- In Photos: Death From Above 1979 @ Brixton Academy, London
- Sara Lowes - The Joy of Waiting
- In Photos: Marmozets @ Leeds Beckett Student Union
- In Photos: The War On Drugs @ Brixton Academy, London
- Evans the Death - Expect Delays
- A triumph for the underdog: The War On Drugs
- In Photos: Hawk Eyes @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
- Fawn Spots - From Safer Place
(consecutive tracks)
Propagandhi
Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An
Fuck the Border
Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Back to the Motor League
That makes 4 but I don't care.
yes
although I would make it three; i'm not fussed on back to the motor leagues
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
take your pick
2. "Mind"
3. "Paper"
4. "Cities"
5. "Life During Wartime"
6. "Memories Can't Wait"
7. "Air"
8. "Heaven"
Jesus fuck
how did they manage that I don't even...?
if you were going to do a talking heads one
it would quite obviously be:
2. crosseyed and painless
3. the great curve
4. once in a lifetime.
however, i will accept:
1. born under punches
2. crosseyed and painless
3. the great curve
^ for
1. born under punches
2. crosseyed and painless
3. the great curve
Degausser > Limousine > You Won't Know
On The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Green Gloves > Slow Show > Apartment Story on Boxer
Happy > She Sends Kisses > This Boy is Exhausted > Hopeless on The Meadowlands
this for brand new
ctrl + s "Slow Show"
Well done.
Middle > Born In '69 > On A Rope
> Young Livers
>Drop Out
Untitled ---> Obstacle 1 ---> NYC
Obstacle 1 > NYC > PDA*
starsail, slide away, already there.
The first side of Born to Run
I.O.U. - Alex Chilton - I don't Know
New Day Rising - The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill - I Apologize
SOME MORE
come together, rocket reducer no.62, borderline
The Beautiful Ones ---> Computer Blue ---> Darlin' Nikki
has gotta be up there
dude..
i came on here to post this exact thing. cheers to you, mate
except now that i really think about it..
computer blue>darling nikki>when doves cry ??
Darling Nikki > When Doves Cry > Purple Rain
Obviously.
Holes > Tonite it Shows > Endlessly
from Deserter Songs by Mercury Rev
free your mind and your ass will follow, friday night august 4th, funky dollar bill
*14th
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Obvious
Been Caught Stealing
Three Days
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Dopes To Infinity
Negasonic Teenage Warning
Look To The Orb For The Warning
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Powertrip
Space Lord
Temple Of Your Dreams
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing....
Thieves
Burning Inside
Never Believe
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Sanctified
Something I Can Never Have
Kinda I Want To
The Wonder Stuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Animals And Me
Unbearable
A Wish Away
Warrior Soul - Drugs, God & The New Republic
Hero
The Wasteland
Children Of The Winter
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
Love Burns
Red Eyes & Tears
What Ever Happened To My Rock & Roll
Awake
The Black Angels - Passover
The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven
The Prodigal Sun
Black Grease
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
The Package
Weak And Powerless
The Noose
Good shout on A Perfect Circle
Forgot about that record, but I shall listen this evening.
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Has to be:
Three Days
Then She Did...
Of Course
Ritual de lo Habitual has to be
Stop!
No One's Leaving
Ain't No Right
Obvious
Been Caught Stealing
Three Days
Then She Did
Of Course
Classic Girl
Sanctified is such an incredible NIN song
definitely in my top 3 favourites of theirs
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!: Everyday People > Sex Machine > You Can Make It If You Try
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle: Beechwood Park > Brief Candles > Hung Up on a Dream
King of Carrot Flowers 2&3 > ITAOTS > Two-Headed Boy
Massive Attack - Mezzanine: take your pick.
Good shout on The Zombies...
The start of Hex Enduction Hour
The Classical
Jawbone and Air Rifle
Hip Priest
Yeah this is probably the greatest 3-track run in the history of recorded music
English Scene
New Face in Hell
C'n'C-S Mithering
...is pretty great too
Would also have accepted
Middle Mass
An Older Lover Etc.
Prole Art Threat
It's probably blindingly obvious but...
Debaser
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
Esp. Wave of Mutilation is really great
I don't know about best but this one springs to mind straight away
One More Time
Aerodynamic
Digital Love
Add on Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and Crescendolls and I'd call it one of the best five track runs ever.
this is what i was going to say
i've grown to love the second half too, but if the whole album was as strong as those first 5.....jesus.
True, though I think if the whole album was like the first five tracks
I'd have exploded by the end
The movie made me appreciate the 2nd half more
But those first five are untouchable.
Emergency & I by the Dismemberment Plan
You Are Invited > Gyroscope > The City
love the last 3 on change as well
Power > All of the Lights > Monster
From MBDTF
All Of The Lights (Interlude)
inbetween Power and All of the Lights. Technically a separate track.
