The best one-two punches in rock?

[Matt]

What do you think are the best back-to-back pair of albums ever cut?

Just listened to Green River and Willy & the Poors back to back...awesome stuff.

Some others that come to mind:

Beatles: Rubber Soul + Revolver
Elvis Costello & the Attractions: This Year's Model + Armed Forces
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band + Imagine
David Bowie: Hunky Dory + Ziggy Stardust
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks + Moondance
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers + Exile On Main Street
Beggar's Banquet + Let It Bleed

[Paul L.]

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks--Desire
or
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited--Blonde On Blonde

[JohnnyK]

Crosby, Stills and Nash (first album)

Deja Vu

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Are You Experienced

Electric Ladyland

[Unknown]

Deep Purple's Fireball-Machine Head
ELP - Tarkus-Trilogy
CCR - Willy & the Poor Boys-Cosmo's Factory

[pigmode]

Not the best but notable:

Three Dog Night - Captured Live At The Forum & Naturally

[joelee]

Billy Joel
Turnstiles-The Stranger

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Steve Earle
I Feel Alright-El Corazon

[btomarra]

Alot of my faves were already listed. How's this one...

Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby - U2

(You'd need a 120+ minute capacity CD though) :D

[PsychFan]

Here are my selections:

XTC -- Skylarking / Psonic Psunspot (as the Dukes of Stratosphear)

Elvis Costello -- King Of America / Blood & Chocolate

Radiohead -- The Bends / OK Computer

Bob Dylan -- Time Out Of Mind / Love & Theft

Beatles -- With The Beatles / A Hard Day's Night, plus Rubber Soul / Revolver

The Band -- Music From Big Pink / The Band

Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / After The Gold Rush

Beach Boys -- Pet Sounds / Smile (yeah, it was never really released, but it's bitchen)

The Smiths -- The Queen Is Dead / Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smithereens -- Especially For You / Green Thoughts

Joni Mitchell -- For The Roses / Court & Spark

[Ian]

Led Zeppelin: I + II
Allman Brothers: 1st + "Idlewild South"
Aerosmith: "Toys In The Attic" + "Rocks"
The Who: "Tommy" + "Live At Leeds" + "Who's Next" (ok so that's a triple hat)
Soundgarden: "Louder Than Love" + "Badmotorfinger"
Motorhead: "Ace Of Spades" + "No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith"
Iron Maiden: "Number Of The Beast" + "Piece Of Mind"
Kate Bush: "The Dreaming" + "Hounds Of Love"
Metallica: "Ride The Lightning" + "Master Of Puppets"
Cream: "Disrelli Gears" + "Wheels Of Fire"

[Jeffrey]

Hi,

Grateful Dead: American Beauty & Workingman's Dead

Hunter/Garcia songwriting was never widely appreciated due to weak vocals.

The Music Never Stops,
Jeffrey

[Uncle Al]

Originally posted by Brian O'Marra:
Alot of my faves were already listed. How's this one...

Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby - U2

(You'd need a 120+ minute capacity CD though) :D


Wasn't the "less than stellar" Rattle and Hum released in between those two titles?

[ED in NY]

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble-Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand The Weather

The Band-Music From Big Pink / The Band

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath / Paranoid

Grand Funk Railroad-Red Album / Closer To Home

Jethro Tull-Aqualung / Thick As A Brick

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band / East West

Bob Dylan-John Wesley Harding / Nashville Skyline

Queen-Sheer Heart Attack / A Night At The Opera

Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards / The Magicians Birthday

Happy Listening ! -ED

:)

[btomarra]

Uncle AL,

My fault! The list was for albums released back-to-back. My eyes were failing me. Didn't catch that too well! I was listing two albums that if placed back to back would be a one-two-punch. You're right. Rattle and Hum was in between. Thanks for keeping me on my toes!!!

Let me try this again...

