Bands That Can Do No Wrong

There are a few recent bands that give great hope to Prog Rockers of Planet Shiver Down the Back Of My Neck. Airbag.....albums " All Rights Removed " and " Identity.

No band is without a single piece of music I don't care for, but there are bands I am such a big fan of that no matter what they did, I'd buy their next album.  Dream Theater has always been that band for me.  But one band that has totally blown me away with every album since their debut (which I believe is only flawed because it was recorded and mixed in a week by the band) is Seventh Wonder.  They have completely floored me with their last 3 releases.

the only band that can do no wrong is the band that has no audience.

Led Zeppelin (Coda included)Quella Vecchia Locanda (love both albums)

i'll have to say that king crimson is my most appreciated band i don't like their entire discography but i like about 90% of it which is a lot. i don't think they have a real stincker and i can count on them for good releases , plus i adore the fact that they are always changing , and putting out music just when they have something to say.

Not even my most favourite bands do not have a single flaw.
I've been racking my brains now in order just to find a single band or artist
whose discography I know to full extend and have to say it's all absolutely great...
first thing that came to mind was Steely Dan, but then again...
I'm not so keen to listen a lot to "Two against Nature" and "Everything must go",
so I'd need to draw the line between "old time" and reunion-time.
Billy Joel comes close but I think that "An Innocent Man" has been saved by the arrangements
where the songs haven't been up to par...
World Party come close but I'm not much into "Private Revolution" !

Surprisingly, then, after a while of thinking, I really have found a group who with all of their releases
never fail to please me - and that's COCK ROBIN !
But Peter Kingsbery's first solo-album failed to do so.
They have just split up at the right time I guess.
And I'm very happy with the two albums that came after they reunited.
I think they're better than ever.

Love
Roop


Edited by rupert - February 11 2012 at 18:24

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Pink Floyd.  

Gah, I don't get new music enough I guess, plus there are just SO many bands I want to listen to that I've never got even close to getting every album by one single band, except for Led Zeppelin. And yeah, I loved every song they ever did, except for stuff from Coda. But yeah, everyone's mentioned Led Zeppelin on this thread. 

rematpac wrote: juandhaltrich wrote: king crimson. they dont make an album unless it's necessary, so that kinda narrows it down. even their poorest album is decent. Even their poorest album is decent?Who do you think you're kiddinig?Go to your biggest new&used cd store.I don't think there is any other band that has more obscure different cds than the store can't get rid of than Crimson under their miselaneous King Crimson & related card file( 2 rows at Ameboa in San Francisco).And maybe the reason that Robert Fripp decided to re-start the band those many years after USA,was because by that time rock music in general had made such a huge drop in quality that it was a lock to be sucessful looking at the competition.And we don't have to go there.We can find their 1st total flop of an album right within their 1st 7 core albums ever released and that WAS their Golden Age.They had a comeback in the early 80's,more commercially sucessful maybe ,but it did not surpass their original Golden Age musically,And all the best cds and double cds that were released since then were old concert tapes recorded during their GA ,usually around 73 and 74.Now back to their 1st true undeniable musical flop.Their 1st 7 core studio albums also had 2 live cds that were dispersed among them.The last one USA ,was to a live album as was their 1st studio album,sounded flawless from beginning to end.The other earlier live album wasn't even released in the US at 1st,very understandably so.Here we have KC riding the huge wave that was prog music at the time.This fluke of theirs made it all the way to no.8 on the Virgin Top 30,but of course that had nothing to do with ELP at no. 1 with Trilogy,Jethro Tull at no.2 with Living in the Past,and Pink Floyd's Obscured by Clouds at no. 5 ,all that same exact week.But of course ,you hard-core fans will forever convince yourselves that this album made it there by it's own merit.Why did they split right after this album,leaving Fripp to have to start all over and put a new band together with all new members?It was almost a full year later until Fripp was to record with a whole new band in the studio to record what was to be one of their best records,Larks.All that's left to do is to name this assault on the human senses,Earthbound.It wasn't that this album suffered from poor taste,it suffered from having no taste at all.It begins with the 1st,worst rendition of Schizoid Man,of course,a song with over 50 renditions thereafter over the decades,and then the rest of the album sounds as if it's one big long solo of guitar competeing against saxapnone solos,and unfortunatly Mel Collins has the alto,tenor,and baritone saxes to work with,so you get to hear 3 times as much sax soloing as guitar.And this is not good improvisation,but endless,mindless tasteless,purposeless meandering,all at the same volume till the end,all striking at the same idea,ceaselessly,uncaring seemingly never-ending,and that idea would be...randomness.