I assume most people would probably say that the BB/LIB/SF/EOMS run of 4 studio albums in a row is quite possibly their favorite of any band. What other combinations by the Stones or other artists would you also consider outstanding?

Some of my choices:

Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Peppers, MMT

Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Vol 4

Jethro Tull - Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick

Who - Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia

Yes - The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans

Undercover, Rewind, Dirty Work and Steel Wheels

Why not give these a shot:

JOHN HIATT
Bring The Family
Slow Turning
Stolen Moments
Perfectly Good Guitar

STEVE EARLE
Train A' Comin'
I Feel Alright
El Corazon
Transcendental Blues

THE POLICE
Outlandos
Regatta
Zenyatta
Ghost

Backstreet Boys
Millenium
Black and Blue (!!?)
Never Gone><

By the way I had to Google it........honestly!



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Huh? You want a hot run?


The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964)

Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)

Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Blonde on Blonde (1966)

The Basement Tapes (1967; rel. 1975)

John Wesley Harding (1967)

Nashville Skyline (1968)



Neil Young:

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

After The Gold Rush (1970)

Harvest (1972)

Depending on your point of view, you could round out the four with Neil Young (1969) on the front end or with Time Fades Away (1973) on the back end. (I don't count the Journey Through The Past soundtrack as it was by all accounts a Warner/Reprise scam on Neil.) You could also add CSNY's Deja Vu (1970) or Four Way Street (1971).

More than that, you could certainly argue that the run of great albums continues through On The Beach (1974) and Tonight's The Night (1975) and Zuma (1975).

How about twenty years later?

Freedom (1989)

Ragged Glory (1990)

Harvest Moon (1992)

Sleeps With Angels (1994)


PS:

Re: The Beatles, I would drip Magical Mystery Tour and add Help!

i agree with mostly what's here, especially john hiatt and steve earle

and would add;

tragically hip

up to here (1989)
road apples (1991)
fully completely (1993)
day for night (1994)

and for 3 in a row - blue rodeo

casino (1990)
lost together (1992)
five days in july (1993)

um the Stones. Pick any 4 prior to Undercover

Springsteen.
Asbury Park
Wild Innocent
Born to Run
Darkness

DAVID BOWIE / MICK RONSON

The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Alladin Sane

Some Girls
Emotional Rescue
Tattoo You
Undercover

The Doors
Strange Days
Waiting for the Sun
[ignore most of The Soft Parade]
Morrison Hotel

The Pixies:
Surfer Rosa
Doolittle
Bossanova
Trompe le Monde

The Smiths
Meat Is Murder
The Queen is Dead
Strangeways, Here We Come

REM:
Murmur
Reckoning
Fables
Life's Rich Pageant (my fave)

Bob Dylan:

Time out of Mind
Love and Theft
Modern Times
Together through Life

Pink Floyd - Meddle,Dark side,Wish you were here,Animals

Genesis - Nursery crime,Selling England,Foxtrot,Lamb lies

Kinks - face to face,Something else,Village green,Arthur,Lola,Muswell Hillibies

Rush - 2112,A farewell to Kings,Hemispheres,Permanent Waves,Moving pictures

Stranglers - Rattus norvegicus,No more heroes,Black & White,The Raven

Talking Heads - '77,More songs about,Fear of music,Remain in light

Here are some other albums than The Stones ones that came to my mind instantly...

THE BEATLES:
-Revolver / Sgt. Pepper / White Album / Abbey Road (+ Let It Be)
To me MMT is an EP and Yellow Submarine just a foolish soundtrack compilation

NEIL YOUNG:
-Time Fades Away / On The Beach / Tonight's The Night / Zuma
-Freedom / Ragged Glory / Harvest Moon / Sleeps With Angels (+ Mirrorball)

AC/DC:
-Let There Be Rock / Powerage / Highway To Hell / Back In Black (+ For Those About To Rock)

MIKE OLDFIELD:
-Tubular Bells / Hergest Ridge / Ommadawn / Incantations

BLACK SABBATH:
-Paranoid / Master of Reality / Vol 4 / Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

TRAFFIC:
-John Barleycorn Must Die / Welcome To The Canteen / The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys / Shootout At The Fantasy Factory

