"I celebrate the entire catalog"

pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
edited May 2007 in Strut Central
Inevitably, it happens...somebody will start an appreciation thread, then after five or six posts of kudos, someone will invariably say, "oh, I liked their early albums on Perception before they went disco," or "when they dropped that tuba player on the fourth LP, that's when they improved" or "I liked the later records on Project 3 after they got scalded by a pot of hot grits."And that round of posts will be followed by "I celebrate the entire catalog" (which is used so often it oughta be an emoticon by now).So, let's break it down...Most artists who have made more than five LP's seem to have some kind of period where they jumped the shark and stopped being revelant.Whose catalog do you REALLY celebrate all the way through? I don't mean artists who you dig so much that you accept their shit even when you KNOW they're not on their game, but acts who always seem to have inspiration even when coked-up, half-asleep or trying to Keep Up With The Trends?Here's mine:Doug SahmGeorge Clinton (Parliament, Funkadelic, everything)James BrownJohn Lee HookerJohnny Cash Otis ReddingCharlie FeathersOtis ClayJerry Lee LewisConsolersNow these acts may have had an off-day or two, but remained consistent through their run. Who are yours?
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  • herbie hancock

  • crossingscrossings 946 Posts
    herbie hancock

    an obvious co-sign from me on that.

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    Monk

  • SnappingSnapping 995 Posts
    Gil Scott-Heron, Johnny Guitar Watson come to mind

  • dstill808dstill808 704 Posts






  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts
    Johnny Guitar Watson come to mind

    Yes


  • pencilfacepencilface 674 Posts
    The Sparks.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Gil Scott-Heron

    massive cosign here, cant believe he slipped my mind - even his last album from 13 years ago was some kind of alright

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    Beatles
    Velvet Underground
    John Coltrane
    Donny Hathaway
    Booket T and The MGs
    D'Angelo
    Sir Douglas Quintet
    Pharoah Sanders
    Sonny Clark
    Tina Brooks
    The Everly Brothers

  • volumenvolumen 2,532 Posts
    Nick Drake (easy to say with only a few LP's)

    Judas Priest (not including post Halford)

    Misfits

    Minutemen/firehose

    Black Flag

    Circle Jerks

    AC/DC (30 years of goodness excuses that last tepid turd)

  • most of this for me is musicians with solid early, musically amazing albums but went contemporary, new age/jazz or disco.

    ahmad jamal

    ramsey lewis

    fatback band

    jimmy mcgriff

    ike and tina

    oliver sain


  • UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
    easy to say with only a few LP's

    Many artists named fall into this catergory, especially those that died young (Donny Hathway, Otis). Going by the original post, its people with 5 albums plus, excluding people like D'Angelo. My two contributions would be



  • white_teawhite_tea 3,262 Posts
    Cosign on a lot of these. I'll try to stick to groups who have put out more than three or four records. Here's a few random picks:

    --Fleetwood Mac
    --Talking Heads
    --De La Soul
    --Sade

  • bass_feverbass_fever 974 Posts
    Meters
    Soft Machine
    Zapp/Roger
    James Brown
    king crimson
    Led Zepplin
    Gang Starr
    Del the Funky...
    Ghostface

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts

    --Sade

    I knew I forgot someone

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Some of these are co-signs and I am sure I will be reminded of others with more posts...

    Nina Simone
    Otis Redding
    Wu Tang Clan
    Ghostface
    Velvet Underground
    De La Soul
    Bad Brains
    John Coltrane
    Archie Shepp
    Horace Andy
    Charles Mingus

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    Pharoah Sanders

    Monk

    Hancock

    Jay Dee

    Alice Coltrane

    James Brown

    Sonic Youth

    Modest Mouse (yes even when they went mainstream)

    De La

    Nina Simone


  • crossingscrossings 946 Posts
    Boards of Canada

  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    The Beatles
    The Rolling Stones
    Pink Floyd
    Jimi Hendrix
    Neil Young
    Sly & The Family Stone
    Miles Davis
    John Coltrane
    Charles Mingus
    Duke Ellington
    Billy Childish
    Fela Kuti
    Sunday Manoa
    Loggins & Messina
    Hui Ohana
    Ravi Shankar
    Gabby Pahinui
    Melvins
    The Mummies
    Hell Cows

  • TrueStuTrueStu 91 Posts
    I like most of a lot of artisits' albums, but if we're talking about literally every album, the list is somewhat short:

    The Beatles
    Beck
    Outkast
    Cymande
    The Meters
    Shuggie Otis
    Geto Boys
    Organized Konfusion
    PUTS


    Honorable mentions (not every album, but close):

    Fela Kuti
    Van Morrison
    Led Zeplin
    Manu Chao
    Can
    Gangstarr
    De La
    James Brown
    ATCQ
    Heiro

    I'm sure there are others I'm fogetting...

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I like most of a lot of artisits' albums, but if we're talking about literally every album, the list is somewhat short:

    It doesn't have to be every last album these artists ever recorded - a few off-days are okay - but at least most of them. Bobby "Blue" Bland's MCA recordings are mediocre, but seldom bad, and for that reason I Celebrate His Entire Catalog, because one or two turds couldn't kill the thrill of his classics.

  • fejmelbafejmelba 1,139 Posts


    kirk

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    I support all PUTS albums to the fullest except stepfather.

  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts


    the only artist i can think of who didn't make a bad record?

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    oh yeah, and doug carn.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    surprised i forgot tony joe white

  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts


    And that round of posts will be followed by "I celebrate the entire catalog" (which is used so often it oughta be an emoticon by now).

    There is a .gif that some people use and it's my favorite .gif/graemlin on this board. It has the dude from "Office Space".

  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts








  • covecove 1,566 Posts

    ahmad jamal

    ramsey lewis


    BIG TIME

  • SyminSymin 999 Posts
    The Meters
    i may be alone on this but i dont celebrate fire on the bayou
    not saying its bad, just not celebrated like other meters albums
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