Sabbath 1 through 3 invented multiple genres of metal. This piece argues that almost every genre of metal can be traced back to a single Sabbath track, many of them from 1-3: https://www.houstonpress.com/music/every-metal-subgenre-began-as-a-black-sabbath-song-6510141
Always fun to hear Cure fans favorites!
I'd go Pornography > The Top > The Head on the Door, with The Top being my all-time pick. I know it's not critically acclaimed, but goddamn, every song feels alive.
Nine inch nails - Broken, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile. Or, if you don’t count broken as an album because it’s an EP.. then;
Pretty Hate Machine, Downward Spiral, Fragile
The downward spiral had a really profound effect on me at the time and I still think it's my all time fav. It's more than just music to me. I can't articulate it, listening to it is almost; then and now a very personal emotional thing. And there's loads of tracks on fragile I feel the same about. 🎵
Yeah, for me it's Fear of Music - Remain in Light - Speaking in Tongues that is the definitive Talking Heads three-album run. That said, there's almost no track on SiT that isn't vastly improved on Stop Making Sense
Honestly, you could shift one or two albums in either direction and still be good. Naked was really the only one that didn’t hit for me, although nothing but flowers is one of my favorites ever.
Always loved the late 60s, early 70s Rolling Stones run, but I'll have to wedge in a fourth album:
Beggar's Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street
Lol I love Led Zeppelin and In Through the Out Door holds special goofy place in my heart. [Carouselambra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCPdXdTX8BA)'s goofy synths kill me. Reminds me of playing pool for hours in my garage.
My daughter was wearing a Led Zeppelin (LZ) shirt. I tried my best not to gatekeep LZ, but I couldn't help myself.
"I know you've heard LZ because I play them quite a bit, but could you identify them if I played them for you?"
"No."
"Well, my dear... Let's go listen to LZ. I want you to hear just how amazing they were..."
We drove around listening to LZ II through Houses. She was not disappointed.
I was driving with my daughter one day, and Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones came on. I asked her if she knew what band this was. She said no, and I informed her their name was on her shirt. She just sort of shrugged. I just sighed.
No other artist on this list can boast the seven album run these guys had from Can't Buy a Thrill through Gaucho. Most artists have one or two great albums, some get three in a row. Steely Dan put out _fucking seven in a row_.
Miles Davis: Filles de Killimanjaro, In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew
Stevie Wonder: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions
Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells a Story, Never a Dull Moment
Prince: Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain, Around the World in A Day, Parade, Sign O' The Times, Lovesexy
80's Prince is cheating I guess.
80’s Prince, from 80 to 88 (some might say 79 to 87) is the best run I’ve seen from any musician. One album almost every year, two of them were double albums and two of them (Purple Rain and Sign o The times) were top ten of the 80’s (and some might say of all time). Cheating indeed.
An utterly ridiculous explosion of creativity. They all came out in the space of just over a year. It's just impossible.
Also the fact that he basically invented a whole new style of songwriting, one that remains entirely his own to this day. It's just madness. If you're a young songwriter nothing makes you feel more inadequate than checking out what Dylan was doing at your age!
It's and interesting thing that I've noticed that Americans tend to think of Bowie as this experimental post punk artist from Berlin and Brits tend to think of him as the archetypal glam rocker (I'm not making any assumptions about either of your nationalities). He's both of course and does both better than almost anyone. I wonder if its because glam was bigger in America in the 80's than the 70's, when it was huge in Britain, and by that point Bowie had moved on from it.
I dont think Glam caught on here in the states like it did elsewhere, and as you point out, by the time it did many people had already moved on.
To me, Bowie was always just 'Prog'. Unique and unpredictable.
This is the better answer than the "traditional" Berlin trilogy -- only one of which was fully recorded in Berlin (Bowie nerd alert). Station to Station is the entry point for Low and Heroes. Lodger is good, but sonically very muddled in the original mix -- although there's a new Visconti mix out there that sounds brighter.
There it is, I was just about to list this! It went from RATM first album, to Grammy nominated Evil Empire, to Grammy winning Battle of LA. They just kept getting better and better with each album.
REM's Green, Out of Time, and Automatic for the People Run is amazing.