I'd have to say
the best of the beatles
I would go for
Cemetry Gates
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Boy With The Thorn In His Side
but you could literally take any combination of three songs off that album and it would work
Better still, the start of Hatful of Hollow:
William it was Really Nothing
What Difference Does it Make
These Things Take Time
or you could add the next three tracks:
How Soon is Now?
Handsome Devil
Hand in Glove
I know it's a compilation, but not in a greatest hits sense - all those songs were recorded over the space of about nine months
'Tis a great album, but my run of three tracks would definitely be:
Still Ill
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Have to turn the tape over after HKIMN, but I think it still counts.
From Scott 4:
Boy Child
Hero of the War
The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
This album's a weird one
As it puts songs in pairs, apart from the first and last ones:
Relationship-y songs: On Your Own Again/The World's Strongest Man
Slow, sad songs: Angel of Ashes/Boy Child
War songs: Hero of the War/The Old Man's Back Again
Pick-me-up songs: Duchess/Get Behind Me
That's roughly how I see it. My run of three would be The Old Man's Back Again -> Duchess -> Get Behind Me.
The Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah
Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower
I Don't Want To Get Over You --> Come Back from San Francisco --> The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
or
Dominion/Mother Russia --> Flood I --> Lucretia My Reflection
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia - The Dandy Warhols
Godless; Mohammed; Neitzche
Murray Street - Sonic Youth
The Empty Page; Disconnection Notice; Rain On Tin
Primary Colours - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Memory Lane; Sunday's Coming; Wrapped Up
BRMC - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Love Burns; Red Eyes And Tears; Whatever Happend To My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song)
All of these open albums.
ecsr is a great shout
they're just so good at songs!
The Microphones - The Glow Part. 2
I Want Wind To Blow - The Glow Part. 2 - The Moon
he played all three in a row at the mount eerie gig in camden last month
Oceansize – Effloresce
Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs
Saturday Morning Breakfast Show
Long Forgotten
Pretty much the best final quarter to any album I've ever heard.
One of the greatest debuts of all time.
Criminally under rated album
Yes
picked up this album recently, got totally consumed by it for 2 weeks. Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs... didn't expect such a silly title to be hiding such an incredible tune.
HOT DOG > MY GENERATION > FULL NELSON
TRUST? > NO SEX > SO ME WHAT YOU GOT
JUST LIKE THIS > NOOKIE > BREAKSTUFF
Fiery Furnaces
Single again - Here somes the summer - Evergreen
APPROVE
.
Can
Mushroom, Oh Yeah, Halleluwah
Chavez - Repeat The Ending, Hack The Sides Away, Nailed To The Blank Spot (I know it's a compilation but still they blow me away with every listen)
British Sea Power
Fear of Drowning - The Lonely - Carrion
smashing pumpkins - gish
i am one
siva
rhinoceros
Was thinking this the other day
when listening to Homogenic. Choose your favourites from:
Hunter
Jóga
Unravel
Bachelorette
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Kill Your Television
Less Than Useful
Selfish
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
Shine A Light
Dear Sons & Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts
I'll Believe In Anything
that automatically springs to mind..
Am I Wry? No -> 156 -> Snow Brigade
Straight Outta Compton - Fuck Tha Police - Gangsta Gangsta
Never a better start to a record.
It's like a bomb going off. Sadly, it set a standard that Gangsta Rap never quite lived up to. Apart from maybe the first three tracks off "Life After Death"...
---it set a standard that Gangsta Rap never quite lived up to---
In your opinion
Has no-one said...
Arc-Arsenal
Pattern Against user
One armed Scissor
?
best start of an album ever ever ever
Out of all the tracks listed above
I'd have to say that this is the one I agree with the most. Absolutely amazing start to an album. I can remember the first time I ever heard this. Had been hearing loads about them but hadn't actually heard any tracks. Was visiting a friend for the weekend and we'd stayed up all night smoking ourselves silly. At one point he put this on and to say it cut through the fog would be something of an understatement...
Where The Streets Have No Name - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - With Or Without You
Born In '69 - On A Rope - Young Livers
Woops, it's been done
Milo Goes To College
Hope
Bikeage
Jean Is Dead
24hr Revenge Therapy
The Boat Dreams From The Hill
Indictment
Boxcar
as far as Jawbreaker goes
for me it has to be Fireman ~ Accident Prone ~ Chemistry. So, so good.
Holland, 1945
Communist Daughter
Oh Comely
Dark Fantasy
Gorgeous
Power
or
Power
All of the Lights
Monster
all of the lights is shit
Low
Starfire
Two-Step
Weight of Water
was gonna say this
Replacements, 'Tim'.
Left of the Dial
Little Mascara
Here Comes a Regular
Midnight in a Perfect World
Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain
What Does Your Soul Look Like pt.1
The Dead Flag Blues
East Hastings
Providence
That counts, right?
