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.

[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.

[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

[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)

[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

[mmbt0ne]

The albums I like are in no particular order.

Oasis (Definitely Maybe, What's the Story [Morning Glory], The Masterplan, Heathen Chemistry)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Question the Answers, Don't Know How to Party, Let's Face It, Ska-Core, the Devil and More)
Reel Big Fish (Turn the Radio Off, Why Do They Rock So Hard, Cheer Up, Everything Sucks)
OutKast (Aquemini, Stankonia, ATLiens, Love Below/Speakerboxxx)
Live (Throwing Copper, Mental Jewelry, Secret Samadhi, V)
Green Day (American Idiot, Dookie, Insomniac, Kerplunk)
311 (Music, 311, Grassroots, Transistor)
Jay-Z (Blueprint, Reasonable Doubt, Black Album, Vol 3: The Life and Times of S. Carter)

[PokerBob]

The Replacements - (Let it Be, Tim, Pleased to Meet Me, Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash)

REM - (Life's Rich Pageant, Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruciton)

Superchunk - (Indoor Living, Foolish, On the Mouth, Here's Where the Strings Come In)

Uncle Tupelo (March 16-22, Anodyne, Still Feel Gone, No Depression)

U2 - (Boy, Achtung Baby, The Unforgetable Fire, The Joshua Tree)

Yo La Tengo - (Painful, Electro-Pura, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out)

Buffalo Tom - (S/T, Birdbrain, Let Me Come Over, Big Red Letter Day)

Gillian Welch - (Revival, Hell Among the Yearlings, Time (The Revelator), Soul Journey)

[Soul Daddy]

Nice post. I'd agree with Beatles, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Spoon, and Wilco. I'd change a couple of album choices, but that only speaks to their overall quality.

Beastie Boys (Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty)
The Smiths (s/t, The Queen is Dead, Meat is Murder, Strangeways)
Morrissey (Viva Hate, Your Arsenal, Vauxhall and I, You are the Quarry)
Oasis (Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory, The Masterplan, Don't Believe the Truth)
White Stripes (De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Get Behind Me Satan)
Beta Band (s/t, Hot Shots II, Heroes to Zeros, The Three EPs)
Public Enemy (Nations..., Fear of a Black Planet, Apocalypse..., He Got Game)