(Near)Flawless discographies

[entropy]

Albums you would happily listen in full with 1 or 2 weak additions in the artists' back catalogue.

First that sprang to my mind:

Led Zeppelin
The Pixies
Beastie Boys
Gang Starr
MF Doom
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jimi Hendrix
Underworld
A Tribe Called Quest

[DodgyGeezer]

in all honesty I'm not sure that there are any groups that fulfil that brief for me...

The nearest I'd probably get would be the below 3:

Rush - Rush to Presto
Rainbow
Mono Inc


possibly squeeze in ELO?

[tdm34]

Rush
Led Zepplin
Genesis

[ZedLeg]

Deftones, there’s maybe one or two ropey albums but otherwise banger after banger.

Tyler, The Creator

Kendrick Lamar

[S100HP]

Jimmy Eat World
Rammstein

Struggling after that currently

[ZedLeg]

Oh, Radiohead. Apart from Pablo Honey

[the-norseman]

Joy Division and New Order for me.

[SD_1]

AC/DC are surely up there, although you could say every album is the same. Led Zeppelin too, with the exception of In Through the Out Door

[S100HP]

SD_1 said:

AC/DC are surely up there, although you could say every album is the same. Led Zeppelin too, with the exception of In Through the Out Door

I like AC/DC but they are an average band with a pub singer if I'm honest.

[ZedLeg]

Bjork

[DodgyGeezer]

S100HP said:

SD_1 said:

AC/DC are surely up there, although you could say every album is the same. Led Zeppelin too, with the exception of In Through the Out Door

I like AC/DC but they are an average band with a pub singer if I'm honest.

maybe - but under the terms of the thread they'd still count. As much as I like Mono Inc there's no way I could argue that they are top-class and world beaters, however their music strikes a chord with me for whatever reason and within those parameters their discography is flawless (ditto for those AC/DC fans I suspect)

[marksx]

Tool

[Lotobear]

Steely Dan

[Winterway]

Some metal that fits the criteria;

Death
Bolt Thrower
Enslaved
Blind Guardian
Insomnium
Immortal
Moonsorrow

The only problem if you qualify one or two duds, legacy bands with many albums with more duds or phases of them yet still a huge stack of great albums, then there's bands that only ever released one perfect album or a couple. I'd add Virgin Steele (albums 6-10 are an astounding and huge piece of work by themselves), Running Wild, and of course, Iron Maiden.

[Simes205]

Lotobear said:

Steely Dan

This.

[Gompo]

I was going to suggest Orbital, but The Altogether really wasn't great. A shame as they'd done so well up to then. Maybe I need to revisit it.

Winterway said:

Some metal that fits the criteria;

Death
Bolt Thrower
Enslaved
Blind Guardian
Insomnium
Immortal
Moonsorrow

The only problem if you qualify one or two duds, legacy bands with many albums with more duds or phases of them yet still a huge stack of great albums, then there's bands that only ever released one perfect album or a couple. I'd add Virgin Steele (albums 6-10 are an astounding and huge piece of work by themselves), Running Wild, and of course, Iron Maiden.

I considered a few of those, but you get to the point where while they're not bad albums as such, things do get a little repetitive. Immortal and Bolt Thrower for example. My Dying Bride were another that came to mind in a similar vein. Out of all you've mentioned Death would probably be the closest for me but there's still a couple of albums I've never really got into for some reason. Not necessarily meaning they're duds, admittedly.

[darreni]

Sex Pistols.