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the greatest run of albums...

RishanRishan 454 Posts
edited July 2011 in Strut Central
what's your favourite sequence of consecutive records? for me it's mid 60's Wayne Shorter. i've not heard Schizoprenia yet, but from NIght Dreamer in 64 right up to Adam's Apple in 66, there are 8 classics in a row.
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  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    Schizophrenia is great (the album, that is).

    As far as a continuous run of great albums, nobody approaches James Brown.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Miles Davis probably gives JB a run for his money....the Prestige stuff all the way til Bitches Brew...nary a clunker in that run.
  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts
    S/T
    Art of Tea
    Sleeping Gypsy
    Burchfield Nines
    Tiger in the Rain
    One Bad Habit
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Pharoah Sanders' Impulse catalog is up there for me, 10 (I believe) albums varying from strong to mind-blowing.

    The Kinks' run of Face to Face, Something Else, Village Green, and Arthur is also a favorite, if not numerically as impressive.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    The Stones had a good run....12x5 to Exile is a pretty impressive run...
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    Curtis had a good run of albums from "Curtis" till "There's no place like America today". That's 8 at least.
  • DanteDante 371 Posts
    Stevie Wonder early / mid 70s.
    Beatles Help - Magical Mistery Tour.

    If this was about 45s I could go on and on and on.
  • DanteDante 371 Posts
    disco_che said:
    Curtis had a good run of albums from "Curtis" till "There's no place like America today". That's 8 at least.

    Very true. And you could throw in there, at least, The Young Mods Forgotten Story.
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    Dante said:
    disco_che said:
    Curtis had a good run of albums from "Curtis" till "There's no place like America today". That's 8 at least.

    Very true. And you could throw in there, at least, The Young Mods Forgotten Story.

    And "Let's Do It Again OST".
  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    Setting aside live albums (two) and albums of non-original material (one), David Bowie had a run from Hunky Dory to Scary Monsters that takes some licking. If you were feeling generous, you could add another at either end of that run without too much protest. So there's a run of between ten and twelve albums where even the weakest was as good as many of his peers' high points.
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia


    Bob Marley
    Catch a Fire
    Released: April 13, 1973
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    Burnin'
    Released: October 19, 1973
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    Natty Dread
    Released: October 25, 1974
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    Rastaman Vibration
    Released: April 30, 1976
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    Exodus
    Released: June 3, 1977
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    Kaya
    Released: March 23, 1978
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    50 50 ??? 14 16 6
    Survival
    Released: October 2, 1979
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong
    Uprising
    Released: June 10, 1980
    Label: Island/Tuff Gong

    Weather Report
    1971 Weather Report
    1972 I Sing the Body Electric
    1973 Sweetnighter
    1974 Mysterious Traveller
    1975 Tale Spinnin'
    1976 Black Market
    1977 Heavy Weather
    1978 Mr. Gone

    these dont include "live" albums
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    The_Hook_Up said:
    The Stones had a good run....12x5 to Exile is a pretty impressive run...

    I'd go so far as to say their streak started at the beginning on that first s/t album, but agree that it ends around Exile.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Richard Pryor, 1974-78:
    That Nigger's Crazy
    ...Is It Something I Said?
    Bicentennial Nigger
    Wanted

    Love, 1966-69:
    all four of the Elektra albums

    Stevie Wonder, 1971-76:
    Where I'm Coming From
    Music Of My Mind
    Talking Book
    Innervisions
    Fulfillingness' First Finale
    Songs In The Key Of Life

    Sly & the Family Stone, 1967-74:
    A Whole New Thing
    Dance To The Music
    Life
    Stand!
    There's A Riot Goin' On
    Fresh
    Small Talk
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    Midnight Love is a three tracker w/ the "comeback" hype intertwined.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    batmon said:
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    I still like In My Lifetime, even though it does have a half-cooked, "contractual obligation" feel to it.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    POST DELETED

    accidental repeat
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    I still like In My Lifetime, even though it does have a half-cooked, "contractual obligation" feel to it.

