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Poll Question: What is the best run of 7 consecutive albums?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [3.31%]
1 [0.83%]
2 [1.65%]
29 [23.97%]
13 [10.74%]
7 [5.79%]
6 [4.96%]
7 [5.79%]
8 [6.61%]
3 [2.48%]
3 [2.48%]
0 [0.00%]
9 [7.44%]
18 [14.88%]
11 [9.09%]
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Genesis was my favorite of the choices.  I saw the Resident's mentioned.  I'm a bigger fan of the latter years.  Mostly what Wiki defines as the "Storyteller" era but starting with Have A Bad Day but that only gets me up  to six that I actually have including 
Have a Bad Day
Wormwood - Curious Stories From The Bible
Demons Dance Alone Limited Edition
Animal Lover
Tweedles
Bunny Boy, The

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I said early on no live albums. If I made an exception for one band I'd have to make an exception for others. I'm sure Yes would have more votes if I made it TYA to GFTO with Yessongs in there but it doesn't seem right to include live albums since it's mostly material from the previous albums.

Hmmm...sounds like an idea for a future poll LOL  ELP should get a few votes with this streak of 7:

1) ELP
2) Tarkus
3) Pictures at an Exhibition
4) Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival
5) Trilogy
6) Brain Salad Surgery
7) Welcome Back My Friends


 

Pictures at an Exhibition could be considered legitimately as it was completely fresh material.
I would then go to Works Vol One and Two. Both are underrated in my opinion.

Tangerine Dream - I absolutely love their music in the period 1979 to 1986 so I would pick


1) Force Majeure
2) Tangram
3) Exit
4) White Eagle
5) Hyperborea
) Poland
6) Le Parc
7) Underwater Sunlight

only White Eagle is a tiny bit of a let down imo

corrected my list as Poland is live album (oops!)




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Truly, the best 7 studio album run goes to a band not talked about a lot around here, Passport

Passport-Doldinger
Second Passport
Handmade
Looking Thru
Cross Collateral
Infinity Machine
Iguacu

All albums are 5 star masterpieces of German fusion


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Blacksword Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2019 at 03:45
Genesis.

The Moody Blues aren't far behind.
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2019 at 04:00
Originally posted by AZF AZF wrote:

Black Sabbath had the best seven album run
-but don't we all know that its a Best 6 studio album run-contender and not 7?
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

But how about this run? I mean, BÖC did do *some* proggy stuff! 

I. Tyranny and Mutation 
II. Secret Treaties 
III. Agents of Fortune 
IV. Spectres 
V. Mirrors 
VI. Cultosaurus Erectus 
VII. Fire of Unknown Origin
mostly awesome but Mirrors is hardly a classic.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2019 at 04:44
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Truly, the best 7 studio album run goes to a band not talked about a lot around here, Passport

Passport-Doldinger
Second Passport
Handmade
Looking Thru
Cross Collateral
Infinity Machine
Iguacu

All albums are 5 star masterpieces of German fusion

Good call; gotta relisten to some Passport!
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Passport is mmmm good!
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Close between Yes & Genesis. Voted for Yes. 
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From the list I would choose Rush, but shift the streak to _2112_ through _Signals_.

I would very much wish to choose Pink Floyd but I can't think of any streak that long that doesn't have dramatic swings of low to high.  I very much like everything from _Pipers..._ to _Animals_ and feel Floyd's high points eclipse anything done by Rush, but Rush is much more consistent.

All time, any artist, it has to be Autechre.  I can think of no other artist who has so consistently made great music throughout their entire career and would put their streak as _Amber_ to _NTS Sessions_.  That's twelve albums and only leaves out their first, _Incunabula_, which suffers slightly for sounding a teeny bit amateurish and dated by comparison.  Autechre's streak is all the more impressive because they still continue to innovate and still continue to set new highs.  How many artists who have recorded for 30 years are making their best music in their mature years, all the while their early efforts still hold strong?

Another good contender would be Nurse With Wound, though culling out seven proper, chronologically current studio albums from in between all the many collections of curiosities would be difficult.

Coil is a good contender as well, with a very strong streak of nine from _Horse Rotorvator_ through _Music To Play In the Dark2_, though one has to disregard a couple anomalies in the time line.
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[QUOTE=tailings]From the list I would choose Rush, but shift the streak to _2112_ through _Signals_.

 ^ I agree, This would have pushed me more toward voting for Rush. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2019 at 09:59
Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

[QUOTE=tailings]From the list I would choose Rush, but shift the streak to _2112_ through _Signals_.

 ^ I agree, This would have pushed me more toward voting for Rush. 

That would make it only 6 albums though and not seven. You would have to include GUP and I wanted focus more on their proggy material since this is after all a prog site. ;) CoS to Signals would make more sense, however, most seem to think their prog era ended with MP.


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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

[QUOTE=tailings]From the list I would choose Rush, but shift the streak to _2112_ through _Signals_.

 ^ I agree, This would have pushed me more toward voting for Rush. 

That would make it only 6 albums though and not seven. You would have to include GUP and I wanted focus more on their proggy material since this is after all a prog site. ;) CoS to Signals would make more sense, however, most seem to think their prog era ended with MP.

Oops!  You are very correct, so I'll append that to include _Grace Under Pressure_.  Heck, _Fly By Night_ to _Grace Under Pressure_ is a pretty good streak in its own right.  I do think _Grace_ is an overall better and more consistent album than either _Fly_ or _Caress_.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frenetic Zetetic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2019 at 16:14
For the options presented in the poll, Yes all the way.

VDGG would be a close second, followed by Gentle Giant third, Genesis fourth.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2019 at 12:03
I'm bumping this because it's a good idea and topics close fast these days for some reason. Big smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2019 at 12:32
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I'm bumping this because it's a good idea and topics close fast these days for some reason. Big smile

Why bother? That jerk who started it forgot to include King Crimson and that's the band who's album is on his avatar. SMH. WinkLOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2019 at 12:41
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I'm bumping this because it's a good idea and topics close fast these days for some reason. Big smile

Why bother? That jerk who started it forgot to include King Crimson and that's the band who's album is on his avatar. SMH. WinkLOL

nah, KC is the predictable winner. And then there is the other option. So... Big smile
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Genesis would even beat out KC in my books! Embarrassed
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I would change Rush - A Farewell to Kings through to Power Windows. That last album never gets enough credit methinks. That's what I like. You can like what you want, so there!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2019 at 14:56
Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

I would change Rush - A Farewell to Kings through to Power Windows. That last album never gets enough credit methinks. That's what I like. You can like what you want, so there!

Well, I didn't include any post MP Rush albums(and I mentioned this on here before)because I don't consider anything after MP or at the very least signals to be prog(or at least prog in the strictest sense). They are good albums but they are more like synth rock and not really prog imo. I could have maybe done COS to Signals but that's about as far as I would go.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Fischman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2019 at 09:24
I agree, Power Windows is woefully underrated. 

But I'm not gonna change a seven album run to one that excludes 2112?  

Also to get to Power Windows, you've gotta' go through Grace Under Pressure, one of my least favorite Rush albums.  

Come to think of it, even though Rush is my favorite band, I can't think of a seven album string without a significant dip somewhere.  

Which is why I went with the Moodies.  DOFP through Seventh Sojourn is flawless.  Nobody can touch it for consistent excellence without anything falling below a top shelf level.  
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