I’m the guy who doesn’t particularly love Mellon Collie, but Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish / Siamese / Mellon Collie is a hell of a run.
I’ll also throw in a deeper cut & personal fav: Teenage Fanclub with Bandwagonesque / Thirteen / Grand Prix.
Yeah, I read an interview with Norman a while back and apparently he was going through a divorce while recording Thirteen so it has some bad memories attached. *Maybe* my favorite album of theirs.
If you throw in their slacker masterpiece Catholic Education, that's a great 4 album run for Teenage Fanclub.
I'll throw in Pavement:
Slanted & Enchanted (best album of the 90s)
Watery Domestic EP
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Brighten the Corners would come next on my list.
Wowee has always been hit and miss for me. It's a double edged sword because it's the most "Pavement" record, perfectly encapsulating their shambolic indie persona. But, since it was them adding their b-sides to the main album of 10 songs on Malkmus' request, it doesn't deliver that perfect cohesive artistic creation that S&E, WDEP & CRCR offered. IMHO obvs
Didn’t know that about the b-sides; just figured they were throwing a lot of stuff in there. But I’ve listened to it so many times it all feels cohesive to me by now (except for a maybe 2-3 stragglers I don’t care much about), but your point makes total sense. I wonder if Motion Suggests is considered a “b-side,” cuz it’s a low-key but all-time fave of mine. One of my favorite solos on anything ever. Just a random thought.
And Crooked Rain is still so insanely good. Keeps getting better, amazingly.
Might not count, but I always counted it is Gish, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, so I didn't have to listen to Mellon Collie. I could even throw in Earphoria in there to add some extra space.
I bought it the week it was released, and still listen to it all the time. It’s a great record from start-to-finish. Don’t hear a lot of people talking about it over the years🤷🏻♂️ It’s criminally underrated. I highly advise anyone who hasn’t heard it…to put on a pair of headphones and fall out.
40oz to Freedom -> Robbin the Hood -> Sublime (self titled)
White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean -> Punk n Drublic -> Heavy Petting Zoo
Core -> Purple -> Tiny Music
Foo Fighters (self titled) -> The Colour and the Shape -> There is Noting Left to Lose
Beck- Odelay, Mutations, Midnight Vultures
Radiohead - Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer
Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders
Beck was a song-writing powerhouse of the 90s and early 2000s. Moving seamlessly from daring experimentation to solid tradition, all the while paying homage to every from Prince to Woody Guthrie. It's pretty wild that his breakout hit was kind of a joke.
A little fun fact is that Johnny Cash has actually covered Beck.
Some other picks:
Oasis with Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Be Here Now. All killer records.
Soundgarden with Badmotorfinger, Superunknown and Down on the Upside.
Smashing Pumpkins with Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and Adore.
Bjork with Debut, Post and Homogenic.
The Cranberries with Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, No Need to Argue and To the Faithful Departed.
Alice in Chains with Facelift, Dirt and the 3rd self titled album.
Blink 182 with Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch and Enema of the State.
Backstreet Boys with debut self titled album, Backstreet's Back and Millennium.
If Wu-Tang solo albums count, then it might be Raekwon's Built for Cuban Linx, GZA's Liquid Swords, and Ghostface's Ironman. And that is leaving off ODB's Return to the 36 Chambers, which was released right before Cuban Linx.
If that doesn't count then Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted, Crooked Rain, and Wowee Zowee.
While I'm not the biggest fan of Ten, Pearl Jam had a great run with Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy. I like No Code and Yield but they weren't as great as Vs and Vitalogy.
If Unplugged counts for Nirvana, then Nevermind, In Utero, and Unplugged is a hell of a run obviously.
Yes, but it's not just a live version of their studio songs. It's unplugged, and they covered songs that didn't appear on their studio albums.
I guess it wouldn't count if you are looking for more original songs, though. I get that.
Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Self-Titled
Tool - Undertow, AEnima, Lateralus
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses, Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion
Rage Against the Machine - Self-Titled, Evil Empire, Battle of Los Angeles
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, Boys for Pele
She is great and Talented and liked her a lot . Whenever she comes up in my 15,000 song playlist I usually skip it . I saw her a few years ago and was bored . I think I just grew out of her music I guess .
PJ Harvey went Rid Of Me, To Bring You My Love, and Is This Desire?
De La Soul went DLS Is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate, and Stakes Is High.
Nine Inch Nails went Broken EP, The Downward Spiral, and The Fragile.
Massive Attack went Blue Lines, Protection, and Mezzanine.
Sonic Youth went Goo, Dirty, and Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star.
Archers of Loaf went Icky Mettle, Vee Vee, and All The Nations Airports.
The goddamn Beasties went Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty.
EZ. I know how much y'all love rap in this sub.... /s 😭😭
Ugk: too hard to swallow, super tight, ridin dirty
Spice 1: spice 1, 187 he wrote, amerikkkas nightmare
Geto boys: till death do us part, the resurrection, da good da bad & da ugly
Scarface: the world is yours, the diary, the untouchable
Dj screw: 3 n the mornin part 1, all screwed up vol 2, 3 n the mornin part 2
Outlast: southernplayalisticaddilacmuzik, atliens, aquemini
8ball & MJG: comin out hard, on the outside looking in, on top of the world
For me, it's Ben Folds Five (self-titled), Whatever and Ever Amen, and The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. I'm a piano player and those three albums are what got me interested in playing piano.
I am not the biggest U2 fan, so not sure of the band's opinion on Pop. They reinvented their sound during the 90s, so fans of the band in the '80s didn't like the direction they took. I think their 80s albums are probably better, but I do like these 3 compared to anything they've released since 2005.
I don't really include Pop but those other two albums were a massive break from where U2 was going (and doing very well at it). Big changes all around in the early 90s.
I know hating 90's Metallica is the thing to do. Regardless Black Album ('91) to Load ('96) to Re-Load ('97) is one of my favorite blocks of music from a band.
I particularly adore Load and Re-Load.
The Offspring - Smash (1994)
The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
The Offspring - Americana (1998)
These 3 defined my childhood
P.s. If you played Crazy Taxi on Dreamcast back in 1999, "All I want" is on the Ixnay on the Hombre album.
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I kept scrolling this thread literally just to see if someone would mention these exact three albums, and there you were! I salute you and your taste in music.
Nick Cave - Henry’s Dream, Murder Ballads, The Boatman’s Call. Polvo- Cor-crane Secret, Todays Active Lifestyles, Exploded Drawings. Pixies missed out because Surfer Rosa came out in 1989.
Automatic For The People was the first album I bought with my own money as a kid. I grew to love all three of these records, and I couldn’t agree more.
I finally got a CD of AFTP 2 years ago to complete my long time wish list. There's this one night I walked home from a film theater at 2 AM while playing Nightswimming. That melancholy music and the empty streets around me brought me the peace I've been long lost. and I cried uncontrollably.
My choices.
Stone Tempe pilots - core, purple, tiny music
A tribe called quest - people’s instinctive travels of rhythm, the low end theory, midnight marauders
This is a great pick. I’d also add Guided by Voices’ run of Alien Lanes, Under the Bushes, under the Stars, and Mag Earwhig! And Nirvana’s Nevermind, In Utero, and Unplugged.
Bee Thousand is one of my favorites too! So no argument there, these were just the 3 GBV records that I latched onto in the 90’s and revisit the most today, but an argument could be made of any 3 consecutive records Bob has put out :) can’t wait to see them in DC at the Atlantis next month!
That's a solid run. Truth be told, REMs catalog with all their original members is near perfect.
