I love every Husker Du album after (the abysmal live debut) Land Speed Record.
If not for the deep-vault stuff (of varying quality) that’s been released by his estate since his death, Jimi Hendrix would be pretty solid.
Creedence Clearwater Revival had pretty amazing quality control until the very last album, and even that one’s a B+.
If I can call The Clash’s final album Cut The Crap “Joe Strummer, a disinterested Paul Simonon, and a couple of scabs,” I love basically everything else they did.
Gilbert is a strong choice, though I find some of the Giraffe stuff to be a bit cheesy. He definitely got better later.
To those of you who said Steely Dan, another good choice, but I’m not sure I totally agree. I find their “recent” (this century) albums to be kind of meh.
All IMO, of course.
I’ve been looking closer at my music collection, and I’ve found a couple of contenders:
Brand X. I’m not familiar enough with their material that I know every song note for note, but I don’t recall disliking anything by them. I’d have to go through their discography again, though, to be sure.
Transatlantic. A supergroup brimming with talent, who have released four albums of top-notch material. The only reason I hesitate is that they’ve only done four albums, which is borderline on my idea of “established.”
I also came across a band that I can’t believe I didn’t think of, as they are one of my favorites. I can give them a solid “YES, 100% of their music is good”: Iona, a Christian-progressive-celtic band (of all things!) from Ireland. Seven studio albums since 1990, plus some soundtrack work and b-sides, all of it excellent.
I have never heard a song from Eve 6 that I thought was bad. Although there are some songs of theirs that I don’t really prefer, I’ve enjoyed on some level literally every song I’ve heard them put out.
I can’t say that about my second favorite band - Volbeat - which has definitely released a few stinkers.
Listen to it again sometime. The recording is terrible (in fact, none of their albums are really well-recorded, but that one is the worst), but the musicality is there, inside the thrash, under the murk.
To the point of the thread: you like all the albums, but I expect you don’t like each and every of the songs, in isolation.
I like pretty much every song released by The Police, even “Mother”. Regarding Yes, I can’t think of a song I actively hate–at worst, they’re bland and mediocre–but I’ve yet to muster the courage to buy their latest.
An odd case is The Buggles, who really only released two albums officially. But I consider Drama and Fly From Here by Yes to be hybrid Buggles albums, and the same goes for Made in Basing Street by Producers. They also put out an album under the name Chromium in the late ‘70s. So that’s roughly 4.5 albums’ worth of material. And I enjoy all of it.
Led Zeppelin was the first band I thought of. Some of their songs are not as good as others, but I don’t think there’s a single track that I’d skip over.
Of bands with extended discographies, the Beatles come closest. Even their “bad” songs are fun to revisit now and then - though I wouldn’t exactly put Mr. Moonlight on a playlist.
I’d say Jimi Hendrix’s official studio albums (not all the posthumous or incomplete releases) are close to a perfect discography. Sure, there are some moments that are not peaks - but he released three classic albums, and left a wealth of material in the vaults.
I know that supergroups who only release one or two albums shouldn’t really count, but I have to mention the Traveling Wilburys. Their entire output was 2 albums and a few b-sides and miscellany, but every song is gold.
