All of the O'Jays albums on Philly Int'l between 1972-75.
All four of Bill Withers' albums on Sussex (1971-74).
I was considering Earth, Wind & Fire's output between 1971-75 a good run as well, but that's more about personal bias than anything else. I know for a fact that there are some here on the Strut who ride for some of the later albums.
can you count nick drake's entire discography as a great run?
To me, it seems like a copout to list somebody's entire catalog as a great run. Specially somebody like Nick Drake who died young. It would mean more if he recorded long enough to (a) change direction, or (b) "jump the shark" and stop being good.
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)
there, fixed
AC/DC (Aussie catalog)
TNT
High Voltage
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Let There Be Rock
Powerage
If You Want Blood, You've Got It
Highway to Hell
Back in Black
For Those about to Rock, We Salute You
Thin Lizzy
S/T
Shades of a Blue Orphange
Vagabonds of the Western World
Nightlife
Fighting
Jailbreak
Johnny the Fox
Bod Reputation
Live and Dangerous
Black Rose
Queen
S/T
Queen II
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
News of the World
Jazz
Live Killers
The Game
Flash Gordon OST
Man...back in the day, you had to be a true legend you had to put out a classic every 8 months to a year...and do it for about a decade. Today, the celebrated bands take about 3 to 5 years between albums and are lucky to make one decent record in a decade. Lame. Get off my lawn
Sexual Healing is a great song, but ML is a throw away and not part of any kind of run.
Stevie Wonder's great 'concept' break out lps:
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
Are 4 of the greatest (should I use some qualifiers? 70s soul/rock/pop) lps ever.
But the entire run, starting with the Motown factory, but stevie stamped lps up to the overlooked and underrated Hotter Than July is an impressive 12 years I am not afraid to defend.
1968 Eivets Rednow
For Once in My Life
1969 My Cherie Amour
1970 Signed, Sealed & Delivered
1971 Where I'm Coming From
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
1976 Songs in the Key of Life
1980 Hotter than July
In the pop arena only James Brown tops that.
I ride for the entire Aretha Franklin catalog, but this run ('67-'72) is nice:
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Arrives
Lady Soul
Aretha Now
Soul '69
This Girl's in Love with You
Spirit in the Dark
Young, Gifted and Black
I ride for the entire original Beatles catalog, but that's boring.
The Jacksons S/T, Destiny and Triumph can added to that list.
At that point MJ was the main vocalist and focal point of the Jacksons.
Tito and them did help produce and write but they were on some Pips steez when they signed to Epic.
I wouldnt include Victory and Bad.....which i do likey.
I really want to be able to say John Coltrane "Blue Trane" (1957) to "A Love Supreme" (1964) but there are so many random live and miscellaneous albums during that period I'm not sure which count as official releases...
And although it wasn't great in terms of quantity of releases I'd say Jorge Ben's "Forca Bruta" (1970) to "Africa Brasil" (1976) is one of my favourite run of albums.
1963: Samba Esquema Novo
1964: Ben ?? Samba Bom
1964: Sacundin Ben Samba
1965: Big Ben
1967: O bid??-Sil??ncio no Brooklin
1969: Jorge Ben
1970: For??a Bruta
1971: Negro ?? Lindo
1972: Ben
1973: 10 Anos Depois
1974: A T??bua de Esmeralda
1975: Solta o Pav??o
1976: ??frica Brasil
unfuckwithable :goat:
close second Willie Colon
El Malo 1967
The Hustler 1968
Guisando 1969
Cosa Nuestra 1970
Asalto Navide??o 1971
La Gran Fuga 1971
El Juicio 1972
Asalto Navide??o Vol.2 1972
Lo Mato 1973
Crime Pays 1973
Sexual Healing is a great song, but ML is a throw away and not part of any kind of run.
Stevie Wonder's great 'concept' break out lps:
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
Are 4 of the greatest (should I use some qualifiers? 70s soul/rock/pop) lps ever.
But the entire run, starting with the Motown factory, but stevie stamped lps up to the overlooked and underrated Hotter Than July is an impressive 12 years I am not afraid to defend.
