Inspired by the Bob Dylan thread yesterday, what's the BEST GODDAMN THREE ALBUM RUN in histroy?
I reckon one of the following:
Led Zeppelin: I; II; III
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are you experienced?; Axis: Bold as love; Electric Ladyland
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Wowee Zowee
Bob Dylan: Bringing it all back home; Highway 61 revisited; Blonde on Blonde
Kraftwerk: Trans Europe Express; The Man-Machine; Computer World
Neil Young: After the Goldrush; Harvest; On the Beach
Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush the show; It takes a nation of millions to hold us back; Fear of a black planet
A Tribe Called Quest: Peoples instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm; The low end theory; Midnight marauders
Sonic Youth: Sister; Daydream Nation; Goo
The Stooges: The stooges; Fun House; Raw Power
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico; White light/white heat; The Velvet Underground
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones; Rain Dogs; Frank's wild years
Pixies: Surfer Rosa; Doolittle; Bossanova
I'm not including live albums, ALRIGHT.
I've had to painfully disregard the claims of Fugazi, Flaming Lips, Godflesh, Dinosaur Jr, Slayer, Blur, Leonard Cohen. Minutemen and a host of others.
Easy
Radiohead: Bends; Ok Computer; Kid A
Any other answer is just wrong.
Leonard Cohen is the best FOUR album run in history:
Songs of; Songs from a Room; Songs of Love and Hate; New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
FTW!
* Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer
Classic DiS post
You missed
Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Aladdin Sane.
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me, To Bring you my Love, Is this Desire.
Bjork - Debut, Post, Homogenic
I'd probably go for PJ.
Hmm
The Cure - Head on the door, Kiss me kiss me kiss me, Disintegration
Springsteen
BORN TO RUN
DARKNESS
RIVER
(although the River is kind of the weak link here but I was listening to it this morning and it's a lot better than I remember it being)
Plus, Darkness on The Edge of Town has probably the best '3 song' run in history, so it has to be there.
Surely the best three-song run in history is on Thriller?
Beat It, Thriller, Billie Jean.
I'd go
E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Darkness
E street has rosalita and Asbury Park aaaand incident on 57th street HOW GOOD?!
...
The Beatles - Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour
The Kinks - Arthur, Lola vs Powerman & The Moneygoround, Muswell Hillbillies
More recently
Wilco - Being there, Summerteeth, Y.H.F
Low - Secret Name, Things we lost in the fire, Trust
with you on the Beatles Bamnan
good work
Beastie Boys
Pauls Boutique - Check Yer Head - Ill Communication... nuff said
Super Furry Animals
Radiator – Guerrilla - Mwng
ooh I'd have
gone with Fuzzy logic, Radiator, Guerrilla.
It is the Bob trilogy though
All other 'good runs' are let down a bit. Or something. You're a massive twat, one post boy.
easy
How many bands can tout an amazing six album run?
The Doors
Strange Days
Waiting For The Sun
The Soft Parade
Morrison Hotel
L.A. Woman
Remember: Live albums don't count
but then "Absolutely Live" is amazing!
The Doors
were not not very good.
careful
your ignorance is showing.
No one will notice it
It's tucked neatly under your colossal incorrectness.
^POTD!
^ FUPOTD!
it's says hey, looky, I'm an idiot too. good one!
Oooh, you big bitch!
ColdGlassEye 1 RueTheDay 0
Honestly
I can't throw your Leonard Cohen 4 album run claim back in your face (I wish I could), but you throwing my Doors' 6 in mine on the basis that they "were not very good" is lame, weak, ingnorant and very, very incorrect. Frankly, I feel silly defending The Doors, as if The Doors need defending. Bye
The Doors need plenty of defending!
A few killer songs do not a great band make. A self-obsessed self-aggrandising junkie "poet" does not a great band make. A misplaced belief that you are the Lizard King does not a great band make.
I've listened to most of the albums on that list and they generally follow the same pattern: 20% good/great, 80% self-indulgent toss.
