Bundle 5 studio albums together by an artist for an "Original Album Series" box...

What? No Hemispheres? Back on the shelf it goes...

 

Pat Metheny
Travels
Still Life (Talking)
A Map of the World
The Way Up
Tap

King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Red
Discipline
The Power to Believe

 

Beatles Second Album
Beatles '65
U. S. Rubber Soul
"Yesterday"...and Today
Magical Mystery Tour

(Yes. Some glaring omissions but I like the Hodge Podge nature of these 5)

 

The Irish Rovers

The Unicorn
All Hung Up
The Life of the Rover
Tales to Warm Your Mind
On the Shores of Americay

 

That's a good set. I'm always torn on my "Prince Bundle" because I can never settle on the fifth entry. I know that my first four would be (in chronological order):

1999
Purple Rain
Sign O The Times
Lovesexy

But several standout albums could fall into the 5th slot for me...Controversy, Around The World In A Day, Parade, Lotusflow3r, etc...

That fifth album is always the hardest pick.

 

Aerosmith S/T
Get Your Wings
Toys In The Attic
Rocks
Draw The Line

All you need to know by the greatest hard rock band of the 70's...

 

While I'm at it...

Phenomenon (UFO album) - Wikipedia
Force It - Wikipedia
No Heavy Petting - Wikipedia
Lights Out (UFO album) - Wikipedia
Obsession (UFO album) - Wikipedia

 

As long as they are all remastered:

Queen

Queen II
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night At The Opera
A Day At The Races
Greatest Hits

Queen (second set)

The Works
A Kind Of Magic
Made In Heaven
Live At Wembley '86
Greatest Hits 2

ELO

ELO 2
Face The Music
Out Of The Blue
Time
The Ultimate Collection (is it cheating to put in a 2cd collection?)

Beautiful South

Choke
0898 Beautiful South
Miaow
Quench
Gold

Elvis

Elvis At Sun
Elvis 56
Blue Hawaii (ost)
Viva Las Vegas (ost)
NBC Special

Public Enemy

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Fear Of A Black Planet
Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black
Muse-Sick-N-Hour-Mess-Age
Power To The People And The Beats (greatest hits)

The Beatles (first)

63-66 (the red album)
67-70 (the blue album)
The Beatles
Abbey Road
Let It Be

The Beatles (second)

A Hard Day's Night
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Yellow Submarine Songbook
Past Masters (the new 2cd one)

 

David Bowie
Station To Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

 

Prince i like the most is... Rock/Guitar version of him, thus the 5 choices i've selected incl. "The Gold Experience" which era (band, shows, songs) i rate highly.

 

Which four?

 

Lou Reed
I Never Said I Was Nice (1976 bootleg)
Live in New York City (1977 bootleg)
Live Park West Chicago (1978 bootleg)
Live Los Angeles (1979 Bootleg)
Live 1980-6-12 Milan (1980 bootleg)

Is this allowed?

 

This has become a little hard to find at times, but it's definitely out there.

 

Delaney & Bonnie

Home
Accept No Substitute
Motel Shot
On Tour With Eric Clapton
To Bonnie from Delaney

If we have to stop at 5, we can leave D&B Together out.

It's criminal that there is no compressive set of D&B.

 

Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder's first five studio albums:
Ry Cooder
Into the Purple Valley
Boomer's Story
Paradise and Lunch
Chicken Skin Music.

 

The Searchers (original lineup)
Iron Door: Their Earliest Recordings
Recorded Live at the Star Club
Meet the Searchers
Sugar and Spice
It's The Searchers

 

Paul McCartney:

McCartney
Band On The Run
Back To The Egg
Flowers In The Dirt
Flaming Pie

If we're going with the 5 albums in a row concept, see below.

Paul McCartney 1979 to 1984:

Back To The Egg
McCartney II
Tug of War
Pipes of Peace
Give My Regards To Broad Street

 

The Beatles:
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper
The Beatles
Abbey Road

Bob Dylan:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bringing it all Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Blood on the Tracks

David Bowie:
Ziggy Stardust
Station to Station
Low
"Heroes"
Blackstar

The Rolling Stones:
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Main Street

Van Morrison:
Astral Weeks
Moondance
Saint Dominic's Preview
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Version Fleece

Brian Eno:
Here Come the Warm Jets
Another Green World
Discreet Music
Before and After Science
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
(Had to exclude TTMBS, one of my absolute favorites but I had to include some greater albums)

Bruce Springsteen:
Born to Run
Darkness in the Edge of Town
The River
Nebraska
Born in the U.S.A.

R.E.M.:
Murmur
Reckoning
Lifes Rich Pageant
Document
Automatic for the People

Kanye West:
The College Dropout
Late Registration
808s and Heartbreak
MBDTF
Yeezus

 

Meddle.

 

Led Zeppelin:
I
II
III
IV
Houses of the Holy

AC/DC:
The Bon Scott albums

Primus:
Frizzle Fry
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Pork Soda
The Brown Album
Green Naughahyde

Pearl Jam:
Ten
Vs.
Vitalogy
No Code
Yield

Megadeth:
Killing Is My Business
Peace Sells
Rust in Peace
Youthanasia
Endgame

Ramones:
Ramones
Leave Home
Rocket to Russia
Road to Ruin
Pleasant Dreams

 

Kinks:
Misfits
Low Budget
Give The People What They Want
State of Confusion
Word of Mouth
(live album left off the list deliberately)

 

Focus:
Moving Waves
Focus III
Hamburger Concerto
Mother Focus
Ship of Memories

Jonathan Richman:
Back in Your Life
Jonathan Sings
Rockin' and Romance
It's Time for
Modern Lovers '88

Cat Power:
What Would the Community Think
Moon Pix
The Covers Record
You Are Free
Sun

Kraftwerk:
Kraftwerk 1
Kraftwerk 2
Ralf & Florian
Autobahn
Die Mensch Maschine

Pere Ubu:
The Modern Dance
Dub Housing
New Picnic Time
The Art of Walking
The Tenement Year

Nico:
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Chelsea Girls
The Marble Index
Desertshore
The End

David Bowie:
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Heathen

 

What about Sleepwalker?

 

Kate Bush:

The Kick Inside
Lionheart
Never For Ever
The Dreaming
Hounds Of Love

 

ACCEPT
Breaker / Restless And Wild / Balls To The Wall / Metal Heart / Russian Roulette

GREAT WHITE
Great White / Shot In The Dark / Once Bitten / Twice Shy / Hooked

TNT
TNT / Knights Of The New Thunder / Tell No Tales / Intuition / Realized Fantasies

MAGNUM
On A Storytellers Night / Vigilante / Wings Of Heaven / Goodnight LA / Sleepwalking