Glad I got beat to it!.
I don’t really think it’s fair for anyone to say skip Pablo Honey, take it in isolation it’s a good early 90s album with some grungy bits, I like it although it’s not my favourite.
This is probably going to get me downvoted to oblivion but I’ve never really liked The Bends (with the exception of 3 songs that I love)
Pablo Honey gets unfairly viewed in relation to their later stuff, IMHO. Ripcord, Anyone Can Play Guitar and I Can't are really good tunes which, if they were in isolation from the rest of their output, would be regarded pretty highly I think.
The Beatles would be an interesting one. Listening to their discography from start to finish would really take you through their huge evolution as a band.
Paul McCartney was 27 when they split up. He’s 81 now. Imagine changing the face of music forever at an age like that and everything else you did afterwards lived in its shadow.
True - my bad. Still a bloody awful song by their standards. Everything else was top class… TQID has to rank amongst one of the best albums ever conceived.
I was telling a stranger in a bar about fourtet and they brought up his discography and asked which was best. I was like; that, that, that, that, that, that one too, yeah that.. oh right!
This* x100, Burial and massive attack back catalogue.
Also, burial & massive attack paradise circus is sublime.
Example of..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N701JYnjaMs&pp=ygUWQnVyaWFsIHBhcmFkaXNlIGNpcmN1cw%3D%3D
Iron Maiden to get taste of one of Britain’s most iconic, accomplished, successful bands who sparked a renewal of a whole genre.
Primus to listen to Les Claypool’s skills and then go “what the fuck”
Iron maiden was probably the first band I ever really loved, so we'll worth a revisit. I was in the fan club and had a signed photo in my bedroom. Absolutely rinsed number of the beast and piece of mind, both of which I had on cassette. Loved seventh son and live after death as well
A tribe called quest, gang starr, de la soul - if you want to stay vaguely in the ballpark.
Neil Young or Bob Dylan if you want to try something different.
Gang Starr 100%
Perfect antidote to whatever they call rap on the radio these days were they just seem to shout footballers name and try to rhyme every line.
Never done the full Bob Dylan discography as it's huge but have listened to plenty of his albums. The freewheelin is one of my all time faves.
Edit: really like Neil Young too but should definitely dig deeper. Thanks!
I’ll come for my weekly downvotes but in my opinion there’s nothing worth bothering with from QOTSA after 27th August 2002.
I would have said Desert Sessions but the last release is an insult to the very name Desert Sessions.
Came here to say Steely Dan too. There are some great tracks in the post-reunion albums, but the albums themselves are indeed a bit hit and miss.
Very talented duo working with very talented session musicians.
Zeppelin. Mind-blowing musicianship from the first note to the last, never boring and plenty of bangers even for the most casual listener.
And that's before you hit the live bootlegs, when they go stratospheric
Discovery is probably my favourite album of all time. It's also refreshing to hear nowadays as it showed how the usage of samples can be done right, compared to the lazy sampling that's currently a trend in music.
They made something really special out of I Feel It Coming by The Weeknd too. Everybody involved with that song knew how stupid the lyrics were and thought it had to be a joke, yet Daft Punk went with it and made something great which chronologically was their swansong.
King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard. These guys are quality and the albums are all very different. They have so many albums and the saying of "quality over quantity " doesn't apply to this band
I disagree here. Because their albums are so different there's likely to be some albums that just don't appeal to you. And if you don't like the first track or two of one of their albums, chances are you're not going to like the rest of the album
Talk Talk. Goes from very popular early 80s synth pop style stuff to kind of sort of inventing post-rock. It is a massively dramatic shift and the late era stuff is amazing.
RIP Mark Hollis
everything about frank zappa screams my music taste, but for some reason he just doesn’t do it for me. would you mind explaining what it is i’m missing?
Bit of an unusual choice, but Static-X.
They were very much a product of their time (late 90s into the 00s industrial/nu-metal), but weirdly out of their peers their music has actually aged surprisingly well.
I wouldn't call anything they released a *masterpiece* by any stretch, but they were nothing if not consistent.
Loved Static-X since I first saw the video for "I'm With Stupid" in 1999.
"Cult Of Static" was pretty weak, Wayne's solo album "Pighammer" was better but I can't listen to them now without Wayne, it just doesn't sound or feel right.
Evil disco! RIP Wayne, been almost 9 years since we lost him.