Lemmings/Man-Erg/A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
Close To The Edge/And You And I/Siberian Khatru
amirite
ok someone already did the 2nd one and now I'm embarrassed
Replace it with The Gates Of Delirium/Sound Chaser/To Be Over, even though I don't really like Sound Chaser.
Or, better, 7-> (EYE REMIX)/7-> (Boriginal)/7-> (EWE REMIX)
SO MUCH ^THIS.
The Radio Dept - Lesser Matters
Too Soon
Where Damage Isn't Already Done
Keen On Boys
on that album it's all about
1995 ~ Against The Tide ~ Strange Things Will Happen
three songs more exquisitely nostalgic than most bands will ever write one of.
The Cure - Disintegration
Prayers For Rain
The Same Deep Water As You
Disintegration
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Sloop John B
God Only Knows
I Know There's An Answer
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Folk Jam
You are A Light
Cream OF Gold
OR
Weezer - Blue album
Say It Ain't So
In the Garage
Holiday"
This'd for Weezer
And then you've got Only In Dreams to follow it : ) perfect!
menomena - friend & foe
muscle n flo
the pelican
wet and rusting
&
thee more shallows - book of bad breaks
tracks 1-4
Outkast - ATLiens
Two Dope Boyz
ATLiens
Wheelz of Steel
I won't go so far as to say best, but pre-tty, pre-tty good.
Orbital - Brown Album
Lush 3-1 / Lush 3-2
Impact (The Earth Is Burning)
Remind
Ol Dirty Chinese Baby Restaurant Jesus Magert
Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Baby C'mon - Brooklyn Zoo
Ha! that's freaky!
This weekend just gone I've only listened to 2 albums on heavy repeat and it's the two you've posted in this thread. ODB around 6/7 times and Biggie nearer to 10.
I agree with the ODB but not on the B.I.G, reply below.
Similarly, I was thinking this subject matter about 3 weeks or so ago about The Black Album: Dirt off your shoulder - Threat - 99 Problems - Public Service Announcement, conveniently forgetting the Eminem abomination in the middle of them which I always skip.
Nice,
The best Jay triplet is off Reasonable Doubt:
D'Evils
22 Two's
Can I Live
You're cheating on the Black Album one pal, cheater.
from Nick Cave and the bad seeds 'tender prey'
The Mercy Seat
Up Jumped the Devil
Deanna
Biggy 'Ready To Die'
The What - Juicy - Everyday Struggle
If ya dont know... now you know.
Nah, don't rate The What.
For me it's Things Done Changed - Gimme the Loot - Machine Gun Funk.
Probably rivals my picks yeah,
but... BUT, I just don't even know what to say to someone who doesn't rate The What, that's just plain irresponsible.
You say 'words not beats'
Listened again a few times after your admonishment. Strong, not saying I'm wrong but a better sample like some of the other tracks and that would be elevated to massive tune status. Lyrics are pretty f'in ace. Ok, I'm wrong ggrrrrrrrrrr.
came hear to say this
I'd also say any run of 3 off Enter Wu
The Beatles a hard days night has more than thress
to wit the whole of the first side 7 tracks - fucking fantastic stuff
a hard days night
I should have known better
If i fell
im happy just to dance with you
and i love her
tell me why
cant buy me love
the run of
Queen Of Hearts
Under My Nose
The Other Shoe
from David Comes To Life is incredible, the best of the year for sure
oh oh oh
Inside a Frame
The Recursive Girl
One More Night
too!
and of course:
Stillness Is The Move
Two Doves
Useful Chamber
from Bitte Orca
the smiths
This Charming Man
Still Ill
Hand in Glove
(followed by what difference dos it make)
I dont think this is beatable
Hatful
Back to the Old House
Reel Around The Fountain
Please, Please, Please...
i think you'll find that the correct answer is
golden slumbers -> carry that weight -> the end
now to go for personal ones just for me.....the cocteau twins
Blue Bell Knoll
Atholl Brose
Carolyns fingers
so beautiful
a few runs of three off their head over heels albumn
a few runs off their album 4 calendar cafe
the whole of treasure
the whole of victorialand
John Foxx's album metamatic
Hes a liquid
Underpass
Metal Beat
Whole album's brilliant
But that is a strong trio
Actually, I'd have gone for
Underpass
Metal Beat
No One's Driving
Joy division - Closer
take yer pick
OK:
Heart and Soul
24 Hours
The Eternal
or start with 24 Hours and stick Decades on the end. Love the whole record, but the second side is truly amazing.
That second combination was exactly what I was going to say.
It's like death and rebirth. Something uneathly and beautiful. Never been an album like it and there never will be.
It's a perfect use of the two sides of a vinyl album
Side 1 - brilliant but jarring and harrowing
Side 2 - Still dark, but somehow uplifting and life affirming
Altogether and almost perfect work of art.
