The Hudson Valley Squares: Favorite 5 Albums Runs
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The Stones, starting with Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, and Goats Head Soup.
Made this same comment on FB. Hard to beat.
The first five King diamond albums
The first five Never more albums as well
First five Voivodt albums
My five favorite Stones albums.
1) Have to go with the Legend, Bon Scott's run with the Young brothers:
- High Voltage
- Dirty Deeds
- Let There Be Rock
- Powerage
- Highway to Hell
2) Metallica's run until the Black Album
3) Dio's run from Rising in '76, through Heaven and Hell to his debut in '83. A damn good run for another legend!
Great call D Tolmie.
Stevie Wonder (Not a band but deserves to be mentioned)
Music of My Mind(1972)
Talking Book (1972)
Innervisions(1973)
Fulfillingness' First Finale(1974)
Songs in the Key of Life(1976)
That is a miraculous run of albums that I do not think many could top
That's a good run but fulfillingness kind of falls off just a little bit for me
Yep, I point to this run as the greatest of ANY recording artist!
I wanted to mention Stevie Wonder, almost all of his albums from the seventies were amazing.
I’m going with The Rolling Stones: Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, and Goat’s Head Soup….Undeniably one of the greatest 5 studio albums in a row ever accomplished, regardless of how you feel about the Stones :)
That's the first run that came to mind from me....and it kept going after that.
BRAVO
I'm not a huge Stones fan but to me Exile (which I don't like much) ruins a potential run of 7 (Satanic Majesties through Black And Blue)
@@wolf1977 You like “Satanic Majesty’s..”, “It’s Only Rock and Roll”, and “Black and Blue” better than “Exile..” ?! All of those are good albums, but - to me - “Exile” belongs in a time capsule :)
@@philipalbanese Yep I do, a little too "country" influenced for me & the gospel influences don't really work for me either. 4 good tunes: "All Down The Line", "Happy", "Tumbling Dice" & "Let It Loose". Great list of guest musicians though. FWIW: Rolling Stone agrees with you, it made their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time at #7...Actually that I take another look Black And Blue isn't all that great either, probably take that one off the list too (if it were on my list)...Again this is from someone who's not a raving Stones fan, I mostly like the early Brian Jones material & the Mick Taylor albums (except for Exile)...BTW if you're a big Stones/Exile fan then check out 2000's band Deadstring Brothers & their albums Starving Winter Report & Silver Mountain
1. Led Zeppelin II
2. Led Zeppelin III
3. ZOSO
4. Houses Of The Holy
5. Physical Graffiti
I can't live without I..
Excellent choices.
@@michaeldallaway1988 Plus In Through The Out Door (possibly my fave except for the double Graffiti - just because it's got more Zep)
I've seen this mentioned already, but for me I've always felt that Rush 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures is the best 5 consecutive releases EVER!
Hell yeah! Couldn’t agree more 👍
I agree also but they really had 7 classic albums in a row. I would add Signals and Grace under Pressure. I really like Power Windows and Caress of Steel but they just do not reach the level of classic albums for me. Interestingly, Fky by Night might just be a classic for me. Same for Counterparts.
@@carlpeterson8182 I actually count 15 (but I also like their later stuff)
@@wolf1977 Rush is my favorite group by far. I love almost every album except Hold your Fire but there are good tracks on it as well. But I would not say all the albums are classic level albums. Some are just really great.
@@carlpeterson8182 To me "very good" qualifies for the album streak, and certainly "really great". There are bound to be variations in "greatness" between any band's 5+ albums
Metallica- Kill’em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …and Justice for All, Metallica
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Black Sabbath IV, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease, Among the Living, State of Euphoria, Persistence of Time, Sound of White Noise
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy. Led Zeppelin had several good five album runs, but this is my favorite.
Put Garage days in the Metallica 5
@@wokebloke7019 No disrespect. It is a great listen but I’m talking full lengths here.
The Beatles
Revolver
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Band
Magical Mystery Tour
Yellow Submarine
The White Album
Abbey Road
Let It Be
I know this eight albums but this is how great the Beatles were.
Queen
A Night At The Opera
Day At The Races
News Of The World
Jazz
The Game
AC/DC - Could've ended with For Those About to Rock, but I'll go with Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back In Black
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease, Among the Living, State of Euphoria, Persistence of Time, Attack of the Killer B's
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (really wanted to put Sabotage on here)
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden, Killers, The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent For Leather, Unleashed In the East (cheating a little bit)
Kiss - Hotter Than Hell, Dressed to Kill, Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over, Love Gun
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy
Metallica - Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice For All, the Black Album
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman, Bark At the Moon, The Ultimate Sin, No Rest For the Wicked (really wanted to put No More Tears on here)
Pantera - Could've started with Power Metal, but I'll go with Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, Far Beyond Driven, The Great Southern Trendkill, Reinventing the Steel
Rush - 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures
Slayer - Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits, Reign In Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons In the Abyss
System of a Down - Self titled, Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Mezmerize, Hypnotize
Testament - The Legacy, The New Order, Practice What You Preach, Souls of Black, The Ritual
Van Halen - Van Halen, Van Halen II, Women and Children First, Fair Warning, Diver Down
SoT is down to a power trio this time around, but no decrease in entertainment quality. Terrific episode, as always.
