# Best Album Streaks
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 18, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235 "2013-06-18T02:40:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/61 "2013-06-19T17:47:01Z")
**Paul McCartney & Wings**
Wild Life (1971)
Red Rose Speedway (1973)
Band on the Run (1973)
Venus and Mars (1975)
Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976)
London Town (1978)
Back to the Egg (1979)
**Loverboy**
Loverboy (1980)
Get Lucky (1981)
Keep It Up (1983)
Lovin’ Every Minute of It (1985)
Wildside (1987)
Six (1997)
Just Getting Started (2007)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival (2012)
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/62 "2013-06-19T18:22:18Z")
Dude, I understand taste is subjective, but I don’t think even the members of Loverboy’s mothers would try to argue they had a string of 8 “great” albums.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/63 "2013-06-19T18:30:48Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#):
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> Dude, I understand taste is subjective, but I don’t think even the members of Loverboy’s mothers would try to argue they had a string of 8 “great” albums.
I’m not not even sure they had one great album in a row.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/64 "2013-06-19T18:49:10Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> I’m not not even sure they had one great album in a row.
But they _were_ lovin every minute of it! 🆒
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/65 "2013-06-19T20:05:45Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> I’m not not even sure they had one great album in a row.
Well, I didn’t want to come right out and _say_ it…
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/66 "2013-06-19T23:40:57Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> But they _were_ lovin every minute of it! 🆒
Win.
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/67 "2013-06-20T00:02:06Z")
> [@K364](#):
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> Off the top of my head, the next album is “Pendulum” which, although quite different from the preceding albums, is another masterpiece.
I think it’s time to right a decades-old wrong and actually buy _Pendulum._ I never picked it up because I heard way back when that it wasn’t as good as the other CCR albums. I can get it from iTunes for $5.99 so guess what I’ll be listening to tonight? Hey Tonight!
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/68 "2013-06-20T01:24:42Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#):
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> Dude, I understand taste is subjective, but I don’t think even the members of Loverboy’s mothers would try to argue they had a string of 8 “great” albums.
I’m not sure the member of Loverboy themselves would make this argument.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/69 "2013-06-20T01:28:35Z")
Blur!
93: Modern Life Is Rubbish
94: Parklife
95: The Great Escape
97: Blur
99: 13
03: Think Tank
Add in a smattering of live albums and remixes. Brilliant career.
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/70 "2013-06-20T01:37:47Z")
U2
Boy (1980)
October (1981)
War (1983)
The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
The Joshua Tree (1987)
Rattle and Hum (1988)
Achtung Baby (1991)
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/71 "2013-06-20T01:48:27Z")
The Police
Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
Ghost in the Machine (1981)
Synchronicity (1983)
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/72 "2013-06-20T01:59:32Z")
OK, I’ll play, but as previously mentioned The Beatles win this category hands down.
Elton John had a very good run in the 70s with:
Honky Château - 1972
Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player - 1973
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 1973
Caribou - 1974
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - 1975
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/73 "2013-06-20T02:31:31Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> OK, I’ll play, but as previously mentioned The Beatles win this category hands down.
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> Elton John had a very good run in the 70s with:
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> Honky Château - 1972
> Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player - 1973
> Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 1973
> Caribou - 1974
> Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - 1975
And now I see he was already mentioned back in post 47. Apologies.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/74 "2013-06-20T02:49:09Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#):
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> The Police
> Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
> Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
> Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
> Ghost in the Machine (1981)
> Synchronicity (1983)
I was going to do this one, but I might have left off Outlandos. I love it, but in my mind it’s the weakest of the albums.
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/75 "2013-06-20T02:51:55Z")
I think Outlandos is top 2. Synchronicity’s my vote for hands-down worst. Yuppie music with whiny lyrics. Though I consider them much better as a singles band anyway - lot of filler on their albums.
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### Author:  [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/76 "2013-06-20T02:54:45Z")
I dunno, I personally find _Ghost in the Machine_ to be the least interesting and the one where Sting seems to dominate more than on any of the other four albums.
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### Author:  [@Fred\_Garvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred_Garvin)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/77 "2013-06-20T02:55:11Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Why leave off 1970’s Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection? The first had several good songs and the second is a first rate themed album. They are technically separated from the others by Friends, but that’s a soundtrack album, and 17-11-70, but that’s a recording of a radio broadcast that the label rushed into production because of a bootleg version. I think they’re stronger than some of those later albums, and besides you left out the live album Here and There so we’re talking a straight string of studio albums.
Friends is the reasons I left off the earlier albums based on the OP’s premise of “streaks”. And you are correct about how “stronger” they (Elton, John, Tumbleweed Connection and 17-11-70) are compared to the later stuff, but again, I went by the streak. And the exclusion of Here and There was just a complete brain fart.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/78 "2013-06-20T03:02:21Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#):
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> I think Outlandos is top 2. Synchronicity’s my vote for hands-down worst. Yuppie music with whiny lyrics. Though I consider them much better as a singles band anyway - lot of filler on their albums.
Oh wow. I agree that “Mother” sucks, but there are some excellent tracks on Synchronicity. “O My God” is a reworking of a early Police song - “Three O’Clock Shot,” and “Miss Gradenko” is one of my favorite Copeland songs. Side 2 might be the strongest album side of any Police record (Reggatta De Blanc, Side 1 is probably my favorite). Of course if you have Synchronicity on tape or CD, you also have the excellent “Murder By Numbers” - that should have been the album track and “Mother” could have been the bonus track.
Outlandos could do without “Hole In My Life” and “Masoko Tango.”
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/79 "2013-06-20T03:12:35Z")
I don’t know - I always found the music on Synchronicity really bland (never got the love for “Every Breath You Take”) and the lyrics worse. “O my god you take the biscuit treating _me_ this way” says as much about Sting’s self-involvement as “King of Pain” (never trust millionaire rock stars when they talk about their souls being black spots on the sun). “Miss Gradenko” is a highlight, as is “Synchronicity II”, but the rest makes me think of the kind of album James Spader’s character from _Pretty in Pink_ would have on his stereo.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-album-streaks/661235/80 "2013-06-20T03:13:13Z")
> [@Lobot](#):
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> I dunno, I personally find _Ghost in the Machine_ to be the least interesting and the one where Sting seems to dominate more than on any of the other four albums.
I always think of Ghost as the death knell of the band, for that very reason. I’ve heard the demos that Sting brought to Monserrat and they sound exactly the same as the final tracks - I think this is where Copeland said, “I’m not a session musician.” But Side 2 has “Secret Journey,” “Ωmegaman,” “Rehumanize Yourself,” and “Darkness” - Sting, Summers, Sting-Copeland, and Copeland compositions.
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