North American Scum, Someone Great, All My Friends
obv.
*Someone Great, All My Friends, Us V Them
Waits
Hang Down Your Head - Rain Dogs - Time.
Or:
Johnsburg, Illinois
16 Shells from a 30.6
Town with no Cheer
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Worms Of The Senses/Faculties Of The Skull - Liberation Frequency - The Deadly Rhythm
New Noise - Refused Party Program - Protest Song '68
I almost said this album, but I couldn't choose which 3 to go for
Possibly the last three. Certainly as strong a closing pair as any I've heard. Or maybe Summerholidays through New Noise. There's just too many.
Those I've named are just my own personal highlights.
Truth be told the whole album is awesome!!!
Vampire Weekend
Mansard Roof - Oxford Comma - A-Punk
Surely the obvious answer is OK Computer
Or does this count as derailing the thread? I'd probably go with Paranoid Android - Subterranean Homesick Alien - Exit Music.
My OK Computer combination would be...
Climbing Up The Walls
No Surprises
Lucky
Yeah, I almost went with that one.
Fleet foxes
Your Protector
Meadowlarks
Blue Ridge Mountains
Blue Ridge Mountains is criminally underrated
I've always been a fan of Death From Above's
Cold War
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Pull Out
Dunno about best ever
But three excellent rock ones are...
Arcarsenal - Pattern Against User - One Armed Scissor
No One Knows - First It Giveth - A Song For The Dead
Sludgefeast - The Lung - Raisans
Throwing it as a lot of my others have been covered...
See No Evil / Venus / Friction - Marquee Moon
The Rainbow -> Eden -> Desire
One side and 21 minutes of world-shattering perfection
How could I forget this
YHF.
War On War - Jesus etc - Ashes Of American Flags
Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs
Skywood Greenback Mantra
Turn Of The Century
Up The Sleeve
panasonic youth> sunshine the werewolf> highway robbery
search & destroy> gimme danger> your pretty face is going to hell
revolution blues> for the turnstiles> vampire blues
Loveless
To Here Knows When > When You Sleep > I Only Said
Yep...
Came here to say exactly this. Brutal three-song run. Even better when you throw Jesus Christ Pose in at the end.
spoonman/limo wreck/day i tried to live
would be my SG run of three, although only because 'spoonman' is preferable to 'kickstand'. other two are righteous
if 'face pollution' didn't exist, slaves and bulldozers through somewhere would be tops
OBVIOUS, but:
1. everything in it's right place
2. kid a
3. the national anthem
just flows better than anything else i've ever heard.
what about the first 4?
plus How To Disappear Completely?
manana> greater omaha> man and wife, the latter (damaged goods)
just drove my brother to the airport singing along terribly to read music/speak spanish, what a fucking record.
YEAH ONE MORE MOUTHFUL AND WE WILL BE HAPPY THEE-EEEN
RAMONES
Let's Dance - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You - Today Your Love Tomorrow the World
But surely:
Blitzkreig Bop
Beat on the Brat
Judy is a Punk
The best first three songs from a debut album ever?
White Pony surely needs a mention?
Feliciteria > Digital Bath > Elite
Or
Knife Prty > Korea > Passenger > Change
Worship and Tribute deserves a mention too. Take your pick from:
Gillette Calvacade > Trailer Park Jesus > Two Tabs > Convectuoso
Good call on Worship and Tribute!
As my OK comp has been don
and I couldn't see this above:
All The Wine
Abel
Geese of Beverly Road
I'd go
Geese - City Middle - Mr November
but that album is one long great sequence
Sunny Day Real Estate
Seven
In Circles
Song About An Angel
no contest.
Joanna....
Have One On Me
'81
Good Intentions Paving Company
AMAZING!
All of Ys
but specifically Sawdust & Diamonds - Only Skin - Cosmia. I can't even.
The Beatles Revolver
Taxman
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through & Leave:
Been Training Dogs
The Lake
Murder Song
B&S - Tigermilk:
The State I Am In
Expectations
She's Losing It
Whoever said Oceansize was on the money. Brilliant ending to an album.
I forgot to put a hyphen in there
The Beatles Revolver aren't a hot new band.
Eleanor Rigby is awful
Just thinking about it makes me miserable.
You're trying too hard
I was going to post
Did You Miss Me?
