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VdGG - "The Least We can do is Wave to Each Other", "H to He, Who Am the only One", "Pawn Hearts", "Godbluff", "Still Life", "World Record". that's 6 even


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Camel- 1973-1977 - 5 albums I think are great, I add Breathless to those 5. Big smile

Marillion - Script to Seasons End. Big smile

IQ - Ever to present day, that's 7 albums including the re-working og Seven Stories into Eight/98. 

Dream Theater - 1989-1999

Kansas - debut to POKR

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Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

^ Totally agree about Pictures - I've always thought of it as a 'proper' ELP album and it is indeed one of my all time favourites by anyone.  I wonder if they never finished a studio recording of it because they realised they couldn't surpass the energy, passion and overall excellence of the live version?

I think that's gotta be it. Also the record company may have been pestering them about single material after the success of Lucky Man, so they may have decided a 20 minute suite and a bunch of shorter songs was a bit wiser than a 40 minute suite and a cover of the Nutcracker as far as what they would put more effort into recording.


As I understand it, Pictures was a leftover project from Emerson's tenure with The Nice (who notably reinterpreted several classical works), and maybe he just wanted to move on without ELP becoming The Nice II.  Lake may have had something to say about this too, as being their main songwriter as opposed to Emerson's composer focused approach.  [On a side note, Argent had a similar conflict of interests between Rod Argent and Russ Ballard.]
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In Pink Floyd's case, if we are to ignore the soundtrack stuff (as suggested earlier in the thread, with which I agree as soundtracks are made to order, and within a time constraint) then I'd argue they were consistently good from PATGOD through to The Wall, with the lowest rating for that run of nine albums being 3.48 (Ummagumma), which is arguably pretty darned good.

[I would argue that the Final Cut is deserving of a higher rating too, but it is such a divisive topic amongst Floyd fans in particular, and prog fans in general, I'll leave that argument out of it.]
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From the classic era: Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Area, Univers Zero, Pink Floyd, and maybe Renaissance, Tull, Strawbs, Ange, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and VDGG. 

The modern bands might include: Porcupine Tree, Wobbler, Karfagen, Pendragon, After Crying, IQ, The Gathering, Dungen, Ulver, Bondage Fruit, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Riverside, Sylvan, Magma, Big Big Train, Steven Wilson, Peter Gabriel, Kayo Dot, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Leprous, Nemo, Motorpsycho, and Corde Oblique. 

 
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Triumvirat (Mediterranean Tales, Illusions On A Double Dimple, Spartacus, Old Loves Die Hard, Pompeii)

Wallenstein  (Blitzkrieg, Mother Universe, Cosmic Century, Stories, Songs and Symphonies, No More Love)

Passport (Doldinger, Second Passport, Handmade, Looking Thru, Cross-Collateral)

PFM-(Photos Of Ghosts, The World Became The World, Chocolate Kings, Jet Lag, Passpartu) I tend to prefer the English lyric versions of the group's efforts

I concur with some of the previously mentioned examples-Yes, Gentle Giant, Rush, Genesis
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definitely Magma too


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Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up
 
Also, a worthy mention for Eloy, having just finished listening to their entire discography. Clap
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up


You are fantastically delusional ClapThumbs Up

Using the PA ratings

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - 4.23
Paranoid - 4.32
Masters Of Reality - 4.08
Vol 4 - 3.88
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - 4.13
Sabotage - 4.05

Univers Zero
1313 - 4.22
Heresie - 4.26
Ceux Du Dehors - 3.99
Uzed - 4.27
Heatwave - 4.03
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up


You are fantastically delusional ClapThumbs Up
 
You're not a fan of Mostly Autumn then. Tongue
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up
 

That's pretty good considering they only have 14 studio albums listed in PA, and only one of them is rated over 4 stars (and that one only has 1 rating).
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up
 

That's pretty good considering they only have 14 studio albums listed in PA, and only one of them is rated over 4 stars (and that one only has 1 rating).
I was counting Mostly Autumn's live albums and compilations too. Wink
 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up


You are fantastically delusional ClapThumbs Up
 
You're not a fan of Mostly Autumn then. Tongue

They're fine, a nice band, I find it somewhat hard to believe that even their most rabidly psychotic fanboy thinks that every single release is an essential masterpiece. 
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Definitely IQ, from Ever, through Subterranea, The Seventh House, Dark Matter, Frequency and Road Of Bones😎

Actually, for me, it would be from Tales From The Lush Attic through to Road Of Bones, as I love the Menel albums too. So that's 10 in a row!

