Favourite successive albums?

Whats your favourite run of albums from an artist? For me i think it would be:

The Cure:
Head on the Door
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Disintigration
Wish

Led Zep:
III
IV
Houses of the Holy
Physical Graffiti

The Jam:
This is the Modern World
All Mod Cons
Setting Sons
Sound Effects

The Smiths:
The Smiths
Meat is Murder
The Queen is Dead
Strangeways, Here We Come

 

Steely Dan
Katy Lied
Royal Scam
Aja

 

A great question, but when it comes to my "elite of the elite" artists, the bulk of their entire discography sort of all flows as "one great work"...

Kiss (1974) through Unplugged (1996)

Led Zeppelin (1969) through In Through The Out Door (1979)

If you remove any album from the strings above, the full scope and variety of the band's story feels incomplete.

On the other hand, some favorite artists do indeed have pockets that stand out to me relative to their other periods...

Between The Buttons (1967) through Emotional Rescue (1980) The Rolling Stones

Get Your Wings (1974) through Night In The Ruts (1979) Aerosmith

Greetings From Asbury Park (1973) through Born To Run (1975) Bruce Springsteen

 

1969 Neil Young
1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
1970 After The Goldrush
1972 Harvest
1973 Time Fades Away
1974 On the Beach
1975 Tonight's the Night
1975 Zuma
1977 American Stars and Bars
1978 Decade (comp)
1978 Comes A Time
1979 Rust Never Sleeps
1979 Live Rust
1980 Hawks and Doves

This string of classic (or near classic) albums is as great as any other artist's.

 

Pink Floyd -

Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
The Final Cut.

 

Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Signals

Foxtrot
Selling England
Lamb Lies Down
Trick of the Tail
Wind and Wuthering

 

This thread is going to go KRA KRA fast!!!

Robin Trower [studio]:
"Twice Removed From Yesterday"
"Bridge of Sighs"
"For Earth Below'

The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
'Holy Trinity'
+
"Smash Hits" [UK & US]

Jimi Hendrix [official/official]:
"Band of Gypsies" '70
"Rainbow Bridge" '71
"Cry of Love" '71
"Isle of Wright" '71
[i know i know/can still groove between the walkie talkies tho]

 

Great choice. And, frankly, I don't think any other artist can match this run.

Unparalleled.

 

Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil
Miles Davis - Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, Filles de Kilimanjaro

too many others to list

 

Aftermath
Between The Buttons
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street

Sounds of Silence
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
Bookends
Bridge Over Troubled Water

Face To Face
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround

A Quick One
The Who Sell Out
Tommy
Live At Leeds
Who's Next
Quadrophenia

Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline

Bayou Country
Green River
Willy And The Poor Boys
Cosmo's Factory
Pendulum

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
After The Gold Rush
Harvest
Time Fades Away
Tonight's The Night
On The Beach

 

Rush
Fly By Night
Caress of Steel
2112
A Farewell to Kings
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Signals
Grace Under Pressure

 

Radiohead

The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac

 

The Kinks had a brilliant (and probably my favorite) run:

Face To Face
Something Else by The Kinks
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Muswell Hillbillies

Also, the Stones, from Aftermath to Exile.

 

R.E.M.
Murmur, Reckoning, Fables, Pageant, Document, Green, Out of Time, Automatic, Monster, Hi-Fi

Was even considering adding Up and Reveal, but have to admit I don't enjoy the former as much as some.

 

Deep Purple:

In Rock
Fireball
Machine Head

 

Boris:

• Absolutego (1996)
• Amplifier Worship (1998)
• Flood (2000)
• Heavy Rocks (2002)
• Akuma no Uta (2003)
• Boris at Last: -Feedbacker- (2003)
• The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked (2004)
• Dronevil (2005)
• Sound Track from Film "Mabuta no Ura" (2005)
• Pink (2005)
• The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 (2006)
• The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 (2006)
• Vein (2006)
• Smile (2008)
• New Album (2011)
• Heavy Rocks (2011)
• Attention Please (2011)
• Präparat (2013)
• Noise (2014)
• The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Extra (2014)
• Urban Dance (2015)
• Warpath (2015)
• Asia (2015)

 

Tin Machine
Tin Machine II
Black Tie White Noise
The Buddha Of Suburbia
Leon [Unreleased]
1. Outside
Earthling

 

Pink Floyd:

Meddle
Obscured By Clouds
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here

Frank Zappa:

Freak Out
Absolutely Free
We're Only In It For The Money
Lumpy Gravy

Uncle Meat
Hot Rats
Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Roxy And Elsewhere
One Size Fits All
Bongo Fury
Zoot Allures
Zappa In New York
Studio Tan
Sleep Dirt
Sheik Yerbouti
Orchestral Favorites
Joe's Garage Act I
Joe's Garage Acts II and III
Tinseltown Rebellion
Shut Up 'N' Play Your Guitar
Shut Up 'N' Play Your Guitar Some More
Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'N' Play Your Guitar
You Are What You Is
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch

Look at the latter run. They're not all equals, but all of them are really good to great.

David Bowie

Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane

Station To Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
(i don't like Scary Monsters too much)

 

Rainbow

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Rising
On Stage
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

 

Rod Stewart [when he was still 'Rod the Mod']:
"Gasoline Alley"
"Every Picture Tells A Story"
"Never A Dull Moment"

Faces:
"Long Player"
"A Wink Is As Good As A Nod... To A Blind Horse"
"Ooh La La"

 

KISS

S/t
Hotter than Hell
Dressed to Kill
Alive!
Destroyer
Rock and Roll Over
Love Gun
Alive II
Dynasty

 

Santana:

Santana
Abraxas
Santana III
Caravanserai

 

Supertramp:
"Crime of the Century"
"Crisis? What Crisis?"
"Even In The Quietest Moments... "
"Breakfast in America"

 

Beach Boys

Pet Sounds
Smiley Smile
Wild Honey
Friends
20/20
Sunflower
Surf's Up
Carl & The Passions
Holland