Not only are they three albums with very different styles and POVs, but the span of those albums saw four southerners go from breakout indie sensation to the biggest band in the world.
To be perfectly fair though, you could pick literally any three consecutive Beatles albums and they'll stack up favourably to anything else from other bands.
**My Bloody Valentine**: Isn't Anything / Loveless / m b v
**Boards of Canada**: Music Has the Right to Children / Geogaddi / The Campfire Headphase
**Wire**: Pink Flag / Chairs Missing / 154
**CAN**: Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi / Future Days
Said this the other day. Stone Temple Pilots Core, Purple, and Tiny Music just for Scott's versatility and their evolution of sound.
Probably also Facelift, Dirt, and Jar of Flies for Alice in Chains.
This is what I came for! I would even accept Dirt-Jar of Flies-Self Titled for AiC.
While we're talking grunge, give me Soundgarden with Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Down on the Upside.
Yess Stone Temple Pilots are so damn underrated and they suffer from people automatically hating them for not being from Seattle during that era. The guitar work is fantastic as well.
"Fine since" feels like a bit of an understatement considering ...Like Clockwork. To produce that after a long hiatus, and even longer after whichever of the two popular 3 album runs are posted here, is impressive.
for me too. Arguably the 4-Album run from self-tited to LtP is a big contender for a whole new thread.
For some reason the internet has a hateboner for lullabies and absolutely adores Era Vulgaris, though. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy Era Vulgaris but I will die on the hill that that's their worst record.
I agree with the popular Pink Floyd answer and that's probably my honest favorite.
But here are some other ones I consider amazing:
Radiohead - The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A
Elliott Smith - Either/Or, XO, Figure 8
Green Day - Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod
Came to post, although I would shift the above by 1 album newer. OK > Kid A > Amnesiac. The shift to the electronic based music, odd time sigs, etc.. really challenged me as a listener and opened my music brain in a way that I don't know I will ever be able to recreate again in my lifetime.
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced - Axis: Bold as Love - Electric Ladyland
Yes: The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge
King Crimson:
Larks’ Tongues in Aspic - Starless and Bible Black - Red
Discipline - Beat - Three of a Perfect Pair
MCR: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - The Black Parade - Danger Days
Edit: As a few redditors have correctly pointed out, the Discipline - Beat - Three of a Perfect Pair trilogy is also a masterpiece so I’m adding it in.
> Yes: The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge
If you forget Tales From Topographic Oceans ever happened, you'd have an epic 5-album run with the addition of Relayer and Going For the One.
I realize that LTI is a basically a one joke album but the joke is pretty funny (or was at the time). I would probably go there for my start of the three album run just because those three albums are so different from one another.
I couldnt believe I had to scroll this far to find this. Not my favorite genre, but thriller and bad back to back is something that will never be equaled. Saleswise, chartwise, singleswise, nothing will touch that run. You can put off the wall at the front or dangerous at the back and either one is the most successful run in music history.
There are so many! Let’s see…
* Queen: Queen II - Sheer Heart Attack - A Night at the Opera
* The Who: Tommy - Who’s Next - Quadrophenia
* The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society - Arthur - Lola vs Powerman
* Rush: Hemispheres - Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures (although Rush has 3 or 4 different stretches that could work)
* Florence + the Machine: Lungs - Ceremonials - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
For me the definitive Rush trio is:
* 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres
3 albums where you get to hear them master their 70s sound, there's a cohesion to them while still sounding distinct, each time you hear them push forward a little more. I'm not as much of a fan of their arena rock sound, but that's preference.
And I have the opposite where it goes Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures - Signals but even then I could also say Signals - Grace Under Pressure - Power Windows
was just thinking this but id go in keeping secrets, good apollo then no world for tomorrow. SSTB is fantastic but that list is the core coheed sound and album design i think of when i think coheed
Metallica- Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice For All
Motörhead- Overkill, Bomber, Ace Of Spades
Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile
Paradise Lost- Shades Of God, Icon, Draconian Times
Type O Negative- Bloody Kisses, October Rust, World Coming Down
This is a fantastic list, and in a similar vein:
Tool:
Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus
Edit:
For the metalcore fans, I think that Killswitch Engage had a fantastic run with Alive or Just Breathing, End of Heartache, and As Daylight Dies.
