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    Posted: August 02 2023 at 10:23
Galahad and Pendragon come to mind when I think about bands that are consistent with each record that they release and get progressively better.
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Death got better and better with each record IMHO. I have my favorites, but it's hard to deny the progression between records.

I expect my death to be of pretty consistent quality. In fact I'd be quite surprised if it became either markedly better or worse with time, but who knows...
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I would say MAJOR PARKINSON with 4 albums, and their fifth one coming soon!


First album was already excellent, and they keep improving on each release! WOW! Shocked
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Death got better and better with each record IMHO. I have my favorites, but it's hard to deny the progression between records.

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Yep Blackstar would be a fantastic album coming from anyone , but made more so coming from someone terminally ill. Amazing man and possibly the greatest loss to music in decades.

...but then it wouldn't have come from anyone... it needs a terminally ill genius to do that album.
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Simon Says. Ok, they only had 3 albums, but each one was miles better than the previous.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

I'll have to go IQ here. Tales from the Lush Attic is a pretty good album but their last three over thirty years after their debut album are so much better than the debut one.

although for 1983 it was actually amazing but now is very dated. The last album could well be their best in all round aspects (performance, production and great songs). Good shout!

IQ have been remarkably consistent from the beginning, with not a bad album anywhere, but for me Resistance is still a disappointment and bucks their trend....
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Yep Blackstar would be a fantastic album coming from anyone , but made more so coming from someone terminally ill. Amazing man and possibly the greatest loss to music in decades.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

As an artist, the closest I can think of with a sizable career is David Bowie. I like the debut, but it is commonly low rated (maybe not the lowest studio, that might be Never Let Me Down, which I haven't heard), and sure some 70s albums might commonly be considered better than Blackstar, but for me Blackstar is an awesome album, and the one of his that I have been most obsessed with of his since it came out. And yes, this topic is in the Prog section, but to me David Bowie is a kind Crossover Art Rock Prog for plenty of material to make his considerable for a Progressive Music lounge forum.

Bowie was the first person to spring to my mind when I read the OP. I own every one of his albums, and while his discography is not a straightforward upward pattern, the debut is easily his least impressive album, and Blackstar easily his most impressive. Blackstar is not just an impressive final album for Bowie, but one of the most impressive final albums of any artist, ever. (And, regardless of how Bowie is labelled in PA, his music is prog to me.)
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

I'll have to go IQ here. Tales from the Lush Attic is a pretty good album but their last three over thirty years after their debut album are so much better than the debut one.

although for 1983 it was actually amazing but now is very dated. The last album could well be their best in all round aspects (performance, production and great songs). Good shout!
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I'll have to go IQ here. Tales from the Lush Attic is a pretty good album but their last three over thirty years after their debut album are so much better than the debut one.
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

I'd argue GORGUTS, and I know 9/10 of PA hasn't heard a single track lol.

I don't listen to much death metal, but Gorguts debut is great. 
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I'd argue GORGUTS, and I know 9/10 of PA hasn't heard a single track lol.

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Dutch band Focus seemed to get better with time, but I don't know their catalog very well.  

I thought this recent reprise from "Moving Waves" is very moving and powerful! 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Anekdoten.

they have  even ratings over the 6 studio albums although the last is certainly the highest rated on PA and also has 300ish more ratings than most of the others so that has a strong case for being the best , however there are no clear worst ones. A lot of the big Swedish prog acts of the 90's onwards were very strong at the outset. They seemed to have their identity well set and managed to avoid a 'finding themselves' early period that many prog bands require. 

I fully agree that Anekdoten don't have any clear worst albums: all are 4* and up in my book. But there is an ascending line (imho of course) in Gravity - A Time of Day - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone.
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I believe Vanden Plas have gotten better and better beginning with their album Christ 0. Most might not agree, but I like their stuff after that album better.
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^That's interesting. A Japanese friend gave me some of their earlier stuff and I didn't like most of it. It did include Super ae, which was clearly better than the others, but didn't make me explore their later work. Half way through the one you linked now, it's cool!
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Boredoms for sure. They started out as pretty awful (to my ears) noise rock in the mid-eighties but piqued my interest with their ninth album, the great Super æ (1998), then followed up with the even more awesome Vision Creation Newsun (1999) and finally there's Seadrum/ House of Sun (2004) - their near perfect swan song. 
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Anekdoten.

they have  even ratings over the 6 studio albums although the last is certainly the highest rated on PA and also has 300ish more ratings than most of the others so that has a strong case for being the best , however there are no clear worst ones. A lot of the big Swedish prog acts of the 90's onwards were very strong at the outset. They seemed to have their identity well set and managed to avoid a 'finding themselves' early period that many prog bands require. 
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Bowie is a great pick when it comes to "first album worst, last album best". Some of his albums I don't know and he had some ups and downs in between, but I agree with Blackstar being phantastic and his best, and the first hardly resonates with me.

I'd never have thought of Mozart, but I tend to agree.

Anekdoten, Henry Cow are rather overall consistent for me, but surely not bands who ended on a low (if they ended at all). 

I don't know (or not more than one album) of some others listed but I have some respect for bands who are characterised in this way, so maybe I check their last albums to see whether they are for me.
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