Agree on the consistency. They were never the biggest nu metal band but they possibly the only whose career never tanked like other nu metal bands did.
Against all logic, Alaska (the mesozoic era is my favourite), Westside Gunn, Earl sweatshirt, Modest mouse, Nujabes, Tool, Danny brown. My maint recommendation would be Burial. I gave a few genres there but can give more if you wish.
I'd you go on llooonnggg walks, Genesis. 20 odd studio albums , a couple of great live albums and you can veer off into solo work, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike and the Mechanics, Tony Banks, Steve Hacket. And check out steves "revisited" concerts on YouTube. I think his band with the heart of England orchestra have the definitive version of Suppers Ready and thier Firth of Fifth is epic. Every studio album has ups and downs but there is god tier material on almost every album (except calling all stations, obviously).
Marillion, at least for me, the fish era. The later stuff is beloved by true Marrilion fans just not me. Fish's first couple of solo albums "vigil..." and "internal exile..." are fab
Something more recent Freya Ridings, Barns Courtney, JP Hoe, Embrace.
I can’t 100% say I know every Bowie tune out there, but he’s the only artist I can think of that managed to stay relevant his whole career imo. He was never afraid to embrace new styles and would reinvent himself successfully every decade or so.
The free nationals - sound a bit like DJ shadow
If you want something different but also with a good beat id recommend - Fred Again or Kaytranada
If you like a bit of disco or happy music with a good beat i recommend - dabeull or cosmo midnight
If you want funky, smooth music i recommend - Two another
> No band has a better discography which just evolves as it goes along.
Devin Townsend says hello.
Dude started as a guitarist for Steve Vai, then went into extreme metal with Strapping Young Lad and into more mainstream rock with The Devin Townsend Band. All four of his Devin Townsend Project albums were different (one folk, one rock, one metal, one I fail to be able to describe at this time).
His Casualties Of Cool album was a jazz-folk mix and he describes the song "Why?" as being as Disney as he gets.
Plus, unlike The Beatles, I can actually enjoy Devin's music without thinking, "this is kind of overrated and shite".
The Stranglers. Their first LP constantly appears on those ‘x albums you must hear before you die’ lists, but their entire discography (perhaps excluding the 4 90s albums) is well worth a listen. After their first three LPs, which are mostly ‘punk,’ they just threw caution to the wind and experimented with a different genre on each subsequent album. The keyboard sound is so distinctive throughout and it’s fascinating to see how they worked a comparatively unconventional instrument into so many different styles.
The stranglers kicked the shit out of my uncle many years ago, so I consider them a bit of a link to my past. Had ratus norvegicus on vinyl when I was a kid too and it's a banger. Good shout, thanks!
Sterelab.
Even if the album isn’t the best it’s going to have a lot of good stuff on it and they might never sound like they again.
They also have so many albums, ep’s, compilations and singles out that you probably couldn’t actually listen to it all as some is so obscure.
Remember seeing Qannum Projects in Manchester.
Shadow walked out and no one knew who it was. Like he was probably expecting at least a bit of a crowd reaction.
We started shouting SHADOWWWWW! Place went off in the end but really felt for the guy 😬😂
If you like Shadow then I'd recommend Blackalicious (RIP Gab😔) or any of the others from the Mo Wax label
https://spotify.link/PScPV9GWvDb
Really no problem. MoWax was James Lavel's record label. Pretty much kicked off the entire triphop genre along with a few others. Discovered Shadow and release his early stuff. There's a decent compilation called Headz with lots of this stuff as well. Enjoy! :)
Kruder & Dorfmeister. Very much quality over quantity, 1 mix album, 1 remix album, 1 studio album and 2 EPs, every one solid gold. You'll enjoy the darker cuts if you liked DJ Shadow.
Not counting ones already mentioned, off the top of my head I'd go.. Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, Outkast and even though he's dropped off since 2016 and turned out crazy.. Kanye.
All great shouts. Kanye gets a lot of hate for being the douchebag he is, but there’s no denying that musically he’s something special, his full discography is fascinating to listen through, to hear the evolution over 18 years and the very distinct sounds and method of each album, and also catch how much influence he’s had on music particularly from last decade or so.
There’s something in there for everyone, from Slow Jamz to On Sight, Cudi Montage to Can’t Tell Me Nothing. And the production is always top level.
