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Sorry if this has been done before.What 3 albums in a row by an artist beat all other trilogys? What band/artist made an album that you loved, then they made another one that you loved even more and then made another and you said to yourself,jeez there is no way it could be as good, but it was! It really was! Doesn't happen every day.As this is a Talk Talk friendly forum I know that I am not alone in nominating Colour of Spring/Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock.I will try to think of some others as well.

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 24 November 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought of another. My favorite current rock band Katatonia definitely did it for me:discouraged ones/tonight's decision/last fair deal gone down. The latter album title answering the quiz show question:What Swedish heavy metal act with former ties to Satan named their 2001 album after a song by Satan-plagued blues guitarist Robert Johnson?

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 24 November 2002 05:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, by the way, I can't spell cuz I'm drunk.Trilogies,I believe.

― Scott Seward, Sunday, 24 November 2002 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

-The Stooges' three (proper) albums
-Dig Your Own Hole, Surrender, Come With Us
-Let It Bleed, Stickyfingers, Exile on Main St.
-Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia
-The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope, London Calling

-my answers are boring and rockist; I will try to think of better ones later

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 24 November 2002 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

bad moon rising, evol, sister was a pretty good run

― dan (dan), Sunday, 24 November 2002 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

-are we not men?/duty now for the future/freedom of choice
-here come the warm jets/taking tiger mountain by strategy/another green world
-horse rotorvator/gold is the metal/love's secret domain
-pink flag/chairs missing/154
-let's dance/tonight/never let me down (haha)

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 24 November 2002 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

OK Computer/Kid A/Amnesiac?

― man, Sunday, 24 November 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Big ditto to the first three Eno and the first three Wire.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 24 November 2002 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Stranded / Country Life / Siren
Songs For Young Lovers / In the Wee Small Hours / Songs For Swingin' Lovers
With the Beatles / A Hard Day's Night / Beatles For Sale
I'm Still in Love with You / Call Me / Livin' For You
Watch Your Step / Happy Hour / On the Boardwalk

― Burr, Sunday, 24 November 2002 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Replicas/The Pleasure Principle/Telekon

AND THEN NOTHING GOOD EVER AGAIN.

― Wyndham Earl, Sunday, 24 November 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

although i kind've have a soft spot for Dance...

― Wyndham Earl, Sunday, 24 November 2002 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Open up and say ahhh, flesh and blood, swallow this live

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

radioactiviy - trans europe express - man machine ( - computer world)

totales turn - grotesque - slates ( - hex enduction hour - room to live - a part of america therein)

squirrel and g-man - bummed - pills thrills 'n' bellyaches

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 24 November 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I often seem to buy things in reverse-chronological order, which kind of eliminates the snowball-excellence-build up effect of hearing a band noticably improve from record to record. But ones that do count would include:

Debut / Post / Homogenic
Peloton / The Great Eastern / Hate
Giant Steps / Wake Up! / C'mon Kids
Foxbase Alpha / So Tough / Tiger Bay

― alexfack (alexfack), Sunday, 24 November 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Beautiful Freak -> Electro-Shock Blues -> Daisies of the Galaxy

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 24 November 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I know the answer to this one:

Victorialand, Blue Bell Knoll, Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins.

― chris sallis, Sunday, 24 November 2002 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The number of the beast, piece of mind, powerslave

Vainly clutching at phantom limbs, when the red king comes, a dream in sound.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yo! Bum Rush The Show / It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back / Fear Of A Black Planet

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

v, vi, vii

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Tigermilk. If you're feeling sinister. The boy wit the arab strap.

― , Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

little earthquakes, under the pink, boys for pele

― V, Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Bum Rush/Nation/Fear

― Nick H, Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Octagonecologist/Sex Style/Dr. Dooom

Up In It/Congregation/Gentleman

― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 24 November 2002 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Scott 2/ Scott 3/ Scott 4
Tindersticks/ Tindersticks/ Curtains
White Stripes/ De Stijl/ White Blood Cells
Zaireeka!/ Soft Bulletin/ Yoshimi
Velvet Underground & Nico/ White Light White Heat/ Velvet Underground
WCAPEB vol 1/ vol 2/ A Childs Guide To Good & Evil

― Matthew (faster), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry that should be WCPAEB...