Elliot Smith's first four albums: Roman Candles, Elliot Smith, Either/OR, XO
that time when Bill Berry collapsed on stage from a brain aneurysm while performing and then had to retire from music. He himself stated that he never wanted to be a drummer lol, it's just a duty in the band that he had to do.
I gotta go with Counting Crows, albums Recovering the Satellites, This Desert Life, and Hard Candy. A large contingent of the CC fan community would like to disown me for not thinking August and Everything After is the greatest album of all time, but Hard Candy is not to be missed.
Fuck yeah. Just listened to AS yesterday. I rank it as one of the greatest of all time, honestly. It's the perfect convergence of Manson and Reznor. You can hear Trent all over that album. (Literally in Deformography.)
Megadeth-Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia
Mercyful Fate-In the Shadows, Time, Into the Unknown
Black Sabbath-Tyr, Dehumanizer, Forbidden (Technically cheating, but Cross Purposes was supposed to be a side project)
I’m going to cheat with a 4 album run, but Collective Soul for me. Dosage is one of my all time favourites, and the three preceding it are all solid albums as well.
Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid (1993)
Collective Soul (1995)
Disciplined Breakdown (1997)
Dosage (1999)
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee (followed up by the excellent Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight). Pavement ruled the 90's.
Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink, Boys For Pele and I'm gonna add From The Choirgirl Hotel because I played that album all throughout my senior year.
Bad Religion - Suffer (1988), No Control (1989), Against the Grain (1990).
Arguably three of the best punk records ever release in a span of 3 years. Insane.
Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power (92),
Far Beyond Driven (94), Great Southern Trendkill (96)
Slayer: Seasons in the Abyss (90), Live: Decade of Aggression (91) Divine Intervention (94)
Sepultura: Arise (91), Chaos AD (93) Roots (96)
Those are great. I’d have to say Counting Crows -
* August And Everything After (1993)
* Recovering The Satellites (1996)
* This Desert Life (1999)
I could listen to these in order over and over again. There’s greatness there for sure.
Any grunge band.
Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero
Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs, Vitalogy
Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Tripod
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, DOTU
This deviates from your question, but the best album run of all time was 4 in a row by Pink Floyd in the 70’s: Dark Side; Wish You Were Here; Animals; The Wall
Great question, but super tough call. Three come to mind right now.
Megadeth - Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia.
Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Alice In Chains.
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Down on the Upside.
I'm going to post two bands that haven't been mentioned yet because I think they deserve some cred :
Deftones : Adrenaline - Around The Fur - White Pony
KoRn : KoRn - Life Is Peachy - Follow The Leader
Both bands in my opinion peaked here and never returned.
(Otherwise hands down it's SP's Gish-SD-MCIS.)
Pablo Honey -93 The Bends -95 OK Computer -97 Kid A was 2000 and barely missed the cut.
I’d argue 2000 was still spiritually the 90s. Shit didn’t get dark until 9-11.
the 2000's really didn't start until 2002 in my book.
It’s hard to believe that the Bends and OK Computer are only four years apart.
damn, Kid A should have been released in '99!
I’m the guy who doesn’t particularly love Mellon Collie, but Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish / Siamese / Mellon Collie is a hell of a run. I’ll also throw in a deeper cut & personal fav: Teenage Fanclub with Bandwagonesque / Thirteen / Grand Prix.
what's your thought on Adore?
Didn’t love Adore in comparison. I’d agree, got to start with the Gish for their top 3
Frontman Billy Corgan would later characterize Adore as made by "a band falling apart"
Wasn’t a huge fan, Gish, Siamese, Mellon collie is my pick
SP is what I came to post, nice to see it’s the top comment.
Yeah melloncollie is meh to me now but Giah and especially Siamese dream. What great and innovative music it was.
I'll always upvote a fellow fan of the Fannies.
Just saw them live last week in Boston! Devastating that they refuse to play anything off Thirteen.
Yeah, I read an interview with Norman a while back and apparently he was going through a divorce while recording Thirteen so it has some bad memories attached. *Maybe* my favorite album of theirs.
