Two crucial albums for appreciating a band

Pavement - Slanted; Brighten the Corners

 

Bad Company - s/t
- Straightshooter

 

Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks
Springsteen - Nebraska and Live 1975-85
Dire Straits - Dire Straits and Brothers In Arms

 

Bjork - Vespertine and Medulla
Yoko Ono - Rising and Fly
M.I.A - MAYA and Kala
Kate Bush - The Dreaming and Hounds of Love
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna and The Other Side of The Mirror
Janet Jackson - janet. and The Velvet Rope
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk and Fleetwood Mac
Alison Moyet - Hoodoo and Hometime
Madonna - Erotica and Ray of Light
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon and Ultraviolence

 

Lord Huron:

Strange Trails (2015)
Vide Noir (2018)

 

The Strokes: Is This It and.... and....

 

Brother To Brother and Nightwalker (the title of that was never easy to see).

 

The Beatles -Sgt Pepper's and The White Album

The Monkees - Headquarters and PAC&J Ltd

The Kinks - Something Else By and VGPS

Talking Heads - 77 and Remain In Light

The Replacements - Let It Be and Tim

 

Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley and Pressure Drop - Robert Palmer.

 

Jethro Tull

"Stand Up" and "Thick as a Brick"

"Benefit" (which followed "Stand Up") is my favorite album from Tull, but I think you get a nice taste of the early days from "Stand Up" to the magnificence of their sorta-prog glory courtesy of the lyrical genius of 8-year-old prodigy Gerald "Little Milton" Bostock



Beatles

"With the Beatles" and "Abbey Road"

From their great album that best displays their rocking early sound to their slickest, most sophisticated album.

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Talk Talk, Color of spring and laughing stock

 

Playing kind of fast and loose with the rules here but the albums were back to back...

Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights - 1982



Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness - 1983

 

Super Furry Animals

Fuzzy Logic and Rings Around The World?
Fuzzy is the more accomplished sound of the bands' early flavour and Rings is the everything and the kitchen sink.
The band The Beatles and Beach Boys could've been.

 

Right. I guess I would place a long and interesting ouvre into periods or other divisions that make a varied artist appear in relief...maybe Rod divided into early, middle, current RS. We know his classic covers of late put rockin Rod Denny Ronnie to bed early. My choice: Every Picture Tells a Story and Gasoline Alley.

 

Exactly!

 

Thin Lizzy. Self-titled debut and Jailbreak. The trio years and dual guitar era.