Which artist/group had the greatest 3 album run?

[Syph]

3 consecutive, high-quality if not classic, albums.

My vote would probably go to Pink Floyd for:
Dark Side of the Moon --> Wish You Were Here --> Animals

[Madrun Badrun]

Bad religion: Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain

[PlayDat]

My non rap answer would be either Portishead - Dummy -> Third, or Radiohead OK Computer -> Amnesiac.  I know those are boring choices, but they're damn good!  Way harder for me to choose from hip-hop.  Too many artists held in high regard whose discographies I haven't gone deep enough into.  I need to listen to more Kool G and Masta Ace for instance.

[tiesto]

Ride The Lightning -> Master Of Puppets -> And Justice For All

Tri State -> Group Therapy -> We Are All We Need

Homework -> Discovery -> Hum......err never mind.

It's kinda hard with a lot of what I like since dance music is such a singles-dominated genre.

[benjipwns]

[Great Rumbler]

News of the World -> Jazz -> The Game

[Huff]

Bon Iver

[Human Snorenado]

Bon Iver

Can't get into that last album, man.

Just from people that have died this year:

Prince (Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain)

Bowie (TWICE: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and then again with Station to Station, Low, and Heroes)

Leonard Cohen (Various Positions, I'm Your Man, The Future)

[Stoney Mason]

Talking Book (1972)
Innervisions (1973)
Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)

Four albums in a row that kick ass.

[zomgee]

Genesis:

And then there were three
Duke
Abacab
Genesis
Invisible Touch
We Can't Dance

This along with Phil Collins also having a string of solo albums during the same stretch

Pink Floyd:

Dark side of the moon
Wish you were here
Animals
The Wall

John Williams:

Jaws
Star Wars
Close Encounters

then

The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.

ELO :

Eldorado
Face the music
A new world record
Out of the blue
Discovery
Time


I think I'm not doing this right

[Momo]

Undertow
Ænima
Lateralus

[El Babua]

Rolling Stones : Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers - never enjoyed Exile that much however

[Syph]

Thought of another one:

Michael Jackson:
Off the Wall--> Thriller --> Bad

[chronovore]

I'll echo this:
Prince (Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain)

[recursivelyenumerable]

never for ever -> the dreaming -> hounds of love

[seagrams hotsauce]

The Infamous - Hell on Earth - Murda Muzik
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - ATLiens - Aquemini

[Mupepe]

Undertow
Ænima
Lateralus

Thought of another one:

Michael Jackson:
Off the Wall--> Thriller --> Bad

Came in to post these two and also...

Matchbox Twenty:
Yourself or Someone Like You
Mad Season
More Than You Think You Are

All 3 are perfect albums IMO with unique sounds and obvious progression for the group.

[Madrun Badrun]

Matchbox 20?  Don't you need at least one good album before you can have three good ones in a row?

[Mupepe]

Matchbox 20?  Don't you need at least one good album before you can have three good ones in a row?

Get out of here, snob.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I'll add my vote to the Michael Jackson and Prince ones.

I'll add in New Orders - Low-Life, Brotherhood, Technique and the Cure's - Kiss Me, Kiss me, Kiss me - Disintegration - Wish

[Phoenix Dark]

Prince: Self Titled, Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain.

Stevie Wonder: Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs in the Key of Life

Rolling Stones:  Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers

Steely Dan: The Royal Scam, Aja, Gaucho

A Tribe Called Quest: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, The Low End Theory, Midnight Mauraders

De La Soul: 3 Feet High & Rising, De La Soul Is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate, Stakes Is High

[TakingBackSunday]

Bringing it All Back Home -> Highway 61 Revisited -> Blonde on Blonde

Born to Run -> Darkness on the Edge of Town -> The River

The Monitor -> Local Business -> The Most Lamentable Tragedy

[ToxicAdam]

I say none. Many great artists had 2 great albums and finding a third is iffy. You can find moments of brilliance on the third, but it's not as strong as the other two.

[Phoenix Dark]

I say none. Many great artists had 2 great albums and finding a third is iffy. You can find moments of brilliance on the third, but it's not as strong as the other two.

Purple Rain? Sticky Fingers? Midnight Mauraders?

[Joe Molotov]

The Jerky Boys -> The Jerky Boys 2 -> The Jerky Boys 3

[ToxicAdam]

I say none. Many great artists had 2 great albums and finding a third is iffy. You can find moments of brilliance on the third, but it's not as strong as the other two.

Purple Rain? Sticky Fingers? Midnight Mauraders?

I don't find 1999 to be that great of an album, tbh. Had some great hits, but the bottom half of that album is pretty weak.

[ToxicAdam]

The Beatles just don't speak to me. Michael Jackson is the same way. I recognize the greatness and talent, but none of their music resonates with me.

I'm more of a Prince and Rolling Stones kind of guy.

[Mupepe]

Can we turn this into an "unpopular music opinion" thread?  Because I can't listen to an entire Beatles or Queen album.  Both groups are extremely talented and have some great songs but they're so hit and miss for me.  When they miss they're way off the mark but when they hit it's fucking great.

Oh and Aerosmith is mostly trash too (not sure that's an unpopular opinion).

[Vertigo]

The Eels had a six album run 

Beautiful Freak, Electro-Shock Blues, Daisies of the Galaxy, Souljacker,  Shootenanny!, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

It would be an seven album run but they released a greatest hits album before Hombre Lobo.


Ghostface Killah

Ironman
Supreme Clientele
Bulletproof Wallets
The Pretty Toney Album
Fishscale


 

[seagrams hotsauce]

You should have done St anger, SKOM, and Lulu lol

[I'm a Puppy!]

Can we turn this into an "unpopular music opinion" thread?  Because I can't listen to an entire Beatles or Queen album.  Both groups are extremely talented and have some great songs but they're so hit and miss for me.  When they miss they're way off the mark but when they hit it's fucking great.

Oh and Aerosmith is mostly trash too (not sure that's an unpopular opinion).

Shut up Matchbox 20 fan!
 

[Mupepe]

Didn't know Puppy was triggered so easily!

[Freyj]

OK Computer -> Kid A -> Amnesiac is a pretty great run.

[Tasty]

The Killers... if you ignore Day & Age.

[Syph]

You should have done St anger, SKOM, and Lulu lol

6 album run lol

[Trent Dole]

The Land of Rape and Honey > The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste > Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs

[seagrams hotsauce]

You should have done St anger, SKOM, and Lulu lol

6 album run lol

Including load and presumably their new album that I haven't heard but I've seen the cover of makes it 7

[Syph]

You should have done St anger, SKOM, and Lulu lol

6 album run lol

Including load and presumably their new album that I haven't heard but I've seen the cover of makes it 7

I've listened to the new album only once so far; it was ok, but very inconsistent. Again, only one listen though.

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i liked death magnetic, although it was very poorly mastered

[close]

[Dickie Dee]

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - After the Gold Rush - Harvest

Funeral - Neon Bible - Suburbs

Being There - Summerteeth - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[Cerveza mas fina]

I havent heard it but I still like your post cause I know it to be true

This is a great thread btw and I dont know/agree with anyone so far

Also i cant think of anything

[Cerveza mas fina]

oh yeah guns and roses of course

all of their albums are great

appetite for destruction > gnr lies > illusion > spaghetti incident > chinese democracy

[king of the internet]

Nostalgia Ultra - Channel Orange - Blonde

[Madrun Badrun]

Bad religion:  The process of belief, The empire strikes first, New maps of hell