Top Five In A Row : Albums

[Gabriel Girard]

Dunnyman's topic obviously inspired me to start this one.

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin 1
Led Zeppelin 2
Led Zeppelin 3
Led Zeppelin 4
Houses Of The Holy

Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A changing
Another Side Of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde

You could also throw in The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline in there.

The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out
Exile On Main St.

Frank Zappa
Anything he did between 1966-1978 which is about 20 albums!

Metallica
Kill Em All
Ride The Lightning
Master Of Puppets
...And Justice For All
Black Album

[Dunnyman]

The Kinks:
Kink Kontroversy
Face To Face
Something Else
Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur

[Dan Mancini]

Pearl Jam:
10
Vs.
Vitalogy
No Code
Yield

Miles Davis:
Bags' Groove
Workin'
Steamin'
Relaxin'
Cookin'

Ramones:
Ramones
Leave Home
Rocket to Russia
Road to Ruin
End of the Century

Frank Zappa:
The Grand Wazoo
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe (')
Roxy and Elsewhere
One Size Fits All

[Gabriel Girard]

Miles Davis:
Bags' Groove
Workin'
Steamin'
Relaxin'
Cookin'

To that I'd add:
Miles Smiles
Sorcerer
Filles De Kilimandjaro
Miles In The Sky
Nefertiti

You can also throw in In A Silent Way,Bitches Brew,Tribute To Jack Johnson and On The Corner.

Frank Zappa:
The Grand Wazoo
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe (')
Roxy and Elsewhere
One Size Fits All

You add to chose didn't you?

[Gabriel Girard]

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master Of Reality
Vol.4
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Bonus: Sabotage

[cdouglas]

The Beatles
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The White Album

Van Morrison
Astral Weeks
Moondance
His Band and the Street Choir
Tupelo Honey
Saint Dominic's Preview

Elton John
Tumbleweed Connection
Madman Across the Water
Honky Chateau
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Nebraska
Born in the USA

[Steve T Power]

The Sex Pistols... wait... I think I did that wrong...

[JoshRode]

The Sex Pistols... wait... I think I did that wrong...

Well...you could link 'em to PIL to get up to four.

[Gabriel Girard]

AC/DC
High Voltage
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheep
Let There Be Rock
Powerage
Highway To Hell

Bonus: Back In Black

[Mach6]

U2:
War
The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Achtung Baby

Bonus: Zooropa (What can I say; I liked Numb, Lemon, Stay, etc. It was a radical departure from the classic U2 sound, but Bono & Co. made it work. The same obviously can’t be said for the lousy Pop album.)

[JoshRode]

U2:
War
The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Achtung Baby

Bonus: Zooropa (What can I say; I liked Numb, Lemon, Stay, etc. It was a radical departure from the classic U2 sound, but Bono & Co. made it work. The same obviously can’t be said for the lousy Pop album.)

I would probably back up 2 and add Boy and October and stop before RaH. Although I do love me some Achtung.

REM - They were great before they became boring
(subtracting the B-side DLO and "best of" Eponymous")

Life's Rich Pageant
Document
Green
Out of Time
Automatic for the People

And they actually made it 8 great albums in a row with Murmur, Reckoning, and Fables of the Reconstruction to start.

[Steve T Power]

Sam Roberts (or The Sam Roberts Band if you prefer)
- The Inhuman Condition
- We Were Born in a Flame
- Chemical City
- Love at the End of the World
- Collider

[stypee]

Who said R.E.M. got boring? You must die a horrible death! You shall listen to Rebecca Black's Friday for the rest of your life!

Here's mine:

R.E.M.

Murmur
Life's Rich Pageant
Accelerate
Fables of The Reconstruction
Green

Bonus: Honestly, this is an impossible list for me to make, they are my favorite band of all time. There are only two albums in their catalog that I can't listen to from start to finish, although, of course, there are at least a few tracks I really like... The one's that get few plays are Around the Sun and Monster

U2

The Joshua Tree
October
Achtung Baby
War
How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb TIED B/W THIS AND
The Unforgetable Fire

I have to give brief mention to All That You Can't Leave Behind Beuatiful Day in my opinion is the feel good song of the century.

Side note: What's the deal with No Line On The Horizon? Maybe 2 good tracks, 3 at best.. Most boring album ever made! I saw the 360 tour back in 2009. I had wanted to see U2 since I was a kid, I finally got the chance, paid 150 bucks for the worst seats ever and experienced the dullest concert tour they probably ever perfomend with a neat looking and expensive stage.. Bono even forgot lyrics to Unforgetable Fire!

ACK!

i have more lists, just to lazy to make them right now

[Dan Mancini]

Kurt Elling:
Close Your Eyes
The Messenger
This Time It's Love
Flirting with Twilight
Live in Chicago
Man In the Air
Nightmoves
Dedicated to You
The Gate

I realize I'm cheating, but dude hasn't made a less-than-awesome record yet.

