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To Our Children's Children's Children, A Question of Balance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - The Moody Blues

 

Great band and great albums! I might spin them tonight!

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The '70s Aerosmith thread inspired this topic. I went with "favorite" over "great" so no one has to play rock historian. Some off the top of my head (not counting b-sides/extras and soundtrack albums, unless you want to):

 

- Hemispheres, PeW, MP

 

- Get Your Wings, Toys in the Attic, Rocks

 

- Wire's Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154

 

- Led Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti

 

- Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver

 

- Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles, Abbey Road (Sgt Peppers through The Beatles would have worked fine too)

 

- Radiohead's The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A/Amnesiac double album (Kid A by itself is somewhat overrated I've always thought; Kid A plus Amnesiac plus some Amnesic B-sides like Cuttooth, The Fog and Kinetic would make a classic).

 

- Sufjan Stevens' Michigan, Seven Swans, Come on Feel the Illinoise

 

Lots of others I can think of, from Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, The Cure, New Order, The Smiths, The Church, but the above stand out.

These are four and five album runs RUTLES, sometimes six, I'll have to correct you:

 

2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures - that's a 5 album run

 

Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Draw the Line - that's a 5

 

Led Zeppelin I, II, III, IV - that's a 4

 

Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Peppers - that's a 5

 

I'd add MMT, The Beatles and Abbey Road to your Beatles list and call it an eight album run. And I think Zep had a six album run through PG (I like Presence and ITTOD but don't consider them on the same level). With you on the rest.

 

Yep First 6 Zep albums

Every Beatles album from Help! to Let It Be

First 6 Sabbath albums

2112 through GUP (7 albums)

Floyd, DSOTM through The Wall (4 albums)

Eagles, On The Border, One of These Nights, Hotel California, The Long Run

Bob Dylan, the first album all the way through........I don't know where do you stop with his stuff?

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Script For A Jester's Tear - Fugazi - Misplaced Childhood

 

Damn it! I was going to do this Marillion run last night but I couldn't do it!! "Fugazi" is a masterpiece but for some reason it doesn't do it for me like "Script" "Misplaced" "Clutching"

 

Hell I almost did....

 

 

"Misplaced" "Clutching" "Season's End!"

 

Now that's a party foul! I mean a "Garden Party" Foul! LOL!

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Black Sabbath: Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol 4

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II, III and IV

Rush: A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves

Queen: Queen II, Shear Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera

The Who: Tommy, Who's Next, Quad

Deep Purple: In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head

Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave

Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stained Class

David Bowie: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane

Aerosmith: Get Your Wings, Toys, Rocks

Yes: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge

Blue Oyster Cult: S/T, Tyranny and Mutation, Secret Treaties

Neil Young: After the Gold Rush, Harvest, On the Beach

 

etc, etc.

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I thought the first three Van Hagar albums were a really great run ... 5150, OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

They out-sold original VH!

 

BOOOOOOOO!

Change that "B" to a dollar sign and you nailed it!
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I thought the first three Van Hagar albums were a really great run ... 5150, OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

They out-sold original VH!

 

BOOOOOOOO!

Change that "B" to a dollar sign and you nailed it!

Hagar did not outsell Roth. Hagar Van Halen had more #1 albums, but Roth Van Halen sold more overall albums.

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Really anything that doesn’t include And The There Were Three, the debut, or We Can’t Dance is fair game.

 

I always thought Driving the Last Spike had a hint of the mid-career Genesis.

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Really anything that doesn’t include And The There Were Three, the debut, or We Can’t Dance is fair game.

 

I always thought Driving the Last Spike had a hint of the mid-career Genesis.

 

It does, but so much of the record is padded out with filler that the handful of excellent cuts on it aren't enough to justify a run from s/t to WCD, and I doubt anyone would do a run from IT to CAS.

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Husker Du - Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig

 

Pat Benatar - Crimes of passion, Precious Time, Get Nervous

 

BOC - Debut, Tyranny and Mutation, Secret Treaties

 

Oasis - Definitely Maybe, What's the Story, Be Here Now

 

Genesis - Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound I can't include my favorite genesis album which is Wind & Wuthering as I never owned Lamb or And Then...

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Husker Du - Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig

 

Pat Benatar - Crimes of passion, Precious Time, Get Nervous

 

BOC - Debut, Tyranny and Mutation, Secret Treaties

 

Oasis - Definitely Maybe, What's the Story, Be Here Now

 

Genesis - Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound I can't include my favorite genesis album which is Wind & Wuthering as I never owned Lamb or And Then...

 

Be Here Now might not be as great as the first two, but it's still a great record, with some great songs. There are day's I'd rather listen to BHN than WTS.

 

Also you should totally listen to The Lamb!

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I thought the first three Van Hagar albums were a really great run ... 5150, OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

They out-sold original VH!

 

BOOOOOOOO!

Change that "B" to a dollar sign and you nailed it!

Hagar did not outsell Roth. Hagar Van Halen had more #1 albums, but Roth Van Halen sold more overall albums.

It's actually really close, album for album, minus the Roth debut (14 million). Hagar's #2-#4 sold 17.2 million, Roth's VHII through Fair Warning sold 17 million even.

 

Balance crushed Fair Warning in sales, lol.

 

http://www.vhlinks.com/vbforums/archive/index.php/t-48809.html

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I thought the first three Van Hagar albums were a really great run ... 5150, OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

They out-sold original VH!

 

BOOOOOOOO!

Change that "B" to a dollar sign and you nailed it!

Hagar did not outsell Roth. Hagar Van Halen had more #1 albums, but Roth Van Halen sold more overall albums.

It's actually really close, album for album, minus the Roth debut (14 million). Hagar's #2-#4 sold 17.2 million, Roth's VHII through Fair Warning sold 17 million even.

 

Balance crushed Fair Warning in sales, lol.

 

http://www.vhlinks.com/vbforums/archive/index.php/t-48809.html

Why not include all the albums?

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