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Studied Reading & Elementary Education at Russell Sage College (Graduated 1983)Updated Jun 8
Which rock band had the best three album run? That is a run of three straight great albums.
Some artists have more than three consecutive great albums in a row, so I’ve taken the three I believe are the strongest and put those others, before and after, in parentheses.
Todd Rundgren – (Runt, Ballad of TR) Something/Anything?, A Wizard A True Star, Todd (Initiation, Faithful, Hermit, Healing, TEPTAE)
Led Zeppelin – 1, 2, 3 (IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti)
Yes – (Time and a Word) Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge (Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going for the One)
Genesis – (Trespass) Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By the Pound (Lamb Lies Down, Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering)
The Who – (A Quick One) Sell Out, Tommy, Who’s Next (Live at Leeds, Quadrophenia)
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland (Band of Gypsies, Cry of Love)
Joni Mitchell – (Ladies of the Canyon) Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark (Hissing of Summer Lawns)
Steely Dan – (Can’t Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic) Katy Lied, Royal Scam, Aja
Beatles – (Help) Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper (Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles, Abbey Road)
Stones – (Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Satanic Majesties) Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers (Exile on Main Street)
XTC – (Go 2) Drums and Wires, Black Sea, English Settlement (Mummer, Big Express, Skylarking, Oranges and Lemons, Nonsuch)
King Crimson – Larks Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, Red
Clash – Clash, Give ’em Enough Rope, London Calling
Elvis Costello – (My Aim Is True) This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy (Trust, Imperial Bedroom)
Cream – Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire
The Mothers – Freak Out, Absolutely Free, We’re Only in it for the Money
The Kinks (1st run)- (Face to Face) Something Else, Village Green, Arthur (Lola vs Powerman, Muswell Hillbilies)
The Kinks (2nd run) – Sleepwalker, Misfits, Low Budget
Ramones – Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia (Road to Ruin)
David Bowie (1st run) – (Man Who Sold the World) Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane
David Bowie (2nd run) – (Station to Station) Low, Heroes, Lodger (Scary Monsters)
Mott the Hoople – Brain Capers, All the Young Dudes, Mott
Neil Young – (Neil Young) Everybody Knows, After the Goldrush, Harvest
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde
Traffic – Mr Fantasy, Traffic, John Barleycorn (Low Spark, Shoot Out)
Jethro Tull – (This Was) Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung (Thick as a Brick)
Queen – Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack (Night at the Opera)
Be Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish, Modern Music, Drastic Plastic
Groundhogs – Split, Who Will Save the World?, Hogwash
U2 – Boy, October, War (Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby)
The Police – Outlandos, Regatta, Zenyatta (Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity)
The Tubes – Remote Control, Completion Backward Principle, Outside Inside
Joe Jackson – Look Sharp, I’m the Man, Beat Crazy
The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette, The Black Album, Strawberries,
Buzzcocks – Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, A Different Kind of Tension (Singles Going Steady)
The Jam – All Mod Cons, Setting Sons, Sound Affects
Pretenders – Pretenders, Pretenders II, Learning to Crawl
Pink Floyd – (Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Obscurred by Clouds) Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here (Animals)
Elton John – Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the Water
Allman Brothers Band – Idewild South, Fillmore East, Eat a Peach (Brothers and Sisters)
Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park, Wild Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Born to Run (Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the USA)
Billy Joel – Turnstiles, The Stranger, 52nd Street (Glass Houses, Nylon Curtain)
Iggy Pop – (Lust for Life, The Idiot) New Values, Soldier, Party
Hall and Oates (1st run) – Abandonned Luncheonette, War Babies, H & O (silver)
Hall and Oates (2nd run) – Voices, Private Eyes, H2O (Big Bam Boom)
Prince – 1999, Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day
Velvet Underground – VU and Nico, White Light/White Heat, VU (Loaded)
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band and Street Choir (Tupelo Honey)
Simon and Garfunkel – Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Chicago – Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago II, Chicago III
The Band – Music from Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright
B-52s – B-52s, Wild Planet, Whammy!
Talking Heads – Talking Heads ‘77, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music (Remain in Light)
Blondie – (Plastic Letters) Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, Autoamerican
ELP – ELP, Tarkus, Pictures from an Exhibition (Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery)
CSN – Crosby Stills and Nash, Deja Vu, CSN
Van Halen – Van Halen, Van Halen II, Women and Children First
Dictators – Go Girl Crazy, Manifest Destiny, Bloodbrothers
Generation X – Generation X, Valley of the Dolls, Kiss Me Deadly
Tom Robinson – Tom Robinson Band, TRB II, Sector 27
PiL – Public Image, Metal Box, Flowers of Romance
Procol Harum – Procol Harum, Shine on Brightly, A Salty Dog (Home, Broken Barricades)
Roxy Music – Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded
Wishbone Ash – Wishbone Ash, Argus, Pilgrimage (Wishbone 4)
Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Threshold of a Dream
Magazine – Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel, PG II, PG III (Security)
Beach Boys – Sunflower, Surf’s Up, Holland
Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick, In Color, Heaven Tonight (Dream Police)
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