― Matthew (faster), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Twoism/ Music Has The Right.../ Geogaddi
Tatay/ Bwyd Time/ Barafundle
Come On Pilgrim/ Surfer Rosa/ Doolittle
Don't wake me up/ It was hot we stayed in the water/ The Glow Pt 2
Happy Trails/Eureka/ Insignificance

― Matthew (faster), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

liscenced to ill/paul's boutique/check yr head
kinda kinks/kontroversy/something else
bringing it all back home/highway 61 revisited/blonde on blonde
daydream nation/goo/dirty
crypt-style/extra width/orange

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 24 November 2002 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

What happened to Face to Face, Fritz?

― Curt (cgould), Sunday, 24 November 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

the seeds/web of sound/future

― (doorag), Sunday, 24 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

It only became evident as a progression after the fact, when outtakes for the middle album got released,,,

Plastikman: Musik / Artifacts / Consumed

― Curt (cgould), Sunday, 24 November 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

evol > sister > daydream nation
phallus dei > yeti > lemmings
tago mago > ege bamyasi > future days
& Nico > White Light White Heat > eponymous

― autovac, Sunday, 24 November 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Dubnobasswithmyheadman / Second Toughest In The Infants / Beaucoup Fish

i think Underworld pushed the formulae of their music to the limit but managed to make each album distinguishable and individual enough by bringing in newer elements each time to compliment the more predictable aspects

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 24 November 2002 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

crocodiles, heaven up here, porcupine
dirty mind, controversy, 1999 (purple rain, around the world in a day, parade, sign of the times)

― dan (dan), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Pixies: Surfer Rosa - Doolittle - Bossanova
Beck: Odelay - Mutations - Midnite Vultures
Low: Long Division - The Curtain Hits the Cast - Secret Name
Blur: Modern Life is Rubbish - Parklife - The Great Escape
Radiohead: (The Bends) - Ok Computer - Kid A - (Amnesiac)

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Autechre: Amber/Tri Repetae/Chiastic Slide
Slayer: Show No Mercy/Hell Awaits/Reign In Blood
Motorhead: Overkill/Bomber/Ace Of Spades
Biosphere: Microgravity/Patashnik/Substrata
Darkthrone: A Blaze In The Northern Sky/Under A Funeral Moon/Transilvanian Hunger
Graveland: The Celtic Winter/Thousand Swords/Following The Voice Of Blood

Katatonia are on a five album winning streak...

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 25 November 2002 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Call The Doctor/Dig Me Out/The Hot Rock

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 25 November 2002 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Intro, His'n'Hers, Different Class.
Foxbase Alpha, So Tough, Tiger Bay.
Brown, Snivilisation, In Sides.
Psychocandy, Darklands, Ausomatic.
Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Aladdin Sane.

that'll do for now.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 25 November 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

it seldom happens that three albums by one act are consistently good enough to keep me interested, though I can think of one :

discipline, beat, three of a perfect pair - king crimson
I was introduced to this music by an older girl who lived up the street from me. I had never heard their previous indulgent prog crap at the time and enjoyed the new wave sound very much. This group incorporated so many influences into their music that I was constantly impressed with every listen.
The interplay between the musicians on the first album blew my mind. The majority of Beat was much more straightforward with a post-punk sound (it remains my favorite by the band). The final album was all over the place with an experimental edge dominating the proceedings, yet the poppier tracks are even more melodic than on other albums.

― bahtology, Monday, 25 November 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Gorilla -> The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse -> Tadpoles

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 25 November 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I would say Congregation/Gentlemen/Black Love. Webcrack, what's your problem with BL?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 25 November 2002 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

2, What Burns Never Returns, American Don
self-titled/Hand Of Glory/Twin Infinitives
Open Doors,Closed Windows . DI Go Pop . Technicolour
In A Priest-Driven Ambulance : Hit To Death In the Future Head : Transmissions From The Satellite Heart

― red, Monday, 25 November 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually as far as Beck goes I'd add Mellow Gold, One Foot In the Grave, Stereopathetic Soulmanure - all released in the same year, no less.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 25 November 2002 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Spoon's Series of Sneaks, Girls Can Tell and Kill the Moonlight
Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years
Massive Attack's Blue Lines, Protection and Mezzanine

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Monday, 25 November 2002 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Script of the Bridge/What Does Anything Mean? Basically/Strange Times

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 November 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Was wondering about this question myself....I don't find the 'order of improvement' in all the below, or, if they are unequal that it is necessarily in the order you stated, but I've found many bands have a kind of '3-album-phase' of greatness. My own fave sequences were:

