Bands With 4+ Albums You Like

[Jack of Arcades]

I never could really come up with a suitable answer for "who is your favorite band ever?" so I decided to look at it a bit differently: I focused only on the bands/artists that have at least four albums that I really like (excluding Live/Greatest Hits albums). So, here's my list with my top 4.

Beatles (Rubber Soul, Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Let It Be)
Built to Spill (Keep it Like a Secret, There's Nothing Wrong With Love, Perfect from Now On, Ancient Melodies of the Future)
Cruxshadows (Ethernaut, Wishfire, Mystery of the Whisper, Telemetry of a Fallen Angel)
Decemberists (Castaways and Cutouts, Her Majesty...., The Tain EP, Picaresque)
Modest Mouse (Lonesome Crowded West, Moon and Antarctica, Good News..., ...Long Drive...)
Nine Inch Nails (With Teeth, Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Downward Spiral)
Pixies (Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova, Trompe Le Monde)
R.E.M. (Document, Automatic for the People, Murmur, Green)
Radiohead (The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Hail to the Thief)
Sleater-Kinney (One Beat, The Woods, Dig Me Out, All Hands on the Bad One)
Spoon (Gimme Fiction, Kill the Moonlight, Girls Can Tell, a Series of Sneaks)
Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes, Scarlet's Walk, Under the Pink, From the Choirgirl Hotel)
Wilco (Summer Teeth, YHF, A Ghost is Born, Being There)

Interesting list for me. If we reduce it to three albums it baloons by including bands that have only made three (Fuel, Coldplay, Ted Leo, Sufjan Stevens) strong albums.

Anyway, the above seems like a very good list of my "favorite bands ever"; it might be better if it was limited to three albums, but, like I said, that makes the list grow too much for it to be feasible.

[ibankonu]

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If we reduce it to three albums it baloons by including bands that have only made three (Fuel, Coldplay, Ted Leo, Sufjan Stevens) strong albums.


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Ted Leo has 4 albums.

[Jack of Arcades]

But I only got 3 (Hearts of Oak, Tyranny of Distance, Shake the Sheets).

[GFunk911]

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But I only got 3 (Hearts of Oak, Tyranny of Distance, Shake the Sheets).

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They have an EP (Treble in Trouble) and the band Chisel had Ted Leo and possibly some of the other band members, I dunno. With Ted Leo, for example, I feel Hearts of Oak is clearly inferior to Tyranny of Distance and Shake the Sheets, but it suffers only by comparison to other Ted Leo albums, it still whomps most albums and deserves to count. I know that's not hte point here but I'm talking out loud.

[contentless]

Decemberists seems like a bit of a cop out, at this point.

Pavement would make the list for me - Brighten the Corners, Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Wowee Zowee.

[Jack of Arcades]

I'm counting EPs. I think Broken's just about as long as the Shins LPs.

[Ulysses]

This is a great post. It will require me to sit in front of my CD collection to answer. I will do that when I'm back home next week.

[stigmata]

I wont bother repeating much of your list (radiohead, REM, pixes etc), but add:

New Order
U2 (does three and a half count?)
Four Tet
Aphex Twin

[TheIrishThug]

Incubus
Led Zepplin
Nine Inch Nails
Rammstien
Red Hot Chili Peppers
System of a Down (Steal This Album had good songs that i'll still say its a good album)
Tool

that's all i can do of the top of my head, there probly aren't many more.

Edit: Jimi Hendrix

[itsmesteve]

Stuff not already mentioned:

Dinosaur Jr (Dinosaur, Bug, You're living all over me, Where You Been)
sebadoh (III, Bubble and Scrape, harmacy, Bakesale)
Jawbraker(24 hr. Revenge Theragpy, Bivouac, Unfun, Dear You)
Neil Young (On the Beach, After the Gold Rush, Everybody knows this is nowhere, Silver and Gold)
A Tribe Called Quest(Peoples Instinctive Travels, Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Beats Rhymes and Life)