Best 3 in a row on any album

[Bob Arctor 11]

I reckon The Sprawl, Cross the Breeze and Eric's Trip on Daydream Nation is one of the best 3 in a row on any album. its a great album even though it has its not so good moments but those 3 tracks together are great. What are your 3 in a row favourites?

[Guest]

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True. Opening three tracks.

 

1. Welcome to the Working Week - a storming first track, with one of the best opening lyrics on a debut album ('Now that your picture's in the paper being rhythmically admired...').

 

2. Miracle Man - continues the theme and the style ('I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,when you know it's the way that you walk').

 

3. No Dancing - a little slower but no less bitterly frustrated. This is a superb performance.

[Guest sibon]

Welcome To The Working Week

Miracle Man

No Dancing

 

Elvis Costello. My Aim is true.

 

Done and dusted in seven and a half minutes. Just the way music should be.

 

 

Edit: I thought I'd beaten Hecate to it. Obviously not.

Edited November 9, 2009 by sibon
Slow fingers

[Guest]

Beat you to it .

[top4718 838]

Costello is vastly overrated.

[Guest]

Costello is vastly overrated.

Some of his later stuff isn't up to the standard of his earlier work, I agree.

 

What are your three in a row favourites?

[Lockjaw 11]

Off the top of my head....

 

She Bangs the Drums / Waterfall / Don't Stop

 

Son of a Gun / I Can't Sleep / Timeless Melody

 

South Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / Time After Time

 

Black Dog / Rock and Roll / Battle of Evermore

 

Misty Mountain Hop / Four Sticks / Going to California / When the Levee Breaks

 

So what?

 

Within you Without You / When I'm 64 / Lovely Rita

 

Really!

[Alastair 12]

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True. Opening three tracks.

 

1. Welcome to the Working Week - a storming first track, with one of the best opening lyrics on a debut album ('Now that your picture's in the paper being rhythmically admired...').

 

2. Miracle Man - continues the theme and the style ('I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,when you know it's the way that you walk').

 

3. No Dancing - a little slower but no less bitterly frustrated. This is a superb performance.

 

Good to see early Elvis Costello rated highly

 

There's loads of "three in a rows" on his first four albums.

[Ousetunes 10]

The Smiths

 

The Queen Is Dead / Frankly Mr Shankly / I Know It's Over

 

The Beatles

 

Sgt Pepper's / With A