Suggestions?
Having spent the week listening to their albums, I think Low have a strong case.
Eight albums, all pretty much terrific. And one of the best Christmas songs to boot.
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Best/Most consistently great American band/musician of the last 10-15 years
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wilco
.
Low
Mark Eitzel
Definitely Low !
Even their weakest album would put most bands to shame...
maybe tom waits or something
Bill Callahan
Simon Joyner
Bright Eyes
Bob Dylan
Dylan?
last 10 to 15 years?
Really?
Modern Times, Love & Theft =
AMAZING.
Modern times is good
Out of all the American artists I wouldn't vote Dylan as the most consistently great over the last 10-15 years.
yes
definitely
I still disagree
Ryan Adams
Prolific, and very consistent.
Love is Hell is one of the finest things I've ever heard.
Definitely agree with Low and Wilco
I think the White Stripes have a case for being at least consistently good.
As does Elliott Smith (I know he's not alive but all the posthumous material has been ace too.
Spoon also deserve a mention as does Bright Eyes and arguably Beck.
Elliott Smith.
:)
:(
ryan adams has to be up there, surely.
Ryan Adams
is the definition of inconsistent surely.
Other suggestions mentioned that I like:
Bright Eyes
The White Stripes
And how about The Flaming Lips as well. I'd say The Decemberists too, but that's more over the last 5 years only.
nahhh
i have tons of ryan adams (435 songs some being different versions of the same song, obviously), and honestly, i enjoy almost every single one of those.
Modest Mouse, innit?
One of my favourite bands of any time or nationality, in fact.
Sleater-Kinney
obviously.
yep
Ryan Adams and Wilco
I definitely wouldn't consider Adams inconsistent - hell, I even quite like Rock'n'Roll - and if you also include everything he did with Whiskeytown then that's almsot 15ish years of absolutely incredible music. But Wilco are definitely, definitely also up there.
Phil
Elverum
blood brothers
have been around for 10 years now. consistently amazing.
bright eyes?
^
.
Ryan Adams
Is so far from inconsistent. In fact his consistency is almost a problem for me. I sort of want him to make a howlingly bad record so I can fall in love with him again rather than just know that every release will be fantastic. If that makes any sense.
And Rock n Roll is probably in my top 3 RA albums. So there!
that said
Easy Tiger is his weakest by far imo...so his next album can be the one to fall in love again to!
Easy Tiger
is a good record but feels very light, which I have now grown to really like. And its still on heavy rotation round here, so no complaints.
I'll second
Sleater-Kinney
I'll third.
This is basically a thread for people with misguided/crappy taste or people who just haven't heard Sleater-Kinney's body of work.
blood brotherss
deffo
Exactly.
Low come close but Low aren't gob smackinglingly brilliant all the time, merely very good with plenty of moments of gob smacking brilliance.
the problem with easy tiger is that, for me at least
the highlights are 'off broadway' and 'these girls', both of which have been knocking around for six years. of course, he's always done this to an extent, but it smacks a little more of desperation now than it has in the past, or at least thats how it seems to me. i'm sure the next album will still be awesome though.
Tom Waits
Must be a legal requirement to mention hom on lists...
I just knew that hobo bullfrog would pop up sooner or later.
him
.
There's a reason though
He's awesome
.
yo la tengo
in the aeroplane over the sea
Low-blates
next q?
The National, possibly.
Or, if you'd asked five years ago, REM.
REMREMREM
REM (until around the sun...)
Sonic Youth for the win.
No question about it, really.
KORN.
Obviously.
Elliott Smith or REM
Bright Eyes
Cursive/Tim Kasher
victory at sea
RIP
FUGAZI!!!
the answer is...
jimmy eat world
Modest Mouse
Bright Eyes.
In that order.
but bright eyes have/has only made one good album
!
(i'm wide awake it's morning)
Incorrect
now shuffle on back to your closet :)
thursday .......
10 years ... 4 albums ... great album 1 and 2 ... war all the time so underated and same as city by the light divided ...
Has anyone
mentioned Mercury Rev?
.....
sonic youth
yo la tengo
melvins
malkmus
Adam Duritz...
...Counting Crows
Death Cab
Never disappoint.
More recently, The Shins
Sleater-Kinney
Modest Mouse
Fugazi
Elliott Smith
The Shins
Queens Of The Stoneage
Guided By Voices
Bob Pollard might have declined since the turn of the millennium but he released so much great material that he deserves to be up high on the list.
I'd like to hurl the Shins into the mix too
but Bright Eyes was my first thought.
Kings of Leon
Although they may need to release a couple of new albums to be considered by some.
i can believe only 2 people have said sleater kinney
it's obviously sleater-kinney
tom
waits
Sufjan Stevens
Isis
No dude...
You're actually the fifth person to mention them.
By the way...
rating Idlewild higher than Sleater-Kinney is completely ridiculous. Idlewild has two really good albums and one amazing one. Everything after the Remote Part sucks.
my ratings are an archive of my tastes at the start of 2003
before anything after the remote part came out.
9s are bands i really liked, 10s are bands i have at some stage been obsessed with, which goes beyond them being good or not.
simple system.
oh yeah
i missed the 2nding and 3rding going on further up.
I don't think i have an artist
in my collection of which their career has spanned a decade or more... :(
Melvins?
They've been not sucking for 20-odd years. Even the few noise albums that get called crap. That's some excellent crap.
fugazi
elliott smith
bjork
radiohead and the blood brothers have to lose out because their debuts are a bit shaky. minus 10,000 to anyone voting bright eyes.
Bjork is American?
Radiohead are American??
Magnetic Fields
John Reis
aka Speedo. Rocket From The Crypt's run from Scream, Dracula, Scream up until when they split was incredible and then he was in Hot Snakes as well. Bright Eyes are awesome but haven't been going quite long enough to qualify on the 'last 10-15 years' bit - the first record of his/theirs that I really like was Every Day And Every Night, and that's only eight years old. Same goes for The White Stripes.
....
I'll go for Lambchop.
Another vote for Low
Adam Duritz...
...Counting Crows.
Second vote for that man. Must be good.
They release two new (one's not really new) albums very soon.
Counting Crows and...
...Adam Duritz. I've noticed that I'm the third person to vote this way.
Great minds think alike, hey?
Kings of Leon are good...
...too.
Ben Kweller...
...has release 3 top albums!!
^not a bad shout...
Nirvana!
They've yet to make a bad record.
I thank you.
...
but they've yet to make a good one!
(half kidding)
Spoon. Spoon. Spoon. Spoon.
Ha
Spoon has got to be the most overrated band on Earth.
Can't believe no-one's mentioned
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy yet
Beck
.
^Truth^
there i some good suggestions in this lists...
i think 10 years is easier than 15 years...
Most consistently overrated perhaps
ZING. That's right, I went there.
The National
Sparklehorse
Rocket From The Crypt.
at least 9-10 albums-worth of pure brilliance.