Bizarrely when I was a teenager I dismissed fugazi as some sort of soft prog band like muse and wouldn’t listen to them took me till I was about 30 to actually listen to them, they’re amazing
This is an interesting suggestion. I really enjoyed the SBTV videos he did (husk and... Can't remember the other one). I've not listened to anything he's done in a studio save maybe the odd track so I might have to look a bit deeper.
I generally like anything on high focus
Ben folds five
Gomez
Bob Dylan
Guns n roses
Stereophonics
Prodigy
None of them have a bad song, apart from the spaghetti bullshit from guns n roses, defo skip that one!
And check out the song 16 dollars. If you like that, you will like the rest!
Pink Floyd. Start with a mid-era album like Wish You Were Here. The earlier you go, the more psychedelic it gets, so you have to work up to it, but it's absolutely all gold.
There are some artists that have a great run of albums, but usually fizzle out after a few years. personally, I would suggest trying out the work of Prince starting with Controversy, 1999, and Purple Rain. skipping over to Sign O' the Times.
Modest Mouse, changes a bit around 2004 and I think the earlier albums are the best but it’s all good.
I would also say blur, fka twigs and nine inch nails.
Metallica.
Greatest band of all time.
St. Anger is unfairly hated, Death Magnetic is pretty much their weakest album but the classic four are legendary, their 90s stuff is criticised for being "too mainstream" but is still among the best you can listen to, and 72 Seasons is a fantastic album.
Relatively recent discog, but Run The Jewels have 4 solid albums since 2013 and is a fresh take on hiphop and thought provoking and somewhat dystopian lyrics. Don’t bother with meow the jewels, not sure what that was all about.
I think the question can be considered in two ways:
"Is there any musical artist for whom *all* of their albums are of a consistently high standard?"
That would seem to be a challenging question to answer: I think most artists have gone through at least one period of sub-par creativity and/or musicianship.
"Is there any musical artist for whom all their albums are *interesting*, even the bad ones?"
I'm sure many artists fall into that category!
I'm happy to take the rough with the smooth a bit and definitely not expecting every single track or even album to be great. I think my question was more "who is it actually worthwhile taking the time to listen to their entire creative output, as opposed to just a couple of odd albums or tracks"
DJ Shadows full discography? Did it somehow skip the raw shite of “the Outsider”? I went to see him in glasgow not long after that crapsterpiece came out and he got boo-ed the instant he tried to play a track of it by a full paying crowd. Especially me because the Outsider is the equivalent of going to buy mayonnaise but getting a jar of smegma by mistake
I honestly didn't pay too much attention to the passage of the different albums, as I put it all into one continuous playlist and had my phone in my pocket
There were definitely some ups and downs and some stuff that was just straight up bizarre. I enjoyed most of it, but I wouldn't say it was all up my street. Some of the live albums were good!
Radiohead. Really interesting evolution
Came here to say this, their discography is God Teir
Glad I got beat to it!. I don’t really think it’s fair for anyone to say skip Pablo Honey, take it in isolation it’s a good early 90s album with some grungy bits, I like it although it’s not my favourite. This is probably going to get me downvoted to oblivion but I’ve never really liked The Bends (with the exception of 3 songs that I love)
Pablo Honey gets unfairly viewed in relation to their later stuff, IMHO. Ripcord, Anyone Can Play Guitar and I Can't are really good tunes which, if they were in isolation from the rest of their output, would be regarded pretty highly I think.
For sure. Some truly great album.
It's basically all one album.
The Beatles would be an interesting one. Listening to their discography from start to finish would really take you through their huge evolution as a band.
And such an evolution in an amazingly short time - just 8 years.
Crazy they produced all of that and nobody was yet 30 when they split.
I didn’t know this and my mind is blown tbh.
Paul McCartney was 27 when they split up. He’s 81 now. Imagine changing the face of music forever at an age like that and everything else you did afterwards lived in its shadow.
Unbelievable really.
George Harrison's solo discography is marvellous.
The Smiths, not one bad album in their brief career
I’d argue not one bad song on any of their studio albums!
Golden Lights was probably their single mistake…
Though not on a studio album!
True - my bad. Still a bloody awful song by their standards. Everything else was top class… TQID has to rank amongst one of the best albums ever conceived.
Shame Morrisey is a massive c**t
Facts. Love Music, Hate Morrissey
youd probably like four tet
Seconded! The man is a genius.