Film Maker
Panzer Attack
15 Step
Bodysnatchers
Nude
Weird Fishes
All I Need
Just pick your selection really
Kid A
Optimistic - In Limbo - Idioteque
REM - Life's Rich Pageant probably wins for me though
Begin the Begin - These Days - Fall on me
Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out - The Dark of the Matinee - Auf Achse
Gorillaz Demon days has
Dirty Harry - Feel Good Inc - El Manana
my REM pick would be
Man on the Moon
Nightswimming
Find the River
eyes wide terrified
the end and everything after
cranes and cranes and cranes
Start that from 'Our Bipolar Friends'
And you've got a better case
Kill All Hippies
Accelerator
Exterminator
or
Accelerator
Exterminator
Swastika Eyes
Nah right the first time
Hadn't thought of that but christ it takes some beating
But actually
NY STATE OF MIND
LIFE'S A BITCH
THE WORLD IS YOURS
More Radiohead derailing
but Codex, GUTG, Separator is a pretty good'un
Kanye West's All of the Lights -> Monster -> So Appalled is pretty good too.
Like Eating Glass -> Helicopter -> Positive Tension is still great.
Surprised at how rare it is for me to love 3 songs in a row on an album. Had a quick glance at some of my favourite albums but i'd still come across a track that was an obvious weakness compared to the other 2
Small parts isolated and destroyed
Victory
Teresa, give me that knife
I Was A Lover, Hours, Province.
Jellyfish
Joining a Fan Club
Sebrina, Paste and Plato
New Mistake
Glutton of Sympathy
The Ghost at Number One
.... pick your 3
XTC
Summer's Cauldron
Grass
The Meeting Place
strongly disagreed as XTC's best
but then I'm a weirdo who reckons the answer might be 'war dance' -> 'wrapped in grey' -> 'the ugly underneath'
or, like, any of the three possible runs that contains 'senses working overtime', i'm not fussy
Sex Pistols
Liar
God Save the Queen
Problems
or
Pretty Vacant
New York
EMI
Bowie
Five Years
Soul Love
Moonage Daydream
Oddball choice, but I'll be "different"
A New Career In A New Town
Warszawa
Art Decade
Arcade Fire
Wake Up
Haiti
Rebellion (Lies)
Very, very good shout. 'Haiti' lets it down slightly.
Monster Magnet
Pill Shovel
Medicine
Nod Scene
John Cale
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Hanky Panky Nohow
The Endless Plain of Fortune
Neil Young
New Mama
Lookout Joe
Tired Eyes
No, this
After The Goldrush
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Southern Man
Roxy Music
Re-make Re-model
Ladytron
If There Is Something
Steely Dan
Razor Boy
The Boston Rag
Your Gold Teeth
The Velvet Underground
Here She Comes Now
I Heard Her Call My Name
Sister Ray
Brian Eno
Mother Whale Eyeless
The Great Pretender
Third Uncle
Redd Kross
Jimmy's Fantasy
Lady in the Front Row
Monolith
Weezer
The World has Turned and Left Me Here
Buddy Holly
Undone (The Sweater Song)
The Butthole Surfers
Kuntz
Graveyard
22 Going On 23
Dinosaur Jr
The Lung
Raisans
Tarpit
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Brenda
Dissect
Blues X Man
Pixies
U-Mass
Palace of the Brine
Letter To Memphis
Yo La Tengo
Stockholm Syndrome
Autumn Sweater
Little Honda
Sugarcube
Damage
Deeper Into Movies
The Residents
Lizard Lady
Semolina
Birthday Boy
Throbbing Gristle
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Dead On Arrival
Weeping
or
Hamburger Lady
Hometime
AB-7A
Autechre
Eutow
C/Patch
Gnit
pen expers / sim gishel / parhelic triangle
really could have chosen any 3 from confield though
Except I actually like to enjoy listening to music ;D
Just tricking, I love Confield as well, was just a bit of a drag at first.
Curve
Already Yours
Horror Head
Wish You Dead
Excellent!
Echo and the Bunnymen
Seven Seas
My Kingdom
Ocean Rain
One from each of the first four Bunnymen albums -
Rescue - Villiers Terrace - Read it in Books
Show of Strength - With a Hip - Over the Wall
The Cutter - Back of Love - My White Devil
Thorn of Crowns - The Killing Moon - Seven Seas
I was kicking myself leaving out The Killing Moon
but Ocean Rain is such a perfect closer I couldn't go without it.
I think my Crocodiles one is pretty near perfect
But you could pick almost any three tracks from Porcupine or Ocean Rain and not go far wrong
It is, although I got really confused for a while
because I couldn't figure out why I have a different tracklisting! The LP version has Pictures on My Wall in place of Read it in Books, which isn't a bad compromise tbh
Flaming Lips
Race for the Prize
A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
The Spark That Bled
or
Waitin' For Superman
Suddenly Everything Has Changed
The Gash
or
Any possible combination on the Soft Bulletin
recently enjoyed promise ring
Perfect Lines > Red & Blue Jeans > Why did we ever Meet?