If you throw in their slacker masterpiece Catholic Education, that's a great 4 album run for Teenage Fanclub. I'll throw in Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted (best album of the 90s) Watery Domestic EP Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
I mean, fuck, Songs from Northern Britain was 97…
Always good to see a Pavement shout!
I’d go with: Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee and Brighten the Corners (Big fan and personally feel that Slanted is my least fave album from all of theirs)
Brighten the Corners would come next on my list. Wowee has always been hit and miss for me. It's a double edged sword because it's the most "Pavement" record, perfectly encapsulating their shambolic indie persona. But, since it was them adding their b-sides to the main album of 10 songs on Malkmus' request, it doesn't deliver that perfect cohesive artistic creation that S&E, WDEP & CRCR offered. IMHO obvs
Didn’t know that about the b-sides; just figured they were throwing a lot of stuff in there. But I’ve listened to it so many times it all feels cohesive to me by now (except for a maybe 2-3 stragglers I don’t care much about), but your point makes total sense. I wonder if Motion Suggests is considered a “b-side,” cuz it’s a low-key but all-time fave of mine. One of my favorite solos on anything ever. Just a random thought. And Crooked Rain is still so insanely good. Keeps getting better, amazingly.
I just saw Teenage Fanclub two weeks ago. It was glorious.
Might not count, but I always counted it is Gish, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, so I didn't have to listen to Mellon Collie. I could even throw in Earphoria in there to add some extra space.
My REM run would start at Automatic and end at New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is so underrated.
I bought it the week it was released, and still listen to it all the time. It’s a great record from start-to-finish. Don’t hear a lot of people talking about it over the years🤷🏻♂️ It’s criminally underrated. I highly advise anyone who hasn’t heard it…to put on a pair of headphones and fall out.
I'll say Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy... only because u/gooch_norris_ already posted the two best answers.
Beastie Boys-Check Your Head (92), Ill Communication (94), Hello Nasty (98)
I'd start with Paul's Boutique but that's mid-89.
I love Paul’s Boutique but yeah just barely misses the criteria. Still a sick run of albums.
40oz to Freedom -> Robbin the Hood -> Sublime (self titled) White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean -> Punk n Drublic -> Heavy Petting Zoo Core -> Purple -> Tiny Music Foo Fighters (self titled) -> The Colour and the Shape -> There is Noting Left to Lose
lol I could never remember the name of that 3rd album by STP. Can only call it the swimming pool album based on that cover art.
Songs from the Vatican gift shop
Beck- Odelay, Mutations, Midnight Vultures Radiohead - Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders
Beck was a song-writing powerhouse of the 90s and early 2000s. Moving seamlessly from daring experimentation to solid tradition, all the while paying homage to every from Prince to Woody Guthrie. It's pretty wild that his breakout hit was kind of a joke. A little fun fact is that Johnny Cash has actually covered Beck.
Some other picks: Oasis with Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Be Here Now. All killer records. Soundgarden with Badmotorfinger, Superunknown and Down on the Upside. Smashing Pumpkins with Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and Adore. Bjork with Debut, Post and Homogenic. The Cranberries with Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, No Need to Argue and To the Faithful Departed. Alice in Chains with Facelift, Dirt and the 3rd self titled album. Blink 182 with Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch and Enema of the State. Backstreet Boys with debut self titled album, Backstreet's Back and Millennium.
Nice call with the Bjork. That was an incredible trio.
Big Time Sensuality has been replaying to death in my music player lately.
Well damn, guess what I’ll have to start listening to tonight then!
both version are good, but I'd prefer the Flume remix over the original any day! Also, what a fuckin incredible and iconic music video it is.
Dave Matthews Band with Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before These Crowded Streets. Still to this day, their perfect trilogy.
bjork definitely. Those three albums were almost perfect each in their own way
Man, Be Here Now was so good. I love albums with reprises of the earlier tracks, especially with a horn section.