If you mixed them all up and shook them about a bit you'd have one great album (and 20% left for b-sides), but that's it.
They weren't the worst band ever; far from it. But they might be the most overrated ...
... oh, he's gone.
Don't worry
You are still correct.
What!
I like the doors, but there is no fucking way Waiting For The Sun or The Soft Parade are amazing albums....
I pity you ^
no comment.
i'd say...
belle & sebastian: tigermilk, sinister, arab strap.
although dylan does probably win... not only entirely brilliant with hardly a duff track, but so massively influential too.
oh...
good shouts on bjork and beastie boys too.
Prince...
1999
Purple Rain
Around the World In a Day
Or,
Around the World In a Day
Parade
Sign Of the Times
Tortoise
Millions Now Living....
TNT
Standards
Don't get much better then that....
Animal Collective
Sung Tongs
Feels
Strawberry Jam
Oh and
Talking Heads (for me):
More songs about buildings and food
Fear of Music
Remain in Light
and
Brian Eno (solo joints):
Hear come the warm jets
Taking tiger mountain
Another green world
talking heads
yesyesyes
Led Zepp have the best 4 album run in history
Led Zep I - IV
anyway other great 3 album runs:
Radiohead - Bends, Ok Comp, Kid A
The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper
Queens of the Stone Age - QOTA, Rated R, Song for the Deaf
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie
Mogwai - Ten Rapid, young team, CODY
is ten rapid
strictly speaking an album???
These things are important to me...
making a substitution
you could argue about ten rapid being an album, eitherway i fyou're going to disqualify me on that count I'd still say that Young Team, CODY and Rock Action represents a decent 3 record run
Good recovery
I like the way you clearly had 'Rock Action' warming up on the bench ready to come on at a moments notice. Good play.
Elvis Costello
My Aim Is True
This Year's Model
Armed Forces
That's pretty flawless.
^
yes... yes!!!
And thrice yes!
Best. Elvis. Ever.
Hell yes on Elvis Costello!
I'm listening to armed forces today!
dEUS : WCS, In A Bar, Ideal Crash
(my sister = my clock isn't an album)
Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
(plus Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out....but that's live)
The best album run in history.
um liek
Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road.
That's like 7.
If you weren't such a hopeless Beatle Fan;
I'd accuse you of stating the obvious.
yeah
but the white album's really bad!
True dat.
Anything with Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da on it ... <shudder>
Still a great album though
even though it has a few turkeys on it. Ob-la-di is nothing how about Piggies, Revoloution 9 and Good Night.
I knew there were reasons I never listened to it.
It really frustrates me. What a single album it would have made. Silly billies.
dear lord
help him
Its not.
I don't think its amazing, but there are some career defining moments on that record.
Dear Prudence
Mother Nature's Son
Long Long Long
Cry Baby Cry
Martha My Dear
Everbody's got something...
Helter Skelter
Yer Blues
Julia
Blackbird
Its no Magical Mystery Tour, but its better than anything most people could ever dream of doing. And I love Ob la di ob la da, because I love Paul McCartney and his constant optimism, especially when its juxtaposed against the suicidal complaining from Lennon - which is somehow SO much cooler.
The White Album
is probably my favourite Beatles album.
That or Abbey Road.
7 yes, but not all great
unlike that Stones run where each one is an absolute classic.
Bucks Fizz
Bucks Fizz
Are You Ready?
Hand Cut
Stick your Beatles and your Dylan up your fudgetunnel.
sigur ros
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takk
i thank you.
actually no
i change my vote
eluvium
he's never made a song that's anything less than amazing.
yes, eluvium.
Circle Takes The Square
'As The Roots Undo'
The album they'll release later this year.
The album they'll release in a few years time.
i reckon...
dylan's 7 album run from freewheelin' to john wesley harding takes a big dump on any run of beatles albums. you could even extend that run to 8 and include nashville skyline... i would, 'cause i love it, but i know it's not necessarily that popular with other folk.
anyway: dylan > beatles
RZA/Wu Tang
'Enter 36 Chambers'
'Tical'
'Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version'
'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx'
'Liquid Swords'
'Iron Man'
'Wu-Tang Forever'
...plus RZA did the Gravediggaz album amongst that lot too.
