Bands who legitimately never had a bad album

Canadel

The_Captain wrote: »

Arcade Fire (pretty much each release has been aserious hit)

I agree (apart from disc 1 of Reflektor). Huge admirer of Arcade Fire. If they can deliver on their next album they will have eclipsed all other indie/rock bands, if they haven't done so already. History will remember them well either way.

timmaii

Fugazi
Pavement
REM (some of the later ones maybe weren't as good but no bad albums)
Vampire Weekend
Sparklehorse

Was going to say the Pixies but then I realised I haven't heard their new one and I suspect it's going to ruin my arguement.

loyatemu

REM (some of the later ones maybe weren't as good but no bad albums)

None of their albums after "Up" are great, and "Around the Sun" is terrible.

lordgoat

Wilco
Elliott Smith Up to From a Basement. I don't count after that.

loyatemu wrote: »

None of their albums after "Up" are great, and "Around the Sun" is terrible.

It's absolute garbage and this is from someone who thinks Monster is easily their best album.

PropJoe10

loyatemu wrote: »

None of their albums after "Up" are great, and "Around the Sun" is terrible.

I thought Collapse Into Now and Reveal were really good. Around The Sun is an absolute snoozefest though.

iomega

Pixies

Grayditch

Radiohead. Elbow. Tool. Deftones. At The Drive-In.

timmaii

PropJoe10 wrote: »

I thought Collapse Into Now and Reveal were really good. Around The Sun is an absolute snoozefest though.

I forgot about Around The Sun, that kills my REM arguement alright.

jooksavage

I know John Fahey isn't a band but he's my pick. Some of his output in the 80s was patchy enough but he never made an album that I regret buying. His movement towards the avant garde late in his career was also admirable. Getting namechecked by the likes of Sonic Youth, he was being "rediscovered" in a similar way that he helped bring back the likes of Skip James et al. in the 1960s. Instead of falling back on his huge reportoire he starts recording a series of rather difficult albums. I don't LOVE all those records but they're quite interesting and really improve on repeated listens.

Anesthetize

Grayditch wrote: »

Radiohead

Pablo Honey was fairly poor. The King of Limbs was average at best.

PropJoe10

Grayditch wrote: »

Radiohead. Elbow. Tool. Deftones. At The Drive-In.

Tool is a great shout, although Undertow isn't my favourite.

Alice In Chains have never done a bad album. The new stuff is stellar.

S.M.B.

Grayditch wrote: »

Radiohead. Elbow. Tool. Deftones. At The Drive-In.

Could be new albums from all of these bands over the next 12 months too.

sweetie

Smiths, supergrass, go-betweens

Grayditch

Anesthetize wrote: »

Pablo Honey was fairly poor. The King of Limbs was average at best.

I think only with revisionism is Pablo Honey a bad album. At the time, it was a good grungy British rock album. King Of Limbs wasn't great but it isn't "bad".

Riesen_Meal

Grayditch wrote: »

I think only with revisionism is Pablo Honey a bad album. At the time, it was a good grungy British rock album. King Of Limbs wasn't great but it isn't "bad".

Pablo Honey is just dated really IMO...

King of Limbs is amazing, but I've a 10inch picture disc with the newspaper and acid blotting paper, im biased...

Queens Of The Stone Age haven't released a bad album IMO....

cnocbui

The Beatles
Curve
Goldfrapp
The XX
Dead Can Dance

Grayditch

Fieldog wrote: »

Pablo Honey is just dated really IMO...

King of Limbs is amazing, but I've a 10inch picture disc with the newspaper and acid blotting paper, im biased...

Queens Of The Stone Age haven't released a bad album IMO....

I think I'll give TKOL a couple of spins again today.

QOTSA is a good shout too.

The_Captain

The weak list:

Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Radiohead - King of Limbs
Nirvana - Bleach
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris

Wanderer78

The_Captain wrote:

Pavement - Wowee Zowee Pixies - Trompe le Monde Radiohead - King of Limbs Nirvana - Bleach QOTSA - Era Vulgaris

Bleach rocks!

Grayditch

Is a bad album, not just one universally panned by critics and fans? We're getting into weak and weak by career comparison. Like a St. Anger or ... anything by Muse lately.

Wanderer78

Grayditch wrote:

Is a bad album, not just one universally panned by critics and fans? We're getting into weak and weak by career comparison. Like a St. Anger or ... anything by Muse lately.

Couple of good songs on st anger

Grayditch

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Couple of good songs on st anger

But if you saw a euro coin in the drain, would ya put yer hand down to get it? :pac:

loyatemu

There's a lot of bands who've never made a really bad album per se, but plenty of those would have one or two that aren't quite at the level of their others. e.g. Supergrass were mentioned a few posts previously, their first 2 records are classics, their others are just OK.

The weak list:
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pixies - Trompe le Monde

Pavement - I'd have said Terror Twilight was their weakest, it's still pretty good though.
Pixies - I much prefer Trompe to Bossanova; their recent comeback record is their worst, though it's still not terrible (particularly if you think of it as just another Frank Black album).

Wanderer78

Grayditch wrote: »

But if you saw a euro coin in the drain, would ya put yer hand down to get it? :pac:

errr emm yes!:D

melekalikimaka

Sublime

Welsh Megaman

Dream Theater

Every one of their studio albums has gone at least platinum, always praised by critics and fans alike.

Arghus

The_Captain wrote: »

The weak list:

Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Radiohead - King of Limbs
Nirvana - Bleach
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris

Ah c'mon now Wowee Zowee is a fantastic album!

Personally I think Era Vulgaris is a fine album indeed.

jackwigan

The Gaslight Anthem

hidinginthebush

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Couple of good songs on st anger

Couple of good songs on it, but still way too long for what it is, and all-in-all a bad album (saying this as a massive metallica fan).

My own pick would be the Mars Volta. 6 studio and one live album of pure craziness and bliss.

iomega

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