Best three chronological albums by an artist:

[WaylonMercy5150]

Michael Jackson
Thriller
Bad
Dangerous

 

[TheNinja]

Pick the first 3 or the last 3. Either way it's a winner

 

[TheNinja]

 

[The Hash Slinging Slasher]

Maybe Skynyrd?
Pronounced
Second Helping
Nothin Fancy

 

[Hollywood Jack]

Eminem
Slim Shady LP
Marshall Mathers LP
The Eminem Show

These have likely outsold any other albums on here as well. Also released in very close proximity of each other.

They’ve aged horribly but were great at the time.

 

[zuffazombee]

Ramones

• Ramones
• Leave Home
• Rocket to Russia
• Road to Ruin

Take your pick of the first or last three, seminal albums released back-to-back within a two and a half year span.

 

[zuffazombee]

CCR

• Green River
• Willy and the Poor Boys
• Cosmo's Factory

Incredibly, released within 12 months!

 

[zuffazombee]

Iron Maiden

• Number of the Beast
• Piece of Mind
• Powerslave

 

[CrimsonFan]

Pink Floyd IMO.

Meddle/Dark Side/Animals/wish you were here/ the wall

Really you can take any of those 3 and to me they win this discussion.

 

[Crawler89]

The Stooges:
-the stooges
-fun house
-raw power

Nine Inch Nails:
Pretty Hate Machine
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
(Broken is technically an EP but that too)

Idles:
Brutalism
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Ultra Mono
Crawler
Pick your posion. Haven't released a bad album yet

In Flames:
The Jester Race
Whoracle
Colony
Clayman
Go either way to get em

Soilwork:
Natural Born Chaos
Figure Number five
Stabbing The Drama

Probably alot more but they are the ones i thought of first

 

[zuffazombee]

Spoon

• Kill the Moonlight
• Gimme Fiction
• Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Transference

...again, any of the first or last three.

 

[zuffazombee]

Arcade Fire

• Funeral
• Neon Bible
• The Suburbs

 

[Hollywood Jack]

Queensryche was my dads favorite band growing up. Geoff Tate has an amazing vocal range. That said their music is so fucking depressing holy shit. Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece, 10 year old me could tell even back then.

Never listened much to Queensryche but there’s an interesting connection between Queensryche, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Heart. All of their legendary lead singers were trained by Maestro David Kyle. And I’m pretty sure that’s how Layne, Chris and Ann all became friends.

 

[crystallake]

Damn, beat me to it. Shame Layne died in 2002, would have been interesting what they had come up with after those amazing albums. Their last two Songs "get born again" and "died" were pretty promising imo. (I know they made new stuff with another singer but obviously it's not the same sound.)

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Kanye and Eminem had good streaks going for them at one point

 

[ralphc1]

The first 3 albums from Black Sabbath
February 1970 Recorded in one day.

September 1970 Recorded in one week.

July 1971 Recorded in 2 one week sessions. One in February and one in April.

If you want 4 in a row, add Volume 4 from September of 1972

 

[Larzon]

Bad Religion - Suffer "1988"
Bad Religion - No Control "1989"
Bad Religion - Against the Grain "1990"

The band that single-handedly saved punk rock

 

[Bob Gray]

Bad Religion - Suffer "1988"
Bad Religion - No Control "1989"
Bad Religion - Against the Grain "1990"

The band that single-handedly saved punk rock

Literally the exact band and run I was going to post

 

[Thrawn33]

Queensryche was my dads favorite band growing up. Geoff Tate has an amazing vocal range. That said their music is so fucking depressing holy shit. Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece, 10 year old me could tell even back then.

Hell yes, I was once told never listen to Rage for Order on a sunny day, unless you want your mood ruined.

 

[Syd1975]

The Zep, Who, Floyd entries are all good.

I believe Stevie Wonder had a great run in the early 70s, I hear mentioned quite a bit. Songs In The Key of Life was one of them. You Are The Sunshine of My Life and My Cherie Amour (killer song) was amongst those I believe.

I'll chip in with...

Rubber Soul
Revolver
Set Peppers Lonely Hearts...

Whoosh...forget about it.