Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records

[liebzz]

I am sure I would get a lot of argument about this but My Morning Jacket might fit. The Tennessee Fire, Evil Urges, and The Waterfall might be places of argument here, but I could make the case for each of them being excellent.

Yup I would say My Morning Jacket
The Tennessee Fire is god tier
Evil Urges is excellent
The Waterfall is excellent

Circuital is a little shaky on the excellent scale for me, but hmmm

Circuital is top notch for me. I mean the run of At Dawn, It Still Moves and Z is them at their peak, but Circuital successfully combined that phase with the more danceable and risk taking Evil Urges. Victory Dance —> Circuital is great work. First Light and The Day is Coming to me are both essential MMJ. Then there’s Holding On to Black Metal, which I can’t explain why but is awesome on so many levels. Slow Slow Tune took a while to grow on me but it did. Same with Wonderful (the Way I Feel). To my ears, it’s an excellent album.

[tragabigzanda]

[The Town]

I am sure I would get a lot of argument about this but My Morning Jacket might fit. The Tennessee Fire, Evil Urges, and The Waterfall might be places of argument here, but I could make the case for each of them being excellent.

Yup I would say My Morning Jacket
The Tennessee Fire is god tier
Evil Urges is excellent
The Waterfall is excellent

Circuital is a little shaky on the excellent scale for me, but hmmm

Circuital is top notch for me. I mean the run of At Dawn, It Still Moves and Z is them at their peak, but Circuital successfully combined that phase with the more danceable and risk taking Evil Urges. Victory Dance —> Circuital is great work. First Light and The Day is Coming to me are both essential MMJ. Then there’s Holding On to Black Metal, which I can’t explain why but is awesome on so many levels. Slow Slow Tune took a while to grow on me but it did. Same with Wonderful (the Way I Feel). To my ears, it’s an excellent album.

Does the degree to which I feel Circuital is their weakest album preclude it from being excellent? Because you're not wrong... could definitely be an excellent album.

[The Town]

Los Lobos — probably close but not quite there, though I haven't seriously listened beyond the 8 excellent albums I keep in rotation.
The Decemberists
Nada Surf
Talkdemonic
Mandolin Orange

wtf is a Talkdemonic reference doing on RM?!

Hah Just doing my part to continue the rich tradition of introducing new obscure music to RM. I wouldn't have found Wintersleep(Juno winners as they are) without RM over a decade ago, now that I think about it.

I wish I could have seen Talkdemonic live.

[liebzz]

I am sure I would get a lot of argument about this but My Morning Jacket might fit. The Tennessee Fire, Evil Urges, and The Waterfall might be places of argument here, but I could make the case for each of them being excellent.

Yup I would say My Morning Jacket
The Tennessee Fire is god tier
Evil Urges is excellent
The Waterfall is excellent

Circuital is a little shaky on the excellent scale for me, but hmmm

Circuital is top notch for me. I mean the run of At Dawn, It Still Moves and Z is them at their peak, but Circuital successfully combined that phase with the more danceable and risk taking Evil Urges. Victory Dance —> Circuital is great work. First Light and The Day is Coming to me are both essential MMJ. Then there’s Holding On to Black Metal, which I can’t explain why but is awesome on so many levels. Slow Slow Tune took a while to grow on me but it did. Same with Wonderful (the Way I Feel). To my ears, it’s an excellent album.

Does the degree to which I feel Circuital is their weakest album preclude it from being excellent? Because you're not wrong... could definitely be an excellent album.

No. They are all excellent in my mind. I think you are right that it’s a matter of degree.

I think you rate The Tennessee Fire higher than I do but I still think it is excellent and return to it frequently

[lefty]

Los Lobos — probably close but not quite there, though I haven't seriously listened beyond the 8 excellent albums I keep in rotation.
The Decemberists
Nada Surf
Talkdemonic
Mandolin Orange

I didn't expect to see Mandolin Orange mentioned in here. Good call, though.

[lefty]

As far as MMJ, they are one of my favorite bands, but Circuital and the Waterfall are both pretty average.

[tragabigzanda]

[surfndestroy]

I don't think I've seen them mentioned, so I'll submit Dire Straits and Roxy Music. They both have the advantage of limited studio output, and 8 albums respectively and having very unique styles.

[bodysnatcher]

1. I've never listened to Sparklehorse. Where should I begin?

2. I love LCD Soundsystem, but they've been oddly relegated to a specific time and place in my brain. Now I'll throw on This Is Happening once in a while, but that's about it.

Start with It's A Wonderful Life

ok i just grabbed it*

*Herein lies the double-edged sword of modern music consumption. Had I made the 30-minute trek from my parents' house to Newbury Comics on Rt 114, and plunked down $14 for this CD, I'd give it a ton of spins before weighing an opinion. But because I just downloaded it from my streaming service, it gets approximately 20 minutes to make an impact otherwise I'm out.

Listening to this right now, it's great. Not even remotely what I pictured it sounding like. I was thinking like a souped up Semisonic or something.

This makes me so happy

[super nintendo chalmers]

Silkworm
Bedhead
Protomartyr

[bada]

JizzyWizzyPooPoo

[LetMeSleep]

1. I've never listened to Sparklehorse. Where should I begin?

2. I love LCD Soundsystem, but they've been oddly relegated to a specific time and place in my brain. Now I'll throw on This Is Happening once in a while, but that's about it.

Start with It's A Wonderful Life

ok i just grabbed it*

*Herein lies the double-edged sword of modern music consumption. Had I made the 30-minute trek from my parents' house to Newbury Comics on Rt 114, and plunked down $14 for this CD, I'd give it a ton of spins before weighing an opinion. But because I just downloaded it from my streaming service, it gets approximately 20 minutes to make an impact otherwise I'm out.

Listening to this right now, it's great. Not even remotely what I pictured it sounding like. I was thinking like a souped up Semisonic or something.

This makes me so happy

[Jammer XCI]

Run the Jewels

[Leatherhead]

Silkworm
Bedhead
Protomartyr

You unknowingly got me into Silkworm. I think it was a thread about favorite albums from the year 2000, or in the 2000's, I'm not sure. You posted Lifestyle. I started with that, then Libertine, Firewater, Developer, Blueblood, Italian Platinum, and It'll Be Cool. I'm still digesting their catalog, and it's been several years. There's still a lot I'm not real familiar with, but I've yet to run into an album that's not excellent. Thank you, this band is amazing.

[verb_to_trust]

Run the Jewels

Hopefully 4 comes out soon

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[LoathedVermin72]

Run the Jewels

Hopefully 4 comes out soon

I think the debut is pretty meh

[verb_to_trust]

3 is definitely my favorite