Best two album sequence by a band

[atomic]

Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.

Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.

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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven. 

Well it was two albums not three albums.  That is my main complaint.  

How could you call Exile an "awful" album?

Two decent songs on a double album on the decent songs aren't even that good.  Even the Stones think it is a shitty album. 


Here is another one:

Pulp -
  His n Hers
  a Different Class. 

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The Jam
All Mod Cons > Setting Sons

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Replacements Let It be > Tim

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Big Star #1 Record > Radio City

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GnR - Use your Illusion 1......and 2   

[Nigel Tufnel]

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

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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

[atomic]

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. 

[Yada]

Pavement

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Slanted and Enchanted

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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

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Pavement

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Slanted and Enchanted

definitely...

[atomic]

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. 

[atomic]

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.

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Love Nut
Bastards of melody > Baltimucho!

[Relaxer]

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).