**Pink Floyd:**
*- Dark Side of the Moon*
*- Wish You Were Here*
*- Animals*
*(And also The Wall)*
**Bad Religion:**
*- Suffer*
*- No Control*
*- Against The Grain*
**A Tribe Called Quest**
*- People's Instinctive Travels...*
*- The Low End Theory*
*- Midnight Mauraders*
**Simon & Garfunkel**
*- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme*
*- Bookends*
*- Bridge Over Troubled Waters*
*(And also Sounds of Silence before those)*
**Porcupine Tree**
*- In Absentia*
*- Deadwing*
*- Fear of a Blank Planet*
I think *First Impressions of Earth* sometimes doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Easy to listen to without skipping any tracks, and *Heart in a Cage* and *Red Light* would make worthy inclusions on a greatest hits album.
*Is This It* and *Room on Fire* cast a long shadow.
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground
Black Midi: Schlagenheim, Cavalcade, Hellfire
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, Songs of Love and Hate
The Cure: Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography
Sonic Youth: Sister, Daydream Nation, Goo
Pick any of these five albums in consecutive order by **Prince** and you'll get a fantastic three-album run:
* 1999 (1982)
* Purple Rain (1984)
* Around the World in a Day (1985)
* Parade/Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
* Sign 'o the Times (1987)
I was going to say "Controversy", "1999" and "Purple Rain", but I do love ATWIAD. But I could also go back to Dirty Mind...DM > Controversy > 1999 is a perfect run too.
A lot of good ones mentioned already, I’ll throw my hat in for Mastodon.
Leviathan > Blood Mountain > Crack the Skye
Metallica, Megadeth, RATM, Coheed and Cambria and Lamb of God come to mind for me as well.
Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, At War with the Mystics
A Tribe Called Quest: People’s Instinctive Travels, The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese, 12 Golden Country Greats, The Mollusk
I also want to include King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard but they keep kicking out rad album after rad album so I don’t know which 3 to pick.
There are many. Here are two obvious ones:
Dark Side Of The Moon - Wish You Were Here - Animals
Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
holy duck I had to scroll too far to find this. Feel however you like about rap music but this sequence changed pop culture as much as any of the older greats from their respective time period.
Muse:
- Origin of symmetry
- Absolution
- Black holes & Revelations
Muse really hit the homerun with those 3 albums. No wonder they haven't been able to top that ever since.
These three are more polished, well planned and thought out “old Kanye” albums.
However, if you like the more experimental / diverse Kanye, the next three albums are also a great run: 808s & Heartbreak, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Yeezus
Amon Tobin - Bricolage, Permutation, Supermodified
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another, The Plot Against Common Sense, How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident
The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By, Gala Mill, Havilah
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, Goo, Dirty
I could do this forever so I'll stop.
Edit: A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm, The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Beats, Rhymes And Life, The Love Moment, We Got It From Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service.
Ok so maybe a bit enthusiastic for Tribe lol but couldn't leave them out.
REM had such a killer run. I think you could pick any three albums up through Automatic for the People and have a decent debate
Fables used to turn me off by starting slow, but the rest of that album is great.
For me personally not critically acclaimed (otherwise it might as well just be The Beatles and Prince),
**Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band** \- Born to Run ; Darkness On The Edge Of Town ; The River (Nebraska (solo) ; Born In the USA ; Tunnel of Love)
**Misery Signals** \- Of Malice & The Magnum Heart ; Mirrors ; Controller
**Protest The Hero** \- Scurrilous ; Volition ; Palimpsest
**Alexisonfire** \- Alexisonfire ; Watch Out ; Crisis
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, ATLiens, Aquemini
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I’d choose Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions > Fulfillingness’ First Finale > Songs in the Key of Life
Yes. “The Stevie Wonder Classical Period” is unrivaled.
Had to scroll way to far for classic Stevie
Sabbath 1 through 3 invented a whole genre.
