Decade Dominance, or releasing top albums at ridiculous pace

[TheDog]

So, like i am sure many of us have been, i have been going through the much missed Prince discography and something that caught my eye as many others have mentioned was his run of albums in the 80s. He released 9 albums that decade 8 of which are highly acclaimed (Batman soundtrack has a more mixed reception) and it reminded me of when i was retreading dear David Bowies discog when he sadly left us and he had perhaps an even better run of form in the 70s where he released 11 albums all of them gold in my opinion. The 60s were even more insane, everything The Beatles ever did was recorded in that decade, and the amount of albums the likes of Ray Charles, James Brown etc. used to release is ridiculous.

You just do not see that all that much anymore, certainly not of that kind of quality. I mean Buckethead has released 247 albums in the last 10 years..most of those in the last 4 years but are they all really top quality albums? Is there any artists 90s onwards that have the Prince/Bowie level of consistency?

Also why is this not done much anymore, changes in the music industry or just not as much talent around anymore? I know people work differently and some artists like breaks and hiatus and this has always been the case but the days of anyone with this kind of out put seems to be long gone.

[SuedeSwede]

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5gQB07Vco4zBCUNbf8SBx4
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[Mercury]

Dylan in the 8 years from 62 - 69 is the gold standard. All pretty much perfect. Plus the basement tapes which were legendary but not released until later.
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[Applerill]

Candles
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All from 2012-2014

Yeah, I don't want to be a meme, but my point is that there are lots of amazing artists consistently releasing stuff all the time. In fact, I'm sure a lot of people didn't like the Beatles and Dylan material at the time. Only with hindsight do we see those as perfect.

[Mercury]

I'm pretty sure with people like Prince, Dylan, the Beatles, Bowie etc it was a whole lot more noticeable as brilliant streaks of great music at the time of those streaks than Hayden who or future. In terms of star power, general critical success, fame, etc. very very easy to differentiate those. But those are excellent phases in those careers nonetheless. Buuuut quite obviously not the same.

I think we're talking artists that just totally owned (in our minds or most music fans minds) a decade. Neil Young in the 70s also comes to mind.
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[jackbrown8786]

led zep, pink floyd, black sabbath, rolling stones, genesis, bruce springsteen, van morrison, and radiohead went on tears as well.

maybe not retard level like dylan/beatles in terms of crazy albums:years ratio but they've accomplished a fraction of that scale at least, comparable to prince I'd say.