‘Third time’s a charm’ albums.

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  1. John Harchar

    John Harchar Forum Resident

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    Well it’s hard to say it took 3 albums for Jimi to get up to speed. It’s certainly a charm though!
     
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  2. Lightworker

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    The Kinks - Kontroversy
    Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
    Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
     
  3. John Harchar

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    In a sense you could say 2112 is the third time for the Lee-Lifeson-Pearl trio. Hard to say that Caress of Steel was Rush hitting its stride, whatever it’s positive qualities are.
     
  4. John Harchar

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    Eagles-On the Border, switching from Glyn to Bill made a difference.

    Billy Joel is a tough one. Streetlife Serenade is a solid album though he thinks it’s got its share of clunkers. But leave aside Cold Spring Harbor, Tirnstiles is definitely Billy Joel finding his full voice.
     
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  5. Szeppelin75

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    Slippery When Wet. Bon Jovi
     
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  6. Yannick

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    Hothouse Flowers - Songs From the Rain
    Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World
     
  7. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

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    “Toys In the Attic”

    Aerosmith
     
  8. davesmoked

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    was looking for it as well
     
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  9. mahanusafa02

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    Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass - South Of The Border

    Frank Sinatra at Capitol - In The Wee Small Hours
     
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  10. Folknik

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    Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance. Many consider their first album to be their high point, but it was a whole album of covers (although radically reinvented ones). The 2nd, The Beat Goes On, was considered by most people (including the guys in the band) to be a serious misstep, although I enjoy it for what it is. Renaissance, IMO, is their zenith, consisting of 5 outstanding originals and 2 inspired covers (including the scariest version of "Season of the Witch" on record).
     
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  11. Folknik

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    Jim Croce - I Got A Name. If we don't count his 1966 independent locally released debut Facets or his 1969 duo album with his wife Ingrid, I Got a Name was the 3rd, last, and best of his 3 major label solo albums. It was recorded shortly before his death but released shortly afterward.
     
  12. Folknik

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    Every Picture Tells A Story was certainly the blockbuster, but I like Gasoline Alley just as much.
     
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  13. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    One of the best albums of the 60's, perfect combination of heavy psych and prog.
     
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  14. Manalishi

    Manalishi With the 2-pronged crown

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    Some of these are head scratchers...saying 'Third' is when Big Star "hit the nail on the head" would be like saying Lennon hit it out the park with 'Wedding Album'. But, hey, to each his own.

    I'll get some disagreement but I'd say '..Goldrush' was Neil's strongest LP to that point.
     
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    Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
     
  16. TheSeldomSeenKid

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    Sorry DD, but I think their 2nd Album, 'Modern Life is Rubbish' is equal to if not actually better than 'Parklife'.
     
  17. ajsmith

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    Sleater-Kinney.
     
  18. carlwm

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    This was when the rot started in for me, after two excellent albums.

    Should have been called Slippery Slope.
     
  19. Diamond Dog

    Diamond Dog Cautionary Example

    It was a tough call for me, too. In the end, Parklife just has so many great songs on it.

    D.D.
     
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  20. Szeppelin75

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    Well sales and popularity say otherwise.

    They only play live Runaway from the first two albums.
     
  21. carlwm

    carlwm Forum Resident

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    Yeah, the masses are always right.
     
  22. zen

    zen Senior Member

    Stray Cats Built for Speed

    Essentially a compilation album taken from the band's first two UK album releases.
     
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  23. TheLazenby

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    They Might Be Giants. (Unless you were local, and "Flood" was their fourth... but to the rest of us. :-D)
     
  24. LeBon Bush

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    Kate Bush - Never For Ever: her debut is a rather weak album imo and while Lionheart is much, much better, it was on Never For Ever that she really came into her own and found somewhat of an atnospheric trademark to her songs, creating moods that would often recur on her albums throughout the 1980s, making her third album probably her most important in style.

    Genesis - Nursery Cryme: FGTR had been their entry ticket to the business and Trespass their first exercise in prog which sounded charming and quite lovely, but overly chaotic to my ears. Nursery Cryme offers a really powerful lineup of songs, completes the classic lineup by adding Phil and Steve to the other members and has a much, much more forceful production than the first two albums, making this their first in a streak of highlights lasting up to 1980.

    Peter Gabriel III: The first two albums are all over the place, musically, and don't seem to find anything that holds them together, sound-wise. PGIII took the best of those first two albums (the dark tones of the second album and the first album's possibility to come up with some moments that are actually catchy) and combined those elements to a slick production that's full of madness and made Peter Gabriel a star as a solo artist. Plus, it features Phil Collins on drums and Kate Bush as a backing vocalist, two recurring musicians on Gabriel's albums.
     
  25. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    The Wedding Album
     
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