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Greatest 4 Album Run in Rock History?
YellowSnow
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Greatest 4 Album Run in Rock History? 27 votes
The Beatles: 'Rubber Soul' (1965), 'Revolver' (1966), 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967), 'The Beatles' (1968) (or Revolver to Abbey Road)
22%
6 votes
Van Halen, 'Van Halen' (1978), 'Van Halen II' (1979), 'Women and Children First' (1980), 'Fair Warning' (1981)
3%
1 vote
Neil Young: 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' (1969), 'After the Gold Rush' (1970), 'Harvest' (1972), 'On the Beach' (1974)
3%
1 vote
AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
22%
6 votes
Metallica: 'Kill 'Em All' (1983), 'Ride the Lightning' (1984), 'Master of Puppets' (1986), '... And Justice for All' (1988)
18%
5 votes
Black Sabbath: 'Black Sabbath' (1970), 'Paranoid' (1970), 'Master of Reality' (1971), 'Vol. 4' (1972)
0%
The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
11%
3 votes
Led Zeppelin: 'Led Zeppelin III' (1970), 'Led Zeppelin IV' (1971), 'Houses of the Holy' (1973), 'Physical Graffiti' (1975) or any combo of the first 6 LZ Albums
14%
4 votes
Bob Dylan: 'Bringing It All Back Home' (1965), 'Highway 61 Revisited' (1965), 'Blonde on Blonde' (1966), 'John Wesley Harding' (1967)
0%
F.O Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
3%
1 vote
Comments
Honorable mentions for me are:
First 4 Talking Heads LPs
First 4 Velvet Underground LPs
Royal Scam screws up Steely Dan run, although Can't Buy a Thrill »> Katy Lied merits consideration
CCR Green River > Pendulum
FO row Peter puffer, you left off Neil Young, Freedom through Sleeps with Angels. I guess Harvest Moon was an unplugged album so maybe it doesn't count. That would be my choice though:
Freedom
Ragged Glory
Harvest Moon
Sleeps With Angels
Didn't see a Rod Stewart option
JTFC @chuck … let's not get carried away, pal.
Change rock guitar forever then pop off
Someone needs some help from @TheChart
Honorable mention for me…ZZ Top
Rio Grande Mud
Tres Hombres
Fandango
Tejas
I like guitar players that don’t die.
Keef is older than Jimmy by like 2 weeks and he’s not a pedo.
Being a pedo is in these days. Point to Page.
If I played guitar I’d be Jimmy Page. The girlies I like are underage.
Civilization was built on child brides!
This is true.
I almost took the VH bait. If I was voting with my heart I would have, but if I'm being honest the Zeppelin stuff is GOAT level. Sorry to The Beatles fans out there.
Huh?
The late 80s early 90's Neil stuff. Very good, but not all timer.
The Beatles are hard to beat. And as much as I love Van Halen, that would have been too much of a homer vote
Respect to Pink Floyd. Dark Side. Wish you were here. Animals. The Wall.
The 3 strongest contenders on this list are Beatles, Stones and Zep. I can make a skrong case for any of the 3 winning the Gold and ultimately it comes down to taste.
Rubber Soul through White Album is the most critically acclaimed of the bunch and that's merited. This stretch did more to move the genre forward than anything else here. But I get that the Beatles aren't everyone's cup of tea and each of those 4 albums has a few songs that are fluff.
The first 6 Zep albums are arguable the greatest consistent stretch in rock. Every album was a classic with almost no weak songs. I mean seriously, name me a crap song on one of those records.
I still think the Stones winning streak trumps them all as this music was the finest distillation of the roots of rock and roll- i.e., country, blues, soul, folk all blended together into the most perfect mix. The Stones did blues and country better than Zep in my opinion.
All of the others on this list are deserving, but I can poke a few holes in each.
Animals isn't an all time classic like the other 3 in this run. It screws things up with 4 albums in a row of greatness.
Why do you hate The Monkees! The disrespek!!!1!
Kinda wild Zep IV was prevented from charting number one in the US by Carol King and Sly and the Family Stone.
Pearl Jam had a good run to start. U2 had a great run of number ones starting with Joshua Tree. I'm a fan of the Weezer Blue to Maladroit quad. Aerosmith had a couple good runs. Oh and Pink Floyd Dark Side to Wall is pretty solid. More recently I'm a fan of all four of Royal Bloods albums. And partial rock, Beastie Boys License to Ill to Hello Nasty, all excellent.