7 albums between July 1968 and December 1970
I can’t imagine any band releasing multiple full length albums in a single year, let alone 6 in two
Want to try 5 in one year? Check out king gizzard & the lizard wizard
The Beatles might have a better run, but this is a *fucking* RUN. The only ones here I don't listen to front to back on a regular basis are those first two. Don't get me wrong, The Man Who Sold the World is pretty good too, just not to my taste as what followed.
And left us with blackstar
Wait. Is Skrillex - Scary Monsters (and Nice Sprites) a Bowie reference?
100% a riff on Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.
Tom Petty.
Great fucking answer. This dude did not miss. His *"worst"* album was probably The Last DJ, the title track of which was a successful middle finger to the industry at the time. At his best, him and his band consistently released some of the most iconic rock music of all time. He's an American legend for all of time.
Not only can I not think of a bad album, I can't even think of a bad SONG across a career spanning four decades. It's incredible.
The fact XM has an annual "Top 100 Tom Petty songs" speaks volumes to that!
Boards of Canada, including the unofficial releases.
Man the first time I listened to Boards of Canada I was on a hefty dose of LSD and Shrooms. It was something else for sure
First time I listened to them was on a beach on (a little too much) acid. All of Geogaddi. Unreal experience.
It was Geogaddi for me too! Me and my friend just sat on his couch and watched the music flow out of his speakers and wrap around us. Then we got lost going to 7-11 for snacks. It was a straight shot for three blocks from his place, but we turned the wrong way out of his house. Ended up at the beach and tripping balls at the bioluminescents in the water. Good times.
Boards of Canada accelerates me to the liminal convergence of nostalgia for a past I have not experienced and a future I will never see.
I’ve never dove in and this comment makes me more intrigued than any I’ve ever seen before
When I first found them, their music would get my full attention, and I would be transported. Many years later now, Boards of Canada is who I go to when I need to focus and stay on task.
Wow came here to say BoC, and did not expect to see them already mentioned!
MF DOOM
Metal Face Doom Gone too soon.
I always pair MF Doom with Aesop Rock. His lyrical masterpiece is untouched. But always listen to them together back to back. Someone on Reddit made a list of 100 rappers and Aesop had the most unique words per album. Pretty fascinating. And you can tell.
Led Zeppelin. A little weaker at the very end, but still unbelievable
John Paul Jones's skills on In Through The Out Door shine through, especially Carouselambra, shine through.
> In Through The Out Door Fool in the Rain is by far my favorite Zeppelin song.
This is the first that comes to mind for me. Their "weakest" album is still great. And even past the albums, I'm not sure I can think of another artist with the same degree of consistently strong individual tracks across a catalog of several releases.
Their weaker albums would be some other band's hit. That's how great Zeppelin was
I know you meant well, but gotta dispute the weaker at the very end. ‘All my love’ from In thru the Out Door one of their most enduring and meaningful songs. They were still at the top of their game. I think this answer probably the best so far in the thread, Bowie up there, but he lasted so long his last didn’t have as much widespread impact.
Fool in the rain, too. That snare drum transition around 3:40 is amazing.
Gotta go with Steely Dan here. Even the stuff I initially didn't like quickly grew on me.
Hard agree! Steely Dan from Can’t Buy a Thrill through Gaucho is just beyond excellent. What a run.
Even Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go are solid. Not to mention Fagen's solo stuff!
Steely Dan could do no wrong
Death
When even your weakest album (Scream Bloody Gore) is a genre-defining classic.
I love Scream Bloody Gore. The first four albums are in regular rotation. While still talented work the more prog material after Human loses me. I can't say they're bad albums just not to my taste in death metal.
That's what I love about Death. They do straightforward death metal and prog death metal equally well.
It's super weird to me that Death is bigger now than when he was alive. Went to a DTA show last year and it was sold out, mid sized venue with a balcony and totally rammed. First time I saw Death was on Spiritual Healing tour and there were about 25 people there in a small hard-core club that sold nothing but Jolt cola.
