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Which band/artist has the most consistent discography?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    kasabian
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭ValJester


    lordgoat wrote: »
    I don't know.... could also have been the massive amounts of drugs...

    Or his generally cantankerous and contrary personality (see Reed,Lou; Waits, Tom, ;Dylan, Bob etc)?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    I think when discussing issues like this we can exclude Radiohead because it's implicit that everyone agrees they are the best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    See with Radiohead, you've also got some of the best EPs you'll ever hear too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Sir Graball


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    Think you might be confusing him with Lou Reed there. Nearly everything he recorded in the 80s was bad, and he tried almost every possibly genre while he was at it. Not that it really takes away from the amazing stuff he's done.

    Am I reading this right???

    Nearly everything Lou Reed recorded in the 1980's was bad !!!:eek:

    Reed recorded six studio albums and 1 live set in that decade ( some of the so called 'indie bands' around today couldn't do that in their entire career!) and perhaps with the exception of Minstral the body of work was amazing.

    The Blue Mask 1982 and New York 1989 are probally two of the best albums ever produced. In terms of using different genres I don't know where you got that out of ! It was all just rock an roll!!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 bswan


    Westlife are up there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    bswan wrote: »
    Westlife are up there

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    bswan wrote: »
    Westlife are up there
    Up where exactly? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 bswan


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    Up where exactly? :rolleyes:

    Up there with Radiohead, where else


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    bswan wrote: »
    Up there with Radiohead, where else

    Take the piss in here again and you're gone.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    Up where exactly? :rolleyes:

    Their own arseholes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ImcompotentFool


    Westlife as a band have a very consistent discography. Consistently bad...

    Nick Drake has to be up there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭theUbiq


    Matt Johnson\The The

    Does anyone listen to these anymore? Every single album by Matt Johnson is brilliant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Yo La Tengo and Guided By Voices both have amazingly consistent discographies and both have released a huge number of albums and other releases.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    I love how SFA recorded Paul McCartney to chew celery and carrots to use as a beat to the song Receptacle for the Respectable. I'd compare that to South Park using George Clooney as Sparky the Dog, hillarious.

    They did that as a nod to the Beach Boys. McCartney did the same thing for the song 'Vegetables' during the Smile sessions back in the 60s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    Everything ever released by Iron & Wine is 100% quality imo

    + 1 - he's a class act


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    I am by no means a radiohead fan (i like some of it) and yet I wholeheartedly agree with you.
    Each album has an urgency to it aswell as an underlying need to distance itself from previous releases.

    Once again i am not the biggest of fans but I have a massive respect for radiohead

    I would throw Elbow into the mix. Not they are consistently good, but each release is better than the last, building to the crescendo that is seldom seen kid


    hmmm, 'Leaders of the Free World' better than the previous two? Not by a long shot I'm afraid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭ValJester


    Nick Cave. Been delving into his body of work, and the fact he has all of one poor album in 25 years of recording solo is an incredible level of consistency. Albums like Boatman's Call, Let Love In and Tender Prey are standouts, but Nocturama is the only weak record in all his discography (14 studio albums)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    ValJester wrote: »
    Nick Cave. Been delving into his body of work, and the fact he has all of one poor album in 25 years of recording solo is an incredible level of consistency. Albums like Boatman's Call, Let Love In and Tender Prey are standouts, but Nocturama is the only weak record in all his discography (14 studio albums)

    Spot on - and Nocturama starts off so well too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    "No more shall we part" is a bit ropey also, but in general his stuff is very consistent.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    This decade , Brand New have yet to release a below par album.
    But agree with other posters, no one comes close to Radioheads consistentcy[minus 1 or 2 minor quibbles about Pablo Honey].


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭ValJester


    loyatemu wrote: »
    "No more shall we part" is a bit ropey also, but in general his stuff is very consistent.

    I thought it was great bar one or two tracks being a bit overcooked, the first 5 and last 2 are outstanding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭thesultan


    I completely disagree about the White Album. There are a couple of poor tracks on it – but I prefer to look at it this way: It probably has more great songs than any other album I’ve ever heard. Back in the USSR, Blackbird, Happiness is a Warm Gun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, Dear Prudence . . . it’s got so much variety

    Regarding their early work – you do realize that they were working in a completely different time, when bands didn’t really write their own songs. Buddy Holly was one of the first, and the Beatles weren’t far behind.
    The fact that their early albums have covers is not a valid point of criticism imo. For one thing, they were writing more songs than any other band at the time. As well as that the quality of their covers was outstanding – Twist and Shout, Roll over Beethoven, I wanna be your man, Money – are all outstanding performances, regardless of who wrote them
    They wrote I wanna be your man. It was the Stones who covered it. They do an amazing cover of 'You Really Got a Hold Of Me'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭thesultan


    I would have the Beatles head and shoulders above the rest. The Who are another great band (bar FAce Dances) I have all their material and they have a marvellous volume of work.

    Ocean colour Scene are a great band too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    thesultan wrote: »
    I would have the Beatles head and shoulders above the rest. The Who are another great band (bar FAce Dances) I have all their material and they have a marvellous volume of work.

    Ocean colour Scene are a great band too.

    That last line was a joke right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭fruvai


    Tom Waits (very little weak material in his discography if any)
    The Beatles
    The Smiths
    Radiohead
    Elliott Smith
    John Frusciante (solo)
    Fugazi
    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Have Pearl Jam released a bad album in 20 years?


    Have Pearl Jam released a good album in 20 years?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    Only skimmed over the thread, but Coldplay don't seem to be getting a lot of love. What's up with that?

    I'm adamant that they're the best band in the world. They consistently produce truly great music. Geniuses. Seriously underappreciated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    moneyman wrote: »
    Only skimmed over the thread, but Coldplay don't seem to be getting a lot of love. What's up with that?

    I'm adamant that they're the best band in the world. They consistently produce truly great music. Geniuses. Seriously underappreciated.

    Geniuses who produce truly great music don't steal music off other people. I'm sure you know the whole Talk = Computer Love and Viva La Vida = If I Could Fly thing.

    Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head were pretty cool, I think, but they're nowhere near 'geniuses'. I reckon they're underappreciated too, they get a lot of stick they don't deserve, but they're not doing anything really special either. Decent musicians writing good music, not geniuses consistently producing truly great music.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,911 ✭✭✭✭whatawaster


    thesultan wrote: »
    They wrote I wanna be your man. It was the Stones who covered it. They do an amazing cover of 'You Really Got a Hold Of Me'.

    Correct you are. I seem to have mixed the two up. I prefer the Beatle's versions of both, incidentally


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