This is a tricky one. In order to qualify, the band must have put out at least three albums. Also, people must think that the album's are "GREAT" I will start off with:
Rolling Stones: Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street
Radiohead: The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac
Beatles: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, White Album

Obvious choices all, but let's see what we can come up with.

Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding

David Bowie - TMWSTW, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Alladin Sane

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall

REM - Murmur, Reckoning, Fables, Life's Rich Pageant, Document, Green

U2 - War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby. (I'm discounting Rattle & Hum, since much of it was live tracks, and it was essentially a film soundtrack, not a proper album)

Wilco - Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost is Born

Spoon - A Series of Sneaks, Girls Can Tell, Kill The Moonlight, Gimme Fiction

I don't know about "people," but I think these all qualify.

Pulp - His 'n' Hers, Different Class, This Is Hardcore

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife, The Great Escape

Roxy Music - Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life

Solid lists so far. I only take issue with one set of selections. Crowdiggs, your Beatles list is too short. As far as I'm concerned, you can just list their entire catalog start to finish.

That being said:

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Nebraska <-- it pains me to not include Born in the U.S.A., but I have as hard a time getting over the production as I do his first two albums.

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Originally posted by LinnTate:
Solid lists so far. I only take issue with one set of selections. Crowdiggs, your Beatles list is too short. As far as I'm concerned, you can just list their entire catalog start to finish.

I thought about saying the same thing.

LT & PRG-I just didn't want to put their entire catalogue up. I do enjoy almost everything by the Beatles, but I just put up THE classics from 65-68. Or in short terms,you are right.
And PRG-I would have included Blur's S/T. There is some incredible stuff on their.
Led Zeppelin-I,II,III,Zoso, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
The Who- Who Sell Out, Tommy, Live at Leeds Who's Next, Quadrophenia

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A couple that come to mind

David Ackles - S/T, Subway to the Station, American Gothic

Randy Newman - S/T, Live, 12 songs, Sail Away, Good Old Boys, and on and on

Johnny Cash - American recordings 1-5, and his series of concept albums from the early to mid-60s.

Frank Sinatra - everything between wee small hours and only the lonely.

For me, all excellent albums, either proceded or followed by merely great or good albums. Except for the White Stripes as I'm including all their albums.

Stevie Wonder: Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs in the Key of Life

Elton John: Madman Across the Water, Tumbleweed Connection, Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Bevis Frond: Superseeder, Son of Walter, North Circular, Vavona Burr, Valedictory Songs, What Did for the Dinosaurs, Hit Squad

Man Or Astroman?: Is It Man or Astro-Man?, Destroy All Astromen, Intravenous Television Continuum, Project Infinity

The White Stripes: The White Stripes, De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Get Behind Me Satan

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Roxy Music - Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life

Bro, What happened to Siren?

The Undertones - The Undertones, Hypnotised, Positive Touch, The Sin of Pride

Dave Edmunds - Get It, Tracks on Wax 4, Repeat When Necessary

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy!!, Trust

Ramones - The Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, Road to Ruin

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Originally posted by PRG:
Roxy Music - Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life

Bro, What happened to Siren?

The Undertones - The Undertones, Hypnotised, Positive Touch, The Sin of Pride

I wasn't sure if Siren came after Country Life and I didn't have time to look it up. I was going to list The Undertones, but thought I'd leave them for you.

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Can - Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi & Future Days

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Led Zeppelin-I,II,III,Zoso, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti

Right on right on....

I second CAN but even more so
CAN - Monster Movie, Soundtracks, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days, Soon Over Babaluma

David Bowie - Low, "Heroes", Lodger
I second all of the Bowie records listed above from The Man Who Sold The World through Aladdin Sane

Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief

Popol Vuh - pretty much everything recorded by Florian Fricke between 1969 and 1983

Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei, Yeti, Tanz Der Lemminge, Carnival in Babylon, Wolf City

Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero

Fennesz - entire output

I could be here for a month listing artists that have a string of great records but I'll stop here for now.

Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water, The Glow Pt. 2, Song Islands, Mount Eerie

Godspeed You! Black Emperor -
F# A# (Infinity), Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, Yanqui U.X.O.

Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets, Come To Where I'm From, Redemption's Son, Our Shadows Will Remain

At The Drive-In - Acrobatic Tenemant, In/Casino/Out, Vaya, Relationship Of Command

Animal Collective - Spirits They're Gone, Spirits They've Vanished, Here Comes The Indian, Sung Tongs, Prospect Hummer, Feels

and everything Andrew Bird has ever released.

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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall

To this I would have to add - Meddle and Obscured By Clouds to the beginning and The Final Cut, which I consider the greatest album ever released, to the end.

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...The Final Cut, which I consider the greatest album ever released, to the end.

I think you're the only person I've heard that likes The Final Cut, let alone considers it the greatest album ever released.

Aside from some of those already mentioned that I also agree with, and probably are the greatest strings of albums (Radiohead, Pink Floyd, etc,) I think My Morning Jacket has a nice string of very good albums going presently:

The Tennessee Fire, At Dawn, It Still Moves, and Z

None of their albums have absolutely blown me away (although I've found that I increasingly enjoy Z), but taken as a string they are impressively consistent. It's always nice to see a band that's able to deliver the goods each time out. With one more album as good as Z, I'd be willing to throw my vote in for them as one of the greatest strings.

Fugazi - 13 Songs, Repeater + 3 Songs, Steady Diet of Nothing, In On The Killtaker, Red Medicine, End Hits, The Argument

Oh, and

Bjork - Debut, Post, Homogenic, Vespertine, Medulla

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Originally posted by P-Bo:
...The Final Cut, which I consider the greatest album ever released, to the end.

I think you're the only person I've heard that likes The Final Cut, let alone considers it the greatest album ever released.

Make it two (three, really if you count my wife). I've long found I like The Final Cut more than just about every other Floyd fan, but then again I like The Wall quite a bit less, so it all evens out there somewhere.

Actually, if we view The Final Cut as the first Roger Waters solo album it kind of is, then he get's about two-thirds of a good string there along with the underrated Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. Radio KAOS, though? Man oh man, what a mess.

How about The Clash with The Clash, Give 'em Enough Rope, and London Calling? That's a pretty wicked one, two, three punch!

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Oh, and

Bjork - Debut, Post, Homogenic, Vespertine, Medulla

Ditto on Bjork.

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball, Red Dirt Girl, Stumble Into Grace. I know she had some releases in between, but those were collaborations. The three I have listed are solo efforts.