Bands who have made 3 or more classic al***s
Posted by: RICHYH on 19 August 2003
Sorry another one to compile- I think its a bit of a rarity - Bands who have made 3 or more truely classic albums. (dodgy recomendations will have to be substantiated and no greatest hits!).
Here are some of the very obvious starters:-
Beatles. Stones. Who. Hendrix. Doors. Dylan. Neil Young. Bowie. REM. Radiohead.
please carry on.....
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by Kevin-W
New Order, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Eno, Pink Floyd, Scott Walker...
Kevin
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by Naimed-In-NY
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Elton John, Led Zep, CCR, Dire Straits, U2 ....
MBM
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by Lo Fi Si
Magazine, The Fall, Massive Attack, Steely Dan, Miles Davis...
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by Tim Jones
Wire - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154.
Cap'n Beefheart - Safe as Milk, Trout Mask Replica, Clear Spot.
Talking Heads - Fear of Music, Remain in Light, Speaking in Tongues (hmmm - bit dubious on this)
PS Kevin - are you sure about New Order? Which ones did you have in mind? Don't really think of them as an 'album band'...
Tim
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by greeny
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Surf's Up, Sunflower, + others
Byrds - Notorious..., Younger...., Turn Turn turn?
Elvis Costello - This years model, My aim is true, Imperial Bedroom + others
Micheal Jackson- Bad, Thriller, Of the Wall
Stevie Wonder - you know the ones
Joni Mitchell - Blue, Court + Spark, Hissing of....
van Morrison - too many to mention
Plus others such as
Randy Newman, Prince, Smiths, Lou Reed,
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by Bob Edwards
A few suggestions:
Husker Du, XTC, Yello, Grateful Dead, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground.....
Best,
Bob
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by Bhoyo
Some soulful suggestions:
Al Green
Marvin Gaye
Aretha Franklin
Stevie Wonder
Curtis Mayfield
Donny Hathaway
Isaac Hayes
Otis Redding
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by RICHYH
Thanks some great and some obvious additions. I even forgot some very obvious ones in my initial short starter- noteably Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Stevie Wonder, Beach Boys,Costello, Prince, Steely dan, Led Zep, U2. I think Would Paul Weller/Jam be Ok too add and John Lee Hooker. But to me there is one I cannot accept sorry but New Order NO, 3 widely considered classic Lps -NO not accepted.
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by seagull
Some more...
The Cure - 17 Seconds, Pornography, Disintegration...
King Crimson - In the Court, Larks Tongues In Aspic, Red...
Peter Gabriel - 1, 2 and So...
Van Der Graaf - Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, Still Life...
Peter Hammill - too many to mention.
Yes - Close to the Edge, Fragile, Going for the One
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles, Ocean Rain, Heaven Up Here
Just a few issues...
Radiohead? Two classics yes but where's the third?
New Order?
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures and Closer yes, anything else was cobbled together after Ian Curtis' death.
Please don't get me wrong, I love these three bands!
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by domfjbrown
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Californication, By the way (perhaps Mother's milk should be in there but I've not heard it)
Kate Bush - Kick inside, The Dreaming, Hounds of love
That's all I can think of for now though!
When the music's over turn out the lights
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by Rasher
WADRAJAAATBE, being a grumpy sod - I would have to say that a lot (most) of those albums suggested are not true "classic" albums, and this is in danger of becoming a mere "3 great albums". Not the same thing at all!!
All of you...go away and try again. It's just not good enough.
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by woodface
Surely the Beatles qualify or is it just too obvious to mention! Rubber Soul, Revolver, SGT Pepper, The White Albumn, Abbey Road.
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by Kevin-W
OK
New Order:
Technique + Power Corruption & Lies + Substance (a compilation I know but it shows what a fantastic singles band NO were/are - and in any case most of the singles were not available on album)
Then
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures + Closer + Les Baines Douches (posthumous live album but truly, extraordinarily good, a fantastic release in its own right) + Substance (a collection of on-album tracks - utterly indispensible, as any LP that contains "Atmosphere", "Transmission", "Dead Souls", "Autosuggestion", "Digital", "Love Will Tear Us Apart" etc must be).
Does this help?
Kevin
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by Rasher
Woodface - Damn right. Exactly the ones I would have chosen.
Yes - Close to the Edge, Topographic Oceans, Yessongs
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, DSOTM, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, Saucerful of Secrets.
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland, Axis Bold as Love, Are you Experienced
Led Zep - II, III & Physical Graffiti
Stones - Nah....
Who - maybe,...but Nah...
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie, Gish, Pisces Iscariot, Siamese Dream
Neil Young - Harvest, Weld, Ragged Glory
Free - Fire & Water, Free, Tons of Sobs
Short on anything new dontyathink?
Which Faces albums then?
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by Rasher
Just remembered Bowie
Ziggy, Man Who Sold the World, Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, Low, Station to Station.
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by Tim Jones
Hmmm. The definition of 'truly classic' is pretty stretched here.
Disintegration by the Cure a 'true classic'?
Any Queen album a 'true classic'?
Posted on: 20 August 2003 by bjorne
Posted on: 22 August 2003 by ClaudeP
Genesis had three in a row:
- Nursery Cryme
- Foxtrot
- Selling England By The Pound
Then it started going down...
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by David Stewart
quote:
Stones - Nah....
what are you on about?? All of the following stones albums deserve inclusion in any list of classics -
Aftermath, Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers.
David
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by bjorne
quote:
Originally posted by David Stewart:
quote:
Stones - Nah....
what are you on about?? All of the following stones albums deserve inclusion in any list of classics -
Aftermath, Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers.
David
YES!!!
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by ejl
Come on folks, there's one band that's defined the course of the last 15 years of pop more than any other:
Sonic Youth (Evol, Sister, Daydream Nation, Washing Machine, and probably Murray Street).
Pavement (Slanted and Enchanted, Wowee Zowee, Westing by Musket and Sextant (a compilation of their early things, but still classic) -- and if you don't accept it then I'll add Brighten the Corners).
Minutemen (Double Nickels on the Dime, What Makes a Man Start Fires, Three way Tie for Last)
I would second The Fall (This Nation's Saving Grace, Middle Class Revolt, Wonderful Frightening World of), Cap'n Beefheart (Safe as Milk, Lick my Decal's Off, Trout Mask Replica), Wire, the Pixies.
No one seems to have mentioned Zappa -- I'm assuming that's because it was too obvious.
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by David Patterson
DEEP PURPLE
In Rock
Machine Head
Burn
David
Posted on: 24 August 2003 by Tim Jones
Ok how about:
1. Dollar. Did they make three albums? Who knows, but I bet they were all, uh, 'classics'.
2. Rene and Renato (Renata?). Fabulous post-modern opera pastiche. Like Godspeed only more. They definitely didn't make three albums, but sod it, they were probably on some albums. Somewhere.
3. The Cheeky Girls. Have they made an album yet? Will they last long enough even to realease another single? Sod it. I find them fetching - and how long can it be until Sonic Youth sample them, thereby assuring them 'classic' status.
Tim
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