Bands Without a Weak or Bad Album.

In Through the Out Door gave us this...



Which is one of LZ's greatest musical moments.
At the same time "All My Love" is on the same album and well..

 

I will have to throw Rush into this mix. I don't rank the later years as high, but it's still pretty good stuff.

 

Talking Heads
Roxy Music

 

Klaatu

 

The first Rush album I claimed to be weak was Test For Echo in 1996. They had a good run though.

 

Two great albums! Particularly Naked (one of my favourites).

 

Mark Lanegan has never made an album that's less than very good.

 

It's a glorified EP - it's not an album.

 

I like the Smiths albums. Not all songs are up to par, but the majority of them are very good.

 

Mission of Burma
New York Dolls
The Go-Betweens
The Loud Family
Imperial Teen

 

The Jam

 

Jimi Hendrix Experience
White Stripes
Spoon
Beatles (I love Beatles for Sale, not as big of a fan of Yellow Submarine, but wouldn't call it weak . . .)

 

Every Simon & Garfunkel album I've heard has been great and most are downright brilliant.

 

The Police- All their albums are strong.
The Beatles- Even some of their weaker ones had classic songs.
X- I think all are very strong

 

The Cars - Door To Door is considered their weakest but it isn't that bad of an album.
The Alan Parsons Project - IMO all their albums are pretty good, I can't really pick out a clear masterpiece but I also can't name a bad one either.

 

ABBA maybe made half a weak album, the others are great.

Edit: I have to concur on Simon & Garfunkel.

 

Some other solid bands
Pavement
Sleater kinney
Pixies
Dinosaur Jr
Built to Spill
Superchunk

 

Same topic here:
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/artists-whove-never-had-a-weak-album.78635/

 

Sir Douglas Quintet (seriously)

 

I wouldn't put LZ in that category at all. LZ had their weak albums--every band I can think of has had at least one.

Are you calling us peasants or peanuts? Spell check helps with attitude....

 

Squeeze is a VU album in name only, period. And before anyone claims that's a cheap cop out used by diehard fans trying to convince themselves that The Velvet Underground had a flawless discography, I'll just throw this out there: no original members were involved, and it was only marketed as a Velvet Underground album (as opposed to a Doug Yule solo record) to boost sales (oh, the multi-faceted irony!).

 

X is tough because I love them too but "Ain't Love Grand" is not a good record, "See How We Are" is only slightly better and "Hey Zeus" is better left forgotten

 

Wayne, you gotta admit you might not be the best person to call out others about typos!

 

I'd say Boston - but they had to come back and make some albums after the 70's.