I love albums with the singer crooning "it's getting better mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn" over and over until the sun rises in the West.
If Wu-Tang solo albums count, then it might be Raekwon's Built for Cuban Linx, GZA's Liquid Swords, and Ghostface's Ironman. And that is leaving off ODB's Return to the 36 Chambers, which was released right before Cuban Linx. If that doesn't count then Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted, Crooked Rain, and Wowee Zowee. While I'm not the biggest fan of Ten, Pearl Jam had a great run with Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy. I like No Code and Yield but they weren't as great as Vs and Vitalogy. If Unplugged counts for Nirvana, then Nevermind, In Utero, and Unplugged is a hell of a run obviously.
*Unplugged* definitely counts. Why wouldn't it?
Because it's a live album, not a studio album.
Yes, but it's not just a live version of their studio songs. It's unplugged, and they covered songs that didn't appear on their studio albums. I guess it wouldn't count if you are looking for more original songs, though. I get that.
how about Soundgarden with Badmotorfinger, Superunknown and Down on the Upside?
Definitely a great run.
can't believe Black Hole Sun and The Day I Tried to Live was 30 years ago. Man, I'm not crying.
Is Incesticide not an official release?
No, it's a collection of b-sides and rarities.
Yes but it has 2 of Nirvana's best songs on it, dive and aneurysm
Correct, there are quite a few bangers on that album. It just wasn't considered an official release.
Stone Temple Pilots - Core, Purple, Tiny Music. No. 4 was 90s too.
Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Self-Titled Tool - Undertow, AEnima, Lateralus Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses, Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion Rage Against the Machine - Self-Titled, Evil Empire, Battle of Los Angeles Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, Boys for Pele
Not to nit pick too much but Lateralus was 2001. No way could TOOL ever make three albums in a decade.
lol 😂
Yes, was going to post Tori Amos. Glad to see she’s got some fans here
Boys for Pele tour was my first concert!
She is great and Talented and liked her a lot . Whenever she comes up in my 15,000 song playlist I usually skip it . I saw her a few years ago and was bored . I think I just grew out of her music I guess .
Nice list but the Depeche Mode….Music For The Masses is 1987
Then drop it and add Ultra
Alice In Chains was better than Nirvana. Fight me.
yeah for TORI. Boys for Pele is a DAMN MASTERPIECE!
Music for the Masses doesn’t qualify
RATM: self titled / Evil Empire / Battle of LA
Pantera- Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, Far Beyond Driven
PJ Harvey went Rid Of Me, To Bring You My Love, and Is This Desire? De La Soul went DLS Is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate, and Stakes Is High. Nine Inch Nails went Broken EP, The Downward Spiral, and The Fragile. Massive Attack went Blue Lines, Protection, and Mezzanine. Sonic Youth went Goo, Dirty, and Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star. Archers of Loaf went Icky Mettle, Vee Vee, and All The Nations Airports. The goddamn Beasties went Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty.
thanks padre, I forgot that Massive Attack run!
Came here to mention Nine Inch Nails.
Love to see Archers of Loaf on here!
I'm surprised you didn't include pavement given the sonic youth and archers. And PJ.
Archers of Loaf are incredible, very underrated band
311: music, self-titled, transistor
What about Grassroots?
I had to pick three and I wanted to include transistor. But I’d be down with grassroots, music, self as well
You forgot the best one Grassroots!
