What Are The Best Album Trilogies

AMBOY DUKES/AMBOY DUKES
AMBOY DUKES/JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND
AMBOY DUKES/MIGRATION

BLOODROCK/BLOODROCK
BLOODROCK/BLOODROCK 2
BLOODROCK/BLOODROCK 3

CACTUS/CACTUS
CACTUS/ONE WAY... OR ANOTHER
CACTUS/RESTRICTIONS

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART/LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART/THE SPOTLIGHT KID
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART/CLEAR SPOT

CREAM/FRESH CREAM
CREAM/DISRAELI GEARS
CREAM/WHEELS OF FIRE

FROST/FROST MUSIC
FROST/ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC
FROST/THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE

GLASS HARP/GLASS HARP
GLASS HARP/SYNERGY
GLASS HARP/IT MAKES ME GLAD

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD/ON TIME
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD/GRAND FUNK
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD/CLOSER TO HOME

IRON BUTTERFLY/HEAVY
IRON BUTTERFLY/IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
IRON BUTTERFLY/BALL

JAMES GANG/YER ALBUM
JAMES GANG/JAMES GANG RIDES AGAIN
JAMES GANG/THIRDS

MC5/KICK OUT THE JAMS
MC5/BACK IN THE USA
MC5/HIGH TIME

MOUNTAIN/LESLIE WEST (I know this is probably considered a Leslie West solo effort!)
MOUNTAIN/CLIMBING!
MOUNTAIN/NANTUCKET SLEIGHRIDE

STEPPENWOLF/STEPPENWOLF
STEPPENWOLF/THE SECOND
STEPPENWOLF/AT YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY

WINTER,JOHNNY/JOHNNY WINTER
WINTER,JOHNNY/THE PROGRESSIVE BLUES EXPERIMENT
WINTER,JOHNNY/SECOND WINTER

WISHBONE ASH/WISHBONE ASH
WISHBONE ASH/PILGRIMAGE
WISHBONE ASH/ARGUS

 

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension; Younger than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Brothers
Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic; Daydream; Hums of ...
Otis Redding - The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads; Otis Blue; The Soul Album

for Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, I'd vote for - Safe as Milk; Strictly Personal; Trout Mask Replica

 

A little.

 

Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary
Nick Lowe - Labour Of Lust
Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure

The same band (with Billy Bremner and Terry Williams) on all three...
recorded and released within months of each other in 1979 / 80.

 

Pentangle: Basket of Light
Fairport Convention: Liege and Lief
Steeleye Span: Hark! The Village Wait

 

Yep, definitely Larks/Starless/Red...By FAR!

 

I agree with several posted so far, and will add Mike Oldfield's first three:

 

That has to be the most underrated GREAT trilogy of albums by one band in history. The last two put up serious, serious competition to the best album by any artist ever. Absolutely astonishing track by track quality on those albums.

 

david crosby and graham nash

wind on the water

whistling down the wire

 

Pornography. Disintegration. Bloodflowers.
THE CURE.

I also would argue that although those three Radiohead albums are great, they have nothing to do with one another. Theres no real link between them is there?

 

Be Bop Deluxe
Futurama
Sunburst Finish
Modern Music

 

The Nico/Cale one

Desertshore
The Marble Index
The End

 

The first three Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin collaborations from '69-'73 are fantastic:

 

Along with any 3 consecutive albums of his 6 American recordings albums.

 

Hawkwind -- In Search of Space, Space Ritual, Warrior on the Edge of Time

 

Animals came after WYWH.

 

Wilco: Being There - Summerteeth - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Santana: 1, Abraxis, III

The Church: Heyday - Starfish - Gold Afternoon Fix

The Go Betweens: Before Hollywood - Spring Hill Fair - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express

Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk - If You're Feeling Sinister - The Boy With The Arab Strap

 

The Verve:
A Storm in Heaven
A Northern Soul
Urban Hymns

...and, of course, The Verve EP and No Come Down are great addendums.

 

Belle And Sebastian.
Tigermilk.
If You're Feeling Sinister.
The Boy With The Arab Strap.
It can't be that difficult to find a run of three consecutively fine albums for most artists within their catalogue , so here's a contribution from Scotland.

 

Van Morrison
Astral weeks
Moondance
Street Chior