Pick three records to summarize your favorite artists whole career

As Dylan and Young are already taken:

The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Various Positions
I’m Your Man

 

Bob Dylan

Freewheelin
Blood On The Tracks
Time Out Of Mind

 

Gong:
Camembert Electrique
You
Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life (Daevid solo album)

 

I admit it was a tough call between Time Out Of Mind and "Love And Theft" in my Dylan list...

 

Ween:

The mollusk
White pepper
Chocolate and cheese

Beck:
One foot in the grave
Odelay
Sea change

Beastie boys:

Paul’s boutique
Check your head
The in sound from way out

Radiohead:
The bends
Ok computer
Kid A

Iggy pop:
The idiot
Lust for life
Post pop depression

 

Ted Nugent

• Ted Nugent (S/T)
• Tooth, Fang and Claw
• Double Live Gonzo

Blue Oyster Cult

• Secret Treaties
• Agents of Fortune
• On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (Live)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Pronounced
• Second Helping
• Street Survivors

 

Yes (hard to nail down just 3, but if we’re being super broad...)

Close to the Edge
90125
The Ladder

If I was allowed more albums, I would add Yes, Drama, AWBH, and Fly From Here.

 

Totally agree about the above picks for Linda.

For me it’s Rush:

2112
Hold Your Fire
Snakes and Arrows

 

Bee Gees:
Horizontal
Children of the World
Still Waters

Not necessarily my favorites, but these do (imo) hit their career peaks through the decades.

 

Francis Dunnery

Tall Blonde Helicopter
The Big Lad In The Windmill (It Bites)
Once Around The World (It Bites)

 

Dave Swarbrick

Prince Heathen (With Martin Carthy)
Babbacombe Lee (Fairport Convention)
Raison D'etre

 

Steely Dan
Can’t Buy a Thrill (first phase)
Aja (second phase)
Two Against Nature (comeback)

And if TAN doesn’t float your boat, go instead with Katy Lied (transitional).

 

Bee Gees

1st
Main Course
Saturday Night Fever

 

Nice

 

Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley (1956)
From Elvis in Memphis
Elvis: As Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis

 

Those were my initial 3 thoughts as well.

 

Ramones: debut, Road to Ruin, Too Tough to Die

 

caetano veloso (white)
bicho
livro

 

Definitely the second one for me.

 

Ryan Adams:
- Heartbreaker
- Cold Roses
- Self-Titled

 

Laura Nyro
More Than A New Discovery/The First Songs
New York Tendaberry
Nested

 

Really spot-on list(s). That's pretty much exactly how I would have picked them.

 

Robert Wyatt:

Soft Machine II (his vocals and drumming dominated this record)
Rock Bottom
Comicopera

 

Well, my all-time favorite is James Brown, so it's a mixture of album and 45's:

Live At The Apollo (nice summary of James' early rhythm & blues/soul period).
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (there are very few genres where you exactly can pin down its beginnings, but there's no doubt funk music started in 1965 with the release of this single).
Sex Machine (not my favorite track, but it's James Brown's most iconic funk jam).

 

Poco:
(for me)
Poco
Good Feeling to Know
Head Over Heels

(In general), probably:
Pickin Up the Pieces
Good Feeling to Know
Legend