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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Without a doubt.......

THE SHAGGS!!!


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Without a doubt.......

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^'Love Over Fear' was indeed excellent!
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Pendragon have yet to produce a duff album (imo) and their last album was quite possibly their best and that's after a 40 year career.
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I’d add IQ and Magenta to the list - dip into any album in their catalogues and you’ll find much to enjoy, even with personnel changes. Very consistent.
Big Big Train’s run of albums, from The Underfall Yard has been very consistent too.
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Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

I saw someone mention Radiohead in passing earlier. They've actually got a really strong case I think. Even the "dud," The King Of Limbs, was just a case of overhype and the band taking a left turn where people expected a right. If you sit down and let it sink in it's really good. And everything else ranges from great (Pablo Honey, Hail To The Thief) to generation defining (OK Computer, Kid A).

Radiohead is a good call, I don't get onboard until The Bends but from that point onwards everything is great or better.
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King Crimson - Even their relatively weak albums from the 80's are still very good. Their initial run from ITCOTCK to Red was superb.

XTC - Although still 'finding their sound' on the first two albums, everything from Drums & Wires to Apple Venus Vol 1 was incredible. The never put a foot wrong IMO.

Opeth - I really took to this band some years ago. They have moments of excellence but overall, they've never made a weak album.

VDGG - Always good quality, even in the later years they were at least very good.
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I saw someone mention Radiohead in passing earlier. They've actually got a really strong case I think. Even the "dud," The King Of Limbs, was just a case of overhype and the band taking a left turn where people expected a right. If you sit down and let it sink in it's really good. And everything else ranges from great (Pablo Honey, Hail To The Thief) to generation defining (OK Computer, Kid A).
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I think the answer to this question has to be a band that not only has no bad records, but also has fans struggling to name a record that's even sub-par for them. That's what I take consistent to mean in this case.

And that makes it a very difficult question indeed. As a Queen superfan, I can say I don't think they have any bad records, but none that are sub par? That's a different story. 

The question also implies that a band has a decently long recording career, effectively ruling out those one-and-done RPI greats. I wonder... this is probably controversial and tbf I haven't listened to every album, but perhaps Dream Theater qualifies? I realize The Astonishing is a big sticking point with a lot of fans, but that is one I have listened to, and I think it's great! Not quite at the level of their best albums, but I don't find it anywhere near reprehensible like many seem to. I guess that's the answer I'm going with. Until I hear a sub-par Dream Theater album anyway.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I think if you look at Jethro Tull from 1968 to 1980, they released consistently good to great albums every year, from This Was all the way to A. And with the release of the boxed sets that include numerous songs that never made it on studio releases, that makes that run all the more remarkable.

This Was (1968)
Stand Up (1969)
Benefit (1970)
Aqualung (1971)
Thick as a Brick (1972)
Living in the Past (1972)
A Passion Play (1973)
War Child (1974)
Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
Too Old to Rock and Roll (1976)
Songs from the Wood (1977)
Heavy Horses (1978)
Storm Watch (1979)
A (1980)


Breathtaking, incredible run. 
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From the old days - King Crimson
Nowadays - Mastodon

(This is my superficial, 1-minute answer; Obviously, I adore both bands and I honestly believe they are shockingly consistent)


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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

 Art Zoyd 1976-1987
 

I surely wouldn't stop in 1987; these days I'd even rate Häxan, Metropolis, and Phase V over anything they did before (that may be just my weird taste though). I really take all they did from beginning to end (OK I don't know whether I'll spin Pure Noise again but otherwise...)
No I should have specified - that first list of four bands was in regards as to for how long they released a string of virtually flawless albums = I think Berlin from 1987 is great, but Nosferatu, 1990 is their first weak album (its OK, though)... Magma Retrospektïẁ I - II = their last great releases before the much weaker Merci etc... but like you I love plenty of later albums by both. 

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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Death, Atheist, Opeth, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Haken, Harmonium, Wobbler, Enslaved, and from everything i've heard so far, Steve Hillage. Even though Gentle Giant had an anticlimactic ending to their career, their run from Debut-Interview is near perfection, and I even like Missing Piece.

Mad bonus points to you for Death, Atheist, Hramonium, and GG!

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  • Gorguts
  • Nocturnus
  • Spastic Ink

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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

For me it's got to be Pink Floyd. I really like just about all their albums, and there are very few songs I actually dislike (though, of course not all songs and albums are as brilliant as the best ones). Actually, even their "bad" albums end up being enjoyable for me.


To me Pink Floyd were consistently different too as no two albums sound especially similar, with the exception of the post-Waters era stuff. They did have their low points (More, MLR) but they are still better albums than what most other bands could manage in my opinion.


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For me it's got to be Pink Floyd. I really like just about all their albums, and there are very few songs I actually dislike (though, of course not all songs and albums are as brilliant as the best ones). Actually, even their "bad" albums end up being enjoyable for me.
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The only ones that come to mind is Cerberus Shoal and Etron Fou Leloublan
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

 Art Zoyd 1976-1987
 

I surely wouldn't stop in 1987; these days I'd even rate Häxan, Metropolis, and Phase V over anything they did before (that may be just my weird taste though). I really take all they did from beginning to end (OK I don't know whether I'll spin Pure Noise again but otherwise...)
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DJAM KARET — they do heavy prog, they do ambient, they do pastoral, they do symph — no one style can box these guys in.

GOBLIN — apart from the bizarre, if fleeting, detour that is the album Volo, every soundtrack and original record has something to offer, and some of them — like Dawn of the Dead, Roller and Suspiria — are undisputed classics.

KENSO — one of the best bands of the last forty years, period.

KING CRIMSON — self-explanatory.

ZOMBI — every album is a winner. Every. One.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I think if you look at Jethro Tull from 1968 to 1980, they released consistently good to great albums every year, from This Was all the way to A. And with the release of the boxed sets that include numerous songs that never made it on studio releases, that makes that run all the more remarkable.
This Was (1968)
Stand Up (1969)
Benefit (1970)
Aqualung (1971)
Thick as a Brick (1972)
Living in the Past (1972)
A Passion Play (1973)
War Child (1974)
Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
Too Old to Rock and Roll (1976)
Songs from the Wood (1977)
Heavy Horses (1978)
Storm Watch (1979)
A (1980)

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I suppose not all that many will agree with me, but these are the ones I can think of that made almost nothing but great music for more than ten years:
Kraftwerk 1970-1986
The Residents 1972-1984
Art Zoyd 1976-1987
Magma 1970-1981

Other than that: The Necks, Embryo, Peter Hammill/VdGG, Univers Zero, Egisto Macchi, Bolt Thrower, Can, Radiohead, Mal Waldron, Popol Vuh, McCoy Tyner, Robbie Basho...
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