real or false trilogy

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  1. mr.datsun

    mr.datsun Incompletist

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    Surely this is well known to be an official trilogy?
     
  2. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

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    This was followed by the Best Trilogy.

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    Jeff Lynne again: "For the previous three albums, I'd kind of sluffed a bit, you know? Just enough to get by. Because the union session players wouldn't even sit by to finish the damn records. And critics kept complaining "wanker isn't really giving up his best." With A New World's Record, I thought 'you want the best? Well, here you bloody go, lads!' And I stuck with it through New World, Out of the Blue, and Discovery. That's my Best Trilogy: They come to the New World, then Out of the Blue they blast into space where they make a startling Discovery. Then I decided I was done Doing that Crazy Thing for a while. But that's another story."
     
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  3. Patanoia

    Patanoia Third Ear Centre

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    And Nick Lowe boxed up three of his later albums as "The Brentford Trilogy". Probably a false, or arbitrary, trilogy. "At My Age" seems to be very similar. Am I missing something?
     
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  4. Grahamstuartcanada

    Grahamstuartcanada We play two kinds of music “new” and “wave”

    While I like the passenger album it may have been more of an exercise than album per se...I might substitute passengers for pop.
     
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  5. Grahamstuartcanada

    Grahamstuartcanada We play two kinds of music “new” and “wave”

    U2 had 3 plus trilogies

    early trilogy
    Boy october war

    Uff joshua tree rattle (thematically american focussed u2 )

    Achtung zoo pop( experimentally focussed)

    All that you cant, how to dismantle, no line (rebooted u2)
     
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  6. Nimby

    Nimby Rotten hound of the burnie crew

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    Fixed that for you :)
     
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  7. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

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    In retrospect, if not conception, the first three Santana albums seem a trilogy.
     
  8. BrentB

    BrentB Urban Angler

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    Rick Wakeman; Six Wives Of Henry VIII, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, King Arthur.
    Chicago VIII, X, XI
    Cat Stevens/ Mona Bone Jakon, Tea For The Tillerman, Teaser and The Firecat.
    Sly Stone/ Riot Goin On, Fresh, Small Talk
    Jim Croce/ You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Life And Times, I Got A Name
     
  9. Frank Zappa’s “Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar” trilogy:

    Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
    Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More
    Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

    Released separately, then as a box set.
     
  10. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    The drive to 1981….part of a series which then went…

    God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
    Let the Power Fall
    League of Gentlemen
     
  11. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Yes but what connects them even remotely? I guess one could say that Meddle/DSOTM/WYWH because they were all collaborative and were produced by the group and the next three were largely Waters borne concepts.
     
  12. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Peter Hammils new wave trilogy

    the Future Now
    PH7
    Black Box

    the. The K Group albums
    Sitting Targets
    Enter K
    Patience
     
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  13. AFOS

    AFOS Forum Resident

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    Yeah it's a bit of a stretch but it's pastoral in places
     
  14. DocShipe

    DocShipe Forum Resident

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    Wilco:
    Summerteeth, Yankke Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost is Born. Not only three great records but a thematic thread about our ability to communicate and how technology:distance shapes that.

    Also Paul Simons Carrie Fisher trilogy: Hearts and Bones, Graceland, and Rhythm of the Saints
     
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  15. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident

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    The real Bowie trilogy should be Low, Heroes and Scary Monsters, stylistically.
     
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  16. jimjim

    jimjim Forum Resident

    U2 - the 'Chopping Down The Joshua Tree' trilogy

    Achtung Baby
    Zooropa
    Pop
     
  17. Mylene

    Mylene Senior Member

    Three albums Eric refuses to talk about because he was drunk at the time.
     
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  18. Mylene

    Mylene Senior Member

    Peter Hammill commercial trilogy

    Fool's Mate
    Nadir's Big Chance
    Sitting Targets
     
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  19. the real pope ondine

    the real pope ondine Forum Resident

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    i think Riot is unto itself and not connected with the later ones....
    Cat Stevens feels right
     
  20. Tristero

    Tristero In possession of the future tense

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    Some have suggested Low, Heroes and The Idiot.
     
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  21. Chrisaw

    Chrisaw Forum Resident

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    Jethro Tull folk-rock trilogy

    Songs From The Wood
    Heavy Horses
    Stormwatch
     
  22. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    Ahh, the "Tourettes Trilogy"!
     
  23. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    I'm convinced, II was just the same pages played backwards, and III was the same pages played upside down. :D
     
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  24. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    Interesting turn of events for Everything But The Girl. Idlewild and The Language Of Life was shaping-up as a good possible trilogy, then life intervened, as Ben Watts' health problems changed the way they produced and toured and even though about their sound.

    We see more of an acoustic bent from them, music that can be performed as a duo in intimate settings, on smaller tourss, as well as easier ergonomics in the setup. Worldwide, Acoustic and [Amplified Heart are also informed by their stops along the way near medical campuses like the Mayo Clinic.

    This separates the duo's sound also from the next two, more electronically-driven albums, as Ben had taken the time of his recuperation to also focus on deejay work and a more modern sense of production. Which also led him into starting his own label separate from Tracey. Which is why I see the middle albums as the trilogy: the progress of life choices changing the way the music got made, but also the transition itself taking precedence over what came before it, or after it.
     
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  25. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident

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    I totally hear that. The Idiot is very much like Iggy's Low (and was of course also recorded at Hansa).
     
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