Best 3 album stretch?

[Avenger]

I rarely post, but was pondering this...thought I would bring the thought to prog-council...:-)

best three album stretch of brilliance in prog?

The Yes Album
Fragile
Close to the Edge

Nursery Cryme
Foxtrot
Selling England by the Pound

Larks Tongue in Apic
Starless and Bible Black
Red

Tarkus
Trilogy
Brain Salad Surgery

Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You were Here
Animals

Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Passion Play

Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures

These are based on my opinions of the incredible stretches these legends had, the peak of their classic works. IMO.

my vote is the Yes stretch, but gosh there are great runs here. Proud to be a fan of what those brilliant series meant to music.

peace my friends!

[flowerking]

Great thread!

Genesis: Foxtrot - Selling England - Lamb
Yes: CttE - Tales - Relayer
Zappa: Waka/Jawaka - Grand Wazoo - Overnite Sensation and then Apostrophe - Roxy - One Size Fits All (6 unbelievable albums in a row)
Camel: Mirage - Snow Goose - Moonmadness
Renaissance: Turn of the Cards - Scheherezade - Live at Carnegie Hall
Saga: Images at Twilight - Silent Knight - Worlds Apart (or Saga - Images - Silent Knight if you prefer, all four are great)

[Shadow]

H to He Who am the Only One
The least we can do is wave to each other
Pawn Hearts

Godbluff
World Record
Still Life

Octopus
In A Glass House
The Power And The Glory

Canis Lupus
Saturation Point
Night Music

Flying Teapot
Angels Egg
You

[mozo-pg]

This is a great thread! Watch it grow.

For Genesis, Selling England, The Lamb, and Trick Of The Tail
For Yes, CTTE, Tales, Relayer
Crimson, a weak choice is SBB but I'd keep that one for the original poster
For Gabriel, III, IV, So (sorry to exclude I but II is weaker but still brilliant)
For Marillion, Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, This Strange Engine (last one a bit of a weaker link but I absolutely love the previous 2).
For Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, Between Nothingness & Eternity

I could go on and on but this is definitely a thread that will go on for a long time.

[Soc Prof]

The Flower Kings: Retropolis, Stardust We Are, Flower Power

[Sputnik]

All good choices, hard to argue with any of them. I'd add these for consideration:

Area - Arbeit Macht Frei
Area - Caution Radiation Area
Area - CRAC!

A Triggering Myth - The Sins of our Saviours
A Triggering Myth - Forgiving Eden
A Triggering Myth - The Remedy of Abstraction

Deus Ex Machina - De Republica
Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo da Insofferenza
Deus Ex Machina - Cinique

Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Gentle Giant -Octopus

- or -

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Gentle Giant - Freehand

King Crimson - Thrak
King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light
King Crimson - The Power to Believe

Kotebel - Ouroboros
Kotebel - Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble
Kotebel - Cosmology

Bill

[mozo-pg]

Bill, your GG choices are awesome. For modern day Crim, I love your 3 choices. I think Construction of Light is highly underated. The Belew tune, Coda: I have a Dream (which references Martin Luther King) is emotionaly spellbinding. Power To Believe is a stone cold classic, on par with Red.

[headcrash]

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel

[Sputnik]

Bill, your GG choices are awesome. For modern day Crim, I love your 3 choices. I think Construction of Light is highly underated. The Belew tune, Coda: I have a Dream (which references Martin Luther King) is emotionaly spellbinding. Power To Believe is a stone cold classic, on par with Red.

Thanks!

I'm in complete agreement with you about ConstruKction of Light. It may actually be my favorite KC album, it's certainly one that gets a ton of spins in my house and never seems to grow old. I know it has its detractors, but something about that one grabbed me and never let go. It was in some respects me entree to Belew-era Crimson, which I'd had trouble bonding to before, but this album opened me up to revisiting and better connecting with the earlier Belew stuff. I also love Power to Beleive, just spun it the other night for the first time in a while and it was as fresh as ever.

Bill

[Boceephus]

I.O.U.
Road Games
Metal Fatigue




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[jefftiger]

Banco:
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Darwin
Io Sono Nato Libero

PFM:
Storia di un minuto
Per un amico
L'isola di nienta (assuming that it's okay to skip the English-language release, Photos of Ghosts)

Steven Wilson:
Grace For Drowning
The Raven That Refused to Sing
Hand. Cannot. Erase.

[BobM]

Nothing to disagree with on any of these, except many of these same artists had 4 or 5 or 6 in a row I could list.

[arturs]

Soft Machine: vol. 2, 3rd, 4. There's also: 6, 7, Bundles.

[PixelDelirium]

I'll throw in Spock's Beard's first three "The Light", "Beware of Darkness" and "The Kindness of Strangers".

[Tangram]

PF - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Rubycon, Ricochet
Genesis - ATOTT, W&W, ATTW3
Yes - Yes Album, Fragile , CTTE
Peter Gabriel - 2, 3, 4
Soft Machine - 7, Bundles, Softs

[Mister Triscuits]

Fairport Convention, the first Sandy Denny era:
What We Did on Our Holidays
Unhalfbricking
Liege and Lief

Jade Warrior:
Floating World
Waves
Kites

Can:
Ege Bamyasi
Future Days
Soon Over Babaluma

[progfan915]

For Rush I would have to go permanent waves - moving pictures - signals, but all responses are great

[Ten Thumbs]

The Who - Tommy / Who's Next / Quadrophenia
Family - Fearless / Bandstand / It's Only A Movie
Gentle Giant - any run of 3 AtT thru MP

[Hobo Chang Ba]

Soft Machine: vol. 2, 3rd, 4. .

This along with VDGG (H to He..., Pawn Hearts, Godbluff & Still Life) are the two that jumped out to me immediately.

I don't think there is any other artist where I would give a 5/5 for three (or four) albums in a row.

[yesstiles]

Yes

Close To The Edge
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Relayer

[Halmyre]

Tubular Bells
Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn

[spacefreak]

Messe En Ré Mineur
Salammbô
Ludwig

by Wapassou

[Steve983]

A Farewell To Kings
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves

Tales
Relayer
Going For The One

A Trick Of The Tail
Wind & Wuthering
And Then There Were Three (controversial!)

[Zappathustra]

I would choose a trio of albums that really stands out in a band's discography, - not 3 albums among 5 or 7 consecutive great albums.

Maneige and Banco are the first that come in mind, the ones that I associate more with the phrase "those 3 records...".

[Munster]

In a Silent Way
Bitches Brew
Jack Johnson

Pampered Menial - Pavlov's Dog
At The Sound Of The Bell
Has Anyone Here Seen Sigfried?

Abraxas
Santana III
Caravanserai