It's a shame about Resistance....
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Mostly Autumn, who pass the five album test with flying colours with 25 five-star albums to their credit in a row. Thumbs Up


You are fantastically delusional ClapThumbs Up
 
You're not a fan of Mostly Autumn then. Tongue

They're fine, a nice band, I find it somewhat hard to believe that even their most rabidly psychotic fanboy thinks that every single release is an essential masterpiece. 
I agree, there is no way that there is anyone in the history of music that has released 25 consecutive albums that can be classified as "masterpieces".
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I agree with loads of the bands already mentioned. Here's a few not mentioned:

The Residents
1 Meet the Residents – 1974
2 The Third Reich 'n Roll – 1976
3 Fingerprince – 1977
4 Not Available – 1978
5 Duck Stab/Buster & Glen – 1978
6 Eskimo – 1979
7 Commercial Album – 1980
9 Mark of the Mole – 1981
10 The Tunes of Two Cities – 1982
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11 Intermission – 1982 (long EP)
12 Title in Limbo - 1983 (Renaldo and the Loaf-collab)

Miles Davis
1 E.S.P. (1965)
2 Miles Smiles (1967)
3 Sorcerer (1967)
4 Nefertiti (1968)
5 Miles in the Sky (1968)
6 Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968)
7 In a Silent Way (1969)
8 Bitches Brew (1970)
(I suppose only the last four is related to prog - not too crazy about Jack Johnson which is why I stopped after Bitches)

Can
1 Monster Movie (1969)
2 Soundtracks (1970)
3 Tago Mago (1971)
4 Ege Bamyasi (1972)
5 Future Days (1973)
6 Soon Over Babaluma (1974)
7 Landed (1975)


Catherine Ribeiro
1 Catherine Ribeiro + 2bis (1969)
2 N°2 (1970)
3 Âme debout (1971)
4 Paix (1972)
5 Le Rat débile et l'Homme des champs (1974)
6 Libertés ? (1975)
7 Le temps de l'autre (1977)

Embryo
Opal (Ohr, 1970)
Embryo's Rache (1971)
Father Son and Holy Ghosts (1972)
Steig Aus (1973)
We Keep On (1973)
Rocksession (1973)

Terje Rypdal
1968: Bleak House
1971: Terje Rypdal
1973: What Comes After
1974: Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away
1975: Odyssey

Soft Machine first till fifth, Talk Talk - all their albums,

If I included jazz artists and soundtrack composers I could have kapt at it for the rest of the day.



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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

Definitely IQ, from Ever, through Subterranea, The Seventh House, Dark Matter, Frequency and Road Of Bones😎

Actually, for me, it would be from Tales From The Lush Attic through to Road Of Bones, as I love the Menel albums too. So that's 10 in a row!

It's a shame about Resistance....

Why is it a shame? Confused Resistance happens to be my favourite IQ album. Embarrassed
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Goblin, anyone?

Profondo Rosso (1975)
Roller (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
Il Fantastico Viaggio del "Bagarozzo" Mark (1978)
Zombi aka Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Zombi

Cosmos (2004)
Surface to Air (2006)
Spirit Animal (2009)
Escape Velocity (2011)
Shape Shift (2015)

Tangerine Dream (Froese-Franke-Baumann line-up)

Phaedra (1974)
Rubycon (1975)
Ricochet (1975)
Stratosfear (1976)
Sorcerer(1977)

Tangerine Dream (Froese-Franke-Schmoelling line-up)

Quichotte aka Pergamon (1980)
Tangram (1980)
Thief (1981)
Exit (1981)
White Eagle (1982)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sacro_Porgo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2021 at 09:04
I see going by PA scores picked up a little traction from other posters, awesome! What else can we find?


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How about Kansas?

Kansas ~ 4.00
Song For America ~ 4.14
Masque ~ 3.66
Leftoverture ~ 4.22
Point Of Know Return ~ 4.17

and indeed if they put out two more highly rated albums they'll have a second streak of five starting with 2000's Somewhere To Elsewhere.
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