GREAT ALBUM TRILOGIES

List requirements: A trilogy is comprised of three consecutive albums. I'm only including a maximum of one trilogy per artist, with no consideration for live or greatest hits albums. Each album must warrant at least an A- rating, and one album within each trilogy must warrant at least an A rating.

P.S. Originally this list consisted of only 50 trilogies, but I'm gradually adding more as time goes on, so long as the trilogy meets the ratings criteria.

Accept – Breaker, Restless and Wild, Balls To The Wall
AC/DC – Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back In Black
Aerosmith – Get Your Wings, Toys In The Attic, Rocks
The Band – Music From Big Pink, The Band, Stagefright
The Beatles – Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Big Star - #1 Record, Radio City, Third/Sister Lovers
The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Amorica
Black Sabbath – Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Volume 4
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Built To Spill – There's Nothing Wrong With Love, Perfect From Now On, Keep It Like A Secret
The Byrds – Fifth Dimension, Younger Than Yesterday, The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Can – Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days
Catherine Wheel – Ferment, Chrome, Happy Days
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory
The Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration, Wish
Def Leppard - High n' Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria
Dinosaur Jr. – You're Living All Over Me, Bug, Green Mind
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon
Bob Dylan – Bringing It Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde
Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World, Before and After Science
Genesis - Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Al Green – Let's Stay Together, I'm Still In Love With You, Call Me
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?, Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland
Husker Du – Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig
Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave
Freedy Johnston – Can You Fly, This Perfect World, Never Home
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Substance
The Kinks – Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur
Led Zeppelin – IV, Houses Of The Holy, Physical Graffiti
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch A Fire, Burnin', Natty Dread
Metallica – Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, …And Justice For All
Randy Newman – 12 Songs, Sail Away, Good Old Boys
New Pornographers – Mass Romantic, Electric Version, Twin Cinema
Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs., Vitalogy
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall
Radiohead – The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A
Ramones – Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia
The Rascals - Collections, Groovin', Once Upon A Dream
Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul, The Soul Album, Complete Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
The Replacements – Let It Be, Tim, Pleased To Meet Me
Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything?, A Wizard A True Star, Todd
Santana – Abraxas, III, Caravanserai
Sigur Rσs – Αgaetis Byrjun, ( ), Takk
Slayer - Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven, Seasons In The Abyss
Sleater-Kinney – Call The Doctor, Dig Me Out, The Hot Rock
Sloan – Twice Removed, One Chord to Another, Navy Blues
Sly & The Family Stone – Life, Stand, There's A Riot Goin' On
Smashing Pumpkins – Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Down On The Upside
Bruce Springsteen – The Wild The Innocent and the E. Street Shuffle, Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Steely Dan – Can't Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstacy, Pretzel Logic
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Mars Audiac Quintet, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Rod Stewart – Gaoline Alley, Every Picture Tells A Story, Never A Dully Moment
The Stooges - The Stooges, Fun House, Raw Power
Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, Bad Reputation
Tindersticks – Tindersticks, Tindersticks (The Second Album), Curtains
Stevie Wonder – Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale
U2 – War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree
Van Halen - Van Halen I, Van Halen II, Women and Children First
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground
The White Stripes – De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant
The Who – Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia
Wilco – Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams, Sweet Old World, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Bill Withers - Just As I am, Still Bill, +'Justments
Yes – The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge
Yo La Tengo – Painful, Electro-pura, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Neil Young – On The Beach, Tonight's The Night, Zuma

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