PINK FLOYD:
-Atom Heart Mother / Meddle / Obscured by Clouds / Dark Side Of The Moon / Wish You Were Here / Animals / The Wall / The Final Cut (that's 8 great albums in a row)

DEEP PURPLE:
In Rock / Fireball / Machine Head / Who Do We Think We Are

Finnish artists/bands:

J. KARJALAINEN & MUSTAT LASIT:
-Tatsum Tisal / Tunnussävel / Doris / Varaani

PEKKA POHJOLA:
-Pihkasilmä Kaarnakorva / Harakka Bialoipokku / Keesojen Lehto / Visitation + Kätkävaaran Lohikäärme

HURRIGANES:
-Roadrunner / Crazy Days / Hot Wheels / Tsugu Way (+ Hanger)

Lots of artists and bands with 3 great albums in a row but that's another story...

The Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia, Road To Ruin

Sufjan Stevens:
Greetings from Michigan
Seven Swans
Illinoise
The Age of Adz

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The Smiths
Meat Is Murder
The Queen is Dead
Strangeways, Here We Come

With Hatful of Hollow and The World Wont Listen in the same time period-what a band!

QUEEN
Queen
Queen 2
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night At The Opera

Really wanted to get Kate Bush in there as Never For Ever, The Dreaming and The Hounds of Love are all fantastic but the albums either side, Lionheart and The Sensual World are not quite of the same standard

The Clash, Give Em enough Rope, London Calling, Sandinista

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The Clash, Give Em enough Rope, London Calling, Sandinista

cut the crap!

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roundnround
The Clash, Give Em enough Rope, London Calling, Sandinista

Love the Clash, but Sandinista?
Really?

Count London Calling as a double

TODD RUNDGREN:
Something/Anything
A Wizard A True Star
Todd
Initiation

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE:
Surrealistic Pillow
Crown Of Creation
After Bathing At Baxters
Volunteers

JIMI HENDRIX
Are You Experienced
Axis Bold As Love
Electric Ladyland
Band Of Gypsies (well nearly a great album)

Alice Cooper:
Love it to Death
Killer
schools Out
Billion Dollar Babies

Elton John:

Madman Across The Water
Honky Chateau
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

(or you can start off with Tumbleweed Connection before Madman!)

Tom Waits:

swordfishtrombones
Rain Dogs
franks wild years
Bone machine

I have omitted the long deleted Night on Earth- which was a soundtrack album of mainly instrumentals, and Big Time which was a live album. Both were released between FWY and BM.

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i agree with mostly what's here, especially john hiatt and steve earle

and would add;

tragically hip

up to here (1989)
road apples (1991)
fully completely (1993)
day for night (1994)

and for 3 in a row - blue rodeo

casino (1990)
lost together (1992)
five days in july (1993)

Very nice picks! It's a shame The Hip never took off in the States.

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Elton John:

Madman Across The Water
Honky Chateau
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

(or you can start off with Tumbleweed Connection before Madman!)

And one could add

Caribou
Captain Fantastic and
Rock Of The Westies

"No Anchovies, Please"

One could also pick pretty much any 4 album run by J. Geils Band. I'll go with:

Monkey Island
Sanctuary
Love Stinks
Freeze Frame

This run would begin with "Blow Your Face Out" if live albums counted.

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Elton John:

Madman Across The Water
Honky Chateau
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

(or you can start off with Tumbleweed Connection before Madman!)

And the Elton John album! That would be 6 stunners in a row Jah Paul.

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS:
Burnin'
Natty Dread
Rastaman Vibration
Exodus

ISAAC HAYES
Hot Buttered Soul
To Be Continued
Black Moses
Shaft

JONI MITCHELL:
Blue
For The Roses
Court And Spark
Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Hejira

LOVE:
Love
Da Capo
Forever Changes
Four Sail

LITTLE FEAT
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
The Last Record Album
Time Loves A Hero

CAN:
Tago Mago
Ege Bamyasi
Future Days
Soon Over Babluma

AMON DUUL:
Yeti
Dance Of The Lemmings
Carnival In Babylon
Vive La Trance

ROD STEWART:
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Gasoline Alley
Every Picture Tells A Story
Never A Dull Moment

THE FACES:
First Step
Long Player
A Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Ooh La La



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Music From Big Pink

The Band

Stage Fright

Cahoots

and the Rock Of Ages live album

a good run there