Bowie: Low -> (The Idiot ) -> Heroes (never understood Lodger as the 3rd part of that 'trilogy')
Simple Minds: Reel To Real Cacophony -> Empires & Dance -> Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Magazine: Real Life -> Secondhand Daylight -> Correct Use Of Soap
The Passage: Pindrop -> For All & None -> Degenerates (-> Enflame too!)
Comsat Angels: Waiting For A Miracle -> Sleep No More -> Fiction
Yello: You Gotta Say Yes.... -> Stella -> One Second
Devo: New Traditionalists -> Oh, No! It's Devo -> Shout
Dead Can Dance: Spleen & Ideal -> Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun -> The Serpent's Egg
Cabaret Voltaire: MicroPhonies -> The Covenant.... -> Code
Chrome: Alien Soundtracks -> Half Machine Lip Moves -> Read Only Memory (an EP - but the next album started the slide....)
Chameleons: ditto Ned's post above.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 25 November 2002 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

OOPs -

DAF: Alles Ist Gut -> Gold und Liebe -> Fur Immer
Nitzer Ebb: That Total Age -> Belief -> Showtime

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 25 November 2002 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe (at least, according to my computer's "Find" function) that no one has mentioned the incredible 1-2-3 punch that was Elvis Costello's first three records. Everything he did after that could have been total shit (which, in fact, it turned out to be) and he'd still deserve a place amongst the ring of brightest angels around heaven.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 25 November 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

organisation/architecture and morality/dazzle ships

and i would add ocean rain to the echo and the bunnymen run.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 25 November 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Labradford > Mi Media Naranja > E Luxo So

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 25 November 2002 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

forty days and forty nights / restless / man vs machine

― s trife (simon_tr), Monday, 25 November 2002 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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Missy Elliot: Supa Dupa Fly/Da Real World/Miss E... So Addictive
Jane Siberry - No Borders Here/The Speckless Sky/The Walking
De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising/De La Soul Is Dead/Buhloone Mindstate
Mobb Deep - The Infamous/Hell On Earth/Murder Muzik
Kate Bush - Never For Ever/The Dreaming/The Hounds of Love
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express/The Man Machine/Computer World
Simple Minds - Reel To Real Cacophony/Empires & Dance/Sons & Fascination

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

This Mortal Coil
It'll End in Tears
Filgree & Shadow
Blood

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

[('2112'/'Farewell to Kings'/'Hemispheres') vs ('Permanent Waves'/'Moving Pictures'/'Signals')] vs [('In Trance'/'Virgin Killer'/'Taken By Force') vs ('Lovedrive'/'Animal Magnetism'/'Blackout')]

― dave q, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Star
#1 Record
Radio City
Third/Sister Lovers

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

D'oh! How could I forget the De La and Kate Bush triptychs? Tim F OTM again. (haha actually I didn't forget DLS but couldn't remember what the third one is called offhand!)

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Waylon Jennings / Honky Tonk Heroes / Ramblin' Man /
This Time

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Frizzle Fry -> Sailing the Seas of Cheese -> Pork Soda
Odelay -> Mutations -> Midnight Vultures
Endtroducing... -> Preemptive Strike -> The Private Press
Friday Afternoon in the Universe -> Shackman -> Combustication
In Your Face -> Truth and Soul -> The Reality of My Surroundings
The Pod -> Pure Guava -> Chocolate and Cheese
Homogenic -> Selmasongs -> Vespertine
Fear of Music -> Remain in Light -> Speaking in Tongues
Guest -> Host -> Bumpa
Sex Style -> Dr. Dooom -> Black Elvis/Lost in Space
Do You Want More!??? -> Illadelph Halflife -> Things Fall Apart

By: Primus, Beck, DJ Shadow, Medeski Martin and Wood, Fishbone, Ween, Bjork, Talking Heads, Critters Buggin, Kool Keith, and The Roots respectively

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit, I forgot!!

Funnel Weaver -> Bermuda Triangle -> Electric Tears

By Buckethead...all released THIS YEAR

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

YLT: painful/electr-o-pura/i can hear the heart...

― Arjun Mendiratta, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Will no one stand up for Metal Circus, Zen Arcade and New Day Rising? if eps don't count then tack Flip You Wig on to the end.

