Sandwiches between two masterpieces

British Steel
Point of Entry
Screaming For Vengeance

PoE isn't nearly as highly regarded as the others. Desert Plains is great though, and I enjoy the version of Heading Out to the Highway from Priest Live!

 

Quadrophenia
By Numbers
Who Are You

Although I do like By Numbers, I probably listen to it the least out of the three.

 

Michael Jackson - Triumph
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Brian Eno - Discreet Music

 

Neil Young

Time Fades Away
Journey Through the Past
On The Beach

That’s from memory. Do I have that right? Regardless, JTTP, in the middle of anything, is most wretched.

 

Meddle
Obscured By Clouds
Dark Side Of The Moon

Obscured By Clouds being a (relatively) rush-recorded soundtrack, which nevertheless hangs together as an album pretty well. A slight diversion from the arc connecting Meddle to Dark Side, but I dig it on its own merits.

 

Yeah I would agree. Not that I dislike the album but what came before and after are in a different league.

 

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Penguin the weaker of the 3 IMHO

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Talking Heads:

- "More Songs About Buildings & Food"
- - - - "Fear of Music"
- "Remain in Light"

"Fear of Music" has a few great songs ("Life During Wartime") but I find a lot of them to be tentative and somewhat thin in melody and arrangement compared to the consistently great ones on "More Songs About Buildings & Food" and "Remain in Light."

 

Fireball is probably my favourite album from MkII Deep Purple

 

The Velvet Underground & Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground

I love them all, but I can see why some don't rate WL/WH as highly as the 1st & 3rd albums.. it is a challenging listen.

At a stretch, there's also one from Blur

Parklife
The Great Escape
Blur

I think The Great Escape is a slight step down from Parklife, but they certainly lift again with the switch in style on Blur.

 

Some would say

Zeppelin II>Zeppelin III<Zeppelin IV

 

Graham Parker’s Stick to Me between Heat Treatment and Squeezing Out Sparks.

 

The Jam's fabulous debut In the City was followed by This is the Modern World which was rushed and made you think that the Jam might not be as awesome as first thought. Then came the fantastic All Mod Cons and redemption.

 

Wow, I totally forgot Emotional Rescue was between those albums. Never got into it (obviously).

 

Diamond Dogs > Young Americans > Station to Station
Purple Rain > Around The World In A Day > Parade

 

Animals is my favorite.

 

Revolver
SPLHCB
MMT

 

Easily done.

 

IMO, Who Are You is the weakest release of the 70's AND 80's. Yes, I am saying Face Dances & It's Hard are better

 

Yo La Tengo;
"Painful"
"Electr-o-Pura"
"I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One"

 

Here's a glaring example...

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Caribou

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

 

Mind you "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" is a fantastic song as incredibly produced.

 

Fleetwood Mac's Kiln House and Siouxsie & The Banshees' Join Hands were the first albums that came to mind.

 

Pretenders
Pretenders 2
Learning to Crawl

 

In Rainbows
The King of Limbs
A Moon Shaped Pool