Greatest 4 Album Run in Rock History?
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
If I played guitar I’d be Jimmy Page. The girlies I like are underage.
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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
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
This is true.
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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
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.
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The Beatles: 'Rubber Soul' (1965), 'Revolver' (1966), 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967), 'The Beatles' (1968) (or Revolver to Abbey Road)
Huh?
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
The late 80s early 90's Neil stuff. Very good, but not all timer.
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The Beatles: 'Rubber Soul' (1965), 'Revolver' (1966), 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967), 'The Beatles' (1968) (or Revolver to Abbey Road)
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 Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
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.
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
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.
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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
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.