    I enjoy it as well, but in no way does it level up to Lets Get it On. Those first 5 are incredible joints.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    batmon said:
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    I still like In My Lifetime, even though it does have a half-cooked, "contractual obligation" feel to it.

    I enjoy it as well, but in no way does it level up to Lets Get it On. Those first 5 are incredible joints.

    I never got around to copping Midnight Love, even though I have a 45 of "Sexual Healing."** I always got the impression that his experimental days were over by then, and he'd settled into a generic Vandross quiet-storm vein (even thoiugh Vandross was just starting to break out and the "quiet-storm" term hadn't been coined yet).

    **the one-sided version - CBS briefly stopped making flip sides that year
  • DustedDonDustedDon 830 Posts
    Led Zeppelin (1969)
    Led Zeppelin II (1969)
    Led Zeppelin III (1970)
    Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
    Houses of the Holy (1973)
    Physical Graffiti (1975)
    Presence (1976)
    In Through the Out Door (1979)
    Coda (1982)
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    DustedDon said:
    Led Zeppelin (1969)
    Led Zeppelin II (1969)
    Led Zeppelin III (1970)
    Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
    Houses of the Holy (1973)
    Physical Graffiti (1975)
    Presence (1976)
    In Through the Out Door (1979)
    Coda (1982)

    Shoot, that ain't a run, that is - ALMOST - a whole discography.
    Minus a soundtrack/live album that everybody hates. Plus an odds-n-ends album that was compiled after the breakup.
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    A quick count on the James Brown discography shows about 50 consecutive albums all worth owning.

    Granted, a lot of songs are recycled on more than one release, but still.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    I still like In My Lifetime, even though it does have a half-cooked, "contractual obligation" feel to it.

    I enjoy it as well, but in no way does it level up to Lets Get it On. Those first 5 are incredible joints.

    I never got around to copping Midnight Love, even though I have a 45 of "Sexual Healing."** I always got the impression that his experimental days were over by then, and he'd settled into a generic Vandross quiet-storm vein (even thoiugh Vandross was just starting to break out and the "quiet-storm" term hadn't been coined yet).

    **the one-sided version - CBS briefly stopped making flip sides that year

    Quiet Storm was already a radio format by '83.

    Midnight Love is some minimal drum machine stuff like Sexual Healing.
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    I still like In My Lifetime, even though it does have a half-cooked, "contractual obligation" feel to it.

    I enjoy it as well, but in no way does it level up to Lets Get it On. Those first 5 are incredible joints.

    I never got around to copping Midnight Love, even though I have a 45 of "Sexual Healing."** I always got the impression that his experimental days were over by then, and he'd settled into a generic Vandross quiet-storm vein (even thoiugh Vandross was just starting to break out and the "quiet-storm" term hadn't been coined yet).

    **the one-sided version - CBS briefly stopped making flip sides that year

    Quiet Storm was already a radio format by '83.

    Midnight Love is some minimal drum machine stuff like Sexual Healing.


    I thought twice about leaving those last two records off the list, but i think they do stand up as great albums both on thier own and on this list.
    Midnight Love is slowly becoming the next Here My Dear in terms of people re-discovering it.
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    mrmatthew said:



    I thought twice about leaving those last two records off the list, but i think they do stand up as great albums both on thier own and on this list.
    Midnight Love is slowly becoming the next Here My Dear in terms of people re-discovering it.

