Studio albums with at least 3 great consecutive songs

[BrokenVisage]

The Police - Synchronicity

6. Synchronicity II
7. Every Breath You Take
8. King of Pain

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

1. So Far Away
2. Money For Nothing
3. Walk Of Life

Van Halen - Van Halen I

1. Runnin With The Devil
2. Eruption
3. You Really Got Me
4 Ain't Talkin Bout Love

The Cars - The Cars

1. Good Times Roll
2. My Best Friend's Girl
3. Just What I Needed

 

[jdoggg12]

Metallica - Black

1. Enter Sandman
2. Sad But True
3. Holier Than Thou
4. The Unforgiven
5. Wherever I May Roam
6. Don't Tread On Me
7. Through The Never
8. Nothing Else Matters
9. Of Wolf And Man

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
Metallica - Black

1. Enter Sandman
2. Sad But True
3. Holier Than Thou
4. The Unforgiven
5. Wherever I May Roam
6. Don't Tread On Me
7. Through The Never
8. Nothing Else Matters
9. Of Wolf And Man

:thumbsup:

 

[ric1287]

nas-illmatic

entire album

 

[adairusmc]

Johnny Cash - American V - A Hundred Highways

1. Help Me
2. God's Gonna Cut You Down
3. Like The 309 (the last song Johnny wrote & recorded)
4. If You Could Read My Mind
5. Further On Up the Road
6. The Evening Train
7. I Came To Believe
8. Love's Been Good To Me
9. A Legend In My Time
10. Rose Of My Heart
11. Four Strong Winds
12. I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now

 

[SludgeFactory]

I think they're tremendously overrated, but U2 more or less made their career off of this 3 song album opener:

U2 - The Joshua Tree

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With or Without You


And since I'm lazy:

Any Beatles album.
Pretty much any Zeppelin album.
Lots of Pink Floyd albums.

 

[mwtgg]

Boston - Boston

1. More Than A Feeling
2. Peace of Mind
3. Foreplay/Long Time
4. Rock & Roll Band
5. Smokin'
6. Hitch a Ride
7. Something About You
8. Let Me Take You Home Tonight

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Pearl Jam - Ten
Tracks 1-11

Pearl Jam - Vs
2. Animal
3. Daughter
4. Glorified Gun
5. Dissident

10. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
11. Leash
12. Indifference

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Tracks 1-14

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
1. All I Really Want
2. You Oughta Know
3. Perfect
4. Hand in My Pocket

 

[Howard]

Metallica - Master of Puppets

1. Battery
2. Master Of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion (Instrumental)
8. Damage, Inc.

 

[Feldenak]

A couple examples off the top of my head:

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Goodbye Blue Sky
Empty Spaces
Young Lust

Metallica - Master of Puppets

The whole album is good but I'll list the songs
Battery
Master of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Heroes
Leper Messiah
Orion
Damage, Inc.

Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin II

Heartbreaker
Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
Ramble On

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
The Stranger
Just The Way You Are

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Crucify
Girl
Silent All These Years

Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

Machine Screw
Christian Woman
Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare All)

 

[DaveSimmons]

William Shatner - Has Been

1. Common People (featuring Joe Jackson)
2. It Hasn?t Happened Yet
3. You?ll Have Time
4. That?s Me Trying (featuring Aimee Mann and Ben Folds)

9. Has Been
10. I Can?t Get Behind That (featuring Henry Rollins)
11. Real (featuring Brad Paisley)

Seriously, it's the best work Joe Jackson has done in years.

 

[mugs]

Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
3 Semi-Charmed Life
4 Jumper
5 Graduate
6 How's It Going to Be


Whether you like the genre or not, they all got significant airplay.

I also agree with theprodigalrebel about Pearl Jam - Ten

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Boston - Boston

1. More Than A Feeling
2. Peace of Mind
3. Foreplay/Long Time
4. Rock & Roll Band
5. Smokin'
6. Hitch a Ride
7. Something About You
8. Let Me Take You Home Tonight

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[CraKaJaX]

Eric Clapton - The Cream of Clapton

Sunshine of your Love
White Room
Crossroads
Badge
Presence of the Lord
Blues Power
After Midnight
Let it Rain
Bell Bottom Blues
Layla
I Shot the Sheriff
Let it Grow

 

[BrianH1]

Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1-18


Elton John- Madman Across the Water
1-9

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Eric Clapton - The Cream of Clapton

Ok, that's a Greatest Hits kind of album...those are easy to find with 3 consecutive good songs.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Eric Clapton - The Cream of Clapton

Sunshine of your Love
White Room
Crossroads
Badge
Presence of the Lord
Blues Power
After Midnight
Let it Rain
Bell Bottom Blues
Layla
I Shot the Sheriff
Let it Grow

Do greatest hits albums count?

 

[Reckoner]

Pink Floyd - DSOTM

All the songs on DSOTM are great, but especially #3 Time, #4 Great Gig in the Sky, and #5 Money

 

[Martin]

Tool - Lateralus

Lateralus, Disposition, Reflection

 

[RbSX]

Maroon5 - Songs about Jane

 

[sniperruff]

ELO- Out Of the Blue

01 - Turn to Stone
02 - It's Over
03 - Sweet Talkin'Women
04 - Across the Border
05 - Night in the City
06 - Starlight
07 - Jungle
08 - Believe Me Now
09 - Steppin' Out
10 - Standin' in the Rain
11 - Big Wheels
12 - Summer and Lightning
13 - Mr Blue Sky
14 - Sweet is the Night
15 - The Whale
16 - Birmingham Blues
17 - Wild West Hero

Ok maybe I'm stretching a little... but at least 1-3, 6,7 and 10-17 are awesome songs.

 

[Farang]

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Tombstone Blues
3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
4. From A Buick 6
5. Ballad Of A Thin Man
6. Queen Jane Approximately
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
9. Desolation Row

 

[Evadman]

Metallica. I don't need to list albums, you know them.

 

[shadow9d9]

Every Phish album... only 4-5 songs total on all of their albums combined are average. Pink Floyd's DSOTM, Animals, and the Wall.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: shadow9d9
Every Phish album... only 4-5 songs total on all of their albums combined are average. Pink Floyd's DSOTM, Animals, and the Wall.

Holy God...listening to Phish makes me want to stab my eardrums with a rusty icepick.