Music: Rank An Artist's Discography

[Unholy Diver]

Traveling Wilburys

1. Volume 1
2. Volume 3

 

[plank]

van halen:
fair warning
diver down
1984
1
2
women and children first
a different kind of truth

van hagar:
5150
for unlawful carnal knowledge
balance
OU812

van gary:
3

Van Halen

1. Fair Warning 9.5/10
2. VH II 9/10
3. VH I 9/10
4. Women and Children First 8/10
5. Diver Down 8/10
6. 1984 7/10

 

[WetcoastOrca]

The Guess Who, top 10 only:
Excluding Live at the Paramount which would be second on my list.
1. Share the Land
2. Wheatfield Soul
3. So Long Bannatyne
4. American Woman
5. Canned Wheat
6. Rockin
7. Road Food
8. Artificial Paradise
9. Number 10
10. The Way They Were

 

[The Marquis]

Jimmy Eat World

Clarity
Bleed American
Integrity Blues
Futures
Surviving
Invented
Chase This Light
Damage
Static Prevails

Nice. I'll throw down on Jimmy...

1. Clarity
2. Futures
3. Chase This Light
4. Bleed American
5. Surviving
6. Static Prevails
7. Damage
8. Integrity Blues
9. Invented

Truth be told, I'm pretty even on 3-7 and could rank them differently on any given day, but the top 2 and bottom 2 are firm for me. I like them all though.

 

[plank]

WILCO

Sky Blue Sky 9.5/10
Being There 9/10
Summerteeth 9/10
Wilco 9/10
The Whole Love 8.5/10
Cousin 8.5/10
A.M. 8.5/10
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 8.5/10
Cruel Country 8/10
Star Wars 7.5/10
A Ghost is Born 6/10
Schmilco 6/10
Ode to Joy 5.5/10

 

[frisco]

Rick Springfield:
1) Tao (1985)
2) Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance (2004)
3) Living In Oz (1983)
4) Songs For The End Of The World (2012)
5) Working Class Dog (1981)
6) Karma (1999)
7) Venus In Overdrive (2008)
8) Rock Of Life (1988)
9) Automatic (2023)
10) Hard To Hold Soundtrack (1984)
11) Rocket Science (2016)
12) Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982)
13) The Snake King (2018)
14) The Day After Yesterday (2005)

Springfield had four platinum albums (WCD, SHSMY, LIO, HTH) in a period of just over three and a half years. I don't know a lot of artists who've done that.

My Best-Carey

 

[Ceremony]

New Order

Technique
Power, Corruption & Lies
Low-life
Music Complete
Brotherhood
Waiting For the Sirens' Call
Get Ready
Movement



Republic

 

[The Marquis]

New Order

Technique
Power, Corruption & Lies
Low-life
Music Complete
Brotherhood
Waiting For the Sirens' Call
Get Ready
Movement



Republic

The lack of love for Republic bums me out. For me, that record is Music Complete. As such, my list in your format:

Low-Life
Power, Corruption & Lies
Movement
Waiting for the Siren’s Call
Brotherhood
Technique
Republic
Get Ready



Music Complete

I truly enjoy them all except that last one. Curious, can you recommend a particular song that you might think I’m overlooking on Music Complete? Happy to revisit an album I don’t enjoy by a band I very much otherwise do.

 

[Ceremony]

The lack of love for Republic bums me out. For me, that record is Music Complete. As such, my list in your format:

Low-Life
Power, Corruption & Lies
Movement
Waiting for the Siren’s Call
Brotherhood
Technique
Republic
Get Ready



Music Complete

I truly enjoy them all except that last one. Curious, can you recommend a particular song that you might think I’m overlooking on Music Complete? Happy to revisit an album I don’t enjoy by a band I very much otherwise do.

I realised after reading this post I went and listened to both albums again and then forgot to post about them.

Republic is genuinely horrible. Regret is a vaguely acceptable pop-rock song. Avalanche sounds like something a bit different but somehow misses anything to make it memorable. Maybe my instrumental tasted lean more towards post-rock to the point where I just need more noise if there's no words, but I do remember hearing that for the first time and finding it a welcome relief from what came before it.

I probably hadn't listened to Republic in full for ten years before this post and I forgot how bad it is. Let's leave aside New Order's five 80s albums because it's never going to compare to those. Any band would struggle to compare to output as varied, influential and genuinely timeless. Blue Monday is about the only New Order song I would associate with the 80s and that's only because it's so ubiquitously tied to that decade. Republic though sounds like it could only ever have been released in 1993. It sounds like absolutely nothing else no actual band of musicians would make. It sounds like a computer made the most bland, corporate yet grating music possible. Many songs sound like they sampled the sewer levels from Crash Bandicoot. The lyrics have none of the personal heft that used to make up for them generally being a bit naff. The bit where Bernard starts soft rapping is probably the final straw.

I've generally tried to avoid Peter Hook & The Light because he's a dick and I'm not interested, but having seen clips of them performing in 2023 which looked like your dad doing karaoke at a wedding after sinking fifteen pints, I'm almost intrigued enough to see how he performs this album in full.

I hadn't listened to Music Complete in full in a while either. I don't think I listened to much new music in 2015 so it probably stands out a bit more to me for that reason, but it's still good. It's a good sort of compilation of the things New Order have always been best at, the rockier side like Restless, Singularity and Academic and then the dance stuff like Plastic and Tutti Frutti. If you look up live performances of these songs in particular you can see how powerful they can be. Stray Dog is something interesting and more experimental, and Superheated is a bit cheesier than I remember but still holds the classic level of melancholy the band were always best at. There's a remixed version of the album called Complete Music which has extended versions of all the songs. That's great too.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Been listening to a lot of Death lately...

