Bands That Can Do No Wrong

KC - i even like Thrakattack!

Interesting post.   And makes me think about how every band ultimately lets us down to some degree.    My favorite Prog(ish) bands, listed below, ALL have some albums that leave me cold.   OK, Mars Volta is sort of my exception, but they’re still young

 

• Pink Floyd  (after Waters left)
• Radiohead (Hail to the Thief bores me)
• Mars Volta (actually all 5 studio albums I think are excellent, but how long can they keep that up?)
• Porcupine Tree (early PT is boring to me)
• Can (after Landed they begin to “blow”)
• Anthema (early stuff is poor)
• Yes (post 70s is very very spotty)
• Camel  (their last two albums are actually very good, but some real spotty stuff in the 80s)
• KC (Construction or Beat leave me bored)
• Jethro Tull (the original poster says “I can listen to the whole JT catologue sraight through ! Yes man, every single track”.     Now I consider myself a huge JT fan, but come on, “Under Wraps” is just boring.

 

I think its too much to ask any band to be “perfect” for any great length of time.  I suppose the Beatles came closest to doing that, but they were smart enough to break up before the going got bad.    Heck, maybe I do want Mars Volta to quit while their ahead! 

 

 

 

Bands that can do no wrong for me?

Actually ELP never did anything right....

All the classics have made weaker releases, for me. Until know, i like ALL of:
- Opeth
- Riverside
- Anglagard

I used to not like Scarsick but it has grown to become one of the most played albums on my iPod. And now that Pain of Salvation came out with Road Salt One some months ago i have been hooked on them. They are one band that can do no wrong. Even Dream Theater has put out some bad CD's, even though it saddens me to say.

King Crimson is the only one that comes to my mind.

The Sleepwalker wrote: I wish I could say Pink Floyd, but I don't like The Division Bell at all. Tool possibly is one of the only bands that I enjoy all music from (they don't have the biggest discography though).

treebeard wrote: Actually ELP never did anything right....

Yeah, what did ELP ever do for us?

(Apart from become one of the most genre defining and popular bands in the world, put out 5 albums between 1970 and 1973 that have inspired/been slavishly copied by every keyboard band that followed in their wake, proved you can 'rawk' without recourse to a guitar soloist, presented one of the most spectacular and audacious live shows many have ever witnessed, exploited the synthesizer in a way that not even Robert Moog had even dreamed possible, formed their own label and facilitated PFM being exposed to a larger audience, were pivotal in the advent of polyphonic synths and electronic percussion, played live concerts with a full hand picked symphony orchestra, created a piano concerto credible enough to have been included in the repertoires of world class concert pianists, introduced and championed the challenging music of Ginastera, Bartok, Janacek and Mussorgky to a rock demographic who hirtherto would have run a mile from same)

Your'e right... NOTHING!

Rush and Steve Morse come to mind as musicians with a big deal of integrity and consistency.