Any Artist's Discography Ranked

[Bloopy]

Post your ranking of the discography of any artist at all – either non-metal, or metal bands that don't have enough appeal to ever be ranked in the GMD section of the forum.

• Include all of their main studio albums. This is an open-ended thread with no plans to tally anything, so if you've only heard 20 Saxon albums or 24 Melvins albums or 299 Buckethead albums, you have all the time in the world to go away and finish the job.

• Optionally include any other releases as you wish - EPs, demos, splits, collaborations, live/archival/soundtrack/remix/covers albums etc.

 

[Bloopy]

Eg. here's my ranking of Budgie:

1. Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
2. Budgie
3. In for the Kill!
4. Bandolier
5. Squawk
6. If Swallowed, Do Not Induce Vomiting
7. Power Supply
8. Impeckable
9. Nightflight
10. If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules
11. Deliver Us From Evil
12. You're All Living in Cuckooland

 

[Slammed]

Alestorm
1. Back Through Time (2011)
2. No Grave But The Sea (2017)
3. The Curse Of The Crystal Coconut (2020)
4. Sunset On The Golden Age (2014)
5. Captain Morgan’s Revenge (2008)
6. Black Sails At Sunset (2009)

Flotsam And Jetsam
1. The End of Chaos (2019)
2. No Place for Disgrace (1988)
3. Doomsday for the Deceiver (1986)
4. When the Storm Comes Down (1990)
5. Flotsam and Jetsam (2016)
6. Cuatro (1992)
7. The Cold (2010)
8. Unnatural Selection (1999)
9. Drift (1995)
10. Dreams of Death (2005)
11. High (1997)
12. My God (2001)
13. Ugly Noise (2012)

Dead Kelly
1. Such Is Life (2019)
2. Bushfire (EP) (2015)
3. Australian Made (2017)
4. Sons Of The Southern Cross (2014)


I'd still do bands like Skyclad, Armoured Saint, Helloween and Suicidal Angels, but 3 out of 4 of those would take a long time given the catalogues.

 

[CiG]

DEVO
1. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
2. Freedom of Choice
3. New Traditionalists
4. Oh, No! It's Devo
5. Duty Now for the Future
6. Something for Everybody
7. Shout
8. Total Devo

 

[Slayed Necros]

Might as well start with one of my all time favourites:

Townes Van Zandt (studio albums, including archival, and some essential live albums)



1. Our Mother the Mountain (1969)
2. Townes Van Zandt (1969)
3. Delta Momma Blues (1970)
4. The Nashville Sessions (1993)
5. Rear View Mirror (1993)
6. Sunshine Boy (2013)
7. Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (1977)
8. No Deeper Blue (1994)
9. The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972)
10. The Highway Kind (1997)
11. Flyin' Shoes (1978)
12. High, Low and In Between (1972)
13. In the Beginning (2003)
14. Sky Blue (2019)
15. For the Sake of the Song (1968)
16. At My Window (1987)

So much great stuff here. Even At My Window rules despite being last.

 

[zerostatic]

Alestorm
1) No Grave But the Sea
2) Sunset on the Golden Age
3) Captain Morgan's Revenge
4) Curse of the Crystal Coconut
5) Back Through Time
6) Black Sails at Midnight

Children of Bodom
1) Follow the Reaper
2) Hatebreeder
3) Hate Crew Deathroll
4) Halo of Blood
5) Relentless Reckless Forever
6) Something Wild
7) Are You Dead Yet?
8) Hexed
9) Blooddrunk
10) I Worship Chaos

Fear Factory
1) Demanufacture
2) Soul of a New Machine
3) Obsolete
4) Genexus
5) Archetype
6) Mechanize
7) The Industrialist
8) Digimortal
9) Transgression

 

[Slammed]

Frenzal Rhomb (Studio Only)
1. Sans Souci (2003)
2. Not So Tough Now (1996)
3. Meet the Family (1997)
4. Coughing up a Storm (1995)
5. Shut Your Mouth (2000)
6. A Man's Not a Camel (1999)
7. Forever Malcolm Young (2006)
8. Smoko at the Pet Food Factory (2011)
9. Hi-Vis High Tea (2017)

Dezperadoz
1. Dawn Of Dying (2000)
2. The Legend And The Truth (2006)
3. Call Of The Wild (2017)
4. Dead Man’s Hands (2012)
5. An Eye For An Eye (2008)

 

[challenge_everything]

Camel
1. Mirage
2. Moonmadness
3. Camel
4. The Snow Goose
5. A Live Record
6. Rain Dances
7. Rajaz
8. A Nod and a Wink
9. Harbour of Tears
10. Dust and Dreams
11. Stationary Traveller
12. I Can See Your House from Here
13. Breathless
14. Nude
15. The Single Factor

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Excellent idea. The best of Norweird:

The 3rd and the Mortal

Painting on Glass
In This Room
Nightswan
Memoirs
Tears Laid in Earth
Sorrow

In the Woods...

