I was thinking about this. There are so many times when a band or singer/writer has put out two sh*t-hot albums back to back.
Like
Sticky Fingers - Exile on Mainstreet
Highway 61 Revisited - Blonde On Blonde
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

allthroug not a songwriter Himself but
There are these to kickass albums from Elvis
Tv special´68-from Elvis in memphis´69



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Beggars Banquet-Let It Bleed...
Rubber Soul-Revolver


JR

Tommy / Who's Next

Murmur/Reckoning

Toys In The Attic / Rocks

Zeppelin I / Zeppelin II

Da Capo / Forever Changes

Fifth Dimension / Younger Than Yesterday

This Year's Model / Armed Forces

Cheap Trick / In Color

I Should Coco / In It For The Money

Definitely Maybe / (What's The Story) Morning Glory

Different Class / This Is Hardcore

Experience / Axis / Electric L - Jimi
Stooges / Funhouse
southern / amorica - crowes

C

Darkside of the Moon/Wish You Were Here
Arthur/Muswell Hillbillies
Who's Next/Quadrophenia
Sinatra SIngs for only the Lonely/Come Dance With Me
In the Wee Small Hours/Songs For Swingin Lovers

Shake Your Money Maker - Southern Harmoney and Musical Companion
High Voltage - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - Let There Be Rock
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors - Tusk
Slippery When Wet - New Jersey
Graceland - Rhythm of the Saints
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Pyromania - Hysteria
Core - Purple
Sap - Facelift
Mechanical Resonance - the Great Radio Controversy

Doors-Strange Days
Four: In Rock-Fireball-Machine Head-Made In Japan
Nightlife-Fighting or Bad Reputation-Black Rose (in-beteeen Live & Dangerous?)
tSOOL's first and second album
Kö Kövön-Ómen ... P Box
Gas III-Stakkels Jim ... Gasolin'
Cohens two first albums

Really the Stones own this category! For the Beatles, I'd put Abbey Road - Let It Be, but look at the Stones run here...

Beggars Banquet - Let It Bleed - Ya-Yas - Sticky Fingers - Exile

Is it any wonder this is the golden age of the band? That's five in a row - surely no other band comes close.

But then they re-emerge and almost do it again:

The London Years - Flashpoint - Voodoo Lounge - Stripped

After the Gold Rush - Harvest
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago II
The J Geils Band - The Morning After - Full House

Gish - Siamese Dream - Mellon Collie and the I S

We got most of the big names out of the way. Maybe still Springsteen or Bowie.
Ziggy Stardust - Al;ladin Sane
Transformer - Berlin
Electric Warrior - The Slider
After The Goldrush - Harvest
1999 - Purple Rain
Every Picture Tells.. - Never a Dull Moment
Carwheels on a Gravel - Essence

The Stones certainly have had their Golden Era but I don't think they own it. That's sort of the point: many artists hit these runs. Like Springsteen
The Wild The Innocent - Born To Run - Darkness At the Edeg - The River - Nebraska - Born in the USA. That was quite a stretch.
I was wondering about some not so wellknown acts. Like Elliott Smith, or Nick Drake. Nick Cave, Ryan Adams.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Now see, CD, I hardly ever pay the Wild or Darkness...

I'd go Born in the USA - Tunnel of Love, The Rising - Seeger Sessions

VoodooLounge13 Wrote:
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> Now see, CD, I hardly ever pay the Wild or
> Darkness...
>
> I'd go Born in the USA - Tunnel of Love, The
> Rising - Seeger Sessions


I think you're out of sequence Voodoo because somewhere between Tunnel and The Rising is the piece of shite (at least in my opinion) The Ghost of Tom Joad.

Here's some impressive ones:

Bob Dylan:
1.BringingItAllBackHome/Highway61Revisited/BlondeOnBlonde/JohnWesleyHarding/NashvilleSKyline
2.PlanetWaves/BloodOnTheTracks/Desire/StreetLegal/SlowTrainComing
3.TimeOutOfMind/Love&Theft/ModernTimes

Bowie:
StationToStation/Low/Heroes/Lodger/ScaryMonsters

Whats going on
Decembers Children
Nashvile skyline
pet sounds
the girls in love with you Aretha Franklin
Bob Marley Babylon by bus...the Love you live from Bob Marley!!!

WMiller,
I meant them as 2 separate back to backs - sorry. Born in the USA/Tunnel of Love and then The Rising/Seeger Sessions

U2
Unforgettable fire-Joshua Tree

Duran DUran - Rio

GnR - Appetite For Destruction - Use your illusion

(can u tell i was a teenager in the 80's)



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I like Erik's the best, but here's another:


American Beauty/Workingman's Dead (Grateful Dead)

Allman Brothers Band/Idlewild South (these were later combined to make one double album called Beginnings)

Astral Weeks/Moondance

actually U2 had a good run too...