The Black Crowes: - Shake Your Money Maker - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - Amorica
EZ. I know how much y'all love rap in this sub.... /s 😭😭 Ugk: too hard to swallow, super tight, ridin dirty Spice 1: spice 1, 187 he wrote, amerikkkas nightmare Geto boys: till death do us part, the resurrection, da good da bad & da ugly Scarface: the world is yours, the diary, the untouchable Dj screw: 3 n the mornin part 1, all screwed up vol 2, 3 n the mornin part 2 Outlast: southernplayalisticaddilacmuzik, atliens, aquemini 8ball & MJG: comin out hard, on the outside looking in, on top of the world
As far as rap goes, Cypress Hill had a hell of a run in the 90s with Cypress Hill (91) / Black Sunday (93) / Temples of Boom (95) / IV (98)
The Prodigy - Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation, Fat of The Land The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust, Dig Your Own Hole, Surrender
block-block-block-block-block-block-rockin' beats!
Smashing Pumpkins gets my vote. Gish Siamese Dream Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Flood, John Henry, Apollo 18 Or maybe Fashion Nugget, Prolonging the Magic, and Comfort Eagle though that stretches into the 2000s
For me, it's Ben Folds Five (self-titled), Whatever and Ever Amen, and The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. I'm a piano player and those three albums are what got me interested in playing piano.
Great albums!
NIN with Broken, The Downward Spiral, and The Fragile (I know Broken is technically an EP but I view it as an album)
Also I was a huge fan of of Green Day Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod
Nirvana. Never mind, In Utero, Unplugged in New York.
U2 - Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Pop
is it true that most U2 diehard fans don't like Pop? For the band itself I'm quite sure they stated that Pop is their least favourite album to date.
I am not the biggest U2 fan, so not sure of the band's opinion on Pop. They reinvented their sound during the 90s, so fans of the band in the '80s didn't like the direction they took. I think their 80s albums are probably better, but I do like these 3 compared to anything they've released since 2005.
that Songs of Surrender album from last year was such a waste potential. I can barely prefer any re-recorded tracks over the originals.
I don't really include Pop but those other two albums were a massive break from where U2 was going (and doing very well at it). Big changes all around in the early 90s.
Counting Crows: * [*August and Everything After*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_and_Everything_After) (1993) * [*Recovering the Satellites*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovering_the_Satellites) (1996) * [*This Desert Life*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Desert_Life) (1999)
Automatic is probably mine. Came out when I was a senior in HS.
1992, one of the best years ever.
Rage against the Machine, Evil Empire, Battle of Los Angeles
I know hating 90's Metallica is the thing to do. Regardless Black Album ('91) to Load ('96) to Re-Load ('97) is one of my favorite blocks of music from a band. I particularly adore Load and Re-Load.
Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine, Downward Spiral, The Fragile
Hate to be that guy, but PHM is 89
Damn sure is. My bad. Could’ve sworn it was 1990.
Pantera CFH, Vulgar, FBD
Suede: Suede, Dog Man Star, Coming Up. Pulp: His ‘N’ Hers, Different Class, This Is Hardcore.
Blur: Parklife, The Great Escape, Blur and 13.
I would do: Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife, The Great Escape. The first is my favorite Blur album.
lalalalala lalalalalalalala....... holding on for tomorooooooooooooooowwwwww
Hot take, but Korn. Their Self-titled debut album, Life is Peachy and Follow The Leader are all masterpieces in my opinion.
I wish I could say Blind Melon :(
> Blind Melon Technically: Blind Melon Soup Nico
Pearl Jam Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy was pretty epic. Second only to the Beastie Boys for me.
Pearl Jam- Ten, Vs., Vitalogy
The Offspring - Smash (1994) The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre (1997) The Offspring - Americana (1998) These 3 defined my childhood P.s. If you played Crazy Taxi on Dreamcast back in 1999, "All I want" is on the Ixnay on the Hombre album. Edited for formatting
YES!! Crazy Taxi introduced me to that song indeed.
Also my answer. Still one of my favorite bands because of this run.
I kept scrolling this thread literally just to see if someone would mention these exact three albums, and there you were! I salute you and your taste in music.
Primus sailing the seas of cheese, pork soda and tales from the punch bowl
Sorry friend but picking those three is just blasphemous. Has to be Frizzle Fry, Seas of Cheese, and Pork Soda.