1968 Eivets Rednow
For Once in My Life
1969 My Cherie Amour
1970 Signed, Sealed & Delivered
1971 Where I'm Coming From
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
1976 Songs in the Key of Life 1979 Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants -- Bit of a clunker --
1980 Hotter than July
I ride for the entire original Beatles catalog, but that's boring.
Sexual Healing is a great song, but ML is a throw away and not part of any kind of run.
Stevie Wonder's great 'concept' break out lps:
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
Are 4 of the greatest (should I use some qualifiers? 70s soul/rock/pop) lps ever.
But the entire run, starting with the Motown factory, but stevie stamped lps up to the overlooked and underrated Hotter Than July is an impressive 12 years I am not afraid to defend.
1968 Eivets Rednow
For Once in My Life
1969 My Cherie Amour
1970 Signed, Sealed & Delivered
1971 Where I'm Coming From
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
1976 Songs in the Key of Life 1979 Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants -- Bit of a clunker --
1980 Hotter than July
I ride for the entire original Beatles catalog, but that's boring.
JTTSLOP is a st, and thus exempt.
I was thinking of listening to it again and seeing if it was better than I remember. Should I bother?
I recently went back to Secret Life Of Plants via the sound samples on Amazon, and it was every bit as lame as I remember it being (when I last heard it in the 90s).
For some reason, people are trying to bring this turd back from the dead, as if people weren't ready for it back then or something. Also in that club of "reconsidered classics": Here, My Dear; McCartney II; Electric Mud and Tusk.
There are some joints on The Secret Life of Plants, but I thought it was made as a soundtrack first and not a clear cut concept album.
It has its moments, but i dont think it can be re-thought by some new generation and deemed a classic.
Send One You Love got regular radio play back then.
If anything the one chance it had was during the late 90's/00's when Electronica was bigger and folks were talmbout Neil Young Trans and Retro-Electronic albums.
Someone already beat me to it with the AC/DC catalog.
As far as the James Brown albums go I think early on there was too much filler on his albums as they were just vehicles to further promote singles which a lot of people did then. I would skip his all instrumental organ LPs as well from the early-1960s. By the mid-60s/early-70s he was on a roll.
Someone already beat me to it with the AC/DC catalog.
As far as the James Brown albums go I think early on there was too much filler on his albums as they were just vehicles to further promote singles which a lot of people did then. I would skip his all instrumental organ LPs as well from the early-1960s. By the mid-60s/early-70s he was on a roll.
And even then, those 1970s Polydor LPs were filled with enough "WTF was he thinking?" moments for a separate album. Lots of rambling monologues and re-re-re-remakes of earlier hits. Filler to be sure, but I enjoy hearing them just the same.
All those recordings of the Jimmy Giuffre 3 when it was Giuffre/Bley/Swallow are facemelters, I think.
The Neil Young discography pre-1980's
Hendrix
The Minutemen
And, also, because I mentioned them on here not long ago: Ghost
Second Time Around
Lama Rabi Rabi
Temple Stone
Snuffbox Immanence
Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Hypnotic Underworld
Comments
All four of Bill Withers' albums on Sussex (1971-74).
I was considering Earth, Wind & Fire's output between 1971-75 a good run as well, but that's more about personal bias than anything else. I know for a fact that there are some here on the Strut who ride for some of the later albums.
To me, it seems like a copout to list somebody's entire catalog as a great run. Specially somebody like Nick Drake who died young. It would mean more if he recorded long enough to (a) change direction, or (b) "jump the shark" and stop being good.
there, fixed
AC/DC (Aussie catalog)
TNT
High Voltage
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Let There Be Rock
Powerage
If You Want Blood, You've Got It
Highway to Hell
Back in Black
For Those about to Rock, We Salute You
Thin Lizzy
S/T
Shades of a Blue Orphange
Vagabonds of the Western World
Nightlife
Fighting
Jailbreak
Johnny the Fox
Bod Reputation
Live and Dangerous
Black Rose
Queen
S/T
Queen II
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
News of the World
Jazz
Live Killers
The Game
Flash Gordon OST
Man...back in the day, you had to be a true legend you had to put out a classic every 8 months to a year...and do it for about a decade. Today, the celebrated bands take about 3 to 5 years between albums and are lucky to make one decent record in a decade. Lame. Get off my lawn
Thriller
Ha! Beat that.