    I never got to buy Midnight Love but finally did recently, when I was on flea market with close to no records. Took it to not having to go away with empty hands. Although I'm getting warm with a lot of 80s soul (even 1987 Alexander O'Neal stroke a nerve) I just didn't like this album. Gives me the impression they did something fundamentally wrong when producing it. Maybe Harvey Fuqua had already seen his best days in the producers chair. Maybe Gayes voice is to much identified with the warmth of 60s and 70s production and sounds so misplaced between all these synthetic sounds and horrible reverbs. Don't know but that album got instantly classified as a non-keeper.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    pickwick33 said:
    batmon said:
    mrmatthew said:
    Marvin Gaye:

    1971 What's Going On 6 1 56* Tamla
    1972 Trouble Man 14 3 ??? Tamla
    1973 Let's Get It On 2 1 39 Tamla
    1976 I Want You 4 1 22 Tamla
    1978 Here, My Dear 26 4 ??? Tamla
    1981 In Our Lifetime 32 6 48 Tamla
    1982 Midnight Love 7 1 10 Columbia

    In My Lifetime wasnt a fully realized project and cant sit next to those previous albums.

    I still like In My Lifetime, even though it does have a half-cooked, "contractual obligation" feel to it.

    I enjoy it as well, but in no way does it level up to Lets Get it On. Those first 5 are incredible joints.

    I never got around to copping Midnight Love, even though I have a 45 of "Sexual Healing."** I always got the impression that his experimental days were over by then, and he'd settled into a generic Vandross quiet-storm vein (even thoiugh Vandross was just starting to break out and the "quiet-storm" term hadn't been coined yet).

    **the one-sided version - CBS briefly stopped making flip sides that year

    Quiet Storm was already a radio format by '83.

    Midnight Love is some minimal drum machine stuff like Sexual Healing.


    I thought twice about leaving those last two records off the list, but i think they do stand up as great albums both on thier own and on this list.
    Midnight Love is slowly becoming the next Here My Dear in terms of people re-discovering it.

    I cant compare the two.

    Here My Dear got no love from the public and critics when it dropped in '78.
    Its now arguably "best/favorite" Gaye album and is sonically/lyrically way more sophisticated than Midnight Love.
    Plus HMD is another Gaye concept album where MLove is just a regular R&B joint.
    Maybe some youngins are starting to re-discover ML which was copped by mad folks when in debuted, but that doesnt mean it will gain the same status as the over-looked classic like HMD.

    I have to disagree with those 2 albums as being called GREAT.

    also....Midnight Love shouldnt be added to his RUN. He went into exile for a long minute after not being on the radio since Got To Give it up in '77 Live at The London Paladium.
    Here My Dear and In My Lifetime? was not bangin on the radio.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    SONIC YOUTH 1982
    CONFUSION IS SEX 1983
    SONIC DEATH 1984
    BAD MOON RISING 1985
    EVOL 1986
    SISTER 1987
    DAYDREAM NATION 1988
    THE WHITEY ALBUM 1989
    GOO 1990
    DIRTY 1992
  • leonleon 883 Posts
    Dirty mind - 1980
    Controversy
    1999
    Purple rain
    Around the world in a day
    Parade
    Sign of the Times
    Black Album
    Lovesexy
    Batman - 1989
  • Otis_FunkmeyerOtis_Funkmeyer 1,321 Posts
    Black Sabbath
    Paranoid
    Master of Reality
    Vol. 4
    Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    Sabotage


    ZZ Top's First Album
    Rio Grande Mud
    Tres Hombres
    Fandango!
    Tejas
    Deg??ello
    El Loco
    Eliminator
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Born into the 90's (1992)
    12 Play (1993)
    R. Kelly (1995)
    R. (1998)
    TP-2.com (2000)
    Chocolate Factory (2003)
    Happy People/U Saved Me (2004)

    Bit TP-2.com is suspect as a whole IMO, despite the bangers.
    And (Disc 2)U Saved Me is garbage.
  • neil_somethingneil_something 993 Posts
    a few possibilities:

    joni mitchell: ladies of the canyon (1970) to hejira (1976)

    talking heads: talking heads 77 (1977) to speaking in tongues (1983)

    i'm sure the likes of roy ayers and gil scott heron have a decent run through most of the 70's. and can you count nick drake's entire discography as a great run?
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