Rush: 2112 to Moving Pictures. and I love the first 3 albums before 2112 too. and you could throw in the two great live albums in that time frame too.
1st album through Moving Pictures, and the live offerings. Great pick.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!
One of my favorite bands..
Foghat :
Energized 1974
Rock & Roll Outlaws 1974
Fool For The City 1975
Night Shift 1976
Stone Blue 1978
Great show as usual! The ones for me that weren’t mentioned at all are:
AC/DC - High Voltage - Highway to Hell
Death - Leprosy - Symbolic
Mastodon - Leviathan - Once More ‘Round the Sun
Megadeth - Killing is my Business - Countdown to Extinction
Metallica - Kill em All - Black Album
Opeth - Still Life - Ghost Reveries
Rainbow - Debut - Difficult to Cure
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet - Goats Head Soup
Creedance Clearwater Revival. All their albums except for their last album kick serious butt and are timeless, The final album is still pretty good though. AC/DC, their first 5 albums are awesome, in fact high voltage is sometimes overlooked as one of the best debut albums of all time.
Totally forgot about CCR. Great pick!
I saw a comment once that said that no band has ever put out more than 3 great albums in a row. It’s one of the most stupid comments I’ve ever read regarding music and I’m happy this topic exists to shut that point down. Here’s my list, in no particular order:
1. Aerosmith
• Get Your Wings
• Toys in the Attic
• Rocks
• Draw the Line
• Night in the Ruts
2. Yes
• Yes
• Time and a Word
• The Yes Album
• Fragile
• Close to the Edge
3. Thin Lizzy
• Fighting
• Jailbreak
• Johnny the Fox
• Bad Reputation
• Black Rose: A Rock Legend
• Chinatown
(I know that’s six albums, but I can’t go without mentioning either Fighting or Chinatown)
4. Blackfoot
• No Reservations
• Flyin’ High
• Strikes
• Tomcattin’
• Marauder
5. Dire Straits
• Dire Straits
• Communiqué
• Making Movies
• Love Over Gold
• Brothers in Arms
Queen - first 5
Thin Lizzy - Fighting to Black Rose
Motorhead - first 5
Ramones - first 5
Black Sabbath - first 5
Let There Be Rock
Powerage
Highway To Hell
Back in Black
For Those About To Rock
My exact five!
Rush>S/T>>>>>Farewell to Kings
Rush>Hemispheres>>>>>>>>>>Grace Under Pressure
Led Zep II>>>>>>>>>>Phy. Graffiti
R.E.M>Murmur>>>>>>>>>>>>Document
Traffic>Mr. Fantasy>>>>>>>>>>>>The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
U2>Boy>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Joshua Tree
R.E.M. - Great choice!
My five by rush, permanent waves, moving pictures , signals , grace under pressure and power windows
Brownie points for Ryan for bringing up The Chasm, one of THE MOST underrated metal bands of all time. Amazing discography
Overkill - Feel the Fire - Horrorscope
Fates Warning - Spectre Within - Parallels
Manowar - Battle Hymns - Fighting the World
Blue Oyster Cult - S/T - Spectres
Bathory - The Return - Twilight of the Gods
Slayer - Show No Mercy - Seasons
King's X had a great 5 album run with "Out Of The Silent Planet" through "Dogman."
My pick as well.
Five great albums in a row is tough to find, even for bands I dearly love. I got these.
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic, Katy Lied, The Royal Scam, Aja, Gaucho
Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Mirrors, Cultosaurus Erectus, Fire of Unknown Origin
Kansas: Masque, Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Monolith, Audio-Visions
Queen: Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races (I really wanted a run that included Jazz, but I don't love either News of the World or The Game)
Lots of my favorite bands have runs of four albums in a row that I love, but not five: AC/DC, Styx, Heart, Van Halen, ZZ Top, The Doobie Brothers, Cheap Trick. And it's not always that the fifth album is "bad" per se, but I just don't love it as much as the four before or after.
King Diamond's first 5 are great: Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them, Conspiracy, and The Eye
Great choice! Forgot about that one.
This! I love the first 5 King Diamond albums.
3. Triumph Progressions of Power - Thunder Seven
2. Styx - Crystal Ball - Paradise Theater
1. Kansas Kansas- Point of Know Return.
Another 5 star classic HVS show. Thank you guys.
Sabbath will always be at the top of any list from me so I'll go with another set of classics:
Bridge of Sighs
For Earth Below
Long Misty Days
In City Dreams
Caravan to Midnight.
Victims of the Fury is my favorite Trower album. I just couldn't squeeze it in there.