The Sound Of Perseverance - 95 %
Human - 92%
Symbolic - 89%
Spiritual Healing - 85%
Leprosy - 85%
Scream Bloody Gore - 84%
Individual THought Patterns - 82%

 

[Felidae]

Gojira is one of my favourite metal bands, thought I'd give it a shot.

1. From Mars To Sirius
2. The way of all flesh
3. Le'faunt savage
4. Terra Incognita
5. The Link
6. Magma

Haven't listened to their most recent album.

 

[The Marquis]

Straight up resurrecting this thread, since I've been in the mood to listen through entire discographies as of late. This is a good one:

Flaming Lips - Studio albums of original material in order without any albums from the 80's that sound like a completely different band.

1. The Soft Bulletin
2. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. American Head
4. Clouds Taste Metallic
5. Zaireeka (my mix)
6. At War with the Mystics
7. King's Mouth
8. Oczy Mlody
9. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
10. Embryonic
11. The Terror
12. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
13. Hit to Death in the Future Head
14. In A Priest Driven Ambulance

 

[frisco]

Queen:
1) A Day At The Races
2) Sheer Heart Attack
3) News Of The World
4) A Night At The Opera
5) Innuendo
6) The Works
7) Queen II
8) The Game
9) Jazz
10) Made In Heaven
11) Queen I
12) The Miracle
13) A Kind Of Magic
14) Hot Space
15) Flash Soundtrack

My Best-Carey

 

[The Marquis]

A couple more:

Siouxsie and the Banshees

1. Peepshow
2. Juju
3. Superstition
4. Tinderbox
5. Kaleidoscope
6. Hyaena
7. A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
8. The Scream
9. The Rapture
10. Join Hands
11. Through the Looking Glass

The Cure (this changes for me pretty constantly, so this represents today) Top 4 are always my top 4. Bottom 4 are always my bottom 4.

1. Pornography
2. Bloodflowers
3. Disintegration
4. Wish
5. The Head on the Door
6. Seventeen Seconds
7. The Cure
8. Faith
9. Three Imaginary Boys
10. The Top
11. 4:13 Dream
12. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
13. Wild Mood Swings

 

[The Marquis]

Duran Duran

1. Rio
2. Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)
3. Future Past
4. Seven and the Ragged Tiger
5. Astronaut
6. Pop Trash
7. Duran Duran
8. Medazzaland
9. Paper Gods
10. Thank You
11. Liberty
12. Danse Macabre
13. Notorious
14. All You Need Is Now
15. Big Thing
16. Red Carpet Massacre

 

[The Marquis]

Depeche Mode

1. Playing the Angel
2. Some Great Reward
3. Black Celebration
4. Violator
5. Exciter
6. Music for the Masses
7. Spirit
8. Construction Time Again
9. Delta Machine
10. A Broken Frame
11. Sounds of the Universe
12. Speak & Spell
13. Memento Mori
14. Songs of Faith and Devotion
15. Ultra

 

[weaponomega]

Oasis

1. What's the Story
2. Definitely Maybe
3. Be Here Now
4. Dig out Your Soul
5. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
6. Heathen Chemistry
7. Don't Believe the Truth

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

dio:
holy diver
dream evil
last in line
killing the dragon
magica
lock up the wolves
sacred heart
strange highways
angry machines
master of the moon

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Straight up resurrecting this thread, since I've been in the mood to listen through entire discographies as of late. This is a good one:

Flaming Lips - Studio albums of original material in order without any albums from the 80's that sound like a completely different band.

1. The Soft Bulletin
2. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. American Head
4. Clouds Taste Metallic
5. Zaireeka (my mix)
6. At War with the Mystics
7. King's Mouth
8. Oczy Mlody
9. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
10. Embryonic
11. The Terror
12. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
13. Hit to Death in the Future Head
14. In A Priest Driven Ambulance

Priest and Future Head at the bottom, wow. Those are my top two!

 

[The Marquis]

Priest and Future Head at the bottom, wow. Those are my top two!

I believe you and I have run into this in other lists as well. Weird how we can enjoy the same artists, but very much have different tastes in their wide output. Saying that though, I love every Flaming Lips album on my list.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

I believe you and I have run into this in other lists as well. Weird how we can enjoy the same artists, but very much have different tastes in their wide output. Saying that though, I love every Flaming Lips album on my list.

I think it goes to show that we both have fantastic taste.

 

[VMBM]

I think it goes to show that we both have fantastic taste.

Get a room!

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's
Magical Mystery Tour
Revolver
Rubber Soul
Help!
A Hard Day's Night
Abbey Road
Please Please Me
White album
Let It Be
Beatles For Sale
With The Beatles

Iron Maiden (20th century featuring BD only)
Powerslave
The number of the beast
Piece of mind
No prayer for the dying
Brave new world
Somewhere in time
Fear of the dark
Seventh son of a seventh son


The White Stripes
Dr Stijl
White blood cells
Elephant
The White Stripes
Icky Tumps
Get behind me Satan

 

[The Marquis]

My goal for this thread is to listen to and complete a Guided by Voices full list, like I did for Neil Young. It's going to take me a while. By the time I finish, they'll have 40 albums, and at this point I've listened to about 14 of them all the way through. Some more than others.

 

[Cas]

Rush:

Hemispheres
2112
Permanent Waves
Fly By Night
Grace Under Pressure
Moving Pictures
Caress of Steel
A Farewell to Kings
Clockwork Angels
Counterparts
Snakes and Arrows
Power Windows
Signals
Rush
Vapor Trails
Roll the Bones
Presto
Test for Echo
Hold Your Fire