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    Posted: August 09 2021 at 10:01
Nemo has to be  high on the list. Can you offer your choices?
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Flower Kings and Transatlantic
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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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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Flower Kings and Transatlantic
I must agree for TFK !!!
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Univers Zero and Cardiacs already mentioned, but good picks.

I discount bands that make the same album over and over again (even if it is a good one) and also those with a small discography (fewer than seven studio albums; arbitrary I know).

I was tempted to add Magma, but although I don't dislike Merci the way many do, it's still not on a par with their other work.


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Univrs Zero 

Magma and VDGG come close. Agalloch is also stellar across the board but only have 5 albums. 
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Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:

Cardiacs
Univers Zero
XTC
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Cardiacs & XTC are a good shout.
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Pink Floyd, they were good all the way through, though they were much less good at the end of their existence
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Univers Zero and Art Zoyd have never let me down. I'm also yet to find a weak Cardiacs album.
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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.

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For me, Van der Graaf Generator had only one studio album that wasn't good during their entire career (ALT). And within their albums, the quality is generally high throughout.
 
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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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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)

The correct answer.
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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 Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

 Art Zoyd 1976-1987
 

I surely wouldn't stop in 1987; these days I'd even rate Hδxan, 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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