Hemispheres, Permenet Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace Under Pressure
I love power windows but different era
@@coreycrossman3447 Me too but I'd count it. Actually I also like the later albums, I've got Rush with 15 straight winners (possibly the overall winner actually of all the bands)
@@wolf1977 well yeah Rush is the best band of all time but I know this is controversial I think A Farewell to kings is a little weak, great title track and Xanadu is one of the best songs ever but after that the songs are just ok. Cygnus X-1 Book 1 is a great jam but not really a solid song. I know i'm in the minoroty and I love every album other then that one up to at least hold your fire and presto and roll the bones which are still very good, I also really love counterparts and vapor trails
Just tuned in but going to watch from the start but here's a few of my choices
3.Black Sabbath ( Have a feeling this will be a Pete pick ) Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
2.Pink Floyd Meddle, Obscured by clouds, Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here, Animals
1.Iron Maiden Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave ( could really go 7 in Maiden's case with Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son ).
Another great show with a small group. Keep ‘em coming, Pete!
Great concept. This has been bouncing round my head all day. I think...
1) Neil Young. Everybody knows this is nowhere - Tonight's the night.
2,) Zeppelin. Zep 2 - Physical Graffiti.
3,) Pink Floyd. Dark side - Final Cut ( controversial choice!)
4. Springsteen. Born to run - Born in the USA
5. Nick Cave. Good Son - Boatman's call.
-The Doors
S/T
Strange Days
Waiting for the Sun
The Soft Parade
Morrison Hotel
1) Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny to British Steel
2) Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden to Powerslave
3) Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka to Ithyphallic
4) Slayer - Show No Mercy to Season In The Abyss
5) Opeth - Orchid to Blackwater Park
Honorable Picks - Death- Screaming Bloody Gore - Individual Thought Patterns
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey - Panzerfaust
Rush 2112 to Signals - yes I know that is 6 - is an easy pick
Dream Theater - Images through Six Degrees. Yes, I like Falling to Infinity despite Anna Lee and a couple of others
Ronnie James Dio - Long Live Rn R through Last in Line
Pagan's Mind - Infinity Divine through Heavenly Ecstasy. Love this band
Journey - Infinity through Frontiers
HM - Zeppelin II through Physical Graffiti
my favorite 5-album run, easily Iron Maiden:
Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time.
A close second for me:
Rush -- 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures
and Thin Lizzy -- Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny the Fox, Bad Reputation, Black Rose
Completely agree with the Rush albums!!!
2112-Moving Pictures and Signals for an extra. Throw in All The World’s A Stage, and Exit Stage Left. Now that’s hard to beat!!
Nice pick on Kansas Pete. I absolutely love Kansas.
I will have to go with arguably, the greatest prog band of all time-Rush. Those albums are: “A Farewell To Kings,” “Hemispheres,” “Permanent Waves,” “Moving Pictures” and “Exit... Stage Left.”
Kansas 1 (eponymous) through Monolith - oops, that's 6. So we may have to trim it back to Point of Know Return. Or we could go the other way to AudioVisions and have 7. And that's not including the awesome live double Two for the Show.
Absolutely.
Pete, an ideia for a topic:"Songs that should be a 'classic-from-the-band' - or even a hit.". Everybody has those favorite songs from a specific band, but those songs aren't considered "classic songs" or "hits". For instance, I always thought that "Prodigal Son" should be a Maiden classic (not necessarily a hit, but classics like "Prisoner" or "Revelations" are). The same with "Love Her All I Can" from Kiss (just like "Parasite" or "Stole Your Love" are classics, but not hits). And there are those songs that should be a hit, Like AC/DC's "Touch Too Much". Cheers from Brazil!
Yes!! That is a good topic.
Voi Vod
The run from Killing Technology through Outer Limits fits the bill here.
Killing Technology was a breakthrough. Angel Rat very underrated and Outer Limits is a great album.
Absolutely love Nothing Face, Angel Rat & The Outer Limits, in that order. Sooo surreal and trippy...👍
Voivod was the first band to spring to mind after Slayer 🤘🖤
1. Gary Moore - Corridors of Power, Dirty Fingers, Victims of the Future, Run for Cover, and Wild Frontier (1982-'87).
2. The Tea Party - Splendor Solis, The Edges of Twilight, Transmission, Triptych, and The Interzone Mantras (1993-'01).
3. Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Mirrors, Cultösaurus Erectus, and Fire of Unknown Origin (1976-'81).
4. PIG - A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick, Praise the Lard, The Swining, Sinsation, and Wrecked (1988-'96).
5. Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came, Ghosts of Loss, Hope, New Moon, and Emerald Forest and the Blackbird (2003-2012).
BÖC rules.
Moore's a must! But I'd add some of his 90's Blues albums to the run
No one mentioned Alice in Chains.
Face-lift
Dirt
Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains
Black Gives Way to Blue
SAP their 1993 EP is great too.
Before watching the video, my picks:
1. Rush: any sequential 5 between 2112 and Power Windows (inclusive), can't choose
2. Saga: s/t thru Heads or Tales
3. Loudness: The Birthday Eve thru Thunder In The East
4. Anthem: Bound To Break thru Domestic Booty
5. Ultravox: Systems Of Romance thru Lament
6. Toto: s/t thru Isolation
7. Motörhead: Overkill thru Another Perfect Day
8. UFO: Lights Out thru Mechanix
9. Iron Maiden: Killers thru Somewhere In Time
10. Blind Guardian: Battalions of Fear thru Imaginations From the Other Side
Love Saga, for me Silent Knight through The Security of Illusion (I don't love the first two) - that's 7 in a row
@@wolf1977 I almost nixed s/t for Behaviour, but I had to make the call somewhere. But like you, I also really like everything through Security of Illusion. Really, the only Saga album I can't get into is Pleasure & the Pain, but even that has some moments.