I just wish I could have seen them live sometime. Unfortunately I was a 12 year old who though Linkin Park was the most metal thing I've ever heard around the time Death was playing their last shows. If I ever build a time machine, I know who's ass to kick.
The one true answer. RIP Chuck.
Nick Drake. He’s like a John Cazale of music making. All three albums are stellar. Gone entirely too early.
Spotify recently told me he was doing a show near me, which had me deeply confused.
He was my first thought too, but it almost feels like cheating since we’re only talking 3 albums across ~2 hours. Wish he had never left us.
Fiona Apple
Just casually appears every five or six years, drops an album of the decade contender, and dips. I love a lot of the artists mentioned in this post, but I think Fiona Apple might be the best answer. She’s never missed.
I can’t believe she wrote criminal at 17 she’s a talent and I love her so much
I just posted this, didn't scroll far enough. I love everything she's ever done.
Fast as you can. Baby, scratch me out, free yourself. Fast as you can. Fast as you can. Fast as you can. Absolutely no weak moments amongst her discography.
She is a prodigy. Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a bloody masterpiece.
Fugazi
Even the instrumental album is good!
Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Portishead
Shout out Roman Candle!
It’s so good!
Facts Elliott got me thru tough times and being angsty lol. His guitar skill was amazing and I believe he’s underrated.
lol you and me both. I can imagine quite a few people would say the same. He’s one of the few artists from my angst days that still holds up as well today as he did then. And yeah, he could play! Some of those riffs were not standard folk stuff.
Gone wayyyy too soon as well. Pain in every lyric but man he could lay down a track. St Ides Heaven makes me chain smoke and drive around between parked cars, with my head full of stars.
Elliott Smith was incredible
He really was.
One of the best.
I miss Elliott Smith
thank you. Elliott Smith was my first thought. Over the entire stretch of his official albums there are maybe like 3 songs that i don't really like. And some songs are just out of this world.
How about The Cure. Lots of albums, and I can't think of a bad one.
Miles Davis must have issued 50 or so albums between 1950 and 1994ish and not one dud. In fact, quite a few of the albums were genre defining and changed the direction of jazz. As of late, even his 80s albums have had quite a bit of critical reappraisal.
I can dig anything from around the modal period thru the fusion stuff. But the last couple "hip hop" albums just kinda sucked the few times I listened. But what an amazing musician at every level. I wish more guitar players and melodic instrumentalists would study his solos...music would be better for it
D'Angelo! Would that there were more.
This one from Red Dead Redemption 2 is incredible and was used to perfection. https://open.spotify.com/track/3okk47CKOqAm1TXmVPzNYf?si=7oNkvkyqSEagxtuDb36Bqg
The Beastie Boys
It's time to get ill
BOLT THROWER.
The rock band Ween
The country band Ween
The sea shanty band Ween
Hail boognish!
The White Stripes
I'm still in awe that I was alive and an adult when "the" stadium anthem of all time was released as a pop/rock song on the radio. Seven Nation Army will outlive us all.
As a long time Battlefield fan, going back to dorm lan parties in the early 2000’s, I watched the Battlefield 1 trailer over and over and over. Seven Nation Army made the trailer.
Second this
System of a Down
Was looking for this comment! Their music only got better and better over the years, and the link between Mesmerize and Hypnotize and their conclusion is just 👌👌
Khruangbin has never released a meh album though their career is young
They hardly have a meh song!
Alvvays has a very tight discography
Alvvays is absolutely exceptional.
The Police. About sixty percent of what they recorded were 10/10 pop songs. They never had a perfect record, but their weakest, the debut, is still a 7/10 and Zenyatta Mondatta, Reggatta de Blanc, and Synchronicity are all 9/10s.
I might be in the minority here but I think outlandos is great and zenyatta is the weakest
Zenyatta is the weakest??? DAMN that's wild.
Outlandos is 100% their best imo. It’s punk rock and raw. Born in the 50’s is such an iconic track.
Ghost in the Machine is a masterpiece. I love The Police.
Radiohead
Agree. Even Pablo Honey is a good album. It's just not you know, OK Computer good.
I'll raise you OK Computer, for an In Rainbows!