Bob Seger: Night Moves/Stranger In Town ;)

[pigmode]

Doobie Bro./ Toulouse St.> The Capt And Me

[jligon]

Velvet Underground with Nico & White Light/White Heat

Bo Diddley & Go Bo Diddley

Aftermath & Between the Buttons

Something Else & Village Green

With the Beatles & Hard Day's Night

The Chirping Crickets & Buddy Holly

Five Leaves Left & Bryter Layter

Highway 61 & Blonde on Blonde (actually, any 2 from the 60's)

Music From Big Pink & The Band

Get Happy & Taking Liberties (that's the order they came to us here in the US)

Not rock, but I couldn't leave out Desmond Dekker: Action! & Intensified

[pigmode]

Fleetwood Mac/ Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bad Co./ Striaght Shooter - Runnin' With The Pack
Rush/ Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures
Boston/ Boston - Don't Look Back

[Henry Love]

The Wild,The innocent&The E Street Shuffle Born To Run John Mayall Bluesbreakers Fresh Cream

[GregM]

Jethro Tull--Benefit, Aqualung
Black Sabbath--Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage
CSN(Y)--1st, Deja Vu
Allman Bros--1st, Idlewild South
Santana--III, Caravanserai
Lynyrd Skynyrd--Pronounced, Second Helping
Steely Dan--Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy
Doobie Bros--Captain & Me, What Were Once Vices
Hendrix--Axis, Electric Ladyland
Spirit--12 Dreams, Clear
Stones--Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street
Dylan--Hwy 61, Blonde on Blonde
Led Zep--1, II
Fleetwood Mac--Future Games, Bare Trees
Traffic--John Barleycorn, Low Spark
Bob Marley--Exodus, Uprising
Doors--1st Album, Strange Days
Creedence--Willy, Cosmo's
Neil Young--This is Nowhere, After the Goldrush
Joe Walsh--Barnstorm, Smoker Ya Drink
Dead--Workingman's, American Beauty

time to go home. . .

[Craig]

Graham Parker/Howlin' Wind - Heat Treatment
Jackson Browne/Late For The Sky - The Pretender
Lyle Lovett/And His Large Band - Joshua Judges Ruth
Ry Cooder/Paradise And Lunch - Chicken Skin Music
Robert Gordon/Bad Boy - Are You Gonna Be The One
John Hiatt/Bring The Family - Slow Turning

[Kevin Korom]

Some great choices! I'll add:

James Gang-Yer Album, Rides Again

Who-Who's Next, Quadrophenia

Alan Parsons-Turn of a Friendly Card, Eye in the Sky

Bob Seger-Live Bullet, Night Moves

Dire Straits-Making Movies, Love Over Gold

Jackson Browne- Pretender, Running on Empty

Police-Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity

Supertramp-Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?

AC/DC-Highway to Hell, Back in Black

Cheap Trick-Heaven Tonight, Budokan

[Unknown]

A lot of good stuff has been mentioned, so I can only add two:

Van Halen - WACF/Fair Warning (could have easily said I/II)

Zep - Houses of the Holy/Physical Graffiti

[Steve Hoffman]

This great Elvis 45 record from 1956:

Hound Dog--A side

Don't Be Cruel--B side

:D

[ October 31, 2001: Message edited by: Steve Hoffman ]

[Dave]

Rush s/t and Fly By Night

Aldo Nova s/t and Subject Aldo Nova

Def Leppard Pyromania and Hysteria

There are just too many. This particular question could get at least ten pages of response. http://ubb.fanasylum.com/smiles/rolling_eyes.gif

[Rob LoVerde]

I'd have to say...

Led Zeppelin 1 & 2

Revolver & Sgt. Pepper

Beggars Banquet & Let It Bleed

Ramones & Leave Home

Talking Book & Innervisions (& a third punch with Fulfillingness' First Finale)

So many more... :rolleyes:

[Matt]

Just thought of a few more:

Prince: 1999 + Purple Rain
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends + Bridge Over Troubled Water
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic + Katy Lied