Greatest 3-record run by decade...

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This hurts bands like the Stones and the Clash who were at their best as one decade ended and another began. But you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. So, starting in the 1960s....

1960s
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home - Highway 61 Revisited - Blonde on Blonde

1970s
Wire: Pink Flag - Chairs Missing - 154

1980s
Husker Du: Zen Arcade - New Day Rising - Flip Your Wig

1990s
Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - Wowee Zowee

2000s
Drive-By Truckers
Southern Rock Opera - Decoration Day - The Dirty South

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

This leaves out Nick Drake! Bummer.

60's: Velvets - 1st 3
70's: King Crimson - Lark's Tongues thru Red
80's: The Fall - Perverted thru This Nation's...
90's: Beck - Mellow Gold > Stereopathetic > One Foot
00's: Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing thru Cripple Crow

just off the top of my head. I like this whole concept a lot.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

1950s, Miles Davis: Porgy & Bess; Kind of Blue; Sketches of Spain

1960s, Velvet Underground: VU with Nico; WL/WH; VU

1970s, Can: Tago Mago; Ege Bamyasi; Future Days

1980s, Sonic Youth: EVOL; Sister; Daydream Nation

1990s, Pavement: CRCR; Wowee Zowee; Brighten the Corners

2000s, Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian; Sung Tongs; Feels

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

1990s: Smashing Pumpkins: Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness

― digestion (digestion), Thursday, 27 October 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

60s: The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album.
70s: Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces.
80s: U2: Boy, October (very underrated), War.
90s: Pearl Jam: Vs., Vitalogy, No Code.
00s: White Stripes: De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant.

― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 27 October 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

60s: Kinks: Something Else, Village Green..., Arthur
70s: Roxy Music: s/t, For Your Pleasure, Stranded
80s: Smiths: Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, Strangeways...
90s: Super Furry Animals: Fuzzy Logic, Radiator, Guerrilla
00s: White Stripes: White Blood Cells, Elephant, Get Behind Me Satan

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 27 October 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

80s - Dexy's: SFTYSR, Too-Rye-Ay, Don't Stand Me Down

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

60s - Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde On Blonde
70s - Countdown To Ecstasy/Pretzel Logic/Katy Lied
80s - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac/*/Rembrandt Pussyhorse/Locust Abortion Technician
*Pretending the EP the Buttholes released between albums 1 and 2 doesn't count. If it DOES count, then I'll go with 1999/Purple Rain/Around The World In A Day instead.
90s - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted/Death Certificate/The Predator
00s - Yeah, right. Howbout The Yes Album/Fragile/Close To The Edge, 2003 remasters all?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

70s - stevie wonder - talking book/innervisions/fullfillingness first finale
80s - prince - around the world in a day/parade/sign o the times

― okok, Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

1970s - Kraftwerk - Autobahn/Radio-Activity/Trans-Europe Express/The Man Machine

― Ned T.Rifle, Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh crap, three records, I thought we were still doing that 4 record thing...

― Ned, Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

early 80's: rem - murmur, reckoning, fables

― venimdenim, Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

90s - tribe - people's instinctive travels..., low end theory, midnight marauders

― venimdenim, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

00s - califone - roomsound, quicksand/cradlesnakes, heron king blues

― venimdenim, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

60's The Beatles:
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

And not yest mentioned becasue of the decade overlap:

90's Radiohead
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A

― white dolemite (White Dolemite), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

someone should have put canon this list

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

can on, rather

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I would call the 90's for arto lindsay

mundo civilizado, noon chill, and prize

― b'angelo, Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

1950s: Frank Sinatra ("In The Wee Small Hours" through "Swing Easy")
1960s: The Beatles ("Rubber Soul" through "Sgt. Pepper")
1970s: Genesis ("Foxtrot" through "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway")
1980s: Depeche Mode ("Construction Time Again" through "Black Celebration")
1990s: XTC and Crowded House both ended excellent three album runs during this decade that started with 1-2 albums during the late 80s. The best exclusively 90s album run would probably be Dodgy ("The Dodgy Album" through "Free Peace Sweet")
2000s: Either Coldplay or Super Furry Animals. I think I'll go for the latter.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