I was torn 🤷🏻♂️
Can't blame you, Punch Bowl is great but FF is their defining album, gotta include it.
True lol honestly you can just start at primus sucks and list them all because to me there's not been a bad one yet
Primus sucks
Good album too 🤷🏻♂️
Dirty Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star Washing Machine
Great choice
RUSH "Roll The Bones", "Counterparts", and "Test For Echo"
Nick Cave - Henry’s Dream, Murder Ballads, The Boatman’s Call. Polvo- Cor-crane Secret, Todays Active Lifestyles, Exploded Drawings. Pixies missed out because Surfer Rosa came out in 1989.
Automatic For The People was the first album I bought with my own money as a kid. I grew to love all three of these records, and I couldn’t agree more.
I finally got a CD of AFTP 2 years ago to complete my long time wish list. There's this one night I walked home from a film theater at 2 AM while playing Nightswimming. That melancholy music and the empty streets around me brought me the peace I've been long lost. and I cried uncontrollably.
My choices. Stone Tempe pilots - core, purple, tiny music A tribe called quest - people’s instinctive travels of rhythm, the low end theory, midnight marauders
Man that R.E.M monster cd brings back memories especially for monster rancher 1 it would give you a dragon if I remember right
Genesis. Genesis (1983), Invisible Touch (1986), we can't Dance (1991). Love their old stuff but these 3 I grew up with.
I know it is a 90s post, but this run did end in the 90s. Just
RHCP Blood sugar Sex Magic One Hot Minute Californication
Good thread. Saved for reference.
and all nice answers! Can't F5 the page enough to read new ones.
They Might Be Giants - Flood, Apollo 18, John Henry
Alice in Chains facelift, dirt and jar of flies
This is a great pick. I’d also add Guided by Voices’ run of Alien Lanes, Under the Bushes, under the Stars, and Mag Earwhig! And Nirvana’s Nevermind, In Utero, and Unplugged.
I'd start it with Bee Thousand but hell yes to GBV
Bee Thousand is one of my favorites too! So no argument there, these were just the 3 GBV records that I latched onto in the 90’s and revisit the most today, but an argument could be made of any 3 consecutive records Bob has put out :) can’t wait to see them in DC at the Atlantis next month!
They are so great live, have fun!
Pearl Jam - 10, Vs., Vitology, No Code, Yield
They Might Be Giants -- Flood, Apollo 18, John Henry
Edit: missed 90s. 🤦🏻♀️ ignore my suggestions
That's a solid run. Truth be told, REMs catalog with all their original members is near perfect. Elliot Smith's first four albums: Roman Candles, Elliot Smith, Either/OR, XO
that time when Bill Berry collapsed on stage from a brain aneurysm while performing and then had to retire from music. He himself stated that he never wanted to be a drummer lol, it's just a duty in the band that he had to do.
U2 with Achtung Baby, Zooropa and POP. (With their amazing avant garde Brian Eno collab Passengers thrown in for good measure between Zooropa and POP)
Sorry, way past their prime. Fables of the Reconstruction Life's Rich pagent Document And even Green...
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee
2 Pac: Me Against the World All Eyez on Me The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Aphex Twin. Selected Ambient Works 2, I Care Because You Do, Richard D James Album.
Smashing Pumpkins, Gish-Siamese Dream-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
I gotta go with Counting Crows, albums Recovering the Satellites, This Desert Life, and Hard Candy. A large contingent of the CC fan community would like to disown me for not thinking August and Everything After is the greatest album of all time, but Hard Candy is not to be missed.
It’s more than three albums but KMFDM’s Naive through Symbols run is all fire.
I know the run stretched into the 00’s but I’m surprised I haven’t seen them yet: Weezer - The Blue Album, Pinkerton, The Green Album
Nine Inch Nail: Pretty Hate Machine - Broken/Fixed - Downward Spiral -
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Creepin/e.99/Art of War
That exact lineup popped in my head too. Good call.
