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baystateoftheart
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- Posted: 08/09/2020 23:18
- Post subject: Artists With 10+ Albums Who Have Never Released A Bad Album
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I'm struggling to come up with many. Otis Redding for sure. Maybe Stereolab, although they have a couple albums I haven't heard, so I can't say for certain. Who are your picks?
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- Posted: 08/09/2020 23:54
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All a matter of opinion of course, but I'd say Billie Holiday. Twelve records, and even if I had to pick a worst of the bunch it would still be a pretty good 'worst'.
And Nocturama's the only Cave record I've yet to hear, but I imagine it can't be that bad.
Can't think of a whole bunch though. Interested to see what people come up with. Fela, Miles and Mingus still have their duds.
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- Posted: 08/10/2020 00:05
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| Spyglass wrote: | | Nocturama wasn't bad, just OK. Nick Cave deserves a justified mention. |
Tbf, I only heard it once. Maybe I need to give it another listen. There was something off about it that one time, though, and I couldn't get into it. But he does deserve a mention, certainly.
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- Posted: 08/10/2020 00:18
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | | I'm struggling to come up with many. Otis Redding for sure. Maybe Stereolab, although they have a couple albums I haven't heard, so I can't say for certain. Who are your picks? |
It's gonna be a VERY short list.
Redding was great...but during his lifetime, he released 6 studio, one compilation and one live album. The posthumous releases are questionable, and not material picked by Redding himself for release. For me, that would be an important factor.
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baystateoftheart
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- Posted: 08/10/2020 00:37
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| Romanelli wrote: | It's gonna be a VERY short list.
Redding was great...but during his lifetime, he released 6 studio, one compilation and one live album. The posthumous releases are questionable, and not material picked by Redding himself for release. For me, that would be an important factor. |
I see your point, but to me it's almost more impressive that all of his posthumous albums are good. Posthumous records are frequently low-quality cash-ins, but he didn't record enough weak material for that to be possible.
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babyBlueSedan
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- Posted: 08/10/2020 00:43
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Tom Waits? Haven't heard all his albums; Foreign Affairs and The Black Rider seem to be the two that are normally considered his worst but I'm not sure if they're considered bad. Personally I didn't care for Frank's Wild Years but I think that's an unpopular opinion.
I was also thinking of someone like Bill Callahan or Phil Elverum who's been really consistent over the years but they both have a lot of early recordings that aren't well regarded (which again, I haven't heard - funny how I've only heard the albums people consider good, huh?). Seems like the majority of artists either stick around long enough to slip up and release something subpar (like Bowie) or churn out so many projects that at least one of them flops. If you release albums slowly to keep the quality high it takes a long time to get to ten.
| Spyglass wrote: | | Nocturama wasn't bad, just OK. Nick Cave deserves a justified mention. |
Nocturama really isn't bad, it's just Nick Cave by the numbers, especially after No More Shall We Part, which is very similar in style. If I were going to say Cave doesn't fit it would be because of his early post punk stuff, but again that's personal preference so I think he's a good answer here.
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| indieshins wrote: | | Tbf, I only heard it once. Maybe I need to give it another listen. There was something off about it that one time, though, and I couldn't get into it. But he does deserve a mention, certainly. |
It's probably just terrible when compared to the rest of the catalogue. But compared to even so-so albums, it's more than fine.
EDIT: On the subject ot post-punk, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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- Posted: 08/10/2020 04:15
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For a consensus list, likely you could change it to 5 and there'd be a good consensus.
Randy Newman surprisingly is growing on me, mostly due to his 2017 Dark Matter release... made me double take. Not really nominating him, but he does have a lot of albums. Worth considering at least.
Another might be Willie Nelson... I was looking at his discography and I didn't count, but it felt like 50 albums or something as insane as that. There's got to be 10 of them that aren't bad.
You might guess I'm kinda listening the 70s right now.
Also is it they released 50 albums and 10+ are awesome or the artist literally has never released a dud/all albums are GREAT?
Most "good" artists don't have "bad" albums - just less great ones. Mediocre artists release bad albums (imo).
So I guess define bad. Not great? Then yeah, nobody can make the list if the number is 10+. But if good can be like an 80/3.5 or higher (on my "scale"), then possibly a good 20 artists have done this.
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