Top 20 Fantastic Five Year Periods for Bands /Artists

1. The Beatles 1965-69 (Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper's, White Album, Abbey Road)
2. Bob Dylan 1963-66 (Freewheelin', Times they are a-changin', Another Side of, Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde)
3. I am Kloot 2001-05 (Natural History, I am Kloot, Gods and Monsters)
4. David Bowie 1970-4 (The Man who sold the world, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Pin Ups, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs)
5. Madness 1979-84 (One Step Beyond, Absolutely, Seven, Rise and Fall, Keep Moving)
6. Led Zeppelin 1969-73 (I, II, III, IV, House of the Holy)
7. The Doors 1967-71 (their entire career - all 6 albums)
8. The Rolling Stones 1968-72 (Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street)
9. Neil Young 1972-75 (Harvest, On the Beach, Tonight's the Night, Zuma)
10. Blondie 1976-80 (Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, Autoamerican)
11. The Smiths 1984-87 (their entire career - all 4 studio albums and main compilations)
12. Pink Floyd 1973-77 (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here, Animals)
13. Bruce Springsteen 1973-75 (Greetings from Asbury Park, The Wild the innocent and the E St shuffle, Born to Run)
14. REM 1984-88 (Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant, Document, Green)
15. Jethro Tull 1968-71 (This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung)
16. Kate Bush 1978-82 (The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never for Ever, The Dreaming)
17. Simon and Garfunkel 1966-70 (Sounds of Silence, Parsely Sage Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends, Bridge over Troubled Water)
18. The Decemberists 2002-06 ( Castaways and Cutouts, Her Majesty, Picaresque, The Crane Wife)
19. The Police 1979-83 (Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity)
20. Queen 1973-76 (Queen, Queen II, Sheet Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races)