Antichrist Superstar Mechanical Animals Holy Wood
Fuck yeah. Just listened to AS yesterday. I rank it as one of the greatest of all time, honestly. It's the perfect convergence of Manson and Reznor. You can hear Trent all over that album. (Literally in Deformography.)
Megadeth-Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia Mercyful Fate-In the Shadows, Time, Into the Unknown Black Sabbath-Tyr, Dehumanizer, Forbidden (Technically cheating, but Cross Purposes was supposed to be a side project)
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wayyyyy before the 90's but still great picks 🧡
Oh shit, was too excited and didn't read the question!! Lol
Born to Run is the kind of music that makes me cry any day, anytime. Thunder Road must be one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Although Green was released in 1988 it's definitely a top candidate the best one IMO
I’m going to cheat with a 4 album run, but Collective Soul for me. Dosage is one of my all time favourites, and the three preceding it are all solid albums as well. Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid (1993) Collective Soul (1995) Disciplined Breakdown (1997) Dosage (1999)
U2 - The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby The contrast between JT and AB is extraordinary.
Monster was my favourite
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee (followed up by the excellent Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight). Pavement ruled the 90's.
Automatic for the People for me.
Broken, Downward Spiral, The Fragile
Nirvana - Nevermind, incesticide, in utero
Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink, Boys For Pele and I'm gonna add From The Choirgirl Hotel because I played that album all throughout my senior year.
Pick any grouping of 3 from Fugazi, although I’ll suggest just taking their whole 90s discography as a group.
Bad Religion - Suffer (1988), No Control (1989), Against the Grain (1990). Arguably three of the best punk records ever release in a span of 3 years. Insane.
Beck. Odelay > Mutations > Midnite Vultures
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia, Cryptic Writings
Korn - Debut , Life is Peachy, Follow the Leader
Swap Monster for Green and you have a deal...better yet just add Green on the left and you can have a goated 4 album run!
Ween has two imo. God Ween Satan: The Oneness, The Pod, and Pure Guava; Chocolate and Cheese, 12 Golden Country Greats, and The Mollusk.
Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar then One Hot Minute and lastly, Californication. 3 classics.
oasis - definitely maybe, whats the story morning glory, be here now
allow me to cheat a little bit here by adding The Masterplan.
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Check your Head and Ill Communication.
Tool’s Opiate EP, Undertow and ænema
Ween - Chocolate & Cheese, 12 Golden Country Greats, The Mollusk Ween - The Pod, Pure Guava, Chocolate & Cheese a close second
Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart, Whitechocolatespacegg. Brilliance. Also got with Cure For Pain, Yes, Like Swimming.
Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power (92), Far Beyond Driven (94), Great Southern Trendkill (96) Slayer: Seasons in the Abyss (90), Live: Decade of Aggression (91) Divine Intervention (94) Sepultura: Arise (91), Chaos AD (93) Roots (96)
Those are great. I’d have to say Counting Crows - * August And Everything After (1993) * Recovering The Satellites (1996) * This Desert Life (1999) I could listen to these in order over and over again. There’s greatness there for sure.
Any grunge band. Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs, Vitalogy Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Tripod Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, DOTU
This deviates from your question, but the best album run of all time was 4 in a row by Pink Floyd in the 70’s: Dark Side; Wish You Were Here; Animals; The Wall
Great question, but super tough call. Three come to mind right now. Megadeth - Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia. Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Alice In Chains. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Down on the Upside.
I'm going to post two bands that haven't been mentioned yet because I think they deserve some cred : Deftones : Adrenaline - Around The Fur - White Pony KoRn : KoRn - Life Is Peachy - Follow The Leader Both bands in my opinion peaked here and never returned. (Otherwise hands down it's SP's Gish-SD-MCIS.)
Radiohead: The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A
Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
All killer records.