Some will say Dream Theater with various choices multiple times depending on how many times you liked one of their follow ups to what you think was a clunker
Exactly. There are many bands with inconsistent discographies. They just have to release at least five albums: good-bad-comeback1-bad-comeback2. And, of course, these assessments will be very subjective.
"It's not exactly a horrible album, but it's no better than something by, I dunno, Pagan's Mind or some other shirt-tucking nerdprog band." - Matt Johnsen of Pharaoh