Neil Young cleans up with: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush and Harvest. Later on he had On The Beach, Tonights The Night and Zuma and to close that decade he released Decade, Rust Never Sleeps and Live Rust.

Sloan jumped from Smeared to Twice Removed then One Chord To Another to keep us all guessing.

Mercury Rev deserve mention for Yrself Is Steam, Boces and See You On The Other Side.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days -- Can
Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154 -- Wire

― Juan Marquez (Juan), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Tyranosaurous Rex
T. Rex
Beard of Stars
Electric Warrier
The Kinks
The Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1
Muswell Hillbillies
Guess Who
Canned
American Woman
Share the Land
Genesis
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Dragnet -- Grotesque -- Hex Enduction Hour
Pink Flag -- Chairs Missing -- 154 (yes I know other people have mentioned it but one can't mention it enough)
A Love Supreme -- The John Coltrane Quartet Plays -- Ascension
Weed Forestin -- The Freed Man -- III
He Went There So Why Don't We Go -- Across the Room and Into Your Lap -- There Was An Elk
The Velvet Underground & Nico -- White Light/White Heat -- The Velvet Underground
Roman Candle -- Elliott Smith -- Either/Or
Sell Out -- Tommy -- Live at Leeds

― Douglas, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Big-time agreement on the Kate Bush, Cure and Big Star picks.

American Music Club - California/Everclear/Mercury
XTC - Drums & Wires/Black Sea/English Settlement
XTC - Skylarking/Oranges & Lemons/Nonsuch
John Cale - Fear/Slow Dazzle/Helen Of Troy
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes/Under The Bushes

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

...Baby One More Time/Oops!...I Did It Again/Britney

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

3 in a row is hard. Here are my suggestions:

_Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me_, _Disintegration_, _Wish_ (really, I can't support _Seventeen Seconds_ as an album even though selected songs on it are godlike)
_Construction Time Again_, _Some Great Reward_, _Black Celebration_ (I think that's right, anyway)
_Around The World In A Day_, _Parade_, _Sign O' The Times_ (you have no idea how hard that was for me)
_Come Visit The Big Bigot_, _Bad Mood Guy_, _Rotund For Success_
_I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits_, _Kooler Than Jesus_, _Confessions Of A Knife_
_99%_, _Satirycon_, _Subliminal Sandwich_
_Orbital 2_, _Snivilization_, _In Sides_

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Black Tie, White Noise - Buddha of Suburbia - Outside
Perfect Perscirption - Playing With Fire - Dreamweapon
Paris 1919 - Fear - Slow Dazzle - (Helen of Troy)
Tago Mago - Ege Bamysi - Future Days

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Gish - Siamese Dream - Mellon Collie

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Half Alive - Suicide - Suicide 2
Power, Corruption & Lies - LowLife - Brotherhood

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha I was going to say New Order was exempt from this because they've been incapable of releasing three good albums in a row!)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Throwing Muses/Fat Skier/House Tornado

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

black box recorder - the facts of life - passionoia

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

neil young, several times. Sonic Youth. Can. Michael Gira. Vic Chesnutt. Tower Recordings.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

RTX: Thank You, Sweet Sixteen, Accelerator. Best. Trilogy. EVER. (Plus, they represent the '60s, '70s, and '80s, doncha know.)

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

It's also tough to beat Chronic Town (if EPs count) - Murmur - Reckoning.

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Monday, 10 March 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Genesis:
Foxtrot
Selling England By The Pound
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

2. Crowded House
Temple Of Low Men
Woodface
Together Alone

3. XTC
Skylarking
Oranges And Lemons
Nonsuch

4. Depeche Mode
Construction Time Again
Some Great Reward
Black Celebration

Those beat even Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt. Pepper

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Parade/Sign 'o' the Times/The Black Album

Bold of Matos not to begin a Prince stretch w/ Purple Rain

How about:

Super Roots 7/ Super Ae/ Vision Creation Newsun

Systemisch/ 94diskont/ Dok

The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle/ Born to Run/ Darkness on the Edge of Town

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

is vision creation really good? never checked it out for some reason.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Roger, it's great. I like Super Ae better but many would rate VCN as their best.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

cool. i love super ae but will check out VCN right away.

and speaking of Super Ae: don't you wish they kept that chanty thing going on longer? that 'a-you-ni-ay-abee-o-bee' thing with the hand drums? that could have gone on forever.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The Replacements - Let It Be, Tim, Pleased To Meet Me.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

gee bee vee: propellor - vampire on titus - bee thousand

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

and speaking of Super Ae: don't you wish they kept that chanty thing going on longer? that 'a-you-ni-ay-abee-o-bee' thing with the hand drums? that could have gone on forever.

