Hello there
I've seen this topic discussed before but not in ages and maybe not here, so I'm curious. This should be good to see just how knowledgeable and ignorant some folks are, but play nice! Maybe even I or someone can pick up some tips of new music to listen to so I'm hoping to see it catch on and get some replies.
Subject line says it all: what's your favourite four consecutive albums by any one artist? Give us an answer (or several) and some kind of reasoning if you can be bothered. Myself, I have a few contenders but really struggle to narrow it down in some cases.
Metallica: Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ..And Justice For All.
This shouldn't need much of any explanation to metal fans. Metallica came along,ripped off Megadeth and shook up the genre with their first four albums when they were still young, lean, hungry and passionate; before they became bloated overpaid stadium rockers. Yeah, RTL and MOP are so similar but they're both SO GOOD! The riffs, the solos, mmm-mm.
Opeth: Morningrise, My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, Blackwater Park.
Pretty much Opeth's golden age. I'm a big fan of all their work. This has to include Still Life and Blackwater Park, but I think Morningrise and MYAH show the band's growth and progress better than including Deliverance and Damnation.
Enslaved: Argh! These guys are revolutionaries. Pick any four consecutive from: Below The Lights, Isa, Ruun, Vertebrae, Axioma Ethica Odini, Riitiir. Picking any four discounts two that I wouldn't wish discounted.
Enslaved have done some amazing things with Norwegian black metal. I'm working on listening to these albums again one after the other (although I also started with Monumension), which inspired the thread. Much like Opeth I think their growth and progress has been phenomenal, breaking into new territory so far removed from their early work, without losing touch of their roots. I'm going to break my own rule and refuse to cut that list of six down to four. I just can't do it, they're all so necessary.
Thoughts? Please let me know. Would be good to get some non-metal responses but I doubt there'll be much pop name-dropped!
I've seen this topic discussed before but not in ages and maybe not here, so I'm curious. This should be good to see just how knowledgeable and ignorant some folks are, but play nice! Maybe even I or someone can pick up some tips of new music to listen to so I'm hoping to see it catch on and get some replies.
Subject line says it all: what's your favourite four consecutive albums by any one artist? Give us an answer (or several) and some kind of reasoning if you can be bothered. Myself, I have a few contenders but really struggle to narrow it down in some cases.
Metallica: Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ..And Justice For All.
This shouldn't need much of any explanation to metal fans. Metallica came along,
Opeth: Morningrise, My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, Blackwater Park.
Pretty much Opeth's golden age. I'm a big fan of all their work. This has to include Still Life and Blackwater Park, but I think Morningrise and MYAH show the band's growth and progress better than including Deliverance and Damnation.
Enslaved: Argh! These guys are revolutionaries. Pick any four consecutive from: Below The Lights, Isa, Ruun, Vertebrae, Axioma Ethica Odini, Riitiir. Picking any four discounts two that I wouldn't wish discounted.
Enslaved have done some amazing things with Norwegian black metal. I'm working on listening to these albums again one after the other (although I also started with Monumension), which inspired the thread. Much like Opeth I think their growth and progress has been phenomenal, breaking into new territory so far removed from their early work, without losing touch of their roots. I'm going to break my own rule and refuse to cut that list of six down to four. I just can't do it, they're all so necessary.
Thoughts? Please let me know. Would be good to get some non-metal responses but I doubt there'll be much pop name-dropped!