Best back-to-back albums

Rubber Soul/Revolver, and it's not even close.

Others:
--Rush: 2112/A Farewell to Kings
--Foreigner: Foreigner/Double Vision
--Heart: Dreamboat Annie/Little Queen
--Pat Benatar: In the Heat of the Night/Crimes of Passion
--Bangles: All Over the Place/Different Light

 

I'll second that.

 

Hard to argue with this, especially when you put it in context with what else was being released at the time.

Hard to believe the guy who made the first point came up with this list.

 

According to wikipedia "Yesterday and Today" was released between Rubber Soul and Revolver.

 

The Beatles considered the UK releases the actual albums. They considered "Yesterday and Today" as simply a record-company ploy to wring more money out of the audience.

 

Spoon is on my favorite run in music of seven straight good-to-great albums.

Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde is my favorite three-album run.

And I'll throw The Hold Steady's Boys and Girls of America and Stay Positive out there.

 

I've got a few more:

Little Feat: Dixie Chicken/Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Neil Young: Tonight's the Night/Zuma
ZZ Top: Tres Hombres/Fandango
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane

 

Just about anything by the Beatles. But yes, Rubber Soul and Revolver are tough to beat.

 

Zepplin III-IV
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds-Endless Summer (I am a die-hard BB fan.)

Country division:
Hank Jr. : Rowdy and The Pressure is On

 

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur (or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire)
Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround

You could probably add one or two to either end of that run and not be embarrassed.

 

Alice Cooper: Schools Out (June 1972, topped out at No 2 on Billboard), followed by Billion Dollar Babies (Feb. 1973, topped out at No 1)!

 

A few I haven't seen posted:
Radiohead: OK Computer/Kid A
Wilco: Yankee-Hotel-Foxtrot/A Ghost is Born
Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls/Sound & Color
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking/Ritual de lo Habitual
Avett Brothers: The Second Gleam/I and Love and You (or Emotionalism/I and Love and You if EPs don't count)
Kendrick Lamar: good kid/To Pimp a Butterfly
Jason Isbell: Southeastern/Something More Than Free
Garth Brooks: No Fences/Ropin' the Wind