or
Pink Chimneys > B is for Bethlehem > Forget Me
and while we're emoing everywhere:
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity: Just Watch the Fireworks > For me this is Heaven > Blister
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Two Snakes > Hidden World > Manqueller Man > Blaze of Glory, take your pick
Fugazi (loads of these)
Argument: Full Disclosure > Epic Problem > Life and Limb & Strangelight > Oh > Ex-Spectator
End Hits: Foreman's Dog > Appregiator > Guildford Fall
Boards of Canada
Kaini Industries
Bocuma
Roygbiv
Idlewild
Roseability
Idea Track
Let Me Sleep Next to the Mirror
Perfection
Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Butterfly McQueen
Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce)
Thinking of Ways
Prefab Sprout
Bonny
Appetite
When Love Breaks Down
Japan
Still Life in Mobile Homes
Visions Of China
Sons of Pioneers
Or:
The Art of Parties
Talking Drum
Ghosts
Rolling Stones
Sister Morphine
Dead Flowers
Moonlight Mile
Zeppelin
Custard Pie
The Rover
In My Time of Dying
I went to check out Led Zeppelin for this thread
and was fascinated that I couldn't find a three-track run in their entire catalogue that didn't feature a song that I have serious problems with.
Closest I could manage was
Achilles Last Stand
For Your Life
Royal Orleans
... but only the first of those three is a real classic
I can't go the distance with In My Time of Dying
Bonham is insane on it, but overall it's just too long & flailing & indulgent for this little black duck
The Wanton Song, now there's a Physical Graffiti track I can get behind
Fugazi
Merchandise -> Blueprint -> Sieve Fisted Find
Wire - Pink Flag
Three Girl Rhumba
Ex Lion Tamer
Lowdown
OR
Reuters
Field Day For The Sundays
Three Girl Rhumba
Actually, screw that.
Any three tracks on Pink Flag or Chairs Missing.
No 'this's
Shocking.
At The Drive-In
Lopsided
Hourglass
Transatlantic Foe
have we had Mew?
Am I Wry? No
156
Snow Patrol
Or the first three tracks on Bleed American
Oh yeah, those 3 tracks are ace... it's called snow brigade though
*You're all I have
Hands Open
Chasing Cars
hahaha oops!
D'Angelo - Voodoo
One Mo Gin
The Root
Spanish Joint
Pavement
Gold Soundz
5-4=Unity
Range Life
boys and girls in america
stuck between stations ---> chips ahoy ---> hot soft light
my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
so appalled ----> devil in a new dress ---> runaway
Modest Mouse
Polar Opposites -> Bankrupt on Selling -> Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice
There are better ones but that's the one that gets me at the minute.
Hey you. Gotta challenge you there,
I'm thinking 3rd Planet - Gravity Rides Everything - Dark Centre of the Universe. Does it for me every time. Waynes World head banging when it rocks on ....Universe.
Get me, the expert! Thanks again. Hope you're doing good man.
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte
The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
There Is A Flag. There Is No Wind
so, so spot on
I was also thinking about:
By Your Hand
Songs About Your Girlfriend
Hello Sadness
from the new album :)
Pixies - Doolittle
Debaser
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
Surfer Rosa
Gigantic
River Euphrates
Where Is My Mind?
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Today
Hummer
Rocket
(In fact, there's so many good runs on that album - Soma > Geek USA > Spaceboy > Silverfuck)
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull
Liberation Frequency
The Deadly Rhythm
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
This Is Hardcore
TV Movie
A Little Soul
I could have had Help the Aged before This Is Hardcore instead, but I love the way TV Movie leads into A Little Soul!
actually, a thought occurs
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Closer You Are
Auditorium
Motor Away
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Running Up That Hill
The Big Sky
Hounds of Love
Washer
For Dinner
Good Morning Captain
Montrose
Rock the Nation
Bad Motor Scooter
Space Station No.5
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Thirteen Grand
Boys You Won’t
Ex-Girl Collection
I suppose that’s quite a personal list, but whatever, The Wrens make probably the most goosepimply beautiful music in the world, and Thirteen Grand has pretty much redundanced the rest of the indie rock genre, so yeah, that.
cave - showbiz - unintended
by muse on the album showbiz
goldfrapp - felt mouintain
deer stop
felt mountain
oompah radar
U2 - Joshua Tree
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With Or Without You
Oh please
classic album and classic opening trio...
Would shift it one song forward
Bullet the Blue Sky is the second-best song they've ever written, man.
this is true...the smart choice rather than the obvious one
Jeff Buckley - Grace
So Real
Hallelujah
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Could argue for
Mojo Pin -> Grace -> Last Goodbye just as well. I'm a sucker for that goddamn album.
cock sparrer - shock troops
Where are they now?
Riot Squad
Working
Twin Shadow - Forget
Castles in the Snow
For Now
Slow
A Heat Rash In the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me to Charlotte
The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future
This is a Flag. There Is No Wind
OR
The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future
This is a Flag. There is No Wind
Coda: A Burn Scar In the Shape of the Sooner State
can't decide.
