List 5 bands with more than 5 Masterpieces

trackstoni wrote: ergaster wrote: trackstoni wrote: Finnforest wrote: I'd have to join those who say none.  I consider a masterpiece to be a pretty rare thing (top 5%), even a great band would be lucky to have one or two.         OUFFF !!!    then you believe all these albums aren't Masterpieces !!!?  do you want me to start counting more than 21 bands & 11 artists with more than 5 Masterpieces !!!   it seems you have a very tight idea & limited knowledge regarding our Archive  , if you are a musician yourself , you know what i'm talking about , sometimes rates aren't really accurate ,  however , my best  Masterpieces in 42 years are simply excellent albums or simply good ones in your site , Lark's Tongues in Aspic & a Passion Play are the best can be done so far , Red , ITCOCC , & TAAB don't even come close to them , Tales from Topographic &  Relayer are the best Masterpieces in Yes discography , and as a musician myself , i don't care if Close to the Edge was rated as #1 or not !   So , the main issue here , there was a word in my question listed above <<<<   in your opinion , disregarding any musical sites   >>>>  have a nice day my friend Finn  ! Not Finnforest, but being of the same mind I have to say: Calm down.  In MY opinion it is impossible for any band to have more than one or two masterpieces, because in MY OPINION the very word "Masterpiece" implies something very special and rare.  This has nothing to do with any ratings on PA or anywhere else.  I was listening to prog long before the internet was invented, let alone ProgArchives. What you seem to consider a Masterpiece is what I would call a damned fine album but not at the Masterpiece level, with a few exceptions. So we have answered your question and paid attention to the "in your opinion" part.       Appreciate your answer , and time spare in writing , but you're not convincing me , maybe because you've said you're listening to Progressive long time before Internet was invented  , cause if it's true , your answer must be otherwise and completely different !!

I'm not sure what I am supposed to be convincing you of.  You want something that I personally (and a few others ) believe doesn't really exist, for personal opinion reasons. 

I have no idea what you mean by the last sentence, it might be a language barrier.  Could you explain what should be different about my answer?

Just so EVERYONE in this thread is aware, the OP said MORE than 5 masterpieces

trackstoni wrote:       can you please list 5 bands with 5 Masterpieces     i mean list the 5 bands , and 5 masterpieces with each band you believe

The Residents:
Meet the Residents
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Duck Stab
Eskimo
Mark of the Mole
Demons Dance Alone

David Bowie:
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Diamond Dogs
Station to Station
Low
Scary Monsters

Roxy Music:
Roxy Music (self -titled)
Stranded
Country Life
Siren
Avalon
...arrrgh, just one album shy of that 6th masterpiece the OP asked!!!

Jethro Tull : Aqualung, TAAB, Passion Play, Minstrel in the gallery, Songs from the wood, Heavy horses Renaissance : Renaissance, Illusion, Prologue, Turn of the cards, Scheherazade, Novella Marillion : Script, Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at straws, Season's end

Hard to do... Even when it comes to a band like King Crimson, I wouldn't be able to call 5 of their albums masterpieces although I'm a huge fan. I'd say only Larks and Red are really MASTERPIECES. Maybe the first if you take into account when it was released. Same with Camel, I love early camel, but Moonmadness, although good, ain't no masterpiece. same with the self titled. I'd say Mirage and Snowgoose are, and Rain Dances would be if you ignore the aweful aweful Highway Of The Sun (hard to do since the album has 2 versions of it!)

I could name several bands with 5 really good albums, but masterpieces....

5 really good albums:

Aheulchatistas - The first five
Cephalic Carnage - Exploiting Dysfunctions and onwards
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating, Ire Works, Option Paralysis, Irony..., Miss Machine (if Ire Works didn't have 3-4 tracks I don't like this could be in the masterpieces category)
Hiromi uehara - All really good albums, so 8 really good, but no masterpieces
Since this isn't limited to prog (anyway the title of the thread doesn't say so) one band comes very close with 4 masterpieces and a decent first album, Jedi Mind Tricks. Visions Of Ghandi, Violent By Design, Servants In Heaven Kings In Hell and Legacy Of Blood are 4 indisputable masterpieces of hip-hop. Their first album has some really good songs, but a few not so good, and the latest one has 4 awesome tracks and the rest really sucks
Mahavishnu has 4 really good albums but they all have tracks i dislike
Miriodor has 6, but same thing, all have tracks I dislike. Couldn't call any a full fledged masterpiece


I tought Rush would be the one band with 5 masterpieces, but I can only give these 4 albums masterpiece status, although Hold Your Fire comes quite close
2112
Hemispheres
Moving Pictures
A Farewell To Kings

Another very close band is Snowgoons. All 5 of their albums are near masterpieces, but I'd only give the nod to A Fist In The Thought and Black Snow (for those who don't know this is another hip hop group)

Stevie Ray Vaughan would be the only band/person to fit the bill if we take into acount genre, meaning that while Texas Flood isn't one of my all time favorite albums, I do conciderate it a masterpiece when Blues is concerned. Same for In Step, Couldn't Stand The Weather, The Sky Is Crying and Soul To Soul


I'm just getting into MAGMA right now. Heard them for over a year but I never got into it til now. Maybe once I go through their discography I'll name them the titledholders when it comes to having 5 masterpieces!

More than 5 Masterpeices!?! This is gonna be difficult.

Pink Floyd

• Animals
• The Wall
• Dark Side of The Moon
• Wish You Were Here
• Meddle
• The Division Bell... Masterpiece? No, I guess not
  

IQ

• Frequency
• Seventh House
• The Wake
• Ever
• Dark Matter
• Subterranea... Again, not quite
  

Marillion

• Marbles
• Afraid of Sunlight
• Happiness is the Road
• Brave
• Clutching at Straws
• Misplaced Childhood

Okay, so that's one...

Steve Wilson and all his Projects

• Fear of a Blank Planet
  
• Together We're Stranger
• Lightbulb Sun
• Insurgentes
• In Absentia
  
• ...Umm... Oh! He produced Blackwater Park!!
  

A bit of a stretch, but good enough. That's two.

Toby Driver

• Part the Second
• Bath
• Leaving Your Body Map
• Polyimage of Known Exits
• Choirs of the Eye
• Shoot, I've been meaning to listen to Tartar Lamb and In The L...L...Library Loft, but haven't gotten around to it.. So one of them?... Stained Glass was good... Awh, I'm sure he'll be releasing another masterpiece soon anyway.

That's three.

Led Zeppelin

• All of their stuff

Four; one to go. You didn't say they needed to be prog band.

Jack White

• Horehound
  
• Elephant
• Sea of Cowards
• De Stijl
• White Blood Cells
• ... So Close...

Dream Thea-... Nevermind

Um...

Joni Mitchell

• The Hissing of Summer Lawns
• Hejira
• Blue
• Court and Spark
• For the Roses
• ... Umm...

Herbie Hancock

• Head Hunters
• Maiden Voyage
• The River
• Sextant
• Crossings
• In A Silent Way

Good Enough!

Jethro Tull: Benefit, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs and Heavy Horses. (woop that's 7)

Genesis: Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England, Lamb.

Gentle Giant: from  The first till Free Hand.

Amon Duul II: the first five albums

Area: the first 5.

Zappa: Too many to name.

there are probably more, but this is hard to remember.

Can't think of any bands with more than five masterpieces (i.e. better than excellent).