3 favourite trilogies

[foq1978]

No particular order:

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Bryter Lyter, Pink Moon

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, Frank's Wild Years, Rain Dogs

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads, The Boatman's Call, No More Shall We Part (well, at least I see it as a trilogy, somehow).

There is also The Beatles – Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band -- but I don't think of them as a trilogy.

[zachoff]

Kill em All, Ride the Lightening, Master of Puppets

Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, Bug

Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by foq1978

There is also The Beatles – Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band -- but I don't think of them as a trilogy.

So how are you defining "trilogy"? I.e., what is there about those three consecutive Tom Waits albums that makes them any more of a part than those three consecutive Beatles albums?

[Hoover]

These three albums were genuinely conceived as a trilogy...which is a little weird, since they're by three different artists:

Robert Fripp - Exposure
Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
Peter Gabriel - II

[foq1978]

Originally Posted by Hoover

So how are you defining "trilogy"? I.e., what is there about those three consecutive Tom Waits albums that makes them any more of a part than those three consecutive Beatles albums?

Hum.. seemed natural to me, but I am not sure why.

"Frank's Wild Years" is a song on Swordfishtrombones. It turned into a play and album later. Rain Dogs is in the middle. I am not sure it is considered a trilogy -- maybe because the first one was a leap / change of direction in Tom's sonority, and the other two are somewhat similar in sound and ambience.

Well, Wikipedia's article on Rain Dogs says:

"Rain Dogs is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years.[1]"

Which is based on a review on Amazon.com "The middle album of the trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is Waits's best overall effort".

Anyway, I don't know why Rain Dogs would be his "best overall effort". All albums are pretty excellent to me...

[rappa29]

Star Wars Episode IV, V, VI
Lord Of The Rings, Fellowship, Two Towers, Return Of The King
Rocky I, II, III

[TC2112]

I would include Help along with Rubber Soul and Revolver if I were going to consider them a trilogy. Sgt Peppers was something completely different. For the record - those three, "Help", "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" (along with "Hard Days Night"), are my favorites from the Beatles. It was a perfect combination of the previous bubble gum pop, and the future psychedelia along with Paul's most melodic era and John's most witty and acerbic.

[foq1978]

hum... or maybe Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (White Album). Pushing too far?