Bands that have never failed you.

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velcrokidneyz said:
Cgull said:
Off the top of my head;

Stereophonics
Reel Big Fish
Electric Six
Skindred
saw electric six in concert, so good, i forgot to mention them
Seeing them for the second time next month. Admit it, you wish you were as well :)
 

shadyh8er

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Three Days Grace.

System of a Down. (They came close with "Steal this Album" though).

The Offspring.

Slipknot.

Green Day.

Blink 182.
 

Cgull

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RabbiiFrystofsk said:
[spunge] and Streetlight Manifesto. I don't think there's a single song of theres that i wouldn't listen to.
How many albums do Streetlight Manifesto actually have? I've got one of them (can't remember name, good though) that I picked up when they were supporting Reel Big Fish a year or two ago, not really looked at whether there are many more.

As a side note, I also saw [spunge] on a Valentine's day many moons ago, they were less impressive.
 

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs just keep getting better and better with every album. The Strokes, Pavement and The Eagles of Death Metal too.
 

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CCountZero said:
Dream Theater.

I grieve for the loss of Portnoy, though.

He was too big a part of the band for them to truely recover fully with another drummer.
I almost don't want another album released. If they had to stop, Black Clouds Silver Lining =s is a very strong finish.
OT: So so many. Honestly. But if I had to pick one, I'd pick Judas Priest. God, that band is amazing.
 

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Cgull said:
velcrokidneyz said:
Cgull said:
Off the top of my head;

Stereophonics
Reel Big Fish
Electric Six
Skindred
saw electric six in concert, so good, i forgot to mention them
Seeing them for the second time next month. Admit it, you wish you were as well :)
the jealousy is seething inside. they put on a good show and do not dissapoint with their set list, they even did an encore of all the songs with dance in the name and overplayed by a half hour.:p
 

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the Dept of Science said:
e.wlmo4 said:
Radiohead
Nothing but pure gold
Even Pablo Honey?

If you discount their last album, which was a bastardised version of the band, then the Velvet Underground.
Their first record, the Velvet Underground and Nico, is easily one of the most influential albums in history, inventing pretty much all the tropes that went on to become not only punk and alternative rock (but also massively influential on heavy metal, indie pop and singer-songwriters)
Their second album distilled out all the poppier aspects of the first album, and resulted in something sludgier and crazier than anything that I have ever listened to (and this is in the 60s)
Their third album went in completely the opposite direction, dropping most of the noisier aspects of the first album and putting out something that feels very personal and intimate
Their forth album they decided to do a classic pop album, and they fuckin' nailed that as well
They also have some great live albums and a rarities comp

Others:
The Flaming Lips
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tom Waits
Frank Zappa
The National
Los Campesinos!
LCD Soundsystem
the Arcade Fire
I have to also say Radiohead... Pablo Honey wasn't a bad album, it was just pretty meh. But every single album after that- even Amnesiac (which I think is under-rated) was perfect.
Their latest, In Rainbows does take more listening to to realise its greatness :D
 

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Let's see... on the face of it, there are lots of bands that have "never failed me", in the sense that every album they've produced that I have heard has been great. But if I'm judging them by the criteria specified in the OP, that makes things more complicated.

When you take those criteria into consideration, I'm forced to leave a lot of bands whose virtues I happily extol off of this list because I haven't actually listened to all their albums, and so I'm unable to conclude they have never produced one that isn't good. Other bands I would generally proclaim to be wonderful might have some early material that is less than wonderful, and a whole slew of great bands I would love to mention here haven't actually produced 3 or more albums just yet.

So with that in mind, the list of bands with 3 or more albums that I can personally verify have never sucked is as follows:

Beyond Twilight
Epica
Falconer
Fireflight
Karmakanic
Lullacry
Masterplan
Poets of the Fall
Rhapsody (Of Fire)
Scar Symmetry
Silent Force
Sirenia
Tarot
Tristania
 

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Whippoorwill said:
30 Seconds to Mars.
I love them!! But my two would be My Chemical Romance (I just like them), but my main one is Muse. Every song on every album is unique and good to listen to in it's own way - I could just happily put the album on and just leave it to play.
 

DJDarque

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My main choice would probably have to be Dream Theater. I think without Portnoy they should call it quits. At least until he comes back.

Others would probably be:
Gorillaz
DJ Shadow(I even liked The Outsider which is a huge departure from his signature style)
Tool
Metallica(before they quit and some lame posers stole the name, aka pre-Black Album. That's right, I said it.)