Bundle 5 studio albums together by an artist for an "Original Album Series" box...

1. The Smiths
2. Meat Is Murder
3. The Queen Is Dead
4. Louder Than Bombs
5. Strangeways, Here We Come

 

Tori Amos

Little Earthquakes
Under The Pink
Boys For Pele
From The Choirgirl Hotel
American Doll Posse

 

That's just not right. I consider it a crime.

 

Nope, it wasn't. 5 albums, equaling 6 discs...my train of thought being that the classic albums sets are 5 discs

 

Superb lot, but I'd have to have Hatful of Hollow in there, probably instead of the debut. I know it would break up all the studio albums being there, but Hatful does a better job of representing the pre Meat Is Murder couple of years than the debut.

 

John Coltrane (Tough, but to demonstrate his trajectory of exploration).
Blue Train
Giant Steps
Africa / Brass Sessions
A Love Supreme
Meditations

Thelonious Monk (Tough to leave off live recordings)
Genius of Modern Music, vol. 1
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Himself
Monk's Music
Monk's Dream

Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles
Maiden Voyage
Headhunters
The Piano
Future Shock

Sonny Rollins (This is tough)
Saxophone Colossus
Way Out West
Newk's Time
Freedom Suite
The Bridge

 

Some of these will probably happen in the near future, BUT I think the idea is for the 5 releases to be sequential. A Kiss five-pack containing:

s/t
HtH
DtK
Destroyer
RARO

would be very handy indeed. The only problem would be that it wouldn't properly cover the first Kiss era (which I see as ending with Love Gun). Then again, HtH and DtK could be comfortably accommodated on one CD.

 

If I were making a list of my favorite Ryan Adams albums, several Cardinals albums would be in the top 5 (especially Cold Roses, probably my favorite from him). I was merely doing an exercise to see what I would put in if the Cardinals works were excluded.

I like your list, BTW. Cool to see some less well-known picks like III/IV.

 

Exactly

 

Visionary
Perilous Journey
Fear Of The Dark
The Peacock Party
Troubadour

 

Head To The Sky (1973)
Open Our Eyes (1974)
That's The Way Of The World (1975)
Gratitude (1975)
All 'N All (1977)

 

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (1976)
I Robot (1977)
Pyramid (1978)
The Turn Of A Friendly Card (1980)
Eye In The Sky (1982)

 

you choose TALK over Fragile ?

 

Just trying to cover more of their career. I see a lot of people just choosing 5 albums in a row from the 70s for a lot of bands, which I don't think was the point of doing this.

 

East Bay Grease (1970)
Bump City (1972)
Tower Of Power (1973)
Back To Oakland (1974)
Urban Renewal (1975)

 

Neil Young:

Tonight's The Night
Tonight's The Night
Tonight's The Night
Tonight's The Night
and
Tonight's The Night

It's what he would have wanted...

 

James Taylor (1968) - Apple
Sweet Baby James (1970) - Warner Bros.
Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon (1971) - Warner Bros.
Gorilla (1975) - Warner Bros.
JT (1977) - Columbia

 

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970) - Apple
Imagine (1971) - Apple
Mind Games (1973) - Apple
Walls And Bridges (1974) - Apple
Double Fantasy (1980) - Geffen

 

McCartney (1970) - Apple
Ram (1971) - Apple
Band On The Run (1973) - Apple
Tug Of War (1982) - Parlophone
Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (2005) - Parlophone

 

All Things Must Pass (1970) - Apple
Living In The Material World (1973) - Apple
George Harrison (1979) - Dark Horse
Somewhere In England (1981) - Dark Horse
Cloud Nine (1987) - Dark Horse

 

I believe the point of this thread is to bundle the 5 most representative albums of original releases of each artist regardless of decades. Incidentally for some artists, their best work or best albums were released within the same decade such as their artistic peak in the 70's and their later works in the 80's or 90's are not good enough to be considered or to qualify as their best works or as their representative albums.

 

I would pay to get the first five Van Der Graaf Generator albums reissued without the harsh remastering that Peter Hammill oversaw. I heard that they released some specialty SHM deals like this in Japan or something, but they were too rich for my blood.

 

Paul McCartney tug of war, pipes of peace, give my regardsto broad street, Press to play, flower in the dirt

 

This is almost their complete Decca catalog as well.

 

Badfinger:

Magic Christian Music
No Dice
Straight Up
Ass
Outtakes

I got a couple of them. They sound really really good.