Best two album sequence by a band

Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde are pretty tough to beat.  And Bringing it all Back Home preceded those.

kosmo wrote:
Replacements Let It be > Tim

damn, you stole mine….

ok I submit
The cure: The Head on the Door / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me  
The cult: Love/Electric
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk/If your feeling sinister


this is actually harder than I thought, I can think of very few in the last 20 years

Sidehatch wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Replacements Let It be > Tim

damn, you stole mine….

ok I submit
The cure: The Head on the Door / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me  
The cult: Love/Electric
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk/If your feeling sinister


this is actually harder than I thought, I can think of very few in the last 20 years

I thought about putting the Cure albums you have listed but I thought there were some weaks songs on Kiss Me…

Those Cult albums are quite different. 

Pavement

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Slanted and Enchanted

never really liked: Hey You!!! but the rest of the album has so many solid tracks

that's why I picked love/electric is it's almost like two different bands
Have you ever heard the manor sessions…basically recorded most of the Electric songs in the Love style and then they just decided scrap the scott brown sound and get Rick Rubin

also Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk/ Blood Sugar Sex Magik  were two pretty solid back to back albums

Yada wrote:
Pavement

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Slanted and Enchanted

definitely…

Sidehatch wrote:
never really liked: Hey You!!! but the rest of the album has so many solid tracks

that's why I picked love/electric is it's almost like two different bands
Have you ever heard the manor sessions…basically recorded most of the Electric songs in the Love style and then they just decided scrap the scott brown sound and get Rick Rubin

also Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk/ Blood Sugar Sex Magik  were two pretty solid back to back albums

Sounds like I have to listen to the Manor Sessions. 

bearman wrote:
Don't most bands put out great LPs back to back?

No they don't.  Albums that stun you with their greatness when they are released and then stun you again on the next album?  Not often.  And I am not talking bands who all their songs sound the same.

Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory  - amazing..follow up:  don't even know it anymore

Primal Scream - Screamadelica - followup embarrasing

Stone Roses - s/t great followup sucks


Or maybe the followup is great but not up to the one before it

Magnetic Fields - 69 love songs - incredible ,  "I"  - great but it isn't going to make me forget about 69 love songs.

Love Nut
Bastards of melody > Baltimucho!

I've been a part of board threads where we talk about the most amazing run of albums, usually 4 or 5, but once everyone goes through Beatles, Stones, Bowie (who I think wins based on his 70s run), the Smiths and Radiohead, the conversation evolves into a lot of bickering.

However, what popped into my head when I saw this thread title was Meat Puppets II / Up on the Sun, followed by Husker Du New Day Rising / Flip Your Wig (Zen doesn't do it for me as much as those two).

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Let Love in/Murder Ballads/Boatman's Call

Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes

NWA

Straight Outta Compton > Niggaz4Life

I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title.  But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.

chaz wrote:
I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title.  But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.

the master troller.

chaz wrote:
I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title.  But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.

I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.

I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.

bearman wrote:

chaz wrote:
I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title.  But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.

I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.

I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.

Maybe you have lower standards to what is great.

bearman wrote:

chaz wrote:
I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title.  But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.

I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.

I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.

Why would you be suprised by Adele.  She has sold 35 million albums between the two.  That is a good sign that a lot of people think they are great albums.  You would be more likely to question Husker Du who never had an album in the top 100 and weren't popular in the punk/hardcore scene back in the day.

fuckin a atomic when you going to get it that sales do not equal quality? stop being such a low level troll and amp up your game.

the new kids on the block sold a trillion records.. i guess you think they're quality too?

I think its pretty remarkable that bands like Husker Du and Meat Puppets recorded albums on the extreme cheap, with no production budgets, no label promotion, nothing, and they're still relevant, discussed and beloved 30 years later. That is significant.

I agree that Adele is talented and her records will be listened to in the future, but you cannot compare her 'art' to bands that made music entirely on their own, without a legion of handlers and writers and promo people, that is still cherished by a significant number of people.