@@TimmyTantrum BTW recently got into Michael Sadler/Jim Gilmour solo albums, Back Where You Belong & Great Escape are wonderful
Elvis Costello from 77 to 86 was so impeccable that he even had two great five album runs:
1. My Aim Is True (1977)
This Year's Model (1978)
Armed Forces (1979)
Get Happy!! (1980)
Trust (1981)
2. Imperial Bedroom (1982)
Punch the Clock (1983)
Goodbye Cruel World (1984)
King of America (1986)
Blood & Chocolate (1986)
Incredible albums!!
Nice pick Ryan with The Chasm. Great band!
* Rush: 1976-1981
* Iron Maiden: 1980-1984
* Black Sabbath: 1970 (Paranoid)-1975
* Judas Priest: 1976-1980
* Blue Oyster Cult: 1972-1977
* Metallica: 1983-1991
* Scorpions: 1974-1979
* Megadeth: 1986-1994
* Dio (Rainbow/Black Sabbath/Dio): 1976-1983
* Danzig/Samhain: 1986-1994
* Pantera: 1990-2000
* Queensryche: 1984-1994
* Ghost: 2010-2022
* AC/DC: 1976-1980
* Jethro Tull: 1970-1974
* Pink Floyd: 1973-1983
* Thin Lizzy: 1975-1979
* KISS: 1974-1976
* Overkill: 1985-1991
* Led Zeppelin: 1969 (LZ II)-1975
* Van Halen: 1978-1984 (gotta cheat on that one)
* Accept: 1981-1986
* Iced Earth: 1991-2001
* Virgin Steele: 1995-2000
* King Diamond: 1986-1990
* Saxon: 1980-1984
* Tool: 1993-2019
* Soundgarden: 1988-1996
* Heart: 1975-1980
* The Police: 1978-1983
* Savatage: 1985-1991
* Slayer: 1983-1990
* Ozzy Osbourne: 1980-1988
* The Doors: 1967-1970
Deep Purple: In Rock/ Fireball/ Machine Head/ WDWTWA/ Burn (and I'd add Stormbringer & Come Taste the Band)
Golden Earring: Moontan/ Switch/ To the Hilt/ Contraband/ Grab it For a Second
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality/ Vol 4/ Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/ Sabotage/Technical Ecstasy
Rush: Hemispheres/ Permanent Waves/ Moving Pictures/ Signals/ Grace Under Pressure
The Cult: Love/ Electric/ Sonic Temple/ Ceremony/ The Cult
Cheers
1) The Beatles: Rubber Soul to The White Album
2) The Moody Blues: Threshold of a Dream to Seventh Sojourn
3) The Who: Tommy to Who Are You
4) The Kinks: Misfits to Word of Mouth
5) Steely Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill to Aja (had to include 6)
HM
REM: Document to Monster
Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup
Roxy Music: S/T to Siren
How can one leave out The Who & Kinks?
Gotcha shout out those Opeth albums:
Still Life
Blackwater Park
Deliverance
Damnation
Ghost Reveries
the doors first 6 albums are all good
Queensryche- The Warning, Rage for Order, Operation Mindcrime, Empire, and Promised Land
Great list! All five are incredible, especially Mindcrime!
My list
1. The Police- all their albums.
2. Rush 2112 through Grace under pressure. Okay that is 7 with a couple of live albums slso but they were that good.
3. Porcupine Tree.
4. Iron Maiden 2nd album through 7th Son. Not such a huge fan of the first one. Not bad but not classic to me. I like the more prog like work better.
5. Dream Theater
Hello gentlemen and SOT fans….
Morbid Angel - Alters to Formulas fatal to the flesh
Rush - Permanent waves to Hold your fire ( that’s 6 but I love HYF - no shame )
Kate Bush - the kick inside to Sensual world
U2 - Boy to Joshua tree
King Diamond ( including MF ) Melissa to Them - all masterpieces )
Aerosmith Debut through Draw the Line
Bad Company Debut/ Desolation Angels
ZZ Top debut/ Tejas
Rolling Stones Let it Bleed/ It’s Only Rock N Roll
Van Halen debut/Diver Down
Blackberry Smoke Whippoorwill/ You Hear Georgia
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic/ Gaucho
I forgot about Steely Dan. Couldn't agree more.
Thx to the trio tonight for keeping up the tremendous must see Monday night Much appreciated. 👍💯
Great show guys. You've picked a lot of those I'd pick, but here is my 5 x5 album runs
1 Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin 2 to Physical Graffiti (the 1st album could also be included too, but I couldn't leave out PG)
2 Thin Lizzy Fighting to Black Rose
3 Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny to British Steel
4 Journey Infinity to Frontiers. (I do really like the early prog fusion albums, but these 5 seem the obvious picks)
5 Black Sabbath Paranoid to Sabotage. (the first as Pete says is a classic as well)
UFO, Uriah Heep and Scorpions as detailed in the show would both be honourable mentions for me, along with Kansas Song For America to Monolith, and the albums either side of those are awesome too. AC/DC Dirty Deeds to Back in Black.