Maybe it will after we die.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

I can only assume it was because it's just too obvious that Stevie Wonder's five-for-fucking-five '72-'76 hasn't been mentioned.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto to wyndham re gary numan (except for the "AND THEN NOTHING GOOD EVER AGAIN" remark). i'd also throw in self-titled tubeway army before replicas, but that's just me

others fer me:

freak out!/absolutely free/we're only in it for the money
something else/village green preservation society/arthur
their satanic majesties request/beggar's banquet/let it bleed/sticky fingers/exile on main street
station to station/low/"heroes"/lodger/scary monsters (and super creeps)
here come the warm jets/taking tiger mountain (by strategy)/another green world
my aim is true/this year's model/armed forces/get happy!!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 11 April 2003 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Tommy or George Best / Bizarro / Sea Monsters

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 11 April 2003 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure / Stranded / Country Life
AND
Manifesto / Flesh & Blood / Avalon
Echo & the Bunnymen: (Crocodiles) / Heaven Up Here / Porcupine / Ocean Rain
AND
Evergreen / What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? / Flowers
Don't know if this would count but Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures / Closer / Still
OMD: OMD / Organisation / Architecture & Morality
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: The Good Son / Henry's Dream / Let Love In
AND
The Boatman's Call / No More Shall We Part / Nocturama
Bowie: Low / Heroes / Lodger
Japan: Quiet Life / Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin drum
David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees / Gone To Earth / Secrets Of The Beehive
Stranglers: La Folie / Feline / Aural Sculptures
Fun Lovin' Criminals: Come Find Yourself / 100% Colombian / Loco
Charlatans: Charlatans / Tellin' Stories / Us And Us Only
Shed Seven: Changegiver / A Maximum High / Let It Ride

That's all I can think of right now.

― Tijn, Friday, 11 April 2003 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

i forgot one of my favorite 60's groups Mandrake Memorial. Their albums just got better and better culminating in Puzzle their psych masterpiece.

― scott seward, Sunday, 10 August 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

MTV Hits had
"Never Leave You" then "No Let-
ting Go" then Sean Paul

all right in a row!
but it was "Like Glue" not "Get
Busy" so screw that

they couldn't even
hit a diwali riddim
trifecta. morons.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 10 August 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Three Dollar Bill Y'all --> Significant Other --> Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Popozao" --> "Lose Control" --> "America's Most Hated"

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't say these are "good / better / best", more just a solid run of three studio records:

Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted / Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain / Wowee Zowee
Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen / Black Love / 1965
Arab Strap: The Read Thread / Monday At The Hug & Pint / The Last Romance
Mogwai: Young Team / Come On Die Young / Rock Action
Hood: Cycle of Days & Seasons / Cold House / Outside Closer
Yo La Tengo: Electropura / I Can Hear The Heart / And Then Nothing...

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Add to that:

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Spanish Dance Troupe / The Blue Trees / How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'd extend the Hood and Mogwai lists to four, myself.

(also, have SFA not been mentioned yet?! and ELBOW TO FUCKING THREAD)

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Fakebook --> Painful --> Electropura --> I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One --> And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

= 5 great albums in a row

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel
= 3 great albums in a row

Love it To Death/Killer/School's Out/Billion Dollar Babies
= 4 great albums in a row

Runt/Ballad Of Todd Rundgren/Something Anything?/A Wizard, A True Star/Todd
= 5 great albums in a row

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

The first Utopia album ain't too shabby either.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

The Doledrums/Worn Copy/House Arrest/The Next One
= 4 great albums in a row

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel
= 3 great albums in a row

So/Us/Up is a way better sequence of albums. Only the melted face one can compare with those three.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno

wish you were here, animals, the wall

being there, summerteeth, yankee

countdown to ecstasy, pretzel logic, katy lied

bringing it all back home etc. yes

nick drake, yes indeed

my arms, your hearse, still life, blackwater park

agree with katatonia mentioned way upthread

mule variations, alice, real gone (sorta cheating)

the three new pornographers records are a nice succession

murmur, reckoning, fables

kyuss from blues for the red sun

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

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