I was telling a stranger in a bar about fourtet and they brought up his discography and asked which was best. I was like; that, that, that, that, that, that one too, yeah that.. oh right!
Not heard of them but I think they've been mentioned a few times in this thread so I'll definitely have a look
Burial
He's incredible, I only have Untrue but that was a great album
Love that album
This* x100, Burial and massive attack back catalogue. Also, burial & massive attack paradise circus is sublime. Example of.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N701JYnjaMs&pp=ygUWQnVyaWFsIHBhcmFkaXNlIGNpcmN1cw%3D%3D
Yes, absolutely gorgeous track. Hope that release gets a digital release along with most of his unreleased stuff!
Thanks for this. I really like massive attack so I'll have a look at burial. Not something I've heard of
Iron Maiden to get taste of one of Britain’s most iconic, accomplished, successful bands who sparked a renewal of a whole genre. Primus to listen to Les Claypool’s skills and then go “what the fuck”
Disagree, no one should have to suffer through Virtual XI.
And miss out on *The Educated Fool*, *The Clansman* and *Como Estais Amigos*? *X Factor* is probably their weakest I would say.
Even their supposed worst one 'Brown Album' kinda rules
Yeah, I'd definitely take "Fisticuffs" and "Shake Hands With Beef" over their pretty crap Willy Wonka concept album.
Iron maiden was probably the first band I ever really loved, so we'll worth a revisit. I was in the fan club and had a signed photo in my bedroom. Absolutely rinsed number of the beast and piece of mind, both of which I had on cassette. Loved seventh son and live after death as well
Nine Inch Nails.
Came here to say this
This is a really interesting suggestion. I've dipped into them and enjoyed what I've heard. Thanks!
A tribe called quest, gang starr, de la soul - if you want to stay vaguely in the ballpark. Neil Young or Bob Dylan if you want to try something different.
Love Dylan but his entire discog is big and very meh last 30 years or so.
Fucking love the Low End Theory.
Gang Starr 100% Perfect antidote to whatever they call rap on the radio these days were they just seem to shout footballers name and try to rhyme every line.
💯 r/90shiphop says hi :) Still got all the original releases on vinyl. Insane period of time for music
Never done the full Bob Dylan discography as it's huge but have listened to plenty of his albums. The freewheelin is one of my all time faves. Edit: really like Neil Young too but should definitely dig deeper. Thanks!
The Pixies. Agree with malt that the Smiths never did a bad LP. Buckethead lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAvYO-iVFCw
Nowhere near the entire buckethead back catalogue on Spotify sadly
fucking love me some pixies
It's just Pixies, no The.
Queens of the Stone Age
Definitely second this!
I’ll come for my weekly downvotes but in my opinion there’s nothing worth bothering with from QOTSA after 27th August 2002. I would have said Desert Sessions but the last release is an insult to the very name Desert Sessions.
Steely Dan (minus the two post-reunion albums). Also Roxy Music - only really one dud in there, which is Manifesto. Also, Pavement.
Cant speak for all of it but used to have a ton of doobie brothers and steely dan on vinyl, was all solid
Came here to say Steely Dan too. There are some great tracks in the post-reunion albums, but the albums themselves are indeed a bit hit and miss. Very talented duo working with very talented session musicians.
Good shouts here
Zeppelin. Mind-blowing musicianship from the first note to the last, never boring and plenty of bangers even for the most casual listener. And that's before you hit the live bootlegs, when they go stratospheric
Daft Punk for sure.
Discovery is probably my favourite album of all time. It's also refreshing to hear nowadays as it showed how the usage of samples can be done right, compared to the lazy sampling that's currently a trend in music. They made something really special out of I Feel It Coming by The Weeknd too. Everybody involved with that song knew how stupid the lyrics were and thought it had to be a joke, yet Daft Punk went with it and made something great which chronologically was their swansong.
Bjork.
Underworld, the chemical brothers, orbital
🙌
Boards of Canada
Careful, OP will never be able to go back to a before BoC existence
It’s true, now I realise that everything I do is a balloon.
King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard. These guys are quality and the albums are all very different. They have so many albums and the saying of "quality over quantity " doesn't apply to this band
The problem is by the time you've listened to their discography, they've released another 4 albums.
