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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1634 Registered: 10-2008 |
List 3 "consecutive" albums by an artist which you consider to be classics. I knicked this idea from Drive By Truckers messageboard. I'll start off with Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years by Tom Waits | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2339 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'll be captain obvious and list Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154. But also... Wonderful & Frightening World, This Nation's Saving Grace, and Bend Sinister by you know who. And... Brilliant Trees, Gone to Earth, and Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1095 Registered: 08-2004 |
Also obvious. Talking Heads: More Songs... Fear Of Music & Remain In Light Bowie: Station To Station, Low & Heroes Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express, Man Machine & Computer World | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2340 Registered: 10-2004 |
Nice ones, Jerry - all three of them. For me, with Taking Heads, you can even do 77, More Songs, and Fear. Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon. Smiths: Meat is Murder, Queen is Dead, Strangeways. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 85 Registered: 01-2007 |
The 3 albums buy the Shins would be up there for me. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 374 Registered: 02-2007 |
Dylan:Bringing It All Back Home,Highway 61 Revisited,Blonde On Blonde. Nick Cave & Badseeds: Let Love In, Murder Ballads, The Boatman's Call. The Band: Music From Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Essence, World Without Tears Patti Smith: Horses, Radio Ethiopia, Easter Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After The Goldrush,Harvest, On the Beach, Tonight's The Night | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4337 Registered: 05-2005 |
More obviousness from me: The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1637 Registered: 10-2008 |
I posted this same topic on another forum and was surprised to see somebody venture this: 2nd Hand Daylight++Correct use Of Soap++No Thyself [Magazine] Interesting choice, and that must be the longest gap between three "classic" albums ever? Jeff, I'm guessing you don't really rate Meat Is Murder above the debut, but its more the fact you want to include Strangeways in your trifecta? I would also put forward Drive By Truckers three albums from last decade - Decoration Day, The Dirty South, Brighter Than Creations Dark. My trifecta by The Fall would be Dragnet, Grotesque and Hex. I would agree with Padraig on The Stones, but you could also have Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers. REM - Murmur, Reckoning, Fables etc Husker Du - Flip Your Wig, Candy Apple Grey, Warehouse Songs and Stories. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 182 Registered: 08-2005 |
I'll second the REM and go for the obvious. I know there are some non-Beatles fans here but Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Peppers isn't a shabby trio... | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 183 Registered: 08-2005 |
Somewhat tragically you could include Nick Drake's entire career: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later, Pink Moon. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 295 Registered: 05-2005 |
17 seconds / Faith / Pornography - The Cure Arithmetics / Blind / Static and Silence - The Sundays Either Or / Xo / Figure 8 - Elliott Smith Kill the Moonlight / Gimme Fiction / Gagagaga - Spoon | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 184 Registered: 08-2005 |
Trou - great call on the Cure. (When I spoke with Robert Smith years ago - shameless name drop!! - he said 17 Seconds and Pornography were his favourites. They were the two I was getting signed. (My brother was videoing an interview with him at Jane Seymour's house in Bath where they were recording, and I went along as location assistant. Robert couldn't have been nicer. Happy days!) And going back a bit further: Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxter's and Crown of Creation is a trio of classics. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2875 Registered: 03-2005 |
Is it because we're on the Go Betweens' board that nobody mentions them? Before Hollywood, Spring Hill Fair and Liberty Belle certainly qualify in my book. Trouble is, the run continues for Tallulah, which I seem to like a lot more than some other folks, and Kevin's big favorite 16 LL. I've been too lazy to think about candidates for this. Maybe this weekend. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 401 Registered: 05-2005 |
wow the Dylan trilogy is pretty stellar David! Fairport Convention - What we did on our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, Liege and Lief | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1639 Registered: 10-2008 |
I don't know if I'll get away with this one, but here goes Raw Power/The Idiot/Lust For Life. Well they are all credited to the artist Iggy, Raw Power is Iggy and The Stooges mind you. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1642 Registered: 10-2008 |
Captain Beefheart is a major artist who couldn't quite string 3 great albums in a row together (or could he? - see below **). The closest he came was Shiny Beast, Doc At The Radar Station and Ice Cream For Crow. Shiny Beast is a classic, the other two are really good but not great. **Safe As Milk, Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off Baby would be a great trifecta, but a glance at his discography shows that what look like inferior "cash in" albums were released in between. From an artistic point of view maybe these three should be allowed to count? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 937 Registered: 04-2006 |
mccoy tyner extensions - asante - sahara enlightenment - sama layuca - atlantis brilliant, brilliant, brilliant | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 938 Registered: 04-2006 |
Soft Cell Non-stop Erotic Cabaret/The Art of Falling Apart/This Last Night In Sodom | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 939 Registered: 04-2006 |
The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man - Turn! Turn! Turn! - Fifth Dimension Younger than Yesterday - The Notorious Byrd Brothers - Sweetheart of the Rodeo | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 940 Registered: 04-2006 |
