Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 5:04 am
by liebzz
The Town wrote:
liebzz wrote: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.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Bitchin Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 5:12 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 6:28 am
by The Town
liebzz wrote:
The Town wrote:
liebzz wrote: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.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Bitchin Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 6:34 am
by The Town
tragabigzanda wrote:
The Town wrote: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.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 2:45 pm
by liebzz
The Town wrote:
liebzz wrote:
The Town wrote:
liebzz wrote: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
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Bitchin Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 3:23 pm
by lefty
The Town wrote: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.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Tue February 18, 2020 3:24 pm
by lefty
As far as MMJ, they are one of my favorite bands, but Circuital and the Waterfall are both pretty average.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 3:21 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 3:53 pm
by 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.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 6:13 pm
by bodysnatcher
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote: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.
tragabigzanda wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote: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
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 7:37 pm
by super nintendo chalmers
Silkworm
Bedhead
Protomartyr
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 7:38 pm
by bada
JizzyWizzyPooPoo
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 8:03 pm
by LetMeSleep
bodysnatcher wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote: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.
tragabigzanda wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote: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
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 9:00 pm
by Jammer XCI
Run the Jewels
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Wed March 04, 2020 10:46 pm
by Leatherhead
super nintendo chalmers wrote: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.
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Thu March 05, 2020 12:00 am
by verb_to_trust
Jammer XCI wrote:Run the Jewels
Hopefully 4 comes out soon
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Thu March 05, 2020 1:33 am
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote: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
Re: Artists Who Only Made Consistently Excellent Records
Posted: Thu March 05, 2020 1:35 am
by LoathedVermin72
verb_to_trust wrote:
Jammer XCI wrote:Run the Jewels
Hopefully 4 comes out soon
I think the debut is pretty meh
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