Fav Consecutive Albums by An Artist


There are periods where an artist or a group reach a creative peak and release a series of consecutive albums that are all masterpieces. These are an artists' Golden Age. Just curious, but what do you consider the golden age records of your favorite artists. Must be consecutive and "Greatest Hits" not allowed.

My fav is Stevie Wonder from:

Music of the Mind
Talking Book
Innervision
Forfillingness First Finale
Songs In the Key of Life

Five incredible albums in four years.
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It's a timeless topic! Many (most?) artists have an arc in the quality of their output, working their way up to their peak and then descending again. Sad but true. And many also have only "so" many good songs in them. Ray Davies ran out of musical ideas, as did Robbie Robertson, Tom Waits (imo ;-), Brian Wilson, etc. Other's arcs are more like a roller coaster---up, down, up again, down again, for years. Dylan of course, John Hiatt too.
Addendum...another "trilogy"; this one from The Standard:

Wire Post to Wire

The Swimmer

Albatross
From the beginning...

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Bob Dylan

Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd
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