A Playlist for Fenway Opening Day

The Red Sox have their home opener at Fenway on Monday. In honor of the start of baseball season, radio show Sound Opinions devoted an episode to musical grand slams, four great albums in a row by a single artist. You can listen to the podcast for their discussion or hit up our collection to listen to the albums in their entirety and decide for yourself if they measure up.

Hosts Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis acknowledged both that they were skipping the more obvious choices and also that even great artists break up strings of great albums with the occasional dud. What are your suggestions for this list?

Stevie Wonder

• Talking Book (1972) (CD 4665)
• Innervisions (1973) (CD 1865)
• Fulfillingness’ First Finale (1974) (CD 2395)
• Song in the Key of Life (1976) (CD 5204-5205)

Sleater-Kinney

• Call the Doctor (1996) (CD 15498)
• Dig Me Out (1997)
• The Hot Rock (1999)
• All Hands on the Bad One (2000) (CD 18883)

Kanye West

• The College Dropout (2004) (CD 23087)
• Late Registration (2005) (CD 26606)
• Graduation (2007) (CD 29450)The
• 808s and Heartbreak (2008) (CD 30682)

Hüsker Dü

• Zen Arcade (1984) (CD 17858)
• New Day Rising (1985) (CD 17859)
• Flip Your Wig (1985) (CD 21587)
• Candy Apple Grey (1986) (CD 21782)

Led Zeppelin

• Led Zeppelin II (1969) (CD 8001-8010 Disc 2)
• Led Zeppelin III (1970) (CD 8001-8010 Disc 3)
• Led Zeppelin IV (1971) (CD 8001-8010 Disc 4)
• Houses of the Holy (1973) (CD 8001-8010 Disc 5)

Blur

• Modern Life is Rubbish (1993) (CD 26384)
• Parklife (1994)
• The Great Escape (1995)
• Blur (1997)

XTC (Seven in a row!)

• Go 2 (1978)
• Drums and Wires (1979) (CD 5025)
• Black Sea (1980)
• English Settlement (1982) (CD 18257)
• Mummer (1983)
• The Big Express (1984)
• Skylarking (1986) (CD 131)

The Velvet Underground

• The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) (CD 241)
• White Light/White Heat (1968) (CD 19166)
• The Velvet Underground (1969) (CD 1097)
• Loaded (1970) (CD 11410)