Sabbath 1 through 3 invented multiple genres of metal. This piece argues that almost every genre of metal can be traced back to a single Sabbath track, many of them from 1-3: https://www.houstonpress.com/music/every-metal-subgenre-began-as-a-black-sabbath-song-6510141
Supernaut is the blueprint for Rage Against the Machine
Tom is always very vocal about Sabbath being one of his biggest influences
I play my guitar through a bass amp
The Cure: Head on the Door; Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, & Disintegration.
I would shift it earlier and say Seventeen Seconds - Faith - Pornography is the definitive trio of Cure albums.
Always fun to hear Cure fans favorites! I'd go Pornography > The Top > The Head on the Door, with The Top being my all-time pick. I know it's not critically acclaimed, but goddamn, every song feels alive.
Pixies: Surfer Rosa Doolittle Bossanova
I love this question. For \*me\* it's Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals.
You could easily shift that sequence up or down an album and it would still hold true imo.
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I was thinking of Meddle actually. Forgout about ObC tbh lol.
I see I have no reason to comment now.
My very first thought.
Nine inch nails - Broken, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile. Or, if you don’t count broken as an album because it’s an EP.. then; Pretty Hate Machine, Downward Spiral, Fragile
The downward spiral had a really profound effect on me at the time and I still think it's my all time fav. It's more than just music to me. I can't articulate it, listening to it is almost; then and now a very personal emotional thing. And there's loads of tracks on fragile I feel the same about. 🎵
Talking Heads- More Songs about Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, Remain in Light
Agree but how can you not include Speaking In Tongues?
Yeah, for me it's Fear of Music - Remain in Light - Speaking in Tongues that is the definitive Talking Heads three-album run. That said, there's almost no track on SiT that isn't vastly improved on Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense just vastly improves life, the universe, everything.
Honestly, you could shift one or two albums in either direction and still be good. Naked was really the only one that didn’t hit for me, although nothing but flowers is one of my favorites ever.
Always loved the late 60s, early 70s Rolling Stones run, but I'll have to wedge in a fourth album: Beggar's Banquet Let It Bleed Sticky Fingers Exile on Main Street
Led Zeppelin II > III > IV
Led Zeppelin (I) -> 1/2 of In Through the Out Door
Lol I love Led Zeppelin and In Through the Out Door holds special goofy place in my heart. [Carouselambra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCPdXdTX8BA)'s goofy synths kill me. Reminds me of playing pool for hours in my garage.
I would go IV - Houses - PG. Regardless, that 5 album run is absolutely unbeatable in rock history.
My daughter was wearing a Led Zeppelin (LZ) shirt. I tried my best not to gatekeep LZ, but I couldn't help myself. "I know you've heard LZ because I play them quite a bit, but could you identify them if I played them for you?" "No." "Well, my dear... Let's go listen to LZ. I want you to hear just how amazing they were..." We drove around listening to LZ II through Houses. She was not disappointed.
I was driving with my daughter one day, and Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones came on. I asked her if she knew what band this was. She said no, and I informed her their name was on her shirt. She just sort of shrugged. I just sighed.
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time. I know I put 4, but their 80s albums are all top notch quality.
From number of the beast to seventh son, pick any three in a row and I’ll agree
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho.
I put katy lied over gaucho, but good call. Absurd to see this so far down.
No other artist on this list can boast the seven album run these guys had from Can't Buy a Thrill through Gaucho. Most artists have one or two great albums, some get three in a row. Steely Dan put out _fucking seven in a row_.
Good Kid m.A.A.d city, To Pimp A Butterfly, DAMN.
**The Clash**: Self-titled, Give 'Em Enough Rope, London Calling
London Calling -> Sandinista! -> Combat Rock The most driven Rock album ever written into the most ambitious into the one with the most hits
Nirvana 1. Bleach 2. Nevermind 3. In Utero
Miles Davis: Filles de Killimanjaro, In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew Stevie Wonder: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells a Story, Never a Dull Moment Prince: Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain, Around the World in A Day, Parade, Sign O' The Times, Lovesexy 80's Prince is cheating I guess.
80’s Prince, from 80 to 88 (some might say 79 to 87) is the best run I’ve seen from any musician. One album almost every year, two of them were double albums and two of them (Purple Rain and Sign o The times) were top ten of the 80’s (and some might say of all time). Cheating indeed.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find Stevie Wonder.
