Best 3 album run by any band/artist

[Gods' Die]

Tom Waits: Heartattack & Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs

I think Heartattack is several notches below the other two.

Yes, but it's a notch above Frank's Wild Years.

[Kral]

oh wait, is this thread about the best 3 album run internal to the band, or the best 3 album run in the history of music. It is the former I apologize to everyone. if it is the second, everyone stop fucking up the thread I didn't create.

The former, clearly. Name a band/artist, any band/artist. Now put down that band/artist's best three album run. List as many band/artists as you fucking want.

well if that is the case I apologize to the thread author and the thread.

Crisis averted!

[Birds in Hell]

oh wait, is this thread about the best 3 album run internal to the band, or the best 3 album run in the history of music. It is the former I apologize to everyone. if it is the second, everyone stop fucking up the thread I didn't create.

The former, clearly. Name a band/artist, any band/artist. Now put down that band/artist's best three album run. List as many band/artists as you fucking want.

well if that is the case I apologize to the thread author and the thread.

Plus trying to figure out the latter would be a pretty pointless exercise. This is much more fun!

[Lament]

How do you feel about 13?

I find it pretty underwhelming. That being said, the three singles (Tender, Coffee & TV, and No Distance Left to Run) are three of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful things they ever did. But I feel like the rest of the album crumbles around those tracks.

You gotta re-listen to the bass on Life's An Ocean right away and after you change your mind I'll be here for you.

Don't get me wrong, I love Life's An Ocean, but I think perhaps you should go re-listen to the bass on Long Snake Moan.

[Jorge]

Tom Waits: Heartattack & Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs

I think Heartattack is several notches below the other two.

Yes, but it's a notch above Frank's Wild Years.

Don't be ridiculous.

[Gods' Die]

Tom Waits: Heartattack & Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs

I think Heartattack is several notches below the other two.

Yes, but it's a notch above Frank's Wild Years.

Don't be ridiculous.

Maybe I'm reaching there, looking at the tracklist for Frank's, but every time I listen to it I wish the performances had a little more whereas HA&V's first track really kicks your fucking ass. His production has been fucking perfect on his records after this one from Bone Machine on.

[harmless]

T. Rex: Electric Warrior / The Slider / Tanx

[zeb]

How do you feel about 13?

I find it pretty underwhelming. That being said, the three singles (Tender, Coffee & TV, and No Distance Left to Run) are three of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful things they ever did. But I feel like the rest of the album crumbles around those tracks.

There are piles of great songs on that record.

[Jorge]

How do you feel about 13?

I find it pretty underwhelming. That being said, the three singles (Tender, Coffee & TV, and No Distance Left to Run) are three of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful things they ever did. But I feel like the rest of the album crumbles around those tracks.

There are piles of great songs on that record.

It's my favorite Blur album, but I will agree that the singles are the best songs.

[harmless]

How do you feel about 13?

I find it pretty underwhelming. That being said, the three singles (Tender, Coffee & TV, and No Distance Left to Run) are three of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful things they ever did. But I feel like the rest of the album crumbles around those tracks.

I love it all. I like the fact they played with "noise" on that album more than they'd done before. Some of it's so beautifully weird (or felt like that at the time). I would've put it in a trilogy if I thought Think Tank was good enough.

[Gods' Die]

How do you feel about 13?

I find it pretty underwhelming. That being said, the three singles (Tender, Coffee & TV, and No Distance Left to Run) are three of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful things they ever did. But I feel like the rest of the album crumbles around those tracks.

I love it all. I like the fact they played with "noise" on that album more than they'd done before. Some of it's so beautifully weird (or felt like that at the time). I would've put it in a trilogy if I thought Think Tank was good enough.

Yeah...S/T & 13 are really awesome changes of direction, though 13 especially has some pretty skippable stuff. And I can also sit through the entire Great Escape.

[epilogue]

Tom Waits: Heartattack & Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs

This, or

Bone Machine>Mule Variations>Blood Money
I refuse to recognize the existence of Black Rider.

But that's the problem, isn't it. I can't just ignore a record like that. I guess I cold say that Mule Variations, Blood Money, Alice is better than the run I listed previously. But Or maybe Rain Dogs, Frank's Wild Years, Bone Machine.

[epilogue]

Tom Waits: Heartattack & Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs

I think Heartattack is several notches below the other two.

Yes, but it's a notch above Frank's Wild Years.

Aw huh

[Lament]

I would've put it in a trilogy if I thought Think Tank was good enough.

Think Tank is possibly my least favorite album ever made by a band I at some point legitimately loved.

[Jorge]

I dunno, "Good Song" is pretty good.

[Jorge]

Looking back at the tracklist, though, I don't remember most of these songs.

[harmless]

I like plenty of stuff on Think Tank.... I think, because I don't remember much about it. I think I remember the sound blurring (no pun intended) too much with what Radiohead were doing at the time. I love that Blur became more experimental, but ultimately I don't think they were ever able to carve out a particular identity to legitimately rival Radiohead's.

[harmless]

Although both bands had been wiping the floor with Oasis for ages by then.

[Jorge]

Fucking Oasis.

[Lament]

I see no real reason to compare Radiohead and Oasis. They both went after completely different things, and I'd argue each were equally successful at achieving what they set out to do.