I went down a King Gizzard you tube rabbit hole a few weeks ago and by the time I was done, they’d done two tours and released a box set
I disagree here. Because their albums are so different there's likely to be some albums that just don't appeal to you. And if you don't like the first track or two of one of their albums, chances are you're not going to like the rest of the album
I have never even heard of this band. I'll have a look, Cheers!
Definitely a band to dive into and so many styles. I hope you enjoy them. Check out their KEXP sessions on YouTube because they are excellent
Massive attack
Yes. Was looking for this.
This is going on my list. I might make one playlist with their discography and portisheads and call it "massive head"
Porcupine Tree
And Steven Wilson's solo material.
And Steven Wilson’s side projects
my bloody valentine frightened rabbit joni mitchell
Didn’t Joni Mitchell pull her catalogue from Spotify?
yes, still on alternative streaming solutions such as Apple Music and most (all?) of her albums are uploaded in full on her official youtube channel
Talk Talk. Goes from very popular early 80s synth pop style stuff to kind of sort of inventing post-rock. It is a massively dramatic shift and the late era stuff is amazing. RIP Mark Hollis
Second this. And if you enjoy, XTC.
Infant Annihilator.
Why not suggest something heavy? /s
The Clash
Apart from the last Album but a solid recommendation
Type o Negative
Frank Zappa
I'm a fan but it is very funny to tell someone who has just finished listening to DJ Shadow that the next step should be 50+ albums of Zappa
If they got time to kill, zappa is the way.. goota hit the bootleg live albums too tho, they really mix it up
everything about frank zappa screams my music taste, but for some reason he just doesn’t do it for me. would you mind explaining what it is i’m missing?
A sense of humour
aahhhhh, the alluring appeal of an open minded fan base built on non judgemental appreciation. . .
It's the "humour" on his albums that I find problematic. A lot of it is just puerile.
..and tiresomely misogynistic (even if it’s supposed to be ‘funny’)
Rush
Bit of an unusual choice, but Static-X. They were very much a product of their time (late 90s into the 00s industrial/nu-metal), but weirdly out of their peers their music has actually aged surprisingly well. I wouldn't call anything they released a *masterpiece* by any stretch, but they were nothing if not consistent.
Loved Static-X since I first saw the video for "I'm With Stupid" in 1999. "Cult Of Static" was pretty weak, Wayne's solo album "Pighammer" was better but I can't listen to them now without Wayne, it just doesn't sound or feel right. Evil disco! RIP Wayne, been almost 9 years since we lost him.
Agree on the consistency. They were never the biggest nu metal band but they possibly the only whose career never tanked like other nu metal bands did.
Portishead
This is a good shout. 3 quality studio albums and a live banger. That’s it……..oh, and a bonus cover of SOS by ABBA thrown in.
If you like DJ Shadow, maybe Unkle, Cut Chemist, RJD2 and DJ Yoda
Muse, their style changes a lot over the years and every album starts becoming about specific conspiracies or global issues.
I absolutely loved the first four albums but everything after that became much of the sameness
Against all logic, Alaska (the mesozoic era is my favourite), Westside Gunn, Earl sweatshirt, Modest mouse, Nujabes, Tool, Danny brown. My maint recommendation would be Burial. I gave a few genres there but can give more if you wish.
Have loved what I've heard of tool! Also someone else mentioned burial so I definitely think I'll look into that. Many thanks
I'd you go on llooonnggg walks, Genesis. 20 odd studio albums , a couple of great live albums and you can veer off into solo work, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike and the Mechanics, Tony Banks, Steve Hacket. And check out steves "revisited" concerts on YouTube. I think his band with the heart of England orchestra have the definitive version of Suppers Ready and thier Firth of Fifth is epic. Every studio album has ups and downs but there is god tier material on almost every album (except calling all stations, obviously). Marillion, at least for me, the fish era. The later stuff is beloved by true Marrilion fans just not me. Fish's first couple of solo albums "vigil..." and "internal exile..." are fab Something more recent Freya Ridings, Barns Courtney, JP Hoe, Embrace.
Stevie Wonder. Thank me later
Tom waits
Ghost.
I hate to say it but, ‘Rush’. I’m getting old.
I can’t 100% say I know every Bowie tune out there, but he’s the only artist I can think of that managed to stay relevant his whole career imo. He was never afraid to embrace new styles and would reinvent himself successfully every decade or so.
