Best/Favorite 4 album run by a rock band ?

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Anyone mentioned Cheap Trick?

1.Cheap Trick
2.In Color
3.Heaven Tonight
4.Dream Police

Honestly everything after these 4 albums is meh to me.
 

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Deloused In The Comatorium
Frances The Mute
Amputechture
The Bedlam In Goliath
 

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Black Country Communion

BCC
BCC2
Afterglow
BCCIV

Scorpions

Lovedrive
Animal Magnetism
Blackout
Love at First Sting
 
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I like each selection equally, where there is more than one by the particular band.


Manfred Mann's Earth Band had two-and-a-half runs of four albums (all are consecutive):

The first four:
Glorified Magnified (1972)
Messin' (1973)
Solar Fire (1973)
The Good Earth (1974)

The second four:
Nightingales & Bombers (1975)
The Roaring Silence (1976)
Watch (1978)
Angel Station (1979)

The half a run (although it could be taken as Watch, Angel Station and these two):
Chance (1980)
Somewhere in Afrika (1983)


Nutz:
Nutz (1974)
Nutz Too (1975)
Hard Nutz (1976)
Nutz Live Cutz (1977)


Atomic Rooster (all are consecutive):

The first four:
Atomic Roooster (1970)
Death Walks Behind You (1970)
In Hearing of Atomic Rooster (1971)
Made in England (1972)

Could be four with Made in England, although I cheated with Assortment which is a compilation (albeit a very strong one):
Nice 'n' Greasy (1973)
Assortment (1973)
Atomic Rooster (1980)


Groundhogs:

First four
Blues Obituary (1969)
Thank Christ for the Bomb (1970)
Split (1971)
Groundhogs Best 1969-1972 (1972) - I cheated again, but this is another strong compilation (in any case I could've thrown in Tony McPhee's Two Sides Of solo album, which was played live by the band around the time of Solid).

Second four after a gap
Hogwash (1972)
Solid (1974)
Crosscut Saw (1976)
Black Diamond (1976)


Black Sabbath with Tony Martin:

Headless Cross (1989)
Tyr (1990)
Dehumanizer (1992)
Cross Purposes (1994)


Hawkwind:
Hawkwind (1970)
In Search of Space (1971)
Doremi Fasol Latido (1972)
Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974)


Steve Hillage:
Fish Rising (1975)
L (1976)
Motivation Radio (1977)
Green (1978)
 

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Not sure if this tops Britney Spears,....but,


UFO

Phenomenon
Force It
No Heavy Petting
Lights Out

Budgie

STD
Squawk
Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
In for the Kill!
Bandolier

Ten Years After

Stonedhenge
Ssssh
Cricklewood Green
Watt
A Space in Time


For me, UFO's run would be:

Lights Out
Obsession
[Strangers in the Night]
No Place to Run
The Wild, the Willing & the Innocent

Quite difficult this, if you stick with the rules (four consecutive studio albums) - lots of artists have four good albums, but there's often one or two not so 'classic' ones in-between them.
 
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The Velvet Underground:

The Velvet Underground & Nico
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Loaded

Well, you get my point!
 

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