[Paul Kile]

The Byrds -

Mr. Tambourine Man
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Fifth Dimension
Younger Than Yesterday
The Notorious Byrd Brothers

These albums represent the pinnacle of their 12-String-driven Folk Rock era, and covers the full tenure of David Crosby (who was fired midway through production of The Notorious Byrd Brothers) and includes the great song writing of Gene Clark.

With subsequent albums, Roger McGuinn seemed to ignore the fact he and the Byrds had virtually invented the electric-Folk genre (whereas Bob Dylan was initially vilified when he added electric guitars to his albums). The group (what was left of it) veered off into country rock music, to the consternation of the conservative Nashville music establishment and the confusion of Byrds fans used to their earlier jangly folk and psychedelic sounds. Thankfully artists such as Johnny Marr, Susanna Hoffs, Peter Buck, and Tom Petty have kept the sound alive.

[Mach6]

Mach6 wrote:
U2:
War
The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Achtung Baby

Bonus: Zooropa (What can I say; I liked Numb, Lemon, Stay, etc. It was a radical departure from the classic U2 sound, but Bono & Co. made it work. The same obviously can’t be said for the lousy Pop album.)

I would probably back up 2 and add Boy and October and stop before RaH. Although I do love me some Achtung.

Boy & October are solid, yet I didn’t think they were as great overall as Achtung Baby. Rattle and Hum gets a bad rap because the movie/documentary was such a mess. (Whose idea was it to film some of it in that crummy Black & White?) If you ignore the movie, the actual songs & covers are pretty solid. Desire is one of my favorite U2 songs & I prefer the live versions of Pride & I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For to the recorded ones.

Side note: What's the deal with No Line On The Horizon? Maybe 2 good tracks, 3 at best.. Most boring album ever made!

It was actually worse than Pop?(!!) I didn’t buy or download any of the songs from the No Line On the Horizon album. The 1st single Get on Your Boots did nothing for me so I didn’t bother with it. As for the 360 tour, I'm sorry you got robbed on that one. I guess Bono half-assed it for that because his performance at the Rose Bowl on Blu Ray was incredible.

Who said R.E.M. got boring? You must die a horrible death! You shall listen to Rebecca Black's Friday for the rest of your life!

Ouch! Calm down, Stypee. Control that temper of yours. Not even Jack Bauer would approve of those enhanced interrogation techniques.

[Steve T Power]

U2... sigh.

They've had two albums since "The Joshua Tree" that i could consider somewhat redeemable. We need the old, humorless, classy U2 back - this pretentious (you called us pretentious so now we'll REALLY show you the meaning of the word) post Rattle n Hum U2 needs to die.

The closest they came to recapturing that magic was "All Thar You Can't Leave Behind", and even that had... shudder... Elevation...

[Gabriel Girard]

Who said R.E.M. got boring? You must die a horrible death! You shall listen to Rebecca Black's Friday for the rest of your life!

Here's mine:

R.E.M.

Murmur
Life's Rich Pageant
Accelerate
Fables of The Reconstruction
Green

Bonus: Honestly, this is an impossible list for me to make, they are my favorite band of all time. There are only two albums in their catalog that I can't listen to from start to finish, although, of course, there are at least a few tracks I really like... The one's that get few plays are Around the Sun and Monster

i have more lists, just to lazy to make them right now

Just a quick note in case you wanted to post more lists. This topic is about 5 albums that came after each other and were great. Not about your top 5. JoshRode's R.E.M list is actually closer to what we're looking for.

Siouxsie And The Banshees
The Scream
Join Hands
Kaleidoscope
Juju
A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

[JoshRode]

Mach6 wrote:
U2:
War
The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Achtung Baby

Bonus: Zooropa (What can I say; I liked Numb, Lemon, Stay, etc. It was a radical departure from the classic U2 sound, but Bono & Co. made it work. The same obviously can’t be said for the lousy Pop album.)

I would probably back up 2 and add Boy and October and stop before RaH. Although I do love me some Achtung.

Boy & October are solid, yet I didn’t think they were as great overall as Achtung Baby. Rattle and Hum gets a bad rap because the movie/documentary was such a mess. (Whose idea was it to film some of it in that crummy Black & White?) If you ignore the movie, the actual songs & covers are pretty solid. Desire is one of my favorite U2 songs & I prefer the live versions of Pride & I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For to the recorded ones.

Side note: What's the deal with No Line On The Horizon? Maybe 2 good tracks, 3 at best.. Most boring album ever made!