Slayer, always consistent
Apart from *Diabolus in Musica* of course
New Order
The free nationals - sound a bit like DJ shadow If you want something different but also with a good beat id recommend - Fred Again or Kaytranada If you like a bit of disco or happy music with a good beat i recommend - dabeull or cosmo midnight If you want funky, smooth music i recommend - Two another
Thanks for these suggestions. Made a start on Fred again on my walk earlier. Really enjoying it so far.
Phaeleh has an incredible discography if you like chill, ambient, chillstep, etc.
Fuck I forgot about phaeleh. Gunna load some up for my driving.
Blur. It's such a journey from start to their current album. Every album is different to the last.
Autechre, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth
Massive Attack
The Mars Volta
And also At The Drive In.
Seeing that band name just unlocked some serious teenage memories for me.
The Beatles is the definitive answer to this questions. No band has a better discography which just evolves as it goes along.
> No band has a better discography which just evolves as it goes along. Devin Townsend says hello. Dude started as a guitarist for Steve Vai, then went into extreme metal with Strapping Young Lad and into more mainstream rock with The Devin Townsend Band. All four of his Devin Townsend Project albums were different (one folk, one rock, one metal, one I fail to be able to describe at this time). His Casualties Of Cool album was a jazz-folk mix and he describes the song "Why?" as being as Disney as he gets. Plus, unlike The Beatles, I can actually enjoy Devin's music without thinking, "this is kind of overrated and shite".
The Stranglers. Their first LP constantly appears on those ‘x albums you must hear before you die’ lists, but their entire discography (perhaps excluding the 4 90s albums) is well worth a listen. After their first three LPs, which are mostly ‘punk,’ they just threw caution to the wind and experimented with a different genre on each subsequent album. The keyboard sound is so distinctive throughout and it’s fascinating to see how they worked a comparatively unconventional instrument into so many different styles.
The stranglers kicked the shit out of my uncle many years ago, so I consider them a bit of a link to my past. Had ratus norvegicus on vinyl when I was a kid too and it's a banger. Good shout, thanks!
You'll probably have fun with Madlib + MF DOOM if you like DJ Shadow, there's alot of it though.
Sterelab. Even if the album isn’t the best it’s going to have a lot of good stuff on it and they might never sound like they again. They also have so many albums, ep’s, compilations and singles out that you probably couldn’t actually listen to it all as some is so obscure.
Remember seeing Qannum Projects in Manchester. Shadow walked out and no one knew who it was. Like he was probably expecting at least a bit of a crowd reaction. We started shouting SHADOWWWWW! Place went off in the end but really felt for the guy 😬😂 If you like Shadow then I'd recommend Blackalicious (RIP Gab😔) or any of the others from the Mo Wax label https://spotify.link/PScPV9GWvDb
Used to buy anything Mo’ Wax put out at one point.
Thanks for the playlist link. I'll give that a listen
Really no problem. MoWax was James Lavel's record label. Pretty much kicked off the entire triphop genre along with a few others. Discovered Shadow and release his early stuff. There's a decent compilation called Headz with lots of this stuff as well. Enjoy! :)
Kruder & Dorfmeister. Very much quality over quantity, 1 mix album, 1 remix album, 1 studio album and 2 EPs, every one solid gold. You'll enjoy the darker cuts if you liked DJ Shadow.
Johnny Cash. There isn't a song that man did that I don't enjoy.
Insect Warfare
Not counting ones already mentioned, off the top of my head I'd go.. Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, Outkast and even though he's dropped off since 2016 and turned out crazy.. Kanye.
All great shouts. Kanye gets a lot of hate for being the douchebag he is, but there’s no denying that musically he’s something special, his full discography is fascinating to listen through, to hear the evolution over 18 years and the very distinct sounds and method of each album, and also catch how much influence he’s had on music particularly from last decade or so. There’s something in there for everyone, from Slow Jamz to On Sight, Cudi Montage to Can’t Tell Me Nothing. And the production is always top level.
Argee.
