Bands That Can Do No Wrong

Opeth!

I can think of at least four:

King Crimson (some stuff is better than other, but there isn't one album that I don't find at the very least interesting and enjoyable)

Mastodon (so far so good; they've yet to disappoint)

Opeth (took me a while to get into Ghost Reveries, but now it's all good)

Pain of Salvation (yes, I have listened to Scarsick... numerous times actually; I don't get the hate for that album)

And probably a handful more that in my view have successfully experimented with music on each and every album up until now (and thus give me no reason they could go wrong in the future).

Maudlin Of The Well, Porcupine Tree, Peter Gabriel, Sigur Ros and The Waterboys still haven't had a truly dull moment for me.

Keeping this in the spirit of how the OP put it, I'm going to say The Residents, for me.  The OP talks about being such a devout Tull fan that he loves the material that he knows he probably shouldn't.  This will go for me with the Rez.  As possessor of all 80 plus recordings, I can earnestly say I'm there for it all.  Even albums like Bad Day on the Midway, which is my least favorite, I will listen to and see what's good about it, feel a good sense of what they were trying to do.  I know how much this sets off alarms of blind, dogmatic fanboyism.  I prefer to think of it as being humbled before musicians who have transformed my engagement with the world of sound enough for me to trust that they'll continue to push me.  Or, perhaps this just indicates that I've joined a cult.

Family

I've yet to hear a non-superb moment of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. And also Daniel O'Sullivan things - Mothlite, Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, Æthenor, Grumbling Fur - he certainly has the Midas touch.

Vibrationbaby wrote: I can listen to the whole JT catologue sraight through ! Yes man, every single track  . So I pose this solemn question :  What' s the band that can do no wrong for you?

Even though it may not seem "cool" to admit this to the outside world, I totally agree with you!

Yes, Genesis and a few others may have made more brilliant albums, but I play TULL more often than any other prog band - always with great pleasure, and this goes for most of their catalogue! (Although I've never bothered to buy some of their weaker albums, such as A, and I certainly don't intend to get the JT XMAS ALBUM.)

Other bands that can do no wrong: Caravan, the Hatfields, National Health.
In jazz: Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, Gary Burton, Dave Holland!

Edited by fuxi - December 05 2009 at 03:26

There's only one band for me who reached that reputation. IRON MAIDEN. I've liked all their studio albums and official live recordings since I was eleven years old. I don't listen to the last two studioalbums, but that's because of the fact I don't own a vinyl version and I think I have enough material listening to the other 12 albums.

Furthermore classic Deavid Allen's Gong is always very nice and I love everything made by Dutch cabaratier Wim Sonneveld.

Riverside and Kopecky are the ones for me. They may have only produced four albums apeice  but they are all super, in my opinion.

Edited by DangerousCurves - December 05 2009 at 05:38

Henry Plainview wrote: Do you guys really think that the 4 minute intro to L'Via

yes. it's the more recent TMV stuff that sucks ;p

Henry Plainview wrote: and Voyage 34 are good?

ahahahahaha this guy


here's a list of bands that can do no wrong:
Art Bears