What bands or artists are widely thought of as having produced a virtually flawless (musically) body of work?
I can think of some from the "golden age" of rock music: Velvet Underground, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix.
Life Without Building for their single, flawless record ;)
Any others?
Bjork and The Mars Volta
and if we ignore With Teeth ever happened, NIN
mars volta
nothing has lived up to de-loused, though admittedly haven't heard the new one.
DITC remains the best
but the other 3 and the EP are amazing.
Although Scab Dates wasn't great, so there goes my 'flawless back cat' argument
björk blew it with
volta for me. she's done awesome stuff (debut, post, homogenic and medulla in my opinion), but records like drawing restraint 9, vespertine and selmasongs are far from flawless. interesting, but not brilliant.
i guess she should've 'gone jeff mangum' after homogenic. then she'd make the list!
I like them all, but you reminded me of
DR9 and Telegram.
There goes another of my theories.
i like Volta
AND DR9, never heard telegram.
however, she ruined it with 'declare independance' anyway
As for Bjork...
do you really think Vespertine is not included in the flawless category?? I would go so far as to say so...
The topic
was flawless, not fucking awful racket.
gdfgdf
dfgdfgg
do you ever write anything else?
What does this mean??????
The Mars Volta?
What's the opposite of flawless, everything they've done has been abysmal!!!
Now, if you'd said At the Drive-In.......
the shins...
.
^ narf
Lightning Bolt
Melt Banana
Terminal 11
The Sex Pistols
Flawless discography.
hypermagic mountain
is tedious and boring
LIES!
Nah,
truth.
I hate you all
I'm glad
I'm not the only one
except for totally not at all
and it's really good?
^ this
as for the tedious comment, it's not tedious, it's repetitive. And repetition is brilliant done right. And they nailed it on the head with Hypermagic Mountain.
Rocket From The Crypt
Hot Snakes
agreed
this is truthness
:D
I like the rocket tattoo!
Orbital
up to and including In Sides
for me
Les Savy Fav
Oh
Beefheart (even the derided mid-70s LPs are OK)
Robert Wyatt
Sailors
.
If they're OK
then they aren't flawless
Deerhoof
every one of theirs has my jaw on the floor.
Maybe Liars too, for same reasons.
I love Deerhoof
possibly more than I love any other band in the world. But I wouldn't say they've got a flawless discography...
All those early singles and E.Ps (For Those Of Us On Foot, Return of the Wood M'lady, Dirt Pirate Creed, the self-titled) aren't very good at all and even their first album The Man, The King, The Girl is patchy as anything (although it definitely has its fans).
Liars too...
Nearly had it perfect, until their last album :(
But that's just my opinion, loads of folk love that self-titled.
They ruined it on the fourth like they were Pixies
Mogwai - personally, and sonic youth
generally though? Nirvana?
There are none.
^ This
Fugazi
Hot Snakes
Bedhead
THE PIXIES
The Breeders
er and thats it,
I like everything the arctic monkeys have done so far...does that count?
THE PIXIES
YES. Aside from one song. Which ruins my argument. Damn.
* one album
Just try stating a case for Trompe Le Monde being flawless. Go on, try.
I'd say Tom Waits
apart from perhaps a couple of albums in the late 70s where he became a bit of a parody. But they are still good albums.
Super Furry Animals
innit.
^
Lovekraft? Really?
Definitely
Fantastic album imo, with a couple of weaker tracks, par for the course with SFA.
I'd personally put Rings as their weakest.
agreed
can't understand why so many people slate Love Kraft.
I just
don't think it's that great. I agree that SFA are pretty consistently great, but I didn't enjoy Love Kraft enough to rate it flawless.
Which I suppose is itself a moot point as SFA's flaws are an innate part of their charm.
tsh tsh
LIGHTYEAR
low
though i don't have songs for a dead pilot
Tapes n Tapes
I can't actually think of any
aside from the ones with only one or two records.
I was going to say Talk Talk but the early albums aren't all that.
The last Fiery Furnaces one is a bit odd.
Jim O'Rourke has half a million drone records that are a taking the piss unless you're completely out of your mind.
REM have nosedived.
Velvet Underground had crap tracks even if you don't count Loaded.
Blur come close but again have weak tracks on most albums.
Even Pavement lost it slightly at the end.
Nick Drake? Perhaps.
I can't really think of any.
Tom Waits
Pink Floyd
Whigfield
The Smiths
probably.
65daysofstatic
I can't think of any others, surely it's 3 albums minimum otherwise I could name loads.
^ this
is a truth
The Stooges
(c) D. Bag, 2006
Fuck yes.
Spoon
oddly enough.
brand new
imho
panic! at the disco
(so far)
Arcade Fire ...
Nirvana
The Icarus Line
My Bloody Valentine
M.I.A.
Kyuss
Joy Division to name a few
hmmm...
belle & sebastian almost
mf doom
boards of canada
autechre
british sea power
teenage fanclub
the clientele
Elliott Smith.
The Blood Brothers
glassjaw
brandnew
the smiths
oh and
jimmy eat world and radiohead are 90 percent flawless if you forget both of there debuts
and deftones
Hail to the Thief is the weak one, surely?
Does everyone hate Pablo Honey that much? That album got me into Radiohead after I dismissed them foolishly around 1996 for being "too depressing"
aphex twin
the smiths
massive attack
velvet underground
as well as
arctic monkeys
joy division
the libertines
PJ Harvey
imo
this thread should be limited to bands/artists that've released at Least 3 albums, 2 isn't really enough. 2 + EP's i guess is alright.
brand new and
radiohead win it for me.
BLOC PARTY
ha sorry
Tom Waits
Definately. Records such as 'Blue Valentine' werent great but still good.
hella
For me:
Oceansize
Biffy Clyro
Hell is For Heroes
Amusement Parks On Fire
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
One album wonders (so they still have flawless "discographies")
Meet Me In St Louis
Rival Schools
PJ Harvey
The Smiths
Fugazi
Rocket from the Crypt
Pavement (Who are these weirdos that don't like Terror Twilight?!)
Afghan Whigs
Spoon
Doves and Elbow
Talk Talk
Subtle
cLOUDDEAD
Olivia Tremor Control
Neutral Milk Hotel
Joy Division
Bands with one album:
Avalanches
Cap'n Jazz
Company Flow
The Unicorns
Los Campesinos (I am passionately serious about this and have decided that no album relates to my music geek experience more directly from, like, ever)
Wolf Parade
Wire and Mission of Burma could have so easily been on here too if they hadn't re-formed.
The Unicorns had two albums :P
and the first one is good
but flawed.
Ooh look at me I'm europeancakeghost
and I'm using semi-obscure Unicorns-related facts to beat MelesMeles at the music geekery game.
Well done, europeancakeghost!
;)
Hey, I'm just an immigrant
from the Secret Unicorns Forum, what you expect? ;)
Fugazi
the only band I can think of with a large enough back catalogue to really consider, who'd win this for me.
No artists with more than two albums has a flawless discography
^ excellent grammar as usual
Talk Talk
'Spirit of Eden's a bit ropey
Careful now