Bands That Can Do No Wrong

 

ELP made 2 duff albums, but these are eclipsed by the brillinace of the rest........just lstened to Pictures going to work, and what an uplift i got from it...ELP all the way (just pretend Love Beach and In the Hot Seat are OK)

I've thought long about this one, and I agree. A couple of their songs might get a 2.5/5 from me in the worst of moods, but every album of theirs is mostly songs I love and I would hesitate to give any single album less than 3.5/5, maybe even 4/5.

Closest exceptions are the Police, whose albums after Synchronicity I don't recognize as legit, and I only skip a few songs in their "Message In A Box" set, and Supertramp, during the Davies & Hodgson era.

I put Rush in a special category, because while they're probably my favourite band overall they have a few songs that for me are such stinkers that I can't bear them for even a moment. 

Until Big Generator, Yes was batting .999  Genesis before Invisible Touch, ditto.  For both, though, their music after that I just don't care for, with a few rare exceptions.

Geddy had an interesting comment.  He noted that when he sees very old footage of himself he feels little in common with that person.  We all change a great deal over time.  No wonder musicians produce such different music over a long career-- and no wonder we fans appreciate some of it more or less than other bits.

It's this way with just about everything:  I am a bit of a car buff, and some models I love at this or that era, but the same name is given to models later on that suck and, sometimes, get good again (the Mustang, for example.)  Dealerships, too, can have good days and bad.  Same with motorcycles, smartphones, Leathermen, you name it.

Everyone's record is spotty.  After Mother Teresa died, her journals caused some consternation among many who had admired her.  Recently Helen Thomas demonstrated that a career can end too late:  if she'd have retired a few days earlier (and kept her mouth shut) she might have been a 'correspondent who could do no wrong.'  Sometimes bands are the same:  Supertramp after Hodgson-- his solo stuff and the band that continued-- were forgettable or worse.  Genesis' Calling All Stations:  <shudder>  

There are also quite a few 60+ minute albums that prove this cliche to be just that.

 

So...it's gotta be Opeth.

 

The worst Beatles album is Yellow Submarine but that's mostly because half of it isn't Beatles music, since the actual Beatles songs on that record are quality Hey Bulldog is one of my faves.

 

The worst KC album is TCOL but it's just ok, everything else I'd go as far as to call above average. Yes that includes Islands and Beat.