Destruction's first five including the live album and the EP Matt butcher
Accept first five
Van Halen's first five
Hands down the first five Fates warning albums
The first five queensryche albums from the EP all the way up to Empire
The Tubes- "The Tubes", "Young and Rich", "Now", "Remote Control", "The Completion Backward Principle". (Love Bomb is excellent too, but a controversial pic).
Led Zeppelin - Every studio album is flawless. Only rock band to ever achieve such blatant brilliance.
Rush - 2112 thru Grace Under Pressure- you gotta have cloth in your ears not to recognize this!
Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells all the way to Amarok - unbelievable and should be in every prog fans collection. And I know this is about 5 albums, so just take some off and you've still got greatness.
One other: Bauhaus' first 4 albums are absolute catalytic genius! Yes, I agree with Behemoth pick-fantastic and at last you guys reveal the ABSOLUTE greatness of KILLING JOKE! Last 5 albums without question destroy all bands half their age and check out Behemoth's Killing Joke cover of "Total Invasion".
RAMONES- First 5 (Although "Too Tough To Die" IS their masterpiece!)
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory thru Systematic Chaos. (Although I don't consider they've made one bad album imo.)
The Cure - Faith thru KMKMKM
And last, but not least, Slipknot. They're all good.
I would love to see Ryan on in the prog seat again!!!
Me too!
@@lahloonatic I look forward to see you on in the prog seat as well!
@@lahloonatic I can highly recomend Jola Rota by Joakim Skogsberg! It's one of the weirdest freak folk albums ever made!!
Greatest music discussions on all of RUclips are on this channel. Been binging SOT for days now. You all have impeccable taste in music.
1. Iron Maiden: Killers, NOTB, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time
2. Ronnie James Dio: Rising, Long Live Rock & Roll, Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules, Holy Diver (I know I'm cheating with this one but don't care haha)
3. Judas Priest: Sad Wings, Sin After Sin, Stained Class, HBFL, British Steel
4. King Diamond: Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them, Conspiracy, The Eye
5. Kreator: Endless Pain, Pleasure to Kill, Terrible Certainty, Extreme Aggresison, Coma of Souls
HM: Metallica (Kill Em All to The Black Album)
Close but no Cigar: (four album runs from bands I like)
-Accept: Breaker, Restless & Wild, Balls to the Wall, Metal Heart
-Saxon: Wheels of Steel, Strong Arm of the Law, Denim and Leather, Power and the Glory
*Fatal Portrait
Russian roulette for accept could make it
A perfect example of the five-album stretch is The Police. They were one of the biggest bands in the 1980s and released only five albums.
Led Zeppelin: You can start w/any album. I choose Led Zeppelin II to Physical Graffiti. I'm not a fan of LZ III but, it's not a bad album. I love ITTOD but Presence was sort of a misstep, in my opinion.
U2: War to Achtung Baby (War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum and Achtung Baby). Or Rattle and Hum can be omitted, since it's a soundtrack, and replace it w/Zooropa. Either way it's a nice stretch.
INXS: My choice is from Listen Like Thieves to Full Moon Dirty Hearts (Listen Like Thieves, Kick, X, Welcome to Wherever You Are and Full Moon Dirty Hearts). I didn't include Live Baby Live because it's not a "studio" album. But I could include it and stop at Welcome to Wherever You are, and it'll still be a good five album stretch!
Rush - Rush ( featured the immortal drumming of the Madman John Rutsy )
Fly By Night, Caress of Steel, 2112 , and the Devastating Farewell to Kings that featured the Heaviest Metal song in history Cygnus IX
Eleven Album run in Rock History!!!!!
The GREATEST
Killing Joke: from Extremities to Hosannas.
Frank Zappa: from Waka to Zoot Allures.
Einstürzende Neubauten: from Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. to Ende Neu.
Maiden: up to Seventh On.
Black Sabbath: From the first record to Sabotage.
Voivod: from Killing Technology to The Outer Limits.
The Dillinger Escape Plan: All of them.
Sonic Youth: from Daydream Nation to Washing Machine.
King's x: the first 5 records.
Godflesh: from Steetcleaner to Hymns.
Kiss: from Hotter to Love Gun.
Queen: from Sheer Heart Attack to Jazz.
Nadja: from Bodycage to Touched.
Esoteric: from Epistemological Despondency to The Maniacal Vale.
The Mars Volta: from De-Loused in the Comatorium to Octahedron.
Damn! I could go on forever.
You can only trust yourself and the first six Black Sabbath albums (Henry Rollins).
David Bowie's Glamrock (his Jeff Beck) Mick Ronson on guitar run:
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Pin Ups (very underrated)
Not: Diamond Dogs (without Mick Ronson, but still very good)
Later his experimental phase:
Station to Station
Low
Heroes
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Bob Dylan as a inspired genius, who gives Rock a Folk infusion:
Subterranian Homesick Blues (aka Bringing It All Back Home)
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde (do double albums count twice?)
