Purple and Black
Taking Independent and Unofficial Back

Artists who had a great streak of album runs?

JCrash54

JCrash54

Well-Known Member
Post any artists who you feel had an incredible classic streak of album runs (that are critically acclaimed as some of the best work etc etc), thought I post something for you members to enjoy. So anyways, is like a game I posted... I'll start.

Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You - Young Gifted and Black

Sly and The Family Stone: Dance To The Music - Fresh (as much as I think the album is trash but I'm very aware of its reception it receives :lol:)

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced - Electric Ladyland

Nina Simone: I Put A Spell On You - Nina Sings The Blues

Post who you guys feel had a fantastic streak of album runs

EDIT: No live albums or compilations
 
Last edited:
Okay I will bite - My opinions.

Bowie - The Man who sold the world to Lets Dance - thats 11 albums, but we must exclude and changesBowie albums and the 2 live stinkers David Live and Stage.

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book through to Songs in the Key of Life (Plants was a let down, Hotter than July is almost there - but he gets patchy after that - still Talking Book, Innversions, Fulfillingness and Songs are 4 masterful albums)

Prince - Dirty Mind to Lovesexy and Diamonds and Pearls to Gold Experience, the first part especially, those albums are what make him the greatest of all time.

Elton John, Honky Chateau to Rock of the Westies, again he is patchy before and after.

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall to Dangerous (HIStory has a couple of stinkers and Invincible is sloppy in parts)

JCrash54 - good choices, but would you not agree that Band of Gypsys 1 is a great album too and A whole brand new thing are good albums too?

Madonna - True Blue to Ray of Light - all deeply satisfying albums, again we exclude soundtracks and remix albums.
 
Adorecream76 said:
Okay I will bite - My opinions.

Bowie - The Man who sold the world to Lets Dance - thats 11 albums, but we must exclude and changesBowie albums and the 2 live stinkers David Live and Stage.

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book through to Songs in the Key of Life (Plants was a let down, Hotter than July is almost there - but he gets patchy after that - still Talking Book, Innversions, Fulfillingness and Songs are 4 masterful albums)

Prince - Dirty Mind to Lovesexy and Diamonds and Pearls to Gold Experience, the first part especially, those albums are what make him the greatest of all time.

Elton John, Honky Chateau to Rock of the Westies, again he is patchy before and after.

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall to Dangerous (HIStory has a couple of stinkers and Invincible is sloppy in parts)

JCrash54 - good choices, but would you not agree that Band of Gypsys 1 is a great album too and A whole brand new thing are good albums too?

Madonna - True Blue to Ray of Light - all deeply satisfying albums, again we exclude soundtracks and remix albums.
Click to expand...

Band Of Gypsy is a live album though, I wouldn't include live albums to be honest, I'm talking about studio albums...

Now Prince... D&P - TGE, really?:lol:

I agree regarding Michael Jackson (that's generally considered his peak as a young adult... I would say the Dangerous era was his last good one too)

I'm surprised you didn't mentioned Confessions, Isn't that considered a classic?
 
Confessions I think is uneven, a lot of it is tied together by the beat running through. All the albums from Music through to MDNA are very inconsistent, all have great cuts except the last (I just never got MDNA). Yet Rebel Heart and Madame X are better, although they still have their clunkers.

I have some far out opinions about some artists, I think Erotica was her peak and the first 2 albums are larded down with bad filler.

I really like Diamonds and Pearls, it was the album that made me a fan I loved funky and poppy music back then and the pop cream on that album grabbed me. Push and Jughead are more silly than bad. Symbol pushes it, but there is enough to make it consistent and that list only also includes Come and TGE, both great albums. It may include the Beautiful Experience too, but I am not counting The Hits, Goldnigga or Exodus.

Some more I thought of

Grace Jones - Her first 6 albums are great although Portfolio is tight, Muse and Fame have some um er cuts. But Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living my life are flawless. Slave to the rhythm was just a hits collection, although that song is wow. Inside Story and Bulletproof Heart are patchy.

Wham! and George Michael - thats hard, Fantastic is patchy, Make it big is better but has Credit Card Baby, not a good cut. The final is a hits album with a couple new songs. With George some great highs, but the only album of his without skippers in my opinion is Faith.

What did you think of my opinion of Stevie Wonder's work, he is definitely one of my favourite artists as well.
 
Adorecream76 said:
Confessions I think is uneven, a lot of it is tied together by the beat running through. All the albums from Music through to MDNA are very inconsistent, all have great cuts except the last (I just never got MDNA). Yet Rebel Heart and Madame X are better, although they still have their clunkers.

I have some far out opinions about some artists, I think Erotica was her peak and the first 2 albums are larded down with bad filler.

I really like Diamonds and Pearls, it was the album that made me a fan I loved funky and poppy music back then and the pop cream on that album grabbed me. Push and Jughead are more silly than bad. Symbol pushes it, but there is enough to make it consistent and that list only also includes Come and TGE, both great albums. It may include the Beautiful Experience too, but I am not counting The Hits, Goldnigga or Exodus.