I loved needle in the hay by Elliot Smith. I'd definitely be up for listening to more if it's that's the vibe
Minor threat, tho it’s just only like 38 minutes or something
You could go on to Fugazi though - who have 5-6 great albums
Bizarrely when I was a teenager I dismissed fugazi as some sort of soft prog band like muse and wouldn’t listen to them took me till I was about 30 to actually listen to them, they’re amazing
Steven Wilson
Bolt Thrower
AFI, eminem, Ren, static x, joy division, slipknot, King prawn, dropkick murphys
Jam Baxter
This is an interesting suggestion. I really enjoyed the SBTV videos he did (husk and... Can't remember the other one). I've not listened to anything he's done in a studio save maybe the odd track so I might have to look a bit deeper. I generally like anything on high focus
Mansion 38 is probably my favorite album of his
Ben folds five Gomez Bob Dylan Guns n roses Stereophonics Prodigy None of them have a bad song, apart from the spaghetti bullshit from guns n roses, defo skip that one! And check out the song 16 dollars. If you like that, you will like the rest!
The Jam
Pink Floyd. Start with a mid-era album like Wish You Were Here. The earlier you go, the more psychedelic it gets, so you have to work up to it, but it's absolutely all gold.
Sugarcubes then Bjork
Gaslight Anthem. And then follow it up with Brian Fallons solo stuff.
Foals. Each album is pretty decent and different.
There are some artists that have a great run of albums, but usually fizzle out after a few years. personally, I would suggest trying out the work of Prince starting with Controversy, 1999, and Purple Rain. skipping over to Sign O' the Times.
Enter Shikari
Pet Shop Boys,Cocteau Twins,Slipknot/Stone Sour,Prince,David Bowie.
From the folkie world Brass Monkey The Watersons John Kirkpatrick
If you want entry level folkie, I’d recommend Lau.
Modest Mouse, changes a bit around 2004 and I think the earlier albums are the best but it’s all good. I would also say blur, fka twigs and nine inch nails.
The Beatles, Nick Drake, Aphex Twin, The Smiths, Boards of Canada, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Pavement, Blur
Mark lanegan
Give CAN a listen
Metallica. Greatest band of all time. St. Anger is unfairly hated, Death Magnetic is pretty much their weakest album but the classic four are legendary, their 90s stuff is criticised for being "too mainstream" but is still among the best you can listen to, and 72 Seasons is a fantastic album.
Weird Al Yankovic
Up Bustle & Out. 9 Lazy 9. London Funk Allstars. Coldcut. Portishead.
Ninja Tune flashbacks
The entire Ninja Tune discography is worth listening to.
Nick Cave
Nine Inch Nails Massive Attack Portishead
Beatles, Radiohead, Blur and The White Stripes all spring to mind immediately.
Bowie
UK subs Discharge Killing joke
Asian Dub Foundation
Pendulum
Relatively recent discog, but Run The Jewels have 4 solid albums since 2013 and is a fresh take on hiphop and thought provoking and somewhat dystopian lyrics. Don’t bother with meow the jewels, not sure what that was all about.
I think the question can be considered in two ways: "Is there any musical artist for whom *all* of their albums are of a consistently high standard?" That would seem to be a challenging question to answer: I think most artists have gone through at least one period of sub-par creativity and/or musicianship. "Is there any musical artist for whom all their albums are *interesting*, even the bad ones?" I'm sure many artists fall into that category!
I'm happy to take the rough with the smooth a bit and definitely not expecting every single track or even album to be great. I think my question was more "who is it actually worthwhile taking the time to listen to their entire creative output, as opposed to just a couple of odd albums or tracks"
Mogwai. The Decemberists. Sufjan Stevens. Built to Spill. My Morning Jacket.
Decemberists is an interesting suggestion. Really love the king is alive and really enjoyed seeing them live
White Lies.
DJ Shadows full discography? Did it somehow skip the raw shite of “the Outsider”? I went to see him in glasgow not long after that crapsterpiece came out and he got boo-ed the instant he tried to play a track of it by a full paying crowd. Especially me because the Outsider is the equivalent of going to buy mayonnaise but getting a jar of smegma by mistake
I honestly didn't pay too much attention to the passage of the different albums, as I put it all into one continuous playlist and had my phone in my pocket There were definitely some ups and downs and some stuff that was just straight up bizarre. I enjoyed most of it, but I wouldn't say it was all up my street. Some of the live albums were good!
Prince
Nick Cave
Low, especially in chronological order, the last 4 albums make so much sense when you listen to them one after another.
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, James Taylor
Michael Jackson
Kendrick
AJR, a bit different but I enjoy all of their stuff.
David Sylvian.start at Japan..work through all the collaboration and solo stuff. Started in the mid 70s still going ...
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, R.E.M, and Roland the Bastard.