A Fun Musical Interlude

Ok, here's a little game to lighten things up (like a match in the pitch-black tar of Plato's cave of reality, doomed to die, illuminating nothing but flickering shadows of perfect things we will never see because they don't exist unless we look at them directly, like a photon or an electron or a neturino in chocolate, vanilla, or pistachio flavors).

This is for fun, there are no right answers (although I'll probably think you're a tit if you say something stupid).

Three perfect (or nearly perfect) albums in a row. Some great artists have never accomplished this, like John Lennon, who almost did it with Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, and Mind Games, but he had to stick A Little Time In NYC in there and break the chain. But some musical artists get on a roll and can do no wrong for a period of time. More than a few have put out 3 or more masterworks consecutively. Live albums, greatest hits, and movie soundtracks don't count as interrupting the studio flow.

I'll give a few easy examples, (to take those away, muahaha) and then whoever wants to can weigh in with their own! Be as obvious or obscure as you want: It's what YOU think are great albums that matters, not Rolling Stone or the NME or the music intelligentsia. But they do have to be consecutive releases. Go beyond three if you feel like you need to; I've done this several times in my own list. Or correct me if you think I'm full of it some of my choices! It's all in good fun. At least until someone loses an eye.

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde
Leonard Cohen: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, Songs of Love and Hate
Bowie (set 1): Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane
Bowie (set 2): Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters
The Beach Boys: Today, Summer Days (and Summer Nights!), Pet Sounds
The Clash: London Calling, Sandinista!, Combat Rock
Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces
The Smiths: The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, Louder Than Bombs, Strangeways Here We Come
The Beatles: Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper's, Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles, Abbey Road, Let It Be
The Who: Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia
Dan Fogelberg: Home Free, Souvenirs, Captured Angel, Nether Lands, Phoenix, The Innocent Age
Radiohead: The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A
The Cure: Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography
The Boss: Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Nebraska
Bob Marley: Natty Dread, Rastaman Vibration, Exodus, Kaya
The Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill, Paul's Boutique, Check your head, Ill Communication
Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward, Black Celebration, Music For The Masses, Violator
Steely Dan: Katy Lied, Royal Scam, Aja
REM: Murmer, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant, Document, Green
The Police: Outlandos D'Amour, Regatta De Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost In The Machine, Synchronicity
Pink Floyd: Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, The Final Cut
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon
They Might Be Giants: They Might Be Giants, Lincoln, Flood