best six album run? (f&b-r)

[ketan]

http://fastnbulbous.com/who-had-the-best-six-album-run/

This is an interesting list

1. Black Sabbath
2. The Beatles
3. Bob Dylan
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Thin Lizzy
6. Colour Haze
7. Can
8. The Kinks
9. Bob Marley
10. Iron Maiden
11. Funkadelic
12. The Fall
13. The Rolling Stones
14. Fela Kuti
15. Radiohead
16. Captain Beefheart
17. Curtis Mayfield
18. Melvins
19. Rush
20. AC/DC
21. Electric Light Orchestra
22. Judas Priest
23. Fugazi
24. Hawkwind
25. PJ Harvey
26. David Bowie
27. Al Green
28. Temptations
29. Electric Wizard
30. Mastodon
31. Tom Waits
32. Sonic Youth
33. R.E.M.
34. Opeth
35. Hüsker Dü
36. Slayer
37. Sleater-Kinney
38. Queens Of The Stone Age
39. The Flaming Lips
40. Nação Zumbi

Lack of hip hop tho. I could add De La... LL.

Maybe Spiritualized.

Who else would you add?

 

[skel]

I'd add Swing Out Sister from the mind garden, but the real answer is right there at #5

 

[willie_fugal]

there's no jazz in there, which seems to have the easiest time stringing together killer six-album runs. what would be Miles' run of good albums, in the teens? 20s? depending on your opinion of certain herbie albums, that can get into the 20s also...

two off the dome from new orleans with 6-album runs:

The Meters:
S/T
Look Ka Py Py
Struttin
Cabbage Alley
Rejuvenation
Fire on the Bayou

Dr. John:
Gris Gris
Babylon
Remedies
Sun, Moon & Herbs
Gumbo
In the Right Place
Desitively Bonnaroo
(I would even throw Hollywood Be Thy Name in there)

it's hard to make 6 really good albums in a row though!

which of those artists in the original list should be removed?

 

[willie_fugal]

EWF

 

[ManItsAHighCastle]

Dead C, Michael Hurley, Robyn Hitchcock, Bevis Frond, Major Stars, Pink Floyd, Springsteen, Prince, Bert Jansch, Neil Young.

 

[Flomotion]

Tony Joe White

 

[jjfad027]

S/T
Art of Tea
Sleeping Gypsy
Burchfield Nines
Tiger in the Rain
One Bad Habit

 

[jjfad027]

Listen
I Don't Want to be Alone Stranger
Aint That a Bitch
Funk Beyond the Call of Duty
Real Mother For Ya
Giant
What the Hell is This
Love Jones

 

[jjfad027]

Beastie Boys

 

[jjfad027]

Brian Jonestown Massacre

 

[LaserWolf]

I was just thinking about this the other day when listening to Prince.

I suspect few on the above list can match
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Sign o The Times
Black Album

Or
Where I'm Coming From
Music of My Mind
Talking Book
Innervision
Fullfillingnesss
Songs In The Key Of Life

You can add James Brown to what Willie Fugal said about jazz.

 

[LaserWolf]

Weird that the rockist original list does not have Neil Young or Van Morrison.

 

[white_tea]

willie_fugal said:

there's no jazz in there, which seems to have the easiest time stringing together killer six-album runs. what would be Miles' run of good albums, in the teens? 20s? depending on your opinion of certain herbie albums, that can get into the 20s also...



My first thought, too, and the author(s) wisely included that very caveat:

"I left off jazz, as that would blow it wide open with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Miles Davis for starters."

 

[Fred_Garvin]

LaserWolf said:

I was just thinking about this the other day when listening to Prince.

I suspect few on the above list can match
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Sign o The Times
Black Album




You left "Around The World in a Day", "Parade", and "Lovesexy" out of that sequence. Which still doesn't really hurt Prince's case.

 

[ppadilha]

Electric Byrd
Ethiopian Knights
Street Lady
Black Byrd
Places and Spaces
Stepping Into Tomorrow

 

[ppadilha]

about dude's list though:

Mastodon has six albums already? I feel like they've been gradually petering off ever since Leviathan.

Nação Zumbi is a stretch IMO. Just looking at brazilian musicians, Jorge Ben had a much longer and impressive run of albums from '63 to '76. Gal Costa had a pretty solid run too, and Os Novos Baianos' first six albums make for a pretty good run.

Maybe Brian Eno with his run up to Music for Airports deserves a place?

I think Eddie Palmieri has a solid six album run somewhere in his discography.

and

Rush

GTFOOWTBS

 

[ppadilha]

Tim Maia from 1970 possibly up to 1982

 

[Duderonomy]

Aphex Twin

singles and albums from 1991-2001/2007(?)

6 albums, 30+ singles and EPs, 200+ unreleased tracks given away for free on soundcloud from this era... and this doesn't include all of the side projects under different names.

 

[Gibbo]

Interesting... when I read the thread title I immediately thought Sabbath... but for me throw in Can, Neil Young, Herbie Hancock, Alice Coltrane, John Martyn, Weather Report, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden... there's probably a ton more. The only artists I can think of of a more recent vintage would be Will Oldham or Cass McCombs?

 

[LaserWolf]

Fred_Garvin said:



LaserWolf said:

I was just thinking about this the other day when listening to Prince.

I suspect few on the above list can match
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Sign o The Times
Black Album




You left "Around The World in a Day", "Parade", and "Lovesexy" out of that sequence. Which still doesn't really hurt Prince's case.



I know.
Next in the sequence is Lovesexy which I am not really a fan of. Comparatively.
I would go the other direction and add his first 2.