Best "runs of albums" by artists

Michael Jackson

Off The Wall
Thriller
Bad
Dangerous

Badfinger

Magic Christian Music
No Dice
Straight Up
Ass

The Cars

The Cars
Candy-O
Panorama
Shake It Up
Heartbeat City

The first 3 MJ albums are fantastic, but I've come to love Dangerous more and more through the years and think it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the first 3 albums. As for Badfinger, I really wanted to just say all of them, but their S/T Warners debut isn't that great, they went out with a bang with Wish You Were Here though. And those first 5 Cars albums, plus the "Tonight She Comes" single are pure pop/rock magic. And I agree on almost every post in this thread, some great music in those posts.

 

Weezer - Blue Album, Pinkerton, Green Album, Maladroit.

And then things went wrong.

 

Rush:

• 2112
• A Farewell to Kings
• Hemispheres
• Permanent Waves
• Moving Pictures
• Signals
• Grace Under Pressure

 

Rush: Fly By Night to Signals. That's an epic run.

 

As much I love the the 2nd & 3rd Albums by Radiohead & BLUR and most albums by Joe Jackson, I cannot string together 3 albums to include them on my list.

Peter Gabriel(everything from II-Scratch to Up)
NIN(Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, With Teeth)
Suede(ST, Dog Man Star, Coming Up)
Pulp(His 'N' Hers, Different Class, This is Hardcore)
Afghan Whigs(Gentlemen, 1965, Black Love)
Doves(Lost Souls, The Last Broadcast, Some Cities, Kingdom of Rust)
Tame Impala(Innerspeaker, Lonerism, Currents)
Supergrass(I Should Coco, In It for the Money, ST)
Smashing Pumpkins(Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore)
Tool(Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 Days)
XTC(9 Albums from Black Sea in 1980 to Wasp Star-Apple Venus Volume 2 in 2000)
Red Hot Chili Peppers(Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute, Californication)
The Smiths(ST, Hatful of Hollow, Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead, Strangeways Here We Come)
Morrissey(Your Arsenal, Vauxhall & I, Southpaw Grammar)
James(11 Albums from Seven in 1992 to Girl at the End of the World in 2016)
Porcupine Tree(Up the Downstair, The Sky Moves Sideways, Signify, Coma Divine, Stupid Dream)
Talking Heads(More Songs About Buildings & Food, Fear of Music, Remain in Light, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues, Stop Making Sense, Little Creatures)
The Police(Reggatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity)
Gene(Olympian, Drawn to the Deep End, To See the Lights, Revelations)
Siouxsie & the Banshees(The Scream, Join Hands, Kaleidoscope, Juju, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, Nocturne, Hyaena, Tinderbox)
The CURE(17 Seconds, Faith, Pornography)
The CURE(Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration, The Wish)
The CURE(Bloodflowers, ST, 4:13 Dream)
Echo & the Bunnymen(Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Porcupine, Ocean Rain)
Magazine(Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap)
Spiritualized(Lazer Guided Melodies, Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Let It Come Down)
David Bowie(Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Let's Dance)
David Bowie(Hours, Heathen, Reality, The Next Day, Blackstar)
The Who(Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia)
Pink Floyd(Meddle, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals)
Earth, Wind & Fire(Open Our Eyes, That's the Way of the World, Gratitude, Spirit, All 'N All, Faces, I Am, Faces, Raise)
Slave(The Hardness of the World, ST, The Concept, Just A Touch of Love, Stone Jam, Showtime)
Parliament(Mothership Connection, The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, Funkentelechy versus the Placebo Syndrome, Live-Funk Earth Tour, Motor Booty Affair)
Cameo(Cameosis, Feel Me, Knights of the Sound Table)
Gap Band(II, III, IV, V)
Fleetwood Mac(ST, Rumours, Tusk)
The Cars(ST, Candy-O, Panorama)
Stevie Wonder(Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, Songs in the Key of Life)
Genesis(Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
Rush(Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures)
Jefferson Airplane(Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters, Crown of Creation)
The Kinks(Something Else by the The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur Or the Deline & Fall of the British Empire, Lola Versus Powerman & the Moneygoround)

 

Caress of Steel? Naw.