John Wesley Harding
The Basement Tapes (ok released later)
Nashville Skyline (ok thats Country)
Neil Youngs classical superstar phase as a Dylan who can play guitar:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
After The Gold Rush
Harvest
Time Fades Away (NOT a mere live album)
On The Beach (Tonight's The Night was recorded earlier, but released later)
The Doors featuring Jim Morrison as the Dionysos of Rock:
The Doors (a shock for the SF scene)
Strange Days (same again)
Waiting For The Sun (shamanic rock)
The Soft Parade (psychedelia with horns)
Morrison Hotel (solid hard rock)
Not: L.A. Woman (Cocktail Jazz?)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Glorified Magnified
Messin'
Solar Fire
The Good Earth
Included: Nightingales And Bombers (many say their masterpiece)
The Doors is a good one
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AC/DC's 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980), and 'For Those About to Rock' (1981). You can even include 'Flick of the Switch' (1983) too.
Pete said there was a small crew this week , but with Ryan’s spot on impressions of everyone who can even notice .
1. Opeth - Still Life -> ghost reveries
2. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart mother -> Wish you were Here
3. Amorphis - Skyforger -> Queen of Time
4. Moonsorrow - Voimasta ja kunniasta -> Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa
5. Savatage - Sirens -> Gutter Ballet (yes, I love Fight for the Rock)
hon. Mentions
Alcest - Écailles de Lune -> Spiritual Instinct
Peter Gabriel - 3 -> Up (could also include the first 2, but I really do love Up)
Obscura - Cosmogenesis -> A Valediction
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush -> Zuma
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood -> Brave (love script, but don't like Fugazi that much)
Magic Pie - Motions of Desire - Fragments of the 5th Element
Led Zeppelin - 1 -> Houses of the Holy
Kraftwerk - Autobahn -> Computerwelt
King Crimson - Lizard -> Red
Khemmis - Absolution -> t.b.d. (right now they only have 4, but I have no doubt, that the next will be epic as well)
Yes - Yes -> Close to the Edge
Wardruna - Runaljod 1 -> Kvitravn
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World -> Winter's Gate
Genesis - Nursery Cryme -> A Trick of the Tail
Enslaved - Eld -> Below the Lights
The Doors - The Doors -> Morrison Hotel
Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind -> Nightfall in Middle-Earth
The Beatles - Help -> Magical Mystery Tour
Beach Boys - 20/20 -> Holland
Beach Boys - Summer Days - Friends
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast -> Seventh Son (love the Debut, but don't care for Killers and LOVE 7th Son)
Rolling Stones - Aftermath -> Let it bleed
Great show guys!
My picks
Enslaved-below the lights, isa, ruun, vertebrae, axioma ethica odini
Opeth-blackwater park, deliverance, damnation, ghost reveries, watershed
Death-leprosy, spiritual healing, human, individual thought patterns, symbolic
Carcass-necroticism, heartwork, swansong, surgical steel, torn arteries
Cult of luna-salvation, somewhere along the highway, eternal kingdom, vertikal, mariner
QUEEN - Queen I, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races
The first 5 Rainbow albums came to mind right away.
Elton John - So many great 70's albums, I could pick any 5 in a row from S/T through Rock of the Westies.
Billy Joel - The Stranger, 52nd Street, Glass Houses, Nylon Curtain, and An Innocent Man
Queen - I'll go with Sheer Heart Attack, Night At The Opera, Day At The Races, News Of The World, Jazz, could possibly go forward and include The Game, but I couldn't leave Sheer Heart Attack out.
Nice choice to include Billy Joel and I like your Queen list too. Jazz is one of my favorite Queen albums. Hard to leave out.
As objective as I can be about Queen, I say the first nine including Live Killers. I even love The Game and like Flash Gordon, but I’m guessing some wouldn’t include them. I’m with Mr Popoff on Queen’s seventies output.
With you on Elton and Billy Joel BTW
Rush from 2112 to Signals. I know that's 6 but I can't leave out Signals because it's my favorite album.
Great show, guys! I did not expect to see Sabbat or Anthem but I totally agree. At first when I read the title I thought " Wow, tough topic" but there´s actually quite a lot of those five album runs.
Eloy with Inside to Ocean
Death Leprosy to Symbolic
Sepultura Bestial Devastation to Arise (yeah, odd choice, I know)
Thanks to my handy dandy nerdy spreadsheet, I crunched the numbers and my favorite bands filled this list. It was a bummer to shift some albums I love out of a run of 5, but to get my favorite grouping that happened a few times.
1. Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather thru Defenders of the Faith
2. Iron Maiden - Killers thru Somewhere In Time
3. AC/DC - Highway To Hell thru Fly On The Wall
4. Kix - Kix thru Hot Wire
5. Scorpions - Lovedrive thru Savage Amusement
6. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (zoso) thru In Through the Out Door
7. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz thru No Rest for the Wicked
8. Van Halen - Van Halen thru Diver Down
Thin Lizzy - Fighting to Black Rose , Creedence Clearwater Revival (first 5) , Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet to Goats Head Soup , Steely Dan Pretzel Logic to Gaucho , a great show guys
Floating through Silent cries and mighty echoes!!!
