Greatest Three Album Run by a band

By three album run, I mean three consecutive albums by a band that you believe are fantastic. It can be at any point in their career, but it just has to be three albums, one after the other.

My Choice will have to be Modest Mouse:

This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
The Lonesome Crowded West (One of my all-time favorite albums)
The Moon and Antarctica

Each album different from the last, but still amazing.

This is a Long Drive with the more raw Indie Rock sounds, Lonesome Crowded West with its slight tinges of Americana and lyrics about the paving of the west and American consumerism, and Moon and Antarctica's atmospheric and technical vibe throughout.

 

Tilt
The Drift
Bish Bosh

Not a band but...

 

Depeche Mode

Black Celebration
Music for the Masses
Violator

 

Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House, Future Games, Bare Trees.
Jethro Tull - Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung.
Doors - The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun
Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper

 

The Yes Album
Fragile
Close to the Edge

 

This has been done more than once before, but in the interest of cooperation, I'll offer the following.

King Crimson:

1. Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2. Starless and Bible Black
3. Red

That said, their live material associated with this material (which is prodigious) annihilates all of that. It's time to drop the term "album" and embrace the term "release." Just my opinion. Well, unless one really means "album."

 

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

Thriller

Bad

 

Stones: Beggars, Bleed, Sticky. They built the rest of their career on this. Especially if you count the non-album singles.

Horace Silver Quintet(+):
Song For My Father
Cape Verdun Blues
Jody Grind

Three years, three albums by a working band (plus ringers on parts of the 2nd & 3rd) at the height of Horace's fame and powers, catchy tunes, inventive and stylish playing.

 

Agree, with a slight (big?) difference:

Music For The Masses
Violator
Songs Of Faith And Devotion.

 

Zen Arcade
New Day Rising
Flip Your Wig

 

Neil Young
Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
After The Gold Rush
Harvest

Pink Floyd
Dark Side
Wish You Were Here
Animals

Genesis
Selling England By The Pound
The Lamb
A Trick Of The Tail

 

Let It Bleed / Sticky Fingers / Exile On Main Street

 

Radiohead
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A

Talking Heads
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Fear Of Music
Remain In Light

The Cure
The Head On The Door
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Disintegration

The Smiths
Meat Is Murder
The Queen Is Dead
Strangeways Here We Come

Arcade Fire
Funeral
Neon Bible
The Suburbs
(Reflektor is my 2nd favourite by them but Everything Now is a step down)

 

Harry Nilsson:
The Point!
Nilsson Schmilsson
Son of Schmilsson

Could also go with:
Pandemonium Shadow Show
Aerial Ballet
Harry

The Beatles:
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper

Another underrated one:
Little Feat:
Sailin Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now

 

Queen 2 - Sheer Heart Attack - Night at the Opera
Kansas Leftoverture - Point of Know Return - Two for the Show( live album)

 

The Kinks:
Something Else
Village Green
Arthur

Jimi Hendrix:
Are You Experienced
Axis:Bold As Love
Electric Ladyland

Moody Blues:
Days of Future Passed
In Search of the Lost Chord
On the Threshold of a Dream

 

Assuming studio albums only:
Genesis:
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
BAP:
Für Usszeschnigge!
Vun Drinne noh Drausse
Zwesche Salzjebäck un Bier

 

The Who - Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia

And you can throw in Live at Leeds to boot.

 

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel

 

Bob Mould

silver Age
Beauty & Ruin
Patch The Sky

He’s 2 albums into what could be another 3 album run to with....

Sunshine Rock
Blue Hearts

 

Hahaha, close enough. SOFAD is great too. I was actually temped to go the other way with it and start with Some Great Reward, so I feel ya!

 

prince,

Around The World In A Day
Parade
Sign of the Times

 

Monkees:
Headquarters
PAC&J Ltd
The Birds, The Bees...

 

Michael Nesmith & The First National Band:
Magnetic South
Loose Salute
Nevada Fighter

Too easy!

 

Couldn't agree more!
Also on my list: T.REX - Electric Warrior/The Slider/Tanx