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[JimK]

Alice Cooper
Love it To Death
Killer
School's Out
(Again a 4 pack could be created by adding Billion Dollar Babies)

Deep Purple
In Rock
Fireball
Machine Head
(This could be made a 4-pack by including Made in Japan, which is in the middle--but as I wasn't counting live albums at first I didn't list it that way initially)

You stole my thunder with these...although Billion Dollar Babies, IMO, has three tracks I am no fan of-
"Sick Things"
"I Love The Dead"
"Mary Anne"

 

[JimK]

Mountain:
Mountain (Leslie West solo, but c'mon, it's Mountain)
Climbing!
Nantucket Sleighride

Allman Brothers:
S/T
Idlewild South
Eat a Peach

Entire post...nice ones, all.
Just wanted to add Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On in there. Loved that album back in the day.

Allman Bros?
Too, At Fillmore East (1971) preceeded Eat A Peach (1972).

 

[JimK]

Santana

Santana
Abraxas
Santana III

 

[D.M.N.]

Entire post...nice ones, all.
Just wanted to add Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On in there. Loved that album back in the day.

Allman Bros?
Too, At Fillmore East (1971) preceeded Eat A Peach (1972).

Dah, how could I forget At Fillmore East!

And yes, the road goes ever on is great as well. I've been listening to a lot of Mountain recently, transcribing some of their songs. Felix is way underrated (though I think the same could be said for the whole band)

 

[mellowinman]

Santana

Santana
Abraxas
Santana III

They almost did it again with any three of

Amigos
Festival
Moonflower
Inner Secrets
Marathon

but there's just one or two tracks that don't quite make it on each, with the exception of Moonflower, which I could listen to from front to back a million more times.

 

[Lee Moses]

Steamin' was the 4th one in that set.

As far as when they were recorded. . . . But according to Wikipedia (could be wrong), Steamin' was not released until 1961, 2 years after Workin' and Kind of Blue.

 

[jerry]

I agree with a bunch already mentioned, I'll add:
Weather Report: Mysterious Traveler
Tale Spinning
Black Market
Heavy Weather

 

[J Gold]

billy joel...the stranger, 52nd Street, and glass houses

 

[mpdd]

iron maiden - top 3 or bottom 3, i guess
number of the beast
piece of mind
powerslave
somewhere in time

 

[Tony In Philly]

Strawbs:

Grave New World
Bursting at the Seams
Hero and Heroine

 

[JimK]

As far as when they were recorded. . . . But according to Wikipedia (could be wrong), Steamin' was not released until 1961, 2 years after Workin' and Kind of Blue.

Yeah, definitely recorded. IIRC, Miles was leaving Prestige (for Columbia)...he owed Prestige 4 more albums...so, basically he assembled his guys & knocked out Cookin', Relaxin, Workin' & Steamin'.
According to Wiki, all 4 were recorded in 1956 (on May 11 & October 26).

 

[One Drop]

Never thought I'd come up with so many, but there you are:

Talking Heads- '77, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, Remain In Light (4!)

Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy, Another Green World

Velvet Underground: VU and Nico, White Light White Heat, The Velvet Underground

Elvis Costello: Already named, but I'll go with: My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces

Wailers: Catch a Fire, Burnin', Natty Dread, Rastaman Vibration (another quartet)

 

[Tbone76]

My picks:

1-Pearl Jam

Ten
Vs.
Vitalogy

2-The Smashing Pumpkins

Gish
Siamese Dream
(Either)-Pisces Iscariot (B-side EP)
(Or)-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

3-Soundgarden

Badmotorfinger
Superunknown
Down on the Upside

 

[Hamlet7768]

2112, Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres

Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace under Pressure

Those are the only two sets I can think of offhand.

 

[Lee Moses]

Yeah, definitely recorded. IIRC, Miles was leaving Prestige (for Columbia)...he owed Prestige 4 more albums...so, basically he assembled his guys & knocked out Cookin', Relaxin, Workin' & Steamin'.
According to Wiki, all 4 were recorded in 1956 (on May 11 & October 26).

I guess I assumed this thread was talking about consecutive releases. Many artists record material that isn't released until much later in their careers, or even after their careers are over.

 

[JimK]

I guess I assumed this thread was talking about consecutive releases.

I think you're correct...

 

[Jack Butler]

 

[tangentmusic]

Blue Oyster Cult
Tyranny and Mutation
Secret Treaties
On your Feet or on Your Knees
Agents of Fortune

Kansas
Masque
Leftoverture
Point of Know Return

 

[skydogg]

Going back a ways, but I'd add XTC

Drums and Wires
Black Sea
English Settlement

 

[bswag]

OK on the Sabbath, but I'd go for the fiver and add "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" as well.

Zeppelin? The first four albums for sure.

Rolling Stones? "Beggars Banquet" through "Exile" works for me!

I'll add Joy Division, even though they only made two proper albums- "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer." But those two are still better than a lot of folk's best three!

And um, how about ol' Bob Dylan? "Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 Revisited," "Blonde on Blonde," and "John Wesley Harding" all qualify as essential- and "Blonde" is a double, so Bob gets a fiver! And more recently, "Love and Theft," "Modern Times," and "Together Through Life" make a solid three-pack.

Jimi Hendrix!!! The three studio records, through "Electric Ladyland" (another double!) are first-rate all the way. For that matter, so are the posthumous "Cry of Love" and "Rainbow Bridge" albums. Which leads to another category: largest number of great albums by deceased artists? OK, maybe we won't go there...

New Order- "Power Corruption and Lies," "Low-Life," "Brotherhood," and "Technique" are all solid work.

If we wander over to the Jazz aisle, there's a whole slew of folks with long winning streaks- Coltrane, Andrew Hill, Grant Green, and of course Miles Davis, off the point of my head...