Neat show. I thought of lots of groups who had great four-album runs! I think Wishbone Ash's first five albums are super-solid. Kinks had six, from The Kink Kontroversy (1965), Face to Face (1966), Something Else by the Kinks (1967), The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968), Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969), and Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970). Percy wrecked it!
To me early Kinks were more of a singles band (you could argue for Something Else as a start-to-end good album). For me their real album period starts with Village Green but the streak is broken (for me) by Muswell Hillbillies. My run for them is Everybody's in Show-Biz through Low Budget (8 albums) - I absolutely love their 70's records
For Yes, I would choose: “The Yes Album,” “Fragile,” “Close To The Edge,” “Yessongs” and “Tales From Topographic Oceans.”
I wouldn't add a live album and as much as I love The Yes Album I would have to go Fragile, Close to the Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer and Going for the One
Black Sabbath - Debut, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol 4, SBS (could also add Sabotage)
Led Zeppelin - II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
Neurosis - Souls At Zero, Enemy of the Sun, Through Silver in Blood, Times of Grace, A Sun That Never Sets
Thin Lizzy - Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny the Fox, Bad Reputation, Black Rose
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death, Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Muscle of Love (admittedly slight dip with that last one, but I LOVE this band, and then there's the all-time classic solo debut Welcome to My Nightmare)
Converge - Jane Doe, You Fail Me, No Heroes, Axe to Fall, All We Love We Leave Behind (The Dusk in Us and Bloodmoon continue the run)
Opeth - Still Life, Blackwater Park, Deliverance/Damnation (just counting these as one), Ghost Reveries and Watershed
The first run that comes to mind is that of my favourite band Rhapsody: Legendary Tales/Symphony Of Enchanted Lands/Dawn Of Victory/Rain Of A Thousand Flames/Power Of The Dragonflame
A few other runs that I like:
Bathory: "Bathory" to "Hammerheart" (could move forward one album, too)
Blind Guardian: "Follow The Blind" to "Nightfall In Middle-Earth"
King Diamond: "Fatal Portrait" to "The Eye"
Running Wild: "Death Or Glory" to "Masquerade" (possible to move around here too)
I know they’ve been brought up before, the Kinks have 6 great albums in a row from Face to Face to Mushwell Hillbillies.
1. Jethro Tull - Stand Up through A Passion Play
2. Aerosmith - Aerosmith through Draw the Line
3. Kiss - KISS through Rock and Roll Over
Plus the obvious ones - Zep, Sabbath, Maiden. Although I think Presence is a flawless album, So I would go 3 through Presence.
Small crew this time around but absolutely awesome show as always. Loved everyone’s picks but especially Ryan’s, and super excited that Pete is finally going to check out The Chasm!!
Cheers🤘🤘
#1 - Yesterday & Today, Struck Down, Earth Shaker, Black Tiger, Mean Streak
#2 - Lovehunter, Ready An Willing, Come An Get It, Saints & Sinners, Slide It In
#3 - Kate Bush: Never For Ever, The Dreaming, Hounds Of Love, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes
Cheers Guys!
Echo and the Bunnymen's first five - Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Porcupine, Ocean Rain, and the self titled Echo and the Bunnymen for the fifth. That run was 1980 through 1987. What ever you want to call them .. post punk or new wave .. they rocked with a frantic vibe. After that fifth album singer Ian McCulloch departed and superb drummer Pete de Freitas died in a motorcycle at age 27 to end the run.
Queensryche (up to Promised Land)
Van Halen (up to 5150)
Anthem (Tightrope through Domestic Booty)
Iron Maiden (up to Seventh Son)
Judas Priest (From Sad Wings through Turbo)
Thin Lizzy (From Fighting through Thunder and Lightning)
AC/DC (up to For Those About to Rock)
Obituary
The Doobie Brothers (up to One Step Closer)
Pantera (Projects through Trendkill)
Scorpions (Fly to the Rainbow through Savage Amusement)
Darkthrone (From Blaze through Total Death)
KISS (KISS through Dynasty)
Ted Nugent (Ted Nugent through Scream Dream)
Aerosmith (Aerosmith through Night in the Ruts)
Some of these bands did great albums before and after as well. But some bands were unstoppable for a minute.
Another addition to this topic is Savatage Hall of the Mountain King, Gutter Ballet, Streets, Edge of Thorns, Handful of Rain. IMO
I would just start that one album earlier with Power of the Night, that's my second favorite. I really do like Edge of Thorns
Status Quo: Piledriver 72, Hello 73, Quo 74, On the Level 75, Blue for You 76 is five great albums in a row. And also UFO: Lights Out 77, Obsession 78, No Place to Run 80, The Wild ,the willing 81, Mechanix 82, and Judas Priest: Sad Wings 76, Sin after sin 77, Stained Class 78, Killing Machine 78, British Steel 80 ,and of course Black Sabbath who have at least 6 great albums in a row.
