Great 3 Album Runs By A Band / Musician

At the risk of repeating what other posters have said already:-

Depeche Mode
Music for the Masses
Violator
Songs of Faith and Devotion

Simple Minds
New Gold Dream
Sparkle in the Rain
Once Upon a Time

The Psychedelic Furs
Talk Talk Talk
Forever Now
Mirror Moves

R.E.M.
Green
Out of Time
Automatic for the People

Talk Talk
The Party's Over
It's My Life
The Colour of Spring

New Order
Movement
Power Corruption and Lies
Low-Life

David Bowie
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

EDIT.

Got my Bowie chronology all wrong.
 
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indeedido said:
The Cure:
Kiss me kiss me kiss me; Disintegration; Wish.

RHCP:
Californication; By the way; Stadium Arcadia.

Led Zepp:
Led Zeppelin IV; Houses of the Holy; Physical Graffitti.

Kings of Leon:
Aha shake heartbreak; Because of the times; Only by the night.

Cocteau Twins:
Garlands; Head over heels; Treasure

Marilyn Manson:
Holy wood; The golden age of the grotesque; Eat me, drink me.
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Good shout with KoL, I always forget they used to be great because of how sh*t they became after Only By The Night.
I’d go earlier with the Manson albums though, Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood. Golden Age of Grotesque is ok but a bit too pop for me compared to the previous ones.
 
Bowie
Had to put his next 7 after David Bowie 1967 or Images and stop before Young Americans.
Needed to put these 7 in because I haven't any artist who I like who made so many brilliant albums (imho of course) especially consecutively.
David Bowie 1969.
Man Who Sold The World. 1970.
Hunky Dory. 1971.
Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust. 1972.
Aladdin Sane.1973.
Pin Ups.1973.
Diamond Dogs.1974.

Groundhogs
Blues Obituary. 1969.
Thank Christ for the Bomb. 1970.
Split.1971.

Dylan - always seemed to me he did two great albums on the bounce and then an average one followed. Saved is the worst Album he ever made too.
Freewheelin. 1963.
Times They are a Changin. 1964.

Beatles
Revolver 1966.
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967.
White Album 1968.

UFO
Lights Out.1977.
Obsession. 1978.
Strangers In the Night. 1979.

Mick Ronson

Slaughter on 10th Avenue. 1974.
Play Dont Worry. 1975.
Heaven & Hull. 1994.

Oasis.
Definitely Maybe. 1994.
What's The Story Morning Glory. 1995.
Be Here Now. 1997.

Too many to list, this would go on all day.
 
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Bob Dylan:
Blood On The Tracks
Desire
Street-Legal

A lovely trilogy that I never tire of listening to.

Gabriel era Genesis:
Nursery Cryme
Foxtrot
Selling England By The Pound

The height of prog genius for me.

Joni Mitchell:
Blue
For The Roses
Court and Spark

The transition from folk to jazz/rock.

ELP:
Pictures At An Exhibition
Trilogy
Brain Salad Surgery

My earliest LP fad.
 
parnabyscrosses said:
Good shout with KoL, I always forget they used to be great because of how sh*t they became after Only By The Night.
I’d go earlier with the Manson albums though, Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood. Golden Age of Grotesque is ok but a bit too pop for me compared to the previous ones.
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Was going to say the same about KOL. Those first 3 are brilliant.
 
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The first three Sheryl crow albums

Better can't make your life better, the 3 way and pre collection by lilys.

And then chemistry, tangled up and out of control by girls aloud

And highway 61, blonde on blonde and John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan

Accelerator, veterans of disorder and pound for pound by royal trux.

I think that's all of yhem
 
Wedding Present; George Best, Bizarro and Seamonsters

OMD; Organisation, Architecture & Morality & Dazzle Ships

Pulp; His N Hers, Different Class and This Is Hardcore

Depeche Mode; Black Celebration; Music For The Masses and Violator

Smiths; Meat is Murder, Queen is Dead & Strangeways Here We Come
 
h_m_boro said:
Metallica - Master of Puppets, ....and Justice for All, The Black Album

Anthrax - Among the Living, State of Euphoria, Persistence of Time

Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Fear of a Black Planet, It Takes a Nation of Millions

The Jam - already mentioned above

Rush - Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication, Hello Nasty, To the 5 Boroughs
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I reckon you need Ride the Lightning as your first of 3 Metallica, and killers as your first of 3 Maiden, but that’s my personal choice.

I’d add Animal Magnetism, Blackout & Love at first Sting - Scorps

Earth Versus, PHUQ and Fishing for Luckies - Wildhearts

Let there be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell - AC/DC

We Care A Lot, The Real Thing, Angel Dust - FNM
 
Loads more but these were the ones off the top of my head

Super Furries - Fuzzy Logic / Radiator / Guerilla (could easily be a 6 album run right through to Phantom Power)

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (Pt I & II) / Cold Roses / Jacksonville City Nights

The National - Alligator / Boxer / High Violet

Doves - Lost Souls / The Last Broadcast / Some Cities

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream / A Deeper Understanding / I Don't Live Here Anymore
 
anth25 said:
Loads more but these were the ones off the top of my head

Super Furries - Fuzzy Logic / Radiator / Guerilla (could easily be a 6 album run right through to Phantom Power)

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (Pt I & II) / Cold Roses / Jacksonville City Nights

The National - Alligator / Boxer / High Violet

Doves - Lost Souls / The Last Broadcast / Some Cities

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream / A Deeper Understanding / I Don't Live Here Anymore
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It’d be the first 3 Ryan Adams albums for me, Love is Hell is outstanding but Heartbreaker and Gold are his best ever.
 
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