For me this is for the above mentioned who amassed a body of work over whatever length of time which is just mind-blowing.
Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, The Beach Boys, Thin Lizzy, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, spring to mind.
These are acts which produced at least 4 or 5 classic albums. Stone cold classics. I’m sure some eejit will cite Springsteen and his trite boogie woogie sounds but there ain’t no accounting for taste.
Bowie
Absolutely.
If you have Sky Arts record his Serious Moonlight live show from 1980 tonight. It’s unreal.
Peter Gabriel.
Mark knopfler come to that.
Rolling Stones?
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 1120738, member: 129”]For me this is for the above mentioned who amassed a body of work over whatever length of time which is just mind-blowing.
Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, The Beach Boys, Thin Lizzy, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, spring to mind.
These are acts which produced at least 4 or 5 classic albums. Stone cold classics. I’m sure some eejit will cite Springsteen and his trite boogie woogie sounds but there ain’t no accounting for taste.[/QUOTE]
jeff lynne (in all guises)
fleetwood mac
queen
kinks
small faces
weller
post-Peter Green Fleetwood Mac have 1 classic album, 1 excellent album and the rest is middling. Ineligible.
Lynne? Nah. My favourite ELO and Move albums are compilations.Queen?? Besides Night at the Opera and Killer Queen I couldn’t name another LP.
Stones were a great singles band. That’s about it.
Van Morrisson
Probably bout 6 flawless albums.
Abba.
REM deserve a mention. Outstanding body of work over 25 years. Led Zeppelin too. Metallica and Mastodon deserve mentions too.
Kraftwerk
James Brown
Tony Bennett
Leonard Cohen
George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic
Lee “Scratch” Perry
Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Elton John
Frank Sinatra
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 1120754, member: 129”]post-Peter Green Fleetwood Mac have 1 classic album, 1 excellent album and the rest is middling. Ineligible.
Lynne? Nah. My favourite ELO and Move albums are compilations.Queen?? Besides Night at the Opera and Killer Queen I couldn’t name another LP.
Stones were a great singles band. That’s about it.[/QUOTE]
Its a kind of magic is a classic as is the game
Jeff Lynne was also in the travelling wilburys and produced some great stuff for other artists: tom petty, Beatles, George Harrison
Go listen to some of that before you cast judgement
Frank Sinatra was shit.
Oh dear.
Smithspixiesrem
Oasis
S club 7
Sade. Roy Orbison. The Clash. The Smiths. Bowie. Marvin Gaye. Neil Young. The Kinks. Dylan. J.J Clae + about 30-40 more.
Big shout outs to John Fogarty, Lou Reed and Jim Morrison- I would have liked to have seen that band
You’ll be swimming the galway bay soon… i’m gonna go up and bate you with an oar on the final leg of it.
Probably wont need to. Ill likely have drowned by then.