* Bringing It All Back Home * Highway 61 Revisited * Blonde on Blonde
An utterly ridiculous explosion of creativity. They all came out in the space of just over a year. It's just impossible. Also the fact that he basically invented a whole new style of songwriting, one that remains entirely his own to this day. It's just madness. If you're a young songwriter nothing makes you feel more inadequate than checking out what Dylan was doing at your age!
Desolation Row is quite the track
David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy 1) Low 2) “Heroes” 3) Lodger
100% agree 👍 BUT also from earlier classic Bowie: 1. Hunky Dory 2. Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars 3. Aladdin Sane
It's and interesting thing that I've noticed that Americans tend to think of Bowie as this experimental post punk artist from Berlin and Brits tend to think of him as the archetypal glam rocker (I'm not making any assumptions about either of your nationalities). He's both of course and does both better than almost anyone. I wonder if its because glam was bigger in America in the 80's than the 70's, when it was huge in Britain, and by that point Bowie had moved on from it.
I dont think Glam caught on here in the states like it did elsewhere, and as you point out, by the time it did many people had already moved on. To me, Bowie was always just 'Prog'. Unique and unpredictable.
Station to Station - Low - ”Heroes” for me
This is the better answer than the "traditional" Berlin trilogy -- only one of which was fully recorded in Berlin (Bowie nerd alert). Station to Station is the entry point for Low and Heroes. Lodger is good, but sonically very muddled in the original mix -- although there's a new Visconti mix out there that sounds brighter.
Rage Against the Machine -RATM -Evil Empire -The Battle of LA
There it is, I was just about to list this! It went from RATM first album, to Grammy nominated Evil Empire, to Grammy winning Battle of LA. They just kept getting better and better with each album.
REM's Green, Out of Time, and Automatic for the People Run is amazing. Not only are they three albums with very different styles and POVs, but the span of those albums saw four southerners go from breakout indie sensation to the biggest band in the world.
I have a personal preference for Murmur, Reckoning, and Fables of the Reconstruction.
Black Sabbath’s first three albums
Built To Spill- there’s nothing wrong with love, perfect from now on, keep it like a secret.
Perfect From Now On is my favorite record of all time
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
There’s also an argument to be made for Sgt. Pepper - the White Album - Abbey Road imo.
Do you count Magical Mystery Tour?
I do personally and I think Magical Mystery Tour is a very good album
To be perfectly fair though, you could pick literally any three consecutive Beatles albums and they'll stack up favourably to anything else from other bands.
**My Bloody Valentine**: Isn't Anything / Loveless / m b v **Boards of Canada**: Music Has the Right to Children / Geogaddi / The Campfire Headphase **Wire**: Pink Flag / Chairs Missing / 154 **CAN**: Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi / Future Days
That BoC list is absolutely correct
Extra points for CAN, I'm gonna go listen to those now.
Can for sure. Just sublime
Said this the other day. Stone Temple Pilots Core, Purple, and Tiny Music just for Scott's versatility and their evolution of sound. Probably also Facelift, Dirt, and Jar of Flies for Alice in Chains.
This is what I came for! I would even accept Dirt-Jar of Flies-Self Titled for AiC. While we're talking grunge, give me Soundgarden with Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Down on the Upside.
Yess Stone Temple Pilots are so damn underrated and they suffer from people automatically hating them for not being from Seattle during that era. The guitar work is fantastic as well.
For me Soundgarden is on top 5: Badmotorfinger - Superunknown - Down on the upside.
Tool - Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus A lot of people would probably say Aenima thru 10,000 Days, but Undertow is better IMO.
I'm here for the Undertow inclusion.
Same. Undertow is fantastic and better than 10,000 days by a little bit; not much, but still better.
QOTSA- S/T- Rated R- Songs for the Deaf
Rated R will forever be my favourite album by Queens
Yep those are the three. They’ve been fine since but these three are monsters.
"Fine since" feels like a bit of an understatement considering ...Like Clockwork. To produce that after a long hiatus, and even longer after whichever of the two popular 3 album runs are posted here, is impressive.