50's: Louving Brothers (Nearer My God to Thee, The Louvin Brothers, Ira and Charlie)
60's: Kinks (Something Else, Village Green, Arthur)
70's: Badfinger (Magic Christian Music, No Dice, Straight Up)
80's: Replacements (Let It Be, Tim, Pleased to Meet Me)
90's: Dirty Three (Dirty Three, Horse Stories, Ocean Songs) or Smog (Doctor Came at Dawn, Red Apple Falls, Knock Knock)

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Louvin that is

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

60s: tie b/w Bob Dylan, Beatles, and Velvet Underground
70s: tie b/w Can, Pink Floyd, and David Bowie
80s: New Order
90s: tie b/w Massive Attack and Saint Etienne
pretty obvious which albums

― DJMonsterMo, Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Velvet Underground didn't release as much as three albums in the 60s, did they?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 October 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Despite not being completely thrilled with number 1, I'd vote for:

US Maple in the 90's

Long Hair In Three Stages
Sang Phat Editor
Talker

just by virtue of it being such a breathtaking progression.

― dlp9001, Friday, 28 October 2005 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

someone should have put canon this list

check my list brudda!

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 28 October 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

60s: Fairport Convention (Holidays, Unhalfbricking, Liege and Lief)
70s: King Crimson (Larks, Starless, Red)
80s: Peter Gabriel (3, Security, So)
90s: The Verve (Storm in Heaven, A Northern Soul, Urban Hymns)
00s: Sigur Ros (Agaetis, (), Takk)

― theo, Friday, 28 October 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

Geir - the first three Velvet Underground albums were all released in the sixties. :)

Seeing as Wire have already been mentioned, I nominate Todd Rundgren for his early '70s hat-trick (Something/Anything,A Wizard, A True Star, and Todd).

― Deluxe (Damian), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

60 dusty springfield
70 david bowie
80 madonna- madonna; like a virgin; true blue
90 saint etienne - fox base alpha, tiger bay; you need...
00 super furry animals - ratw; pp, lk.

― hub, Friday, 28 October 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

This is the worst thread in ILX history.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

You're not wrong. It's like all those Q/Mojo "100 best singer/album/whatever" "specials" rolled into one interweb thread of humungous k-suction.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a music discussion broke out in the staff-room between the humanities department

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's like if all those p.o.x. threads distilled all of the suction of ILM, then all of these "record run" threads further distill all of the suction of p.o.x. threads.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

This is the worst thread in ILX history.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), October 28th, 2005.

awww, c'mon! there've been plenty of Radiohead thread;)

― eedd, Friday, 28 October 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is worse than any Radiohead thread could ever be, unless it was "radiohead: P.O.(infinity sign) - list every rediohead recording chronologically w/o any commentary whatsoever"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

pashmina, yr just no rawk n' roll fun!!

just kiddin.
there's been plenty more fodder worthy threads than this...the TaTu one, fer instance.

― eedd, Friday, 28 October 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is genius. If you don't like it, you're rockist, republican and probably have body odor. So go eat some more cheetos and lay off.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

This hurts bands like the Stones

Doesn't hurt Stones at all. Their best three album run was "Aftermath" through "Their Majesties Satanic Request" in 66-67. They never ever bettered that three album run.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

60s = Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour (Rubber Soul if I can't have the MMT EP)
70s = Innervisions, Talking Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale
80s = Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad
90s = Of the Heart/Soul/Cross, The Bliss Album, Jesus Wept
00s = Bachelor No. 2, Lost in Space, The Forgotten Arm

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

60's: The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, Sweetheart of the Rodeo

70's: T. Rex – Electric Warrior, The Slider, Tanx

80's: The Cure – Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography

90's: Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies, Pure Phase, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space*

2000's: The Delgados – The Great Eastern, Hate, Universal Audio

*Could of put the Boo Radleys, anywhere from Giant Steps thru Kingsize but coming from me that was too obvious. ;-)

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 29 October 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

Well these aren't the greatest outside The Cure and maybe The Delgados but I was thinking flawless classic albums from their decade that should be mentioned that haven't been yet.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 29 October 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

90s
His Name is Alive
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Livonia
Home is in Your Head
Mouth By Mouth
(bonus: King of Sweet)

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

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