DCC Archive The best one-two punches in rock?

What do you think are the best back-to-back pair of albums ever cut?

Just listened to Green River and Willy & the Poors back to back...awesome stuff.

Some others that come to mind:

Beatles: Rubber Soul + Revolver
Elvis Costello & the Attractions: This Year's Model + Armed Forces
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band + Imagine
David Bowie: Hunky Dory + Ziggy Stardust
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks + Moondance
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers + Exile On Main Street
Beggar's Banquet + Let It Bleed

 

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks--Desire
or
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited--Blonde On Blonde

 

Crosby, Stills and Nash (first album)

Deja Vu

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Are You Experienced

Electric Ladyland

 

Deep Purple's Fireball-Machine Head
ELP - Tarkus-Trilogy
CCR - Willy & the Poor Boys-Cosmo's Factory

 

Not the best but notable:

Three Dog Night - Captured Live At The Forum & Naturally

 

Billy Joel
Turnstiles-The Stranger

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Steve Earle
I Feel Alright-El Corazon

 

a lot of my faves were already listed. How's this one...

Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby - U2

(You'd need a 120+ minute capacity CD though)

 

Here are my selections:

XTC -- Skylarking / Psonic Psunspot (as the Dukes of Stratosphear)

Elvis Costello -- King Of America / Blood & Chocolate

Radiohead -- The Bends / OK Computer

Bob Dylan -- Time Out Of Mind / Love & Theft

Beatles -- With The Beatles / A Hard Day's Night, plus Rubber Soul / Revolver

The Band -- Music From Big Pink / The Band

Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / After The Gold Rush

Beach Boys -- Pet Sounds / Smile (yeah, it was never really released, but it's bitchen)

The Smiths -- The Queen Is Dead / Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smithereens -- Especially For You / Green Thoughts

Joni Mitchell -- For The Roses / Court & Spark

 

Led Zeppelin: I + II
Allman Brothers: 1st + "Idlewild South"
Aerosmith: "Toys In The Attic" + "Rocks"
The Who: "Tommy" + "Live At Leeds" + "Who's Next" (ok so that's a triple hat)
Soundgarden: "Louder Than Love" + "Badmotorfinger"
Motorhead: "Ace Of Spades" + "No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith"
Iron Maiden: "Number Of The Beast" + "Piece Of Mind"
Kate Bush: "The Dreaming" + "Hounds Of Love"
Metallica: "Ride The Lightning" + "Master Of Puppets"
Cream: "Disrelli Gears" + "Wheels Of Fire"

 

Hi,

Grateful Dead: American Beauty & Workingman's Dead

Hunter/Garcia songwriting was never widely appreciated due to weak vocals.

The Music Never Stops,
Jeffrey

 

Wasn't the "less than stellar" Rattle and Hum released in between those two titles?

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble-Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand The Weather

The Band-Music From Big Pink / The Band

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath / Paranoid

Grand Funk Railroad-Red Album / Closer To Home

Jethro Tull-Aqualung / Thick As A Brick

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band / East West

Bob Dylan-John Wesley Harding / Nashville Skyline

Queen-Sheer Heart Attack / A Night At The Opera

Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards / The Magicians Birthday

Happy Listening ! -ED

 

Uncle AL,

My fault! The list was for albums released back-to-back. My eyes were failing me. Didn't catch that too well! I was listing two albums that if placed back to back would be a one-two-punch. You're right. Rattle and Hum was in between. Thanks for keeping me on my toes!!!

Let me try this again...

Bob Seger: Night Moves/Stranger In Town

 

Doobie Bro./ Toulouse St.> The Capt And Me

 

Velvet Underground with Nico & White Light/White Heat

Bo Diddley & Go Bo Diddley

Aftermath & Between the Buttons

Something Else & Village Green

With the Beatles & Hard Day's Night

The Chirping Crickets & Buddy Holly

Five Leaves Left & Bryter Layter

Highway 61 & Blonde on Blonde (actually, any 2 from the 60's)

Music From Big Pink & The Band

Get Happy & Taking Liberties (that's the order they came to us here in the US)

Not rock, but I couldn't leave out Desmond Dekker: Action! & Intensified

 

Fleetwood Mac/ Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bad Co./ Striaght Shooter - Runnin' With The Pack
Rush/ Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures
Boston/ Boston - Don't Look Back

 

The Wild,The innocent&The E Street Shuffle Born To Run John Mayall Bluesbreakers Fresh Cream

 

Jethro Tull--Benefit, Aqualung
Black Sabbath--Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage
CSN(Y)--1st, Deja Vu
Allman Bros--1st, Idlewild South
Santana--III, Caravanserai
Lynyrd Skynyrd--Pronounced, Second Helping
Steely Dan--Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy
Doobie Bros--Captain & Me, What Were Once Vices
Hendrix--Axis, Electric Ladyland
Spirit--12 Dreams, Clear
Stones--Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street
Dylan--Hwy 61, Blonde on Blonde
Led Zep--1, II
Fleetwood Mac--Future Games, Bare Trees
Traffic--John Barleycorn, Low Spark
Bob Marley--Exodus, Uprising
Doors--1st Album, Strange Days
Creedence--Willy, Cosmo's
Neil Young--This is Nowhere, After the Goldrush
Joe Walsh--Barnstorm, Smoker Ya Drink
Dead--Workingman's, American Beauty

time to go home. . .

 

Graham Parker/Howlin' Wind - Heat Treatment
Jackson Browne/Late For The Sky - The Pretender
Lyle Lovett/And His Large Band - Joshua Judges Ruth
Ry Cooder/Paradise And Lunch - Chicken Skin Music
Robert Gordon/Bad Boy - Are You Gonna Be The One
John Hiatt/Bring The Family - Slow Turning

 

Some great choices! I'll add:

James Gang-Yer Album, Rides Again

Who-Who's Next, Quadrophenia

Alan Parsons-Turn of a Friendly Card, Eye in the Sky

Bob Seger-Live Bullet, Night Moves

Dire Straits-Making Movies, Love Over Gold

Jackson Browne- Pretender, Running on Empty

Police-Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity

Supertramp-Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?

AC/DC-Highway to Hell, Back in Black

Cheap Trick-Heaven Tonight, Budokan

 

A lot of good stuff has been mentioned, so I can only add two:

Van Halen - WACF/Fair Warning (could have easily said I/II)

Zep - Houses of the Holy/Physical Graffiti

 

Rush s/t and Fly By Night

Aldo Nova s/t and Subject Aldo Nova

Def Leppard Pyromania and Hysteria

There are just too many. This particular question could get at least ten pages of response.

 

I'd have to say...

Led Zeppelin 1 & 2

Revolver & Sgt. Pepper

Beggars Banquet & Let It Bleed

Ramones & Leave Home

Talking Book & Innervisions (& a third punch with Fulfillingness' First Finale)

So many more...

 

Just thought of a few more:

Prince: 1999 + Purple Rain
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends + Bridge Over Troubled Water
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic + Katy Lied