Unforgettable Fire - Joshua Tree - Rattle & Hum (my personal fave) - Achtung Baby - and you know a lot of people dis Zooropa but I kinda liked it. Though I don't listen to it as much as the others, so I guess it wouldn't count LOL

WMiller Wrote:
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> VoodooLounge13 Wrote:
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> > Now see, CD, I hardly ever pay the Wild or
> > Darkness...
> >
> > I'd go Born in the USA - Tunnel of Love, The
> > Rising - Seeger Sessions
>
>
> I think you're out of sequence Voodoo because
> somewhere between Tunnel and The Rising is the
> piece of shite (at least in my opinion) The Ghost
> of Tom Joad.


The Ghost Of Tom Joad...? Shitty ? The shitty ones would be Lucky Town and Human Touch from 1992.

Strange list anyway...when mentioning Bruce in this thread, the obvious run would be
Born To Run - Darkness On The Edge Of Town - The River - Nebraska.

And, thanks, Lukester !

Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers/Exile
Sly & The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On/Fresh
Marvin Gaye What's Goin' On/Let's Get It On
The Meters The Meters/Look A Py Py
VU Velvet Underground & Nico/WHite Light/White Heat
Bob Dylan HWY 61/Blonde On Blonde
The Band Music From Big Pink/The Band
The Doors Morrison Hotel/LA Woman
David Bowie Young Americans/Station To Station
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones/Rain Dogs
Bo Diddley Bo Diddley/Go Bo Diddley
Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/Lady Soul
Stooges Fun House/Raw Power
Iggy The Idiot/Lust For Life
The Clash London Calling/Sadinista!
Radiohead OK Computer/Kid A
LOu Reed Transformer/Berlin

cosmoprim....where you been? good to have ya' back

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> cosmoprim....where you been? good to have ya'
> back

Thanks Lukester, good to be back.

I checked in a couple of days ago to see what was kicking around, saw a "list" thread, couldn't help myself, had to jump back in.

....I knew the list would lure you back

Allman Brothers / Idewild South / At Fillmore East / Eat a Peach / Brothers and Sisters

Outside of every Stones albuum to come out...

DEPECHE MODE "Music For The Masses" - "Violator"
AC/DC "Highway To Hell" - "Back In Black"
U2 "The Unforgettable Fire" - "The Joshua Tree"
STEVIE WONDER "Talking Book" - "Innervisions"
FLEETWOOD MAC "Rumours" - "Tusk"

harlito1969 Wrote:
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> Outside of every Stones albuum to come out...
>
> DEPECHE MODE "Music For The Masses" - "Violator"
> AC/DC "Highway To Hell" - "Back In Black"
> U2 "The Unforgettable Fire" - "The Joshua Tree"
> STEVIE WONDER "Talking Book" - "Innervisions"
> FLEETWOOD MAC "Rumours" - "Tusk"


I'd definately go for acdc but Let there be Rock - Powerage
What about Alice Cooper - Schools out - Billion Dollar Babies

VoodooLounge13 Wrote:
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> WMiller,
> I meant them as 2 separate back to backs - sorry.
> Born in the USA/Tunnel of Love and then The
> Rising/Seeger Sessions


Gotcha!

Dylan's triple whammy of Bringing It All back Home-Highway 61 Revisited-Blonde on Blonde (which was a double), plus a couple of killer non-album singles all in the space of 15 months in 1965-66 is unsurpassed IMO. I could add The Basement Tapes (unreleased until 1975) and John Wesley Harding - both recorded in 1967 for good measure

Then in the 70's, another back to back of Blood on The Tracks-Desire (and arguably Street Legal two years late)

The Stones' back to back of Sticky Fingers-Exile in the space of 12 months would be the only other act who runs that close for great albums in such a short time frame. add in Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed which preceded them.

Bruce's golden quartet of The Wild, The Innocent/Born To Run/Darkness on the edge of town/The River is up there too (1973-80). Nebraska (1982) as well I suppose. I think the standard dipped dramatically with Born In the USA.

The Who's pair of Whos' Next followed by Quadrophenia (1971-73)


some others ;
Neil Young - On the Beach/Tonights the Night/Zuma (1974-75)
Beatles - Rubber Soul/Revolver (1965-66)
Lou reed - Transformer/Berlin (1972-73)
Bowie - Lodger/Scary Monsters (1979-80)
Johnny Cash's American Recordings series (1993 - 2000). the first 3 anyway.
red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication/By The Way (1999-2002)
Bob Marley - Burnin'/Catch A Fire (1972-73)

Dylan's current run of three as well, although theres 9 years between them!