Can the Bob Dylan 1965-1966 LP Trilogy Be Topped?*

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Agree, mentioned PJ in an earlier post, but one of the best (meaning favorite) string of rock records in the modern era.

 

Kill em all
Master of Puppets
...and justice for all

 

You have to laugh when someone throws up Dylan as having the best 3 album run ever...and every Tom, Dick and Harry under the sun comes out with their own pseudo-obscure, kitschy, genre based best 3.

Yeah Sade is great man...but we're talking about...Dylan man...Dylan. Come on it's Dylan!

Anyway...just continue listing your favourite 3 albums I suppose...

 

I'd go the other way and start with YHFoxtrot and finish with Sky Blue Sky (which has a few of their very best songs).

 

Again....Wilco...Wilco?? Up against Dylan??

What is everybody on?

 

I have a feeling I'm not alone in not liking Dylan.

 

No doubt. I don't like blue cars.

 

If blue cars are like finger nails on chalkboard, that's an appropriate analogy. That's what Dylan's voice is like for me.

 

From a year after the trilogy in the OP

 

Dylan for the lose

 

I agree with the high ranking of Dylan's 60s peak. There's some very interesting stuff on his late albums, but his voice is too shot for me to listen to repeatedly. For the same reason I can't take late Jerry Garcia.

 

They'll never be topped. Dylan has said that once he did Hwy 61 he knew it was special and that even he'd never really top it.

I mean it's nice to see that so many bands had great runs on their level but they'd all pretty much admit that it's on a different level that they succeeded.

This thread after Dylan has been mentioned is more like "What were these bands greatest three albums in a row ?"

 

I feel sorry for you...don't get catty now with those nails

 

What about Ride the Lightning??

 

This is just turning into a 'post three albums in a row' thread. There are some first rate albums posted but way too many of these 'trilogies' are being let down by one album of 'lesser' merit. Just my opinion of course.

 

There have been a lot of really good 3petes mentioned, I do not find most of them Trilogies. This is not a trilogy but a darn fine run.
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Late for the Sky

 

Ah yes sir...another stoner moment.
But how do you pick which end of that string of four? Start with kill em all and end with master of puppets? Or start with ride the lighning and end with and justice for all??

 

Snarky answer, admittedly, but here's mine:

 

And in a similar vein...



Ahhhhhh... no talking...
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I will go to undeniable truth of life #1. If your argument against Dylan is he can't sing, you've missed the entire point of Dylan.

 

Mahogany Rush -IV
Mahogany Rush The World Anthem
Mahogany Rush Tales of the Unexpected

I know it's not up there, but it's damn good

 

...and that is?

 

(Cheated a little, but let's call Jack Johnson a soundtrack...)