Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty - Grateful Dead
Crosby, Stills & Nash and Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young.
How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All? and Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers! - Firesign Theatre
Washington County and Hobo’s Lullabye - Arlo Guthrie
Disraeli Gears and Wheels Of Fire - Cream
Santana and Abraxus - Santana
Metallica had a run of, depending on who you ask, as many as 4 great albums:
Kill 'Em All
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
…And Justice For All
Everyone would agree with the Ride-Master double, with Justice more likely to be included for the triple.
After Bathing at Baxters/Crown of Creation - Jefferson Airplane
Magical Mystery Tour/The White Album/Abbey Road - The Beatles
Overnite Sensation/Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
We’re Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa
Dragonfly/Red Octopus - Jefferson Starship
Meddle/Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Let It Bleed/Beggar’s Banquet - The Rolling Stones
Wake of the Flood/Mars Hotel/Blues For Allah - The Grateful Dead
The Cars: The Cars and Candy-O (a bold statement to be sure)
In the threepeat category:
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here and Animals
In the fourpeat category:
Ministry: Twitch and The Land Of Rape And Honey and The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste and Psalm 69 (but R.E.M. could take honourable mention.)
The Doors and Strange Days.
Van Halen I and II.
I’ll second Roland who mentioned ac/dc’s Highway to Hell and Back in Black.
Metallica’s Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets back to back is pretty strong.
The first two Eddie Murphy comedy albums.
RTL and Puppets from Metallica
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground and Nico followed by White Light/White Heat followed by The Velvet Underground.
Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup followed by Dots and Loops.
Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots followed by Mingus Ah Um.
I believe The Who released (maybe not in this order) The Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who’s Next, Quadrophenia, Live at Leeds, and the great though not quite as widely appreciated The Who By Numbers.
Good call on Public Enemy, hrhomer.
OutKast has done great with all of their albums.
If you want to get technical and all… The Beatles from “Meet the Beatles/With the Beatles” to “Abbey Road” was probably the greatest run ever.
I wouldn’t call that a nitpick; more like a major oversight on my part! I thought TUF preceded War, but I guess not. In that case, I’ll go with The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, although I think War is better than the latter.
I triple AC/DC’s Highway to Hell and Back In Black.
Weezer: The Blue Album and Pinkerton
They Might Be Giants: They Might Be Giants and Lincoln… after that, it seemed like all they released for years were compilations, including Then: The Earlier Years, which included the two aforementioned albums along with Misc. T, which was itself a compilation of B sides and whatnot.
I hear they’ve been making new material lately. Unfortunately, I can’t afford to care. :rolleyes:
Hate to do this… but Rattle and Hum came between The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. It was technically a soundtrack, but it was mostly new material and what wasn’t new was live, so it’s considered a U2 album.
Sorry.
My nominee is OK Computer followed by Kid A by Radiohead. OK Computer was an instant classic and seemed impossible to follow up. But Radiohead came up with a beautiful, haunting album that was moody, difficult and experimental, but every bit as good as its predecessor. I find it impossible to choose between these two albums; they’re both absolutely perfect.
I agree with many of the above, so I’ll be obvious and nominate the Allman Brothers Band for At Fillmore East and then Eat a Peach. And the albums before that (their debut and Idlewild South) plus the one after (Brothers and Sisters, their biggest hit) ain’t too bad neither.
Pink Floyd:
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
A Saucerful Of Secrets
…also…
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
Frank Zappa: (Lumpy Gravy?! For real?)
Chunga’s Revenge
Fillmore East 1971
…also…
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe (’)
Roxy & Elsewhere
One Size Fits All
King Crimson
Red
USA
Discipline
The Doors
Soft Parade
Morrison Hotel
All Mod Cons, Setting Sons and Sound Affects by The Jam. Three in a row!
Brian Wilson Imagination & Live at The Roxy
I second Cholo and Mudshark’s choices to make it back-to-back times two:
Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile.
Although… Let it Be was recorded (if not released) between the latter two. Not that it makes much difference, since with a few glaring exceptions it’s all genius.
I’m also going for This Year’s Model/Armed Forces/Get Happy!!, myself.
I’ll go with: R.E.M.'s Reconstruction of the Fables ( Fables of the Reconstruction?, I’ve never been sure which is the album’s real name) and Life’s Rich Pageant.
IMHO, their best work was New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and I’m surprised it wasn’t a bigger hit.