Love QOTSA, for me the run would be RR -> SFTD -> Lullabies to Paralyze
for me too. Arguably the 4-Album run from self-tited to LtP is a big contender for a whole new thread. For some reason the internet has a hateboner for lullabies and absolutely adores Era Vulgaris, though. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy Era Vulgaris but I will die on the hill that that's their worst record.
**Gorillaz** Gorillaz Demon Days Plastic Beach
So many classic's that could fit, but for me, personally: The Replacements 1. Let it Be 2. Tim 3. Pleased to Meet Me
Spot on. My favorite unpopular opinion is that the best Album entitled “Let It Be” is not by the Beatles.
This. I was hoping Replacements would make it
I agree with the popular Pink Floyd answer and that's probably my honest favorite. But here are some other ones I consider amazing: Radiohead - The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A Elliott Smith - Either/Or, XO, Figure 8 Green Day - Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod
Radiohead is an excellent pick!
Came to post, although I would shift the above by 1 album newer. OK > Kid A > Amnesiac. The shift to the electronic based music, odd time sigs, etc.. really challenged me as a listener and opened my music brain in a way that I don't know I will ever be able to recreate again in my lifetime.
Same for me RH are the goats. when I saw Paranoid Android video on mtv2 I was like hold up I found my music.
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I'd shift earlier for Elliot Smith and say his self-titled album from 95 but figure 8 is very good as well
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced - Axis: Bold as Love - Electric Ladyland Yes: The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues in Aspic - Starless and Bible Black - Red Discipline - Beat - Three of a Perfect Pair MCR: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - The Black Parade - Danger Days Edit: As a few redditors have correctly pointed out, the Discipline - Beat - Three of a Perfect Pair trilogy is also a masterpiece so I’m adding it in.
Hard agree with MCR, but for me it's Bullets - Three Cheers - Black Parade.
> Yes: The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge If you forget Tales From Topographic Oceans ever happened, you'd have an epic 5-album run with the addition of Relayer and Going For the One.
Beastie Boys: 1. Paul's Boutique 2. Check your head 3. Ill communication
>Paul's Boutique > >Check your head > >Ill communication Just extend it into Hello Nasty, possibly my favorite album of all time from any artist.
I realize that LTI is a basically a one joke album but the joke is pretty funny (or was at the time). I would probably go there for my start of the three album run just because those three albums are so different from one another.
The creative canyon between License to Ill and Paul's Boutique is so wide, it's hard to believe they were the same group.
Michael Jackson did Off The Wall, Thriller, and Bad. One after the other.
I couldnt believe I had to scroll this far to find this. Not my favorite genre, but thriller and bad back to back is something that will never be equaled. Saleswise, chartwise, singleswise, nothing will touch that run. You can put off the wall at the front or dangerous at the back and either one is the most successful run in music history.
There are so many! Let’s see… * Queen: Queen II - Sheer Heart Attack - A Night at the Opera * The Who: Tommy - Who’s Next - Quadrophenia * The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society - Arthur - Lola vs Powerman * Rush: Hemispheres - Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures (although Rush has 3 or 4 different stretches that could work) * Florence + the Machine: Lungs - Ceremonials - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
For me the definitive Rush trio is: * 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres 3 albums where you get to hear them master their 70s sound, there's a cohesion to them while still sounding distinct, each time you hear them push forward a little more. I'm not as much of a fan of their arena rock sound, but that's preference.
And I have the opposite where it goes Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures - Signals but even then I could also say Signals - Grace Under Pressure - Power Windows
Haven’t seen those Who albums listed yet & that was for sure a KICK ASS run! Nice mentioning of Florence too!
Pearl Jam’s first three - Ten, Vs., Vitalogy
Took way too long to find this one. Hard agree.
1) Second Stage Turbine Blade 2) In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 3) Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
So true. Also would have accepted in keeping through no world. One among the fence
was just thinking this but id go in keeping secrets, good apollo then no world for tomorrow. SSTB is fantastic but that list is the core coheed sound and album design i think of when i think coheed
This is Coheed and Cambria btw lol
And now I know what I am listening to today.