It was actually worse than Pop?(!!) I didn’t buy or download any of the songs from the No Line On the Horizon album. The 1st single Get on Your Boots did nothing for me so I didn’t bother with it. As for the 360 tour, I'm sorry you got robbed on that one. I guess Bono half-assed it for that because his performance at the Rose Bowl on Blu Ray was incredible.

Who said R.E.M. got boring? You must die a horrible death! You shall listen to Rebecca Black's Friday for the rest of your life!

Ouch! Calm down, Stypee. Control that temper of yours. Not even Jack Bauer would approve of those enhanced interrogation techniques.

Hehe. Rattle and Hum had good songs, but for every "Desire" there was a "Helter Skelter". But you're right, Achtung Baby was better than both Boy and October, and I'll even accede that RaH was good enough to warrant your list over mine.

And sorry, stypee, but REM lost something big when Bill Berry left.

[Mach6]

Queen:
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
News of the World
Jazz
The Game
I know I’m cheating a bit because Live Killers (1979) came out in between Jazz (1978) & The Game (1980). However, Live Killers was just all live concert versions without a single new song on the album. Yes, I also know that it looks like I’m contradicting myself since I listed Rattle & Hum in the U2 best 5 in a row. At least, Rattle & Hum had some new material on it. Besides, I was looking for any excuse or loophole to include an album (The Game) that had Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, & Play The Game on it.

Bonus: A Kind of Magic. The Queen soundtrack was easily the second best thing (Clancy Brown’s Kurrgan being # 1) in Highlander. It made the movie more epic than it deserved to be.

The closest they came to recapturing that magic was "All Thar You Can't Leave Behind", and even that had... shudder... Elevation...

I admit it. I love The Tomb Raider Remix of Elevation. I'm a sucker for the added Edge guitar riffs & solo. Please don't condemn me. I beg Steve, Stypee, or anybody else not to sentence me to watch the U2 Discotheque video for the rest of my life. U2 dressed up as The Village People is something I'm still trying to forget.

[Dunnyman]

The Byrds -

Mr. Tambourine Man
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Fifth Dimension
Younger Than Yesterday
The Notorious Byrd Brothers

These albums represent the pinnacle of their 12-String-driven Folk Rock era, and covers the full tenure of David Crosby (who was fired midway through production of The Notorious Byrd Brothers) and includes the great song writing of Gene Clark.
Thankfully artists such as Johnny Marr, Susanna Hoffs, Peter Buck, and Tom Petty have kept the sound alive.

My jangle rock friend, you simply MUST discover the work of the Velvet Crush. A non-musical friend listened to one of their CD's ages ago, turned to me and said, "it's like they're the second coming of the Byrds, aren't they?"

[Steve T Power]

The closest they came to recapturing that magic was "All Thar You Can't Leave Behind", and even that had... shudder... Elevation...

I admit it. I love The Tomb Raider Remix of Elevation. I'm a sucker for the added Edge guitar riffs & solo. Please don't condemn me. I beg Steve, Stypee, or anybody else not to sentence me to watch the U2 Discotheque video for the rest of my life. U2 dressed up as The Village People is something I'm still trying to forget.

It's not so much the tune itself that I can't stand, but the vocals... goddamn those wretched lyrics...

[Dimwitted]

Pink Floyd
DSoTM
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
A Momentary Lapse of Reason

[Dan Mancini]

Pink Floyd
DSoTM
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
A Momentary Lapse of Reason

You skipped The Final Cut, which kinda blows the whole list because, man, is that record a heaping pile of dookie. Also, A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a decent David Gilmour solo album, but it's never sounded much like Floyd to my ears (The Division Bell is another matter).

I'd go Meddle to The Wall.

[erich]

Although I like pretty much everything they do...

They Might Be Giants:
Apollo 18
Flood
John Henry
Lincoln
Mink Car

[Steve T Power]

Iron Maiden!
- Number of the Beast
- Piece of Mind
- Powerslave
- Somewhere in Time
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Probably one of the best album runs in hard rock/metal history. Even if (as a very longtime fan) i do prefer the "post-reunion" material.

[Dave Ryan]

Although I like pretty much everything they do...

They Might Be Giants:
Apollo 18
Flood
John Henry
Lincoln
Mink Car

Those aren't in a row.... And why no love for Factory Showroom?

[erich]

Although I like pretty much everything they do...

They Might Be Giants:
Apollo 18
Flood
John Henry
Lincoln
Mink Car

Those aren't in a row.... And why no love for Factory Showroom?

After the first three, it was tough to choose (I stand by Apollo 18 as their best). I could easily have swapped out Factory Showroom for Mink Car, or their first album for Lincoln. Really, it's all good.

[Gabriel Girard]

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Tender Prey
The Good Son
Henry's Dream
Let Love In
Murder Ballads


Sonic Youth
EVOL
Daydream Nation
Sister
Goo
Dirty