Some more I thought of

Grace Jones - Her first 6 albums are great although Portfolio is tight, Muse and Fame have some um er cuts. But Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living my life are flawless. Slave to the rhythm was just a hits collection, although that song is wow. Inside Story and Bulletproof Heart are patchy.

Wham! and George Michael - thats hard, Fantastic is patchy, Make it big is better but has Credit Card Baby, not a good cut. The final is a hits album with a couple new songs. With George some great highs, but the only album of his without skippers in my opinion is Faith.

What did you think of my opinion of Stevie Wonder's work, he is definitely one of my favourite artists as well.
Click to expand...
George is an interesting one, what you said about him is a very common opinion, is either Faith or LWP that people consider his "only classic" from my experience at least, which is interesting because Faith and Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 are his most acclaimed albums and even made it in the best of lists and 1001 albums you must listen to before you die.

Stevie Wonder, I agree 1972-1976 was his album run.

I'm not so familiar with Grace Jones to be honest lol
 
Last edited:
Beastie Boys. I'd say their whole career was a great streak of album runs, but certainly Licensed to Ill through to Ill Communication in particular.
 
maplenpg said:
Have you listened to Brass Against? I'm quite into them at the min. Hoping to see them at the end of June.
Click to expand...

I will take a listen. I’m seeing rage In august with run the jewels supporting, taking my kid too. Can’t wait


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
RATM - Only heard their first album, with the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" song, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam - bands I once really liked but outgrew quickly on.

I think people's musical tastes mature as they get older. At high school I was into gangsta rap like Ice T, NWA and Snoopra Dogg, by 1997 when I was 21 I hated rap and outgrown it (I was huge into 2Pac and BIG but now can't stand them).
 
Adorecream76 said:
RATM - Only heard their first album, with the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" song, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam - bands I once really liked but outgrew quickly on.

I think people's musical tastes mature as they get older. At high school I was into gangsta rap like Ice T, NWA and Snoopra Dogg, by 1997 when I was 21 I hated rap and outgrown it (I was huge into 2Pac and BIG but now can't stand them).
Click to expand...
So what did you think of grunge? The 90s weren't really my time to say the least so I'd rather hear it from someone who was the core audience then (teens)
 
Adorecream76 said:
RATM - Only heard their first album, with the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" song, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam - bands I once really liked but outgrew quickly on.

I think people's musical tastes mature as they get older. At high school I was into gangsta rap like Ice T, NWA and Snoopra Dogg, by 1997 when I was 21 I hated rap and outgrown it (I was huge into 2Pac and BIG but now can't stand them).
Click to expand...
Some bands we stick with, some we don't. I was very into the rave scene at one point, and I never listen to that music now. I've outgrown it. But I think the music we stick with is often about more than just the songs, it's about live experiences, it's about events that we link the songs with etc... Many outgrew Prince, yet we didn't. One man's masterpiece is another man's cringe and all that. Many don't realise how many more great albums bands such as RATM put out, they only know the popular ones.
 
I didn't, because I realised RATM and RHCP had a limited shelf life, (All their albums to Blood sugar sex Magik were good to great, but One Hot Minute was self indulgent crap with only 2 good songs, My friends and Aeroplane - Californication and By the way were good - but the later albums were shit).

Prince I just kept growing into, as he was not into catchy beats, Olympic swearing or trend chasing like grunge and rock/rap - Prince I went off between 1997 and 2004 because of the low quality output at the time, but Musicology brought me back and I have never left.
 
T Rex had a brilliant classic album run: A Beard Of Stars - Tanx. They were so unavoidable back in the early 70s
 
T Rex, I totally agree - Electric Warrior and the Slider were their best two, but after that Marc went up his own ass, still they had the catchiest it songs ever, only had 1 huge hit in the USA with Get it On (Called Bang a Gong there), but in the UK, Marc rode a crest of solid gold from late 1970's "Ride a white swan" until mid 1973's "The Groover", he had 4 number ones, 3 number 2, 2 number 3's and a number 4 hit. One single came out after another during TRextasy

I like a lot of the British Glam rock of that era, some of the songs like Can the Can, My Coo ca choo, Son of my Father, Co co, Ballroom Blitz, Gudbuy tu Jane, Wig Wam Bam, See my Baby Jive, Come up and see me sometime etc..

The greatest artists to emerge out of glam rock were David Bowie and Elton John, both were so much bigger than the Glam rock fad of the early 1970s (Not to be confused with late 1980s hair metal in the USA), the UK version was long haired bands who sang heavy sounding bubblegum music with shiny clothes, stars, glitter, guitars, make up, long flowing hair, very catchy riffs and beats and over the top drum soloing along with some unlikely looking stars like Gary Glitter. The fans were all teenyboppers and these acts often played old theatres and movie cinemas in places like Motherwell, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Lancaster, Bognor Regis etc.

Glam wuz tops between 1971 and 1975 and then died off when the T Rexs, Bowies and EJ gave way to the more marginal acts like The Sweet, Glitter Band and the Bay City Rollers.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Links to Folks we Support

  • Cranky Beads
    •

    Back
    Top