The Best 3 Albums In a Row from a Band

[JackFlash]

RAMONES
Ramones
Leave Home
Rocket to Russia

Led Zeppelin
1, 2, and 3

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master of Reality

Beatles
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt Peppers

Rolling Stones
Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street



Stranglers
Rattus Norvegicus
No More heroes
Black & White

Jethro Tull
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
A Passion Play

David Bowie
Man Who Sold the World
Hunky Dory
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

Ultravox!
Ultravox!
Ha Ha Ha
Systems of Romance

New Order
Movement
Power Corruption & Lies
Low Life

Just a few or 10 trilogies....

 

[Ronnie Baby]

Enslaved - Below the Lights, Isa, Ruun

 

[Roylion]

Queen
For me:
- 'Queen II', 'Sheer Heart Attack', 'A Night At the Opera'

but the above three, added to 'A Day At the Races', 'News of the World', 'Jazz' and 'The Game' are Queen at their peak.

 

[volcboy]

Ministry
The Land of Rape and Honey
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Psalm 69

 

[KennyHuntersBlues]

Cold Chisel - East
Circus Animals
20th century

Jimmy Barnes - Bodyswerve
For the working class man
Freight train heart

Robbie Williams - Sing when you’re winning
Swing when you’re winning
Escapology

 

[footyfan1978]

Cold Chisel - East
Circus Animals
20th century

Came to mind straight away.
The Barking Spiders Live I think same year as 20th Century album so can probably count it too.
We were spoilt for great Aussie rock bands in early 80's.

ACDC
High Voltage, Highway to Hell and Back in Black would go close too.

Midnight Oil
Place Without a Postcard, 10 to 1 and Red Sails in the Sunset.


Overseas into the early and mid 80's to 1990 U2 had The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby

Van Halen probably had 2 good ones in a row but three probably not.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers 90's Funk Rock
Blood sugar Sex Magik,
One Hot Minute
Californication

Prince and his bands around Purple Rain album. Sign of Times from later 80's a brilliant album but more than 3 albums apart.

 

[Seeds]

Tool and arcade fire win this thread.

 

[caspian]

Tool and arcade fire win this thread.

Tool haven't even done one good album in a row.

Anyway, it's painfully (painfully) clichéd, but- Metallica's Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All. That's a hard, hard thing to beat. Three huge, genre defining albums in a row.

a close one would also be: Slayer- Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven


Other close ones-
Isis- Celestial, Oceanic, Panopticon,
Neurosis w/ Enemy of the Sun, Through Silver in Blood, Times of Grave

ACDC, Sabbath (any of the first 4), Motorhead, Priest's late 70's run, Maiden had 7 great albums in a row..

For non metal-related ones,
Sigur Ros's Agaetis- Takk was a fantastic run
Stars of the Lid from Ballasted Orchestra to their newest is one hell of a streak.
This Will Destroy You's Tunnel Blanket, Another Language, New Others Pt1&2 is also pretty mint...

When you think about it there's a surprising amount of extremely good bands that managed to keep the magic alive for a long old time.

I'm forever messing them up but the first three Cannibal Corpse albums were mental as well.

 

[Seeds]

Tool haven't even done one good album in a row.

Anyway, it's painfully (painfully) clichéd, but- Metallica's Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All. That's a hard, hard thing to beat. Three huge, genre defining albums in a row.

a close one would also be: Slayer- Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven


Other close ones-
Isis- Celestial, Oceanic, Panopticon,
Neurosis w/ Enemy of the Sun, Through Silver in Blood, Times of Grave

ACDC, Sabbath (any of the first 4), Motorhead, Priest's late 70's run, Maiden had 7 great albums in a row..

For non metal-related ones,
Sigur Ros's Agaetis- Takk was a fantastic run
Stars of the Lid from Ballasted Orchestra to their newest is one hell of a streak.
This Will Destroy You's Tunnel Blanket, Another Language, New Others Pt1&2 is also pretty mint...

When you think about it there's a surprising amount of extremely good bands that managed to keep the magic alive for a long old time.

I'm forever messing them up but the first three Cannibal Corpse albums were mental as well.

Sigur Ros album after agaetis was a bit weak and thus dont make this list. They are in the top 5 bands of all time though. Along with Tool who are arguably number 1. Tool are a level above all the other metal bands you mention including Metallica.

Good choice on Isis though. Great underrated band.

 

[Hoos]

The Rolling Stones

Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers

or...

Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main St

The Who

The Who Sell Out
Tommy
Who's Next

or...

Tommy
Who's Next
Quadrophenia

The Kinks

Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin III
Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV)

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Hoos]

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Vol.4 is no slouch either.

 

[00Stinger]

Muse - Absolution, Black holes & revelations & Resistance

RATM - RATM, Evil Empire & Battle for Los Angeles

 

[JackOutback]

Muse - Absolution, Black holes & revelations & Resistance

RATM - RATM, Evil Empire & Battle for Los Angeles

Probably need to go one back on Muse; Resistance was the beginning of their decline, IMO.

 

[00Stinger]

Probably need to go one back on Muse; Resisyanve was the beginning of their decline, IMO.

Yeah plenty of people don't like it but i reckon it was a great album.

And then the decline came

 

[00Stinger]

Pearl Jam - Ten, vs & Vitalogy

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

Hard to go past these 3.

 

[JackOutback]

Pearl Jam - Ten, vs & Vitalogy

That’s the gold standard for me.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Deftones
Adrenaline, Around the Fur, White Pony

 

[atlas1]

Blink 182 - Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Blink 182

 

[Marlowe]

 

[Madtiger2006]

OK Computer isn't a great album? You obviously haven't listened to it enough, it's as close to musical genius as I have come across. Only Tool's Aenima can rival it imo. Both those albums are mindblowing and are on another level to anything else I've heard.

The Bends and Kid A are both great albums too but suffer in comparison to OK Computer.

Radio head a so overrated lol. So are the 90s

 

[Norwegian Blue]

 

[U2tigers]

The Johua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Achtung Baby