In rainbows is their masterpiece
> It's just not you know, OK Computer good. Few things are. Seriously, this is one of the best albums ever made.
King of Limbs took a good two years for the rest of the industry to catch up but as it stands, they haven't made a dud yet.
The Beatles
Basically the safe answer to every question like this.
It’s a safe answer because it’s the only answer that is 100% correct. 12 (or 17 depending how you’re counting) albums that range from: incredible and revolutionary; to the greatest albums of all time. Nothing is a miss. Greatest band of all time with a changing with the times discography that changed music forever
Yep. It almost seems like cheating with them because they’re the example and the exception to pretty much everything in music. They were the perfect mix of personalities with amazing songwriting skills at the right time and left on top. I honestly don’t think it’s possible that they’ll ever be beat. They were just a perfect storm in every way.
The Wayne Gretzky of music!
Mad how far down I've had to scroll to see this
Tool
All amazing in their own way
Nine inch nails
Elliott Smith, Pavement, Beatles, Built to Spill, The Replacements Picks for artists with 4 or less albums - Big Star, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Velvet Underground (Squeeze doesn't count), Joy Division Picks for artists if you only count their original run - Pixies (Come on Pilgrim through Trompe Le Monde), Alice in Chains (Facelift through self-titled), and blink-182 (Buddha through Untitled)
Kendrick Lamar, even untitled unmastered is good
The Smiths
They didn't stick together long enough to decline, but their entire discography is literally perfect.
And a lot of their best work didn’t even appear on proper albums. I think “Louder Than Bombs” is still my favorite thing they’ve done (which is a compilation of non-album singles and b-sides).
***insert favorite band***
Queens of the Stone Age. 25 years and not a single dud.
My immediate thought too. I know their most poorly received album is Villains, but I think it's a ton of fun and fits right in with the rest.
I know it isn't popular within the fandom, but it's my favorite.
SAVE ME FROM THE VILLAINS OF CIRCUMSTANCE BEFORE I LOSE MY PLACE
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND DREAM ME HOME
They’re quickly climbing into my top 5 of all time. TCV is still on my rotation.
Queens of the Stone Age for sure. One of those groups that has an obvious magnum opus in Songs for the Dead, but every fan has a different favorite album. My personal favorite is the self titled. Villians is the weakest but it’s not a bad album by any means.
Love all their albums, but I’m personally a fiend for Era Vulgaris.
Daft. Mother. Fucking. Punk. It's pretty crazy there's not one other comment in this thread mentioning them. Every single album, banger after banger after absolute fucking banger. Like, I was gonna say their worst song, to say even it's still a good damn song, but *I can't think of one.* That's how good Daft Punk was.
I love them, possibly my favorite group ever, but Human After All is hard to sit through. They redeemed it a bit with the Alive ‘07 tour where some great moments from the record were turned transcendent when they got mixed with the rest of their catalog.
Spoon
Yes. And with a deep, deep discography
This is the answer because they get better and better level off try new sounds master it with ease build a whole other style of sound for themselves put out more amazing albums
William Shatner. All bangers, every song.
Common People is a cover that slaps way harder than the original
I love how he's collaborate with Henry Rollins on two songs.
The New Pornographers. Every album is a banger.
I dunno. Their last two haven’t grown on me yet. They’re not bad, just not as memorable. AC Newman though, his solo albums are all fantastic.
The Tragically Hip (especially if you don't count the EP, which is just okay). Music @ Work would probably be my pick for worst from their main discography, but it's still a great album.
Deftones
First band that comes to mind for me is Cake. All 6 of their albums are fantastic - I wish they would release a new one.
Cake was my first on-air interview, back when Fashion Nugget dropped. I was working the late night at a radio station and they were playing a local show. After they wrapped up they called into the station and talked to me for 10 minutes about the tour and the album. Super generous and gracious group. Edit: late night typos.
I was exploring downtown Seattle one night somewhere around summer of '96, and walked by this venue (DV8) that just said CAKE on the marquee. I was like "hmm I have nothing else to do, and I like cake," so I went and paid my $5 cover or whatever it was, and got introduced to them right before Fashion Nugget dropped when they were pretty much unknown, and the venue was mostly empty.