That's the best run ever.
I don't know about best in history
But the following are all pretty good:
Bob Dylan: As already mentioned
Elbow: Cast of Thousands, Leaders of the Free World, The Seldom Seen Kid
PJ Harvey: Dry, Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love
Radiohead: The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A (and er..Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows as well I guess)
The Delgados: The Great Eastern, Hate, Universal Audio
Super Furry Animals: Guerilla, Rings Around the World, Phantom Power
Blur: Blur, 13, Think Tank
Wilco: Summerteeth, YHF, A Ghost Is Born
SFA
I would say Fuzzy Logic, Radiator, Guerrilla, Mwng
Rings Around The World was a massive misstep in my opinion.
It's one of my favourite albums of the decade
Massive misstep? No chance.
Why restricting Dylan to just 3?
Sure, those mark out a clear "period" in his music, but if we're talking runs of good albums:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde
John Wesley Harding
That's a run of 7 albums, each of which on their own would be enough to retire on. Nashville Skyline isn't bad either, but not really a classic, and it's only with Self Portrait that things went to shit.
Also, his debut is a damn fine covers record. So we're talking 9 albums of good to great, but 7 of music-changing genius.
^^^^^That is 7 fucking immense albums on the trot....
I also really like Nashville Skyline!
I don't think any other band/musician even comes close to this run.
They all give a little something different and each has at least 2/3 classic/masterpiece tracks on it.
Im a major Dylan fan
and indeed this is an amaing run, but im still maintaining The Fall run from Dragnet to Bend Sinister (9 releases) remains the longest run of classics.
ummmm
Wire: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
PIL: First Issue, Metal Box, Flowers of Romance
Bowie: The Berlin albums! This hasn't been said yet has it? Quite surprised
Ahh c'mon, its The Pogues!
'Red Roses For Me'
'Rum Sodomy and the Lash'
'If I Should Fall From Grace With God'
AND Teenage Fanclub
'Thirteen'
'Grand Prix'
'Songs From Northern Britain'
I could conceivably listen to nothing other than:
Fevers and Mirrors
Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
4 albums of absolute genius.
Mr Thewarn
Neil Young shouldn't really count, at least those three albums anyway.
I'd nominate him anyway but
On The Beach, Tonight's The Night, Zuma
Also
The Replacements: Let It Be, Tim, Pleased To Meet Me
Ryan Adams: Strangers Almanac, Pneumonia, Heartbreaker
Husker Du: Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig
Lightning Bolt
Ride the Skies; Wonderful Rainbow; Hypermagic Mountain.
Yup.
An obvious choice I haven't seen above
The Smiths
Meat Is Murder
The Queen Is Dead
Jawbreaker: Bivouac, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, Dear You
Samiam: Clumsy, You are freaking me out, Astray
The Levellers: Weapon called the word, Levelling the land, The Levellers (Srsly)
Actually...final answer:
The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen, Black Love, 1965
good call
Green Day FTW
Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac!
Queens of the Stone Age -
S/T, Rated R, SFTD
Q And Not U - No Kill No Beep, Different Damage, Power
Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart, Zen Arcade, New Day Rising
Fugazi - Red Medicine, End Hits, The Argument (though you could pick nearly any Fugazi records in a row for this.
with Husker Du
I'd go Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig
Like Fullerov did.
yep
beatles: rubber soul, revolver, sgt pepper
radilolhead: ok computer, kid a, amnesiac
doesnt matter about anyone else
^
This can be the only right answer to this thread
Shit man
Can't believe no-one's mentioned 'Pink Flag', 'Chairs Missing', and '154' by Wire. 1977, 1978, 1979... three immense albums that heralded post-punk.
Someone did mention it
_pip a couple of posts above
That'll learn me
To not be hammered at 9pm.
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