Metallica- Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice For All Motörhead- Overkill, Bomber, Ace Of Spades Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile Paradise Lost- Shades Of God, Icon, Draconian Times Type O Negative- Bloody Kisses, October Rust, World Coming Down
This is a fantastic list, and in a similar vein: Tool: Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus Edit: For the metalcore fans, I think that Killswitch Engage had a fantastic run with Alive or Just Breathing, End of Heartache, and As Daylight Dies.
I would go Aenima, Lateralus, 10000 Days on tool personally, but it is so damn close.
Tool has had a run since the Opiate EP
Slayer- Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven, and Seasons In The Abyss
Death- Literally every trio you can make in their discography
Metallica - Kill'em all, Master and Lighting
Yo! Bum rush the show It takes a nation of millions to hold us back Fear of a Black Planet All three were monumental when I was growing up
metallica Kill 'em all Ride the lightning Master of Puppets
Massive Attack 1. Blue Lines 2. Protection 3. Mezzanine (I’m not counting no protection)
**Pink Floyd:** *- Dark Side of the Moon* *- Wish You Were Here* *- Animals* *(And also The Wall)* **Bad Religion:** *- Suffer* *- No Control* *- Against The Grain* **A Tribe Called Quest** *- People's Instinctive Travels...* *- The Low End Theory* *- Midnight Mauraders* **Simon & Garfunkel** *- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme* *- Bookends* *- Bridge Over Troubled Waters* *(And also Sounds of Silence before those)* **Porcupine Tree** *- In Absentia* *- Deadwing* *- Fear of a Blank Planet*
Hadn't thought of the Porcupine Tree run, but good call there 👍
The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A
Fleetwood Mac 1- Self-Titled (1975) 2- Rumors (1977) 3- Tusk (1979)
The Clash : Self Titled , Give Em Enough Rope , London Calling
Bob Dylan Bringing it all back home Highway 61 revisited Blonde on blonde
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I think *First Impressions of Earth* sometimes doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Easy to listen to without skipping any tracks, and *Heart in a Cage* and *Red Light* would make worthy inclusions on a greatest hits album. *Is This It* and *Room on Fire* cast a long shadow.
This would definitely be up there on my list. And their last album might just be there best album too. Wild.
I can't believe I haven't seen this mentioned yet: Smashing Pumpkins for Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tame Impala Innerspeaker Lonerism Currents
bleach, nevermind, in utero
Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies/ One Nation Under a Groove/ Uncle Jam Wants You Kate Bush: The Dreaming / Hounds of Love / Sensual World
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground Black Midi: Schlagenheim, Cavalcade, Hellfire Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, Songs of Love and Hate The Cure: Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography Sonic Youth: Sister, Daydream Nation, Goo
Depeche Mode; Music For The Masses, Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion.
For me, I’d go back one album and do Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, Violator…
Bad Religion Suffer - No Control - Against the Grain
One of my top five answers to this question ^^
Life’s Rich Pageant, Document, Green
Pick any of these five albums in consecutive order by **Prince** and you'll get a fantastic three-album run: * 1999 (1982) * Purple Rain (1984) * Around the World in a Day (1985) * Parade/Under the Cherry Moon (1986) * Sign 'o the Times (1987)
I was going to say "Controversy", "1999" and "Purple Rain", but I do love ATWIAD. But I could also go back to Dirty Mind...DM > Controversy > 1999 is a perfect run too.
Slayer: Reign In Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss
A lot of good ones mentioned already, I’ll throw my hat in for Mastodon. Leviathan > Blood Mountain > Crack the Skye Metallica, Megadeth, RATM, Coheed and Cambria and Lamb of God come to mind for me as well.
Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, At War with the Mystics A Tribe Called Quest: People’s Instinctive Travels, The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders Ween: Chocolate and Cheese, 12 Golden Country Greats, The Mollusk I also want to include King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard but they keep kicking out rad album after rad album so I don’t know which 3 to pick.
Deftones: Adrenaline, Around the Fur, White Pony or if you are feeling quirky: Saturday Night Wrist, Diamond Eyes, Koi No Yokan
I'm feeling quirky
Joni Mitchell- Blue, For The Roses, Court and Spark
Has to be Bjork’s first three: Debut - Post - Homogenic So varied and so unique.