...kings of leon
(california waiting)
spiral staircase
molly's chambers
genius
Sugar
Copper Blue - Hoover Dam, The Slim, If I Cant Change Your Mind
Beaster - Tilted, Judas Cradle, JC Auto
only one real answer to this....
ITS SO EASY
NIGHTRAIN
OUT TA GET ME
Go listen now and dare to disagree....
Why? - alopecia
1. The Vowels pt. 2
2. Good Friday
3. These Few Presidents
Caribou - Swim
7. Hannibal
8. Lalibela
9. Jamelia
Animal Collective - MPP
1. In the Flowers
2. My Girls
3. Also Frightened
random thread
but king of limbs final 3 of codex, give up the ghost and separator is effin brilliant!!
THE UNIVERSAL SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!
I know, I know, but he is right!
But yeah it has already been mentioned...
Not that random
This is a quality thread. Really makes you realise how only certain albums are strong enough to carry three blinders in a row. I think the posts citing whole albums are missing the point a bit.
Wolf Parade
Shine a Light -> Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts -> I'll Believe in Anything. I love the rest of that album to death, but this stretch alone could justify all indie rock ever made.
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Hounds - Corsicana - Putting the Dog to Sleep
A Scale, A Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks
The Calendar Hung Itself...
Something Vague
The Wolf Song
Bloodbeat
To The Lighthouse
New Order - Technique
Run
Mr Disco
Vanishing Point
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Burn Hollywood Burn
Power to the People
Who Stole the Soul
Nice
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
O Pencil Sharp / Atom Jack / If It Kills You
McLusky Do Dallas
Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues / No New Wave No Fun / Collagen Rock
Fugazi - The Argument
Cashout / Full Disclosure / Epic Problem
Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
Hooray for Humans / Kiss Distinctly American / We Heart Our Hive
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Shadow of a Doubt / Star Power / In the Kingdom #19
SFA ...paging AlphaDeluxe_
Fuzzy Logic - God! > Fuzzy Birds > Something 4
Radiator - Herman > Chucapacbras > Torra
Guerrilla - Turning Tide > Nothern Lites > Night Vision
Mwng - Y Teimlad > Sarn Helen > Gwreiddiau
Rings - Miniature > No Sympathy > Juxtapozed
Phantom P - Sex, War > Piccolo Snare > Venus and Serena
Love Kraft - Frequency > Oi Frango > Psyclone
Hey Venus! - Neo consumer > Into the Night > Baby ate my 8ball
DD/LY - Cardiff in the sun > The very best.. > Helium Hearts
These are just off the top of my head...
How times have changed
Usually when we do this thread, at least 4 people mention Spiritualised's L&GWAFISpace.
Shame on you.
Tool - Undertow
Intolerance - Prison Sex - Sober
Clearlake - Amber
Neon - Good Clean Fun - Finally Free
Amplifier S/T
Motorhead - Airborne - Panzer
Kasabian - S/T
Club Foot - Processed Beats - Reason Is Treason
David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
Any three from:
My Mate Paul
Let's Get Killed
Gritty Shaker
Head Rush on Lafayette
Rodney Yates
Blinding run there.
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Jumpers
Modern Girl
Entertain
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
I Turn My Camera On
Best three-track run of their career? The answer is yes.
Chuck My Mathematical Mind on the end there too, why don't you.
Challenger: tracks 2-4 on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Though you could cut a convincing argument out of any of the first seven tracks of Gimme Fiction.
Dandy Warhols? Yes please
Agree totally on the first three on Thirteen Tales: that's an incredible run, and makes the rest of the album sound lame by comparison.
Come Down! This is hard, as there are so many quality tunes. The first three doesn't work for me, as I don't like Minnesoter (never like the Dandys' country stylings). Shame, as Be-In is tremendous and Boys Better is one of their best singles.
However, I Love You - Last Junkie - Everyday/Holiday - Good Morning is an awesome run, as is Green - Cool As Kim Deal - Hard On For Jesus, and also Orange - I Love You - Last Junkie. It's a good, well-sequenced album is what I'm saying.
Cults
Abducted
Go Outside
You Know What I Mean
This could also go in the bands whose best song is the first song on the their debut thread.
RHCP
Give it Away
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Under the Bridge
Andrew Bird - And The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Sovay
A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left
Fake Palindromes
Perhaps quite unfashionable, but Damien Rice - O
Volcano
The Blower's Daughter
Cannonball
Maybe just as unfashionable: Ash - Free All Angels
Walking Barefoot
Shining Light
Burn Baby Burn
The Decemberists - Picaresque
16 Military Wives
The Engine Driver
On The Bus Mall
Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
Everlong
Walking After You
New Way Home
That run on Damien Rice's O
Incredible stretch on an only-decent album. Could throw Delicate on it, too.