Gang of Four Entertainment - Solid Gold - Songs of the Free | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 941 Registered: 04-2006 |
Jorge Ben Jorge Ben - Forca Bruta - Negro e Lindo | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 942 Registered: 04-2006 |
Cluster Cluster II - Zuckerzeit - Sowiesoso | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 943 Registered: 04-2006 |
Yes The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 944 Registered: 04-2006 |
John Fahey Blind Joe Death - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes - The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions - Days Have Gone By Requia - The Yellow Princess - The Voice of the Turtle | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 945 Registered: 04-2006 |
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells - Hergest Ridge - Ommadawn | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 946 Registered: 04-2006 |
Black Box Recorder England Made Me - The Facts of Life - Passionoia | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 947 Registered: 04-2006 |
Curtis Mayfield Curtis - Curtis/Live! - Roots - Superfly | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 948 Registered: 04-2006 |
this is utter nonsense, but while sitting in front of my stereo a few more came to my mind. it is like acting under constraint and i have to bore you again: The Mothers of Invention Freak Out - Absolutely Free - We're only in it for the money | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 949 Registered: 04-2006 |
Big Star #1 Record - Radio City - Third/Sister Lovers | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2341 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, I *do* rate Meat is Murder over the debut. I love all four of the Smiths' studio albums, but the debut is the one I love the least, if that makes sense. If we could include EPs, I would say: Chronic Town, Murmur, and Reckoning. I like Fables, but I don't like it *enough* to feel that it should be included in some classic trifecta. Randy, I agree with your Go-Between trifecta. I definitely think Before Hollywood, Spring Hill Fair, and Liberty Belle are their three best albums. Here are some others: Momus: Circus Maximus, Poison Boyfriend, Tender Pervert Siouxsie: Kaleidoscope, Juju, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast Magazine: Real Life Secondhand Daylight, Correct Use of Soap | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 185 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Chills: Kaleidoscope World, Brave Words and Submarine Bells. Three albums that I still listen to regularly, and which have some great songs by the troubled Martin Phillipps (who's due to support John Cooper Clarke in at the Dunedin Fringe next week, apparently. But Bath UK to Dundein is a long way to go for a gig...). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2878 Registered: 03-2005 |
If "Brave Words" ever gets the remix and remaster treatment that Martin Phillipps wants I definitely agree Simon. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 402 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isn't Kaleidoscope World a compilation? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2879 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes it is, Cosmo. But I'd still count it as it's the only thing they had at the time that was album length. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 403 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wasnt sure of the trifectas rules, assumed that classic albums needed to be proper albums. Having said that I think Kaleidoscope World is brilliant | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1643 Registered: 10-2008 |
I think it needs to be proper albums, thats all I would consider anyway. Maybe give a bit of leeway if it was a compilation of songs unavailable on any other albums. I think The Wedding Present and Ash released singles on a monthly basis and then compiled them all on an album later on (not that I'm suggesting either of these two albums are classics - far from it) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1097 Registered: 08-2004 |
So it's a comfortable shoe-in for The Associates - Affectionate Punch, Fourth Drawer Down & Sulk The Gun Club - Fire Of Love, Miami, Las Vegas Story Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk, If Your Feeling Sinister & The Boy With The Arab Strap 3 very different trifecta's all coming from the heart of leftfield. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 186 Registered: 08-2005 |
While Kaleidoscope World might be a compilation, it is a pretty unusual one, in that it's the first album of any sort the Chills released (not a live album, mid-career or post-career round-up). I bought it in the 1980s (I've got it on vinyl and CD) before I even knew it was a compilation. Jerry - Belle and Sebastian's first three, how could I forget those?! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1644 Registered: 10-2008 |
Fourth Drawer Down is a perfect example of an album that isnt really an album, but a collection of singles. This album definitely counts in my book. Sounds like Kaleidoscope World might count as well? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2346 Registered: 10-2004 |
If Fourth Drawer Down counts, I would definitely include Affectionate Punch, Fourth Drawer Down, and Sulk. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2342 Registered: 01-2005 |
Neu - Neu!, Neu!2, Neu '75 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 187 Registered: 08-2005 |
Neu! - never 'eard of 'em, my knowledge of Krautrock being singualry lacking. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 703 Registered: 04-2005 |
The first 3 Hendrix records ? Are You Experienced ? Axis:Bold as Love Electric Ladyland What is amazing about the 3 Fairport releases that Cosmo picked is that all 3 were issued within the same year (1969), and also that before "Liege and Lief" the group were involved in a terrible road accident that killed their drummer. Somehow they came through that and created the record that really defined British folk-rock. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 704 Registered: 04-2005 |
I don't have the first Gillian Welch record, but I would go for Time (The Revelator) Soul Journey The Harrow and the Harvest I just wish that she would occasionally again go down the direction of the more abstract "I Dream A Highway": 14 perfect minutes | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1646 Registered: 10-2008 |
Burning Spear - Rockin' Time, Marcus Garvey, Man In The Hills |