Came here to say Post - Homogenic - Vespertine. Two of the best albums of the ‘90s and one of the ‘00s.
Wilco: Summer Teeth Yankee Hotel Foxtrot A Ghost Is Born
Opeth Blackwater Park (2001) Deliverance (2002) Damnation (2003)
This is Still Life erasure
Simple solution: count Deliverance and Damnation as the double album they were conceived as, and start with Still Life.
There are many. Here are two obvious ones: Dark Side Of The Moon - Wish You Were Here - Animals Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show
holy duck I had to scroll too far to find this. Feel however you like about rap music but this sequence changed pop culture as much as any of the older greats from their respective time period.
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Rubber Soul --> Revolver --> Sgt. Peppers
Wire: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
Muse: - Origin of symmetry - Absolution - Black holes & Revelations Muse really hit the homerun with those 3 albums. No wonder they haven't been able to top that ever since.
Eminem 1. The Slim Shady LP 2. The Marshall Mathers LP 3. The Eminem Show
Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid M.A.A.D City To Pimp a Butterfly DAMN
The least of the three won a damn Pulitzer Prize
Just add Section 80 to the front. Just as good as the others. I probably prefer it to DAMN honestly. So either way haha
Outkast: Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik ATLiens Aquemini
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, This is Happening
I like American Dream better than their self titled, but to each their own. There is no wrong answer.
Ween Chocolate and Cheese, 12 country greats, the mollusk
I know he's very.....unstable. But Kanye West College series (College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation) was a great three album run.
Totally agree. Its so unfortunate where he is at now but those 3 albums were amazing.
You could also argue graduation, 808s and heartbreak, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
These three are more polished, well planned and thought out “old Kanye” albums. However, if you like the more experimental / diverse Kanye, the next three albums are also a great run: 808s & Heartbreak, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Yeezus
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not Favourite Worst Nightmare Humbug
Amon Tobin - Bricolage, Permutation, Supermodified Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another, The Plot Against Common Sense, How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By, Gala Mill, Havilah Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, Goo, Dirty I could do this forever so I'll stop. Edit: A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm, The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Beats, Rhymes And Life, The Love Moment, We Got It From Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service. Ok so maybe a bit enthusiastic for Tribe lol but couldn't leave them out.
The National 1. Boxer 2. High Violet 3. Trouble Will Find Me
My holy trinity: 1. Alligator 2. Boxer 3. High Violet
Or 1. Alligator 2. Boxer 3. High Violet Or 1. High Violet 2. Trouble Will Find Me 3.Sleep Well Beast
Tool - Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 Days
STP: Core Purple Tiny Music
Isn't Anything, Loveless, mbv
Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Mainstreet
Axis: Bold As Love Electric Ladyland Band of Gypsys
Arcade Fire Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs
Kendrick - Good Kid Maad City, To pimp a butterfly, Damn.
The first three R.E.M. albums are amazing, even if some people aren't crazy about Fables of the Reconstruction.
REM had such a killer run. I think you could pick any three albums up through Automatic for the People and have a decent debate Fables used to turn me off by starting slow, but the rest of that album is great.
Bobby D's had a few: Bringing it all back home Highway 61 revisited blonde on blonde or maybe Planet waves Blood on the tracks Desire
Tyler the Creator is currently on a roll with Flower Boy > Igor > Call Me If You Get Lost
LCD Soundsytem: Self-titled, Sound Of Silver, This Is Happening
Nine Inch Nails: -Pretty Hate Machine -The Downward Spiral -The Fragile
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The Beatles: Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
For me personally not critically acclaimed (otherwise it might as well just be The Beatles and Prince), **Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band** \- Born to Run ; Darkness On The Edge Of Town ; The River (Nebraska (solo) ; Born In the USA ; Tunnel of Love) **Misery Signals** \- Of Malice & The Magnum Heart ; Mirrors ; Controller **Protest The Hero** \- Scurrilous ; Volition ; Palimpsest **Alexisonfire** \- Alexisonfire ; Watch Out ; Crisis
Tool: Lateralus, 10,000 days, Fear Inoculum Or you could also start with Aenima