Omnio
Strange in Stereo
Three Times Seven on a Pilgrimage
Heart of the Ages
Live at the Caledonien Hall

Beyond Dawn

Pity Love
Revelry
Electric Sulking Machine
Frysh
In Reverie

Atrox

Contentum
Terrestrials
Orgasm
Mesmerised

 

[CiG]

REV✞BIZ

1. III: So Long Suckers
2. In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
3. Harbinger of Metal EP
4. II: Crush the Insects
5. Thulsa Doom EP
6. Return to the Rectory EP
7. Slice of Doom demo

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Anathema

We're Here Because We're Here
Weather Systems
A Fine Day to Exit
A Natural Disaster
Judgment
Serenades
The Silent Enigma
Alternative 4
Eternity
Distant Satellites
The Optimist
The Crestfallen
Pentecost III
Hindsight
Falling Deeper

Arcturus

La Masquerade Infernale
The Sham Mirrors
Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Arcturian
Sidedshow Symphonies

Green Carnation

Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Journey to the End of Night
A Blessing in Disguise
Leaves of Yesteryear
The Quiet Offspring
Acoustic Verses

Dolorian

When All the Laughter Has Gone
Voidwards
Dolorian

 

[Bloopy]

SPK
1. Leichenschrei
2. Information Overload Unit
3. Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers (nice genre U-turn into ritual ambient)
4. Auto-da-fé (compilation)
5. Digitalis Ambigua, Gold and Poison
6. Machine Age Voodoo (but first they had to make this other genre U-turn into synthpop )


Flotsam and Jetsam might be one with enough appeal to be ranked in GMD eventually. I'd participate.

DEVO
1. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
2. Freedom of Choice
3. New Traditionalists
4. Oh, No! It's Devo
5. Duty Now for the Future
6. Something for Everybody
7. Shout
8. Total Devo

Looks like you've got Smooth Noodle Maps to append to the bottom or thereabouts. In the context of listening for ranking/rating on RYM I kinda get a kick out of listening to some of my fav bands' worst albums. I didn't manage to relisten to all of SPK's though, it's making me squirm.

 

[CiG]

I always forget about that album because I don't own it.

 

[Bourbon]

The Allman Brothers Band

1. At Fillmore East
2. Eat A Peach
3. The Allman Brothers Band
4. Idlewild South
5. Brothers and Sisters
6. Shades of Two Worlds
7. Where It All Begins
8. Win Lose or Draw
9. Seven Turns
10. Enlightened Rogues
11. Hittin’ the Note
12. Brothers of the Road
13. Reach for the Sky

 

[CiG]

1. At Fillmore East

Yep.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Mind Over Four

Half Way Down
The Goddess
Mind Over 4
Out Here
Empty Hands

Kayo Dot

Coyote
Choirs of the Eye
Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Blue Lambency Downward
Hubardo
Gamma Knife
Coffins on Io
Blasphemy
Plastic House on Base of Sky

Maudlin of the Well

Bath
Leaving Your Body Map
My Fruit PsychoBells... a Seed Combustible
Part the Second
Through Languid Veins

Virus

Carheart
The Agent That Shapes the Desert
Oblivion Clock
Memento Collider
The Black Flux

Tiamat

Wildhoney
A Deeper Kind of Slumber
Clouds
The Astral Sleep
Sumerian Cry
Prey
(Still need to hear the other four)

 

[Bloopy]

Björk
1. Homogenic
2. Volta
3. Biophilia
4. Debut
5. Post
6. Björk (her pre-teen album, quite a lot more enjoyable than expected)
7. Medúlla
8. Vespertine
9. Vulnicura
10. Utopia

A bit fucked I know. "Why are you like this, Bloopy?" you'll ask. I just don't really 'do' softer music. I liked Vulnicura well enough when it first came out, but I guess at the time I enjoyed playing new material of any sort after having liked the previous two so much. Mouth Mantra has some cool beats though, a top 10 Björk song for me.

I suppose her childhood album would only ever count as a main studio album if you like it. I checked out the material once briefly many years ago and dismissed her kiddy voice singing in Icelandic, but I find it good fun now. It was good enough to get her an offer of another record deal at age 12, which she promptly turned down in favour of starting a punk band instead. Few artists can say they did that!

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Agalloch

1. The Mantle
2. Ashes Against the Grain
3. Pale Folklore
4. Marrow of the Spirit
5. The Serpent & the Sphere

Arcana

1. Raspail
2. Inner Pale Sun
3. The Last Embrace
4. Dark Age of Reason
5. As Bright as a Thousand Suns
6. Cantar de Procella
7. Le Serpent Rouge

Celtic Frost

1. Monotheist
2. Into the Pandemonium
3. To Mega Therion
4. Morbid Tales
5. Vanity/Nemesis
6. Disowned Lake

 

[CiG]

3. Biophilia

Props!

 

[no country for old wainds]

8. Vespertine

why are you like this, bloopy?