Flawless Bands

[Shilefin]

I know the feeling. I don't have many of such bands/music players/composers, but I don't think anyone really does. It's a rare occurance, so sharing it is a good idea.

For me, personally - all the Miracle of Sound songs. Dang, I even liked the auto-tune song he made. It's a real luck I've found an artist that I love making songs about the subject I adore.

Up next, I think everything Jeremy Soule has ever touched I could probably like, whether it's a lamp post or a Guild Wars 2 music piece.

And, this band doesn't *quite get up to the category, but because I don't think they get enough publicity, and I love these guys, and I have a beard, here's a sample:

Spoiler: Beards!

Lastly, I don't want to sound hipster, but

Spoiler: I don't expect you to know this artist

But if you do - Kudos.

 

[Rule Britannia]

BASTILLE

Beautiful song <3 by an amazing band

 

[Dosvidonya]

Portugal the Man (favorite band, love every one of their albums)
Tame Impala
Radiohead
TV on the Radio
Porcupine Tree
Grizzly Bear

Honorable mention goes to Passion Pit. They only have two albums so far but they're both fantastic.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Amon Amarth release nothing but perfection in my opinion. I love all of their songs and albums that I've heard.

Techno Lord, Kavinsky, Eyedea and Aesop Rock are others.

Special mention goes to bands that I used to consider pure gold:
In Flames until they're album Sense of Purpose. I disliked most of the songs but am thoroughly enjoying their newest album.

Saul Williams until Rocket. He went for a different sound, style and subject matter and I just don't like it.

Dark Tranquility until the song Lost to Apathy. I just didn't like that one song for some reason, everything else is amazing though.

And many more.

 

[Esotera]

Opeth...I can't think of a single bad song that they've made.


I'm also tempted to say Chimera, as they were a really short-lived band but produced nothing but quality. And maybe also Pantera. Seems like most of the flawless bands broke up quickly.

 

[Metalix Knightmare]

Place my vote with Queen. Queen has NEVER had a bad song, just songs that were less good than the others.

 

[xplosive59]

There is no such thing as a flawless band, that idea is stupid beyond all belief. Even composers such as Mozart and Beethoven were not perfect. There are Flawless albums though, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis being the best example.

 

[xplosive59]

OT: See, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are my favourite band of all time but their music isn't really divided into songs... I love all their work apart from their occasional drone tracks.

Are you not a fan of Drone music or do you just not think GY!BE did them well? I did read your review on Sputnikmusic a while back and I was not sure what your opinion on the genre was, I happen to love Drone music and thought that GY!BE were able to translate their sound well into a genre that is disliked by the majority of casual listeners. Just curious.

 

[BartyMae]

I pretty much *only* listen to artists that I like 99% of the songs of. Two or three songs that I actively dislike is the most I'll take from an artist before my favorite tracks of their music are relegated to a new folder within a "Miscellaneous" directory under my "Artists" directory. The rest of the music is deleted.

Artists:
Assemblage 23 (Tom Shear)
Audio Paradox (Josh Pyle)
The Azoic (Kristy Venrick)
Espermachine (James Heffington)
Lights of Euphoria (Jimmy Machon)
Lost Signal (Charles Rehill)
Manhole Vortex (Paul Seegers)
Tom Lehrer (Tom Lehrer...obviously)
VNV Nation (Ronan Harris)

Miscellaneous:
Depeche Mode
Portishead (Beth Gibbons)

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Spoiler

The Bronx have no bad songs, they're so damned good that it pisses me off a little bit. I guess they might get a bit samey, but generally the each song has its own hook so I could probably listen to them all day.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

The Koffin Kats

Every song is drunken fun and great driving music. I think its the spirit and tempo that make it so endlessly enjoyable for me.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I haven't heard a Pink Floyd song I didn't like, but even I wouldn't say they were a flawless band.

 

[TheFunPolice]

If you don't count half the songs on "One Hot Minute" Then the Red Hot Chili Peppers are pretty much completely flawless, they're absolutely brilliant and overall an incredible band

But, I'd say The Fratellis are basically perfect ^_^ They've only got 2 official albums, and every single song is just totally 100% perfect

They're actually back together now ^_^ (broke up 4 years ago) and they're recording new stuff I have no doubt that their new material will blow my mind

 

[Total LOLige]

Then we start going down the shitter till we get to the most recent steamer of Ocenia T-T

Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man. I happen to think Oceania is just as good as Mellon Collie if not better, I will agree that he has churned out a lot of crap over the years.

OT: Feeder. I mention them in every music thread because they are completely flawless and criminally underrated.

Spoiler

 

[Marter]

I've liked every song from Lenka's two albums (as a solo artist, that is). I think I've liked every song from Lights, too.

That's about all I can think of. Taylor Swift and Nightwish are close, but I can think of at least one or two songs from those.

 

[thesilentman]

So are there any bands you listen to that simply don't have a single song you don't like? For me its pretty rare that I find a band that fits this, as pretty much every band I've listened to seems to have one or two songs that I hate or simply don't like.

The two bands that achieve this for me are System of a Down and Cancer Bats, I could listen to both of these bands endlessly on repeat for hours and never get tired of them or ever want to skip a song. Lamb of God comes close but their New American Gospel album has a few songs I'm not too fond of.

So share me your 'flawless bands', I can predict that The Beatles might come up from a lot of people, I personally haven't listened to enough of their songs to decide.

Dream Theater

Even the "Average" songs are still worth listening too. Plus they created two of the greatest songs ever: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory (Scene Nine). Also the latter was the greatest album ever made.

Screw all the naysayers.

Yay, I have found a fellow DT fan.

And screw the naysayers who hated Systematic Chaos! That album gave us "In the Presence of Enemies", one of the best things I've ever heard.

 

[Nouw]

Any band is flawless if I listen to their shittiest song for a long enough time. Having said that, Daft Punk is the closest to me for this category.