What band/artist has had the longest consecutive run of good albums?

Question

Becasue a lot of band can usually only make it three albums and then they feel obligated to slip up (the Clash, the Stooges, the Who, etc.) so what bands were able to avoid this?

The Kinks made at least good albums well into the 70's, I think the Preservation Acts are where the general concensus is that they went wrong. And they deserve credit for that, so I'll say they had the longest stretch of good albums, with something like 10 albums worth of material ranging from good to perfect.

Yes Smiley, this is a very subjective question, I hope it didn't seem like I was stating anything emperically. And I really have to get into Frank Zappa, I had the my record man play a compilation for me once in his store and what I heard sounded intriguing, but that's all I've really heard.

The Adicts I think I can agree with, although I haven't heard everything they've done, they're on my list of bands to look into still.

Bad Religion is a good one, hell, I even liked Into The Unknown if we're being honest here. I think the albums without Brett Gurewitz were really the lows, but they've stayed pretty consistently good. I hear the new album is great as well.

The Ramones I can kind of agree with. I don't think they have any downright bad albums really, but the first four definately set a standard that wasn't quite met again.

Answer 1

I guess we'd have to define "good'. One person might like 'Sandinista', 'The Who By Numbers', 'Raw Power', 'The Weirdness', or 'Misfits', while the next person might have a dislike for them.

I'll say Frank Zappa, simply because he released more albums than practically any other band/artist, and I'd only consider two of them not being up to par with the rest of his catalog. So that makes around 58 "GOOD" albums over a 27 year period...

Answer 2

The Who: Sell Out Tommy Live At Leeds Who's Next Quadrophenia Bee Gees: Main Course Children Of The World Saturday Night Fever Spirits Having Flown The Clash: The Clash (self-titled) Give 'em Enough Rope London Calling Sandinista! Combat Rock Aerosmith: Aerosmith (self-titled) Get Your Wings Toys In The Attic Rocks Jethro Tull: Benefit Aqualung Thick As A Brick Minstrel In The Gallery Jefferson Starship: Dragon Fly Red Octopus Spitfire Earth

Answer 3

From Led Zeppelin I to In Through the Out Door, I don't think Led Zeppelin has released a bad album. Granted, some were better than others, but never an actual BAD album.

** Cat Stevens also has a pretty impressive discography.

Answer 4

I can't agree more that Preservation is where the Kinks went astray. Oddly enough they turned right around a few years later with great stuff like Soap Opera, which by all rights should've been awful but is just wonderful. For a string of solid albums I'd look toward Madness, Squeeze, XTC perhaps.

Answer 5

Led Zeppelin :~ 5/6 {possibly even 7}

Stevie Nicks :~ 4, possibly 5 {depending on opinion}, and the 6th was a great comeback

Jethro Tull :~ 6 {others may say 8, but it depends on whether or not you like Passion Play [7]}

I suppose, really... The Beatles had the longest run.

Answer 6

I think The Doors had consistently good albums, all of them..
Like, their debut, The Doors was amazing, with some of their most famous songs, The End, Light My Fire, Break On Through..

Then with Strange Days, the music did have a 'stranger' twist to it, but still was equally good..

Waiting For The Sun - Maybe not one of their BEST,arguably the weakest of all, but still a good album, with a different twist to it..

The Soft Parade - Criticized at the time for being to commercial but I disagree!!!A really experimental album - that worked..Like Runnin' Blue was completely different type of song for them, and the Soft Parade(the song) is excellent!

Then Morrison Hotel, an entirely new Doors, (in comparison to the last two albums), with a real blues beat to it..
Same with L.A Woman..

Although I don't like all of their songs, I can't fault them on a whole album, I think they were all good!

Answer 7

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin

Answer 8

QUEEN
As of 2005, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a total of 1,322 weeks or twenty-seven years on the United Kingdom album charts; more time than any other musical act including The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Also in 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place on the list of acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts.

In 2006, the Greatest Hits album was found to be the United Kingdom's all-time best selling album, with sales upwards of 5,407,587 copies, over 604,295 more copies than its nearest competitor, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Their Greatest Hits II album came in seventh with sales upwards of 3,631,321 copies. In January 2007, their Greatest Hits I & II was the #1 most downloaded album on iTunes in North America.

One of rock's most successful, influential and popular acts, the band have released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They have sold over 300 million albums and 180 million singles worldwide including 32.5 million albums in the United States alone as of 2004. The band are also the only group in which every member has composed more than one chart-topping single.

Answer 9

Husker Du. From Everything Falls Apart to Warehouse, I can honestly say there is not an album they put out that I can't appreciate in some form or fashion.

Answer 10

Slayer had 5 straight albums before a bad one

KoRn had 8 albums and still hasn't had a bad one...