I have an answer..
Deerhunter!
Cover Me (Slowly)
Agrophobia
Never Stops
Even better... David Bowie
Modern Love, China Girl then Lets Dance
Frontloaded to fuck
300-odd replies and no-ones said
I Wanna Be Adored
She Bangs The Drums
Waterfall
You all want your heads looked at.
You have an obsession with songs/films/art being for children
Last three posts I've read of yours have included this remark!
Yeah, Nala is pretty hot.
For a cartoon lion.
Sparklehorse
Sea of Teeh, Apple Bed, King of Nails
Pulp - Different Class
Common People
I-Spy
Disco 2000
2012 contender =
pilot jones
Crack Rock
Pyramids
Amaaazing. The heart of one of the best albums of the decade IMO
Rocket From the Crypt
Born in 69
On a Rope
Young Livers
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Rag Doll/Simoriah/Dude (looks Like A Lady)
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Nutshell/I Stay Away/No Excuses
Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang
Cherry Lips/Kink/Dart For My Sweetheart
The Young Gods - TV Sky
Gasoline Man/TV Sky/Skinflowers
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Here/Touched/Dirty Hole
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Running With The Devil/Eruption/You Really Got Me
LCD Sounsystem - Sound of Silver
Someone Great
All My Friends
Us v Them
Perfect run of 3 tracks
Ladytron - Witching Hour
High Rise
Destroy Everything You Touch
International Dateline
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Not 3, but 4 amazing songs in a row:
Movin' On Up
Slip Inside This House
Don't Fight It, Feel It
Higher Than the Sun
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wake Up
Haiti
Rebellion (Lies)
Brilliant three opening tracks to Entertainment!
Ether
Natural's Not In It
Not Great Men
Manics - Gold Against The Soul
The first three tracks are great, this is basically what got me into the Manics. The rest of the LP is pretty shit though to be fair.
Yeah that is a fucking awesome run.
AND
I'm Not Working
You're Tender and You're Tired
Born a Girl
OR
Be Natural
Black Dog On My Shoulder
Nobody Loved You
AND
Crucifix Kiss
Methadone Pretty
Condemned to Rock'n'Roll
OR
Born To End
Motorcycle Emptiness
You Love Us
AND
Faster
This is Yesterday
Die in the Summertime
OR
4st 7lb
Mausoleum
Faster
Personally I think NBML is (still) one of the worst songs they ever wrote
Purple Rain
I Would Die 4 U
Baby I'm A Star
Purple Rain
GET
OVER
HERE!
The first four songs off Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
is a pretty killer run.
the first 3 songs on 1977 are pretty good
lose control
Goldfinger
girl from mars
RATED R!
Feel good hit of the summer > Lost art of keeping a secret > Leg of lamb
OR
Auto pilot > Better living through chemistry > Monster in the parasol
In fact, fuck it
Pretty much ANY three consecutive tracks on that album
Kraftwerk - Computer World
- Numbers
- Computer World 2
- Computer Love
That's all of electro in a nutshell right there, and Computer Love is one of their finest tracks.
and on The Man-Machine:
- The Model
- Neon Lights
- The Man-Machine
Gets their range in three tracks:
The Model, one of their songs about beauty and appearance, like Showroom Dummies or Hall of Mirrors...
Neon Lights, one of their 'songs of wonder' like Kometenmelodie 2 or Europe Endless...
The Man-Machine, the key concept title track like Autobahn/Trans-Europe Express/Radioactivity/Computer World/Tour de France/Techno Pop or Electric Cafe...
Nice.
I agree
In fact most Kraftwerk's albums having a quite short length they're actually a Best Run of All Tracks On An Album.
cLOUDDEAD's Ten has a run of 5 perfect tracks:
Rhymer's Only Room, The Velvet Ant, Son Of A Gun, Rifle Eyes, Dead Dogs Two
And I'm pretty keen on Pop Song and Keen Teen Skip too, but they're not on the same level. If it has to be just 3, then Son of a Gun through to Dead Dogs Two. But what an album. Trails off near the end, but a hell of a middle.
I'm disappointed in you all for not bringing this up before now.
Tindersticks
Jism
Piano Song
Tye-Die
Tucked away so easy to miss. Raindrops follows those three and is amazing too.
Fuck's sake
Thriller
Beat It
Billie Jean
Is the right answer
I love this thread
cos I think I've heard NEARLY every album mentioned.
yeah, also
Dont Stop...
Rock With You
Workin Day & Night
But actually I might go Billie Jean through PYT for the Thriller lp.
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
One Day
Murder
Pinky Ring
Yep,
see also:
Pocket Full Of Stones 2
Front Back Side to Side
Protect & Serve
Bun B verse on Murder is
his best ever I think.
Most
Definitely
The Cooper Temple Clause
Blind Pilots
AIM
Music Box