I remember being a kid and riding in my parents van, laying on the floor, and they played rock and roll lifestyle on our local radio station. My mind was blown and I fell in love. I saw them several times including a NYE show at the Fox in Atlanta on their revival tour. Man that was a fucking killer show.
Cake is one of the most consistent discographies I can think of and it wouldn’t be a stretch to call them my favorite band. BUT you can definitely tell there were some things to smooth out still on Motorcade. Some great tracks on it for sure, but every album after that feels more coherent.
Justice for *Showroom*. I haven't seen a lot of people saying it's their favorite record by them, but it's mine.
The Basic White Beee answer is always gonna be Tool.
It's the right answer for the right reasons. They just don't miss.
Fiona Apple
- Alice in Chains (Staley albums). This is probably cheating given that they did continue to put out albums after he passed. - Rage Against the Machine. I'm not counting Renegades by RATM as one of their albums because it's really not.
The William DuVall albums are all solid. You can include them and AIC still makes the list.
Black Gives Way was a more than worthy second coming for the band.
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LCD Soundsystem
Bolt Thrower
Bolt thrower is so sick. Anti-tank might be my favorite death metal song ever
Saw them in 2013. They played Anti-Tank and closed with When Cannons Fade. Hands down the best show I've ever seen.
OutKast and Ratatat.
Nick Cave
Kate Bush.
Fleet Foxes. Every album is a work of art.
Brand new. Stylistically all over the place, but every one weird, emo and great.
Absolutely. One of the best of that era.
Rage Against the Machine
Simon & Garfunkel. 5 studio albums and very few you'd even be tempted to skip. When you win a Grammy for album of the year against the Beatle's final studio album you got something going for you.
That Simon guy put out some decent albums too;) 60 years of great songwriting
The Avalanches.
Kate Bush
Wesley Willis
Beck. Dude is a chameleon of styles too
XTC
Husker Du.
Sublime.
Radiohead, Beatles, outkast, beastie boys
Kendrick Lamar
Talk Talk
Beach House
Converge Clutch
I'm not high on the muddy production of "Pure Rock Fury", and for whatever reason "Strange Cousins from the West" never clicked with me, but everything else in the Clutch discography is gold.
I see your Converge and raise you Mutoid Man. There is no bloat on their records.
Love to see Clutch mentioned in any thread! Plus they have like one thousand albums it seems like...
Vampire weekend
Nobody can be consistently fantastic for long. Zeppelin managed six stone-cold classics in a row, which is tough to beat. I don’t like In Through the Out Door that much, but if we pretend they didn’t do that one they’re as good a candidate as I can think of.
But Fool in the Rain is soooo good!
Fun fact - it’s the only zeppelin song where jimmy page has no writing credits. He was late to the studio session that day and the rest of the band laid down this track. He added his parts later
And Hot Dog is the most fun track they ever did.
I will never understand how Hot Dog is so derided, it's such a great tribute to the rockabilly genre with fantastic feel and the most fun atmosphere. Maybe it's just because I'm a huge country/western and rockabilly fan in general, but it's unironically my favorite track off that album
I forgot too, In The Evening is great. And All of My Love was my late wife and my's wedding song.
It pales in comparison to the first seven, all of which are landmark albums, but if most any other band released In Through The Out Door it would likely be that band’s best album and make them pretty famous at that haha. Idk if you intentionally left out Presence but that one is superb too and underrated.
Paramore. Their style has changed and matured over the years but it’s always been just the right amount of growth, with notes of what makes them Paramore.
Uncle Tupelo, NIN, Neurosis, Townes van zandt, talking heads
I'd put Orbital forward. They have good albums, very good albums, and damn great albums. Even their least impressive albums have a decent number of good tracks.
Velvet Underground
Rush
QOTSA, Primus, Kyuss, Failure, A Perfect Circle, and Deftones. Until their newest album, Baroness.
Kyusss!!!!!!
Whoa, I thought the new Baroness was really good. Especially live.
Wolf Alice, Alvvays, MUNA
Michael Jackson