{"id":12769,"date":"2011-07-19T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12769"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:01:17","slug":"the-five-albums-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12769","title":{"rendered":"The five-albums test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href='http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-fivealbums-test,59098\/'>AV Club posits a method<\/a> for determining if a band is great or not: did the band release five, consecutive, great albums ?<\/p>\n<p>They list some obvious examples from the days of yore: including Zepplin, The Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd; they list some examples of bands who just fall short: Dylan, Stones; they list some newer examples: U2, REM, Yo La Tengo, etc.; and they list some modern examples: Wilco, Spoon, etc.. They list quite a few, but they missed a few, too.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose people may have caught some of these in the 200+ comments, but I'm not going to read them all...<\/p>\n<p>Greats:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Police. Only five albums, but each one is great.\n<li>Miles Davis. Multiple times.\n<li>Sea And Cake. Their first five = awesome.\n<li>Van Halen. All six of their David Lee Roth albums are classics.\n<\/ol>\n<p>\"Not greats\":<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Cure. They started out strong with \"Three Imaginary Boys\", \"Seventeen Seconds\" and \"Faith\", but \"Pornography\" and \"The Top\" aren't quite as great. They picked it back up with \"Head On The Door\", \"Kiss Me...\" and \"Disintegration\", though.\n<li>Sonic Youth - \"Sister\", \"Daydream Nation\", \"Goo\", and \"Dirty\" are all strong, but \"EVOL\" and \"Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star\" just don't measure up.\n<\/ol>\n<p>What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AV Club posits a method for determining if a band is great or not: did the band release five, consecutive, great albums ? They list some obvious examples from the days of yore: including Zepplin, The Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd; they list some examples of bands who just fall short: Dylan, Stones; they list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}