Of course it was WildRanger who resurrected this three year old thread.
Count me as one who prefers the run from Permanent Waves through Power Windows.
Yeesh. Not even close.
I agree that Signals is part of Rush's run, but GUP and PoW aren't fit to hold the pee bucket for 2112, AFTK and Hemispheres. GUP and PoW can barely muster one album's worth of listenable material between them.
Some guys in this thread mentioned Yes' run from The Yes Album to Relayer, but I disagree because Tales From Topographic Oceans is generally not considered a top-tier record.
And I disagree because I think TFTO is a GREAT album, and I would extend Yes's run from TYA to GFTO.
I am glad that I am not old enough to be subject to the tyranny of thought that “everything was better in the 70s.”
Dafuq?!
There was very little about the 70s that was "better" than the 80s, but the music of Rush and Yes by and large fall into that category. I was a kid in the 70s and a teen and young adult in the 80s, but when you look back from a historical perspective, there was a shit-ton of shit happening in the 70s that I'm glad I was too young to deal with.
And I disagree because I think TFTO is a GREAT album.
I find it a mixed bag. And there is no consensus that TFTO is a great Yes album (as CTTE or Fragile or The Yes Album).
For example, it's rated 3.90 on ProgArchives, so it's not a high average score there.
Yes, I'm aware that TFTO is not universally as highly regarded as the albums on either side of it, but that's why opinions are subjective.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Dream Theater yet - Images and Words through Six Degrees (since we are counting consecutive studio albums and not factoring in EPs or compilations).
I would go with Scenes, Six Degrees, TOT, Octavarium, and SC.. All fantastic albums imo.
The existence of FII and SC make it impossible to come up with a 5-album run for DT that works for me. Those are two of their bottom four albums, but the four in between (which, by the way, contain far more music than just about any of the five-album runs that have been mentioned) are virtually unparalleled.
70's is my favorite era for music. Doesn't mean i can't love 80's output. Also Wildranger, I think all output from ZZ Top sucks.
That's because it's an objective fact.