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Originally posted by sans_success:

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Couldn't agree more...Only the Rolling Stones in all of Rock n' Roll History can post a comparable 4 consecutive album run

Whoa whoa, not so fast. How about Dylan from Bringing It All Back Home to John Wesley Harding? Or The Beatles from Rubber Soul through Abbey Road? That was an awesome streak of 6 albums. Note: I'm not counting Yellow Submarine since it wasn't really a studio album. Even if you did, you still have Rubber Soul through The Beatles.

It's been said before, perhaps multiple times by some people(MJ), but...

THE KINKS!!!

re: the crickets, I must have mixed up A Ghost is Born with one of the Tool albums I used to own. There's 10-15 minutes of crickets in that.

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Couldn't agree more...Only the Rolling Stones in all of Rock n' Roll History can post a comparable 4 consecutive album run
Whoa whoa, not so fast. How about Dylan from Bringing It All Back Home to John Wesley Harding? Or The Beatles from Rubber Soul through Abbey Road? That was an awesome streak of 6 albums. Note: I'm not counting Yellow Submarine since it wasn't really a studio album. Even if you did, you still have Rubber Soul through The Beatles.


It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" says the wheel. "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away

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No I don't think Dylan tops either the Velvet's or Stone's for four album run, though the one you mention is definitely way up there, but personally, John Wesley Harding, though great, is so many notches below any of the four albums in the Velvet or Stones run, that I think you have to rank it lower.

Beatles, if your counting Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road would be a contender, but those releases are no where near consecutive, interspersed you've got Help, Magical Mystery Tour, Hey Jude, maybe Let it Be (which is the worst album in their cannon)...and even if you did count them consecutively, personally, as with John Wesley Harding, I feel the White Album is a solid notch below any of the Stones or Velvet Albums being considered in their run. Many will disagree, but I've always felt that was one seriously overrated album. Sgt. Peppers too, but Sgt. Peppers was such an influence at the time, I cut it more slack.

As for the Poster mentioning THE KINKS, probably rock n' rolls all-time most underrated band, yes , the run of Funny Face, Something Else, Village Green, and Lola is fantastic, though wouln't put that ahead of Velvets, Stones, Dylan, Radiohead.

And by the way...if you count 45:33 as a release, and LCD comes out with another one of the quality of their debut, 45:33, and Sound of Silver...we're going to need to start giving them some cred in this discussion as well.

Take this for what it's worth (nothing because I think this is beating a dead horse), but WTF?

Twelve minutes?

I heard A Ghost Is Born as closer to 67 minutes of crickets chirping...

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And by the way...if you count 45:33 as a release, and LCD comes out with another one of the quality of their debut, 45:33, and Sound of Silver...we're going to need to start giving them some cred in this discussion as well.

ROTFLMFHO!!!

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And by the way...if you count 45:33 as a release, and LCD comes out with another one of the quality of their debut, 45:33, and Sound of Silver...we're going to need to start giving them some cred in this discussion as well.



ROTFLMFHO!!!

Agreed, Jack. You can accept the Velvets and Stones and LCD, but not Dylan or The Beatles, Illniq? Ha. And again, ha.

Just thought I would point out something strange I found. Genesis has two AMG Album Picks one after another, both five star albums. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Selling England by the Pound.

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Just thought I would point out something strange I found. Genesis has two AMG Album Picks one after another, both five star albums. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Selling England by the Pound.

Those are both great records, what's your point?

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Just thought I would point out something strange I found. Genesis has two AMG Album Picks one after another, both five star albums. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Selling England by the Pound.

Those are both great records, what's your point?

Maybe that Phil Collins was once in a band that had not one, but two 5-star albums? It is shocking when you think about it.

PC's a great drummer. I won't apologize for anything he did after he came out from behind the kit

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Originally posted by Illiniq:
Beatles, if your counting Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road would be a contender, but those releases are no where near consecutive, interspersed you've got Help, Magical Mystery Tour, Hey Jude, maybe Let it Be (which is the worst album in their cannon)...

Help is before Rubber Soul, Hey Jude is a single, and Let It Be was after Abbey Road (at least in release date), so I don't see how you can possibly say those ones are interspersed.

Magical Mystery Tour does arguably break that streak, although it's more of a compilation/soundtrack than a real album (although, yes, many of their early albums were soundtracks too).

Plus Magical Mystery Tour kicks major dead horse ass.