Stevie Wonder's great 'concept' break out lps:
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
Are 4 of the greatest (should I use some qualifiers? 70s soul/rock/pop) lps ever.
But the entire run, starting with the Motown factory, but stevie stamped lps up to the overlooked and underrated Hotter Than July is an impressive 12 years I am not afraid to defend.
1968 Eivets Rednow
For Once in My Life
1969 My Cherie Amour
1970 Signed, Sealed & Delivered
1971 Where I'm Coming From
1972 Music of My Mind
Talking Book
1973 Innervisions
1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale
1976 Songs in the Key of Life
1980 Hotter than July
In the pop arena only James Brown tops that.
I ride for the entire Aretha Franklin catalog, but this run ('67-'72) is nice:
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Arrives
Lady Soul
Aretha Now
Soul '69
This Girl's in Love with You
Spirit in the Dark
Young, Gifted and Black
I ride for the entire original Beatles catalog, but that's boring.
The Jacksons S/T, Destiny and Triumph can added to that list.
At that point MJ was the main vocalist and focal point of the Jacksons.
Tito and them did help produce and write but they were on some Pips steez when they signed to Epic.
I wouldnt include Victory and Bad.....which i do likey.
And although it wasn't great in terms of quantity of releases I'd say Jorge Ben's "Forca Bruta" (1970) to "Africa Brasil" (1976) is one of my favourite run of albums.
1964: Ben ?? Samba Bom
1964: Sacundin Ben Samba
1965: Big Ben
1967: O bid??-Sil??ncio no Brooklin
1969: Jorge Ben
1970: For??a Bruta
1971: Negro ?? Lindo
1972: Ben
1973: 10 Anos Depois
1974: A T??bua de Esmeralda
1975: Solta o Pav??o
1976: ??frica Brasil
unfuckwithable :goat:
close second Willie Colon
El Malo 1967
The Hustler 1968
Guisando 1969
Cosa Nuestra 1970
Asalto Navide??o 1971
La Gran Fuga 1971
El Juicio 1972
Asalto Navide??o Vol.2 1972
Lo Mato 1973
Crime Pays 1973
JTTSLOP is a st, and thus exempt.
I was thinking of listening to it again and seeing if it was better than I remember. Should I bother?
I haven't listened to it in a long while, but the only song I remember being worth going back to was "Race Babbling".
For some reason, people are trying to bring this turd back from the dead, as if people weren't ready for it back then or something. Also in that club of "reconsidered classics": Here, My Dear; McCartney II; Electric Mud and Tusk.
It has its moments, but i dont think it can be re-thought by some new generation and deemed a classic.
Send One You Love got regular radio play back then.
If anything the one chance it had was during the late 90's/00's when Electronica was bigger and folks were talmbout Neil Young Trans and Retro-Electronic albums.
As far as the James Brown albums go I think early on there was too much filler on his albums as they were just vehicles to further promote singles which a lot of people did then. I would skip his all instrumental organ LPs as well from the early-1960s. By the mid-60s/early-70s he was on a roll.
Edit: Oops, you said early '60's. Withdrawn...
Edit: Sorry, I thought I hit edit...
And even then, those 1970s Polydor LPs were filled with enough "WTF was he thinking?" moments for a separate album. Lots of rambling monologues and re-re-re-remakes of earlier hits. Filler to be sure, but I enjoy hearing them just the same.
Otis: Pain in my Heart---------------------------------->Dock of the Bay
I think Rod Stewart and Elton John had a good run, but am not familiar enough with their discography.
Come On Pilgrim (1987)
Surfer Rosa (1988)
Doolittle (1989)
Bossanova (1990)
Trompe Le Monde (1991)
Frank Black (1993)
Teenager of the Year (1994)
please be serious.
Velvet Underground & Nico to Loaded
Monster Movie to Soon Over Babaluma
A Monastic Trio to Lord of Lords
All those recordings of the Jimmy Giuffre 3 when it was Giuffre/Bley/Swallow are facemelters, I think.
The Neil Young discography pre-1980's
Hendrix
The Minutemen
And, also, because I mentioned them on here not long ago:
Ghost
Second Time Around
Lama Rabi Rabi
Temple Stone
Snuffbox Immanence
Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Hypnotic Underworld
File under: modern classics in my own mind.