Led Zeppelin 1 through physical graffiti.
Great pick although I love all Led Zeppelin albums, Presence, In through the out door
The best run for a rock band. No doubt. In Music, only Beethoven Symphonies 3-9 can complete.
Technically that’s six albums, but hard to leave one of those out…
@@g.belanger8302 1 and PG are my favourites so impossible
ELO, On the third day, Eldorado, Face the music, A new world record and Out of the blue. Simply Jeff Lynne at his very best
I would definitely say the first five Uriah Heep albums
The other Byron albums were also good, even the Lawton era. Conquest onwards however, ,,,meh. Till the recent 4 or 5 albums. But yes, prime Heep was the 1st 5 for sure.
Oh the 70's was my favorite era and loved the Lawton albums. But actually my favorite Heep album in the Byron era is Sweet Freedom. Followed by Salisbury, Demons, Magicians and Firefly by Lawton.
1. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse through Damnation or Still Life through Ghost Reveries. Too hard to choose between the two periods, so a tie at number one.
2. Rush - 2112 through Moving Pictures
3. David Bowie - Station to Station through Scary Monsters
4. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways through In Absentia
5. Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear through Season's End
Opeth is such a great pick. For me any 5 from My Arms, Your Hearse to Watershed is ok with me.
@@peteworrall9203 So right.
Skow, you did a helluva job explaining my picks! Thank you sir, and no worries if you didn't know the stuff intimately. I am not afraid to elevate a band's newer or even lesser celebrated eras as their best. For Therion, their earlier stuff is death metal and it was very typical of what has happening at the time in Sweden. What they did between 1998 and 2004 was for me the single greatest melding of classical and rock structures ever laid down to tape. For Killing Joke, yes their seminal material is essential, but when they returned and reinvented themselves in the early 2000's, the results have been flat-out superb. And they have managed to blend the caustic rhythms of their early days with the new wave era of the band, at top caliber quality. For Iced Earth, what can you say? When everyone else was cutting their hair and going grunge or nu metal, Jon Schaffer and company were creating some of the best pure heavy metal music in existence.
Others with great 5-album runs, YMMV...The Doobies, The Who, The Guess Who, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Grand Funk, Jethro Tull, Steppenwolf, Ten Years After, Traffic, The Allman Brothers, Jeff Beck, etc
The Chasm is superb! Great choice, Ryan!
I think Manilla Road they were at Black Dragon Rrecords for Europe and then at High Roller Records...Great band,great music.
Really enjoyed the video...Greetings from Greece.
Rush: 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures.
Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, For Those About to Rock
Electric Light Orchestra: On the Third Day, Eldorado, Face the Music, A New World Record, Out of the Blue
Stxy: Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight, Cornerstone, Paradise Theatre
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Goats Head Soup
Takeaways from tonight's episode:
1. Small crew of just Ryan and Chris C. In the house
2. "I dug into the crypts..."
3. " I know a lot of people are thinking: "Who the fuck are they?"...
4. "Music's funny that way"
5. Ryan struggling with Roman Numerals...
6. "They were a little band from fuck off Wichita, Kansas"
7. Ryan with a funny Steve Keeler impersonation...
8. Ryan trying to pronounce an Enslaved album comes off sounding like "Finger Lickin' something or another...
9. Talking about the band Sabbat ; the one from Japan, not the one from England (Who knew there were two? Who knew there was even one????)
10. "You can use your imagination"
11. "We're going to make up our own world that is a hellish shithole, filled with violence and death..."
12. The first five KISS albums are mentioned, lol 🤣 I was born in 1966 so I fall into that demographic but I never liked a single song by them and could not take them serious on any level.
As for the topic:
I agree with the first 5 Led Zeppelin and Rush: 2112 through Moving Pictures and Aerosmith: Get Your Wings through Night In The Ruts
I would add:
AC/DC: High Voltage through Highway To Hell and ELO: On The Third Day through Out Of The Blue
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St, Goat's Head Soup, It's Only Rock N Roll
The Who: Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, The Who By Numbers, Who Are You
Grateful Dead: Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, In the Dark
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs
Jefferson Airplane: Takes Off, Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxter's, Crown of Creation, Volunteers
Airplane's a good pick. I picked "related" band Hot Tuna
In addition to your the choices made and theres going to be some others I've not included - havent added any prog/fusion in case you do the same on in the prog seat , extending the 3 album run show from a while back.
Accept - Breaker - Russian Roulette
Deep Purple - In rock - Burn ( I know who do we think we are isnt necessarilly hailed as a classic but I really like it) -I could also shift to nlcude Sahdes of at oneend or Come Taste the Band at the other
Speaking of Purple- Rainbow debut - Difficult to Cure - could extend to Bent out of Shape
Gillan - Gillan (japanese album) - Double Trouble
Whitesnake - Trouble - Saints & Sinners or Ready an Willing - 1987
Styx - Equinox - Cornerstone
Gary Moore - Corridors of Power - After the War - could go back three to include Back on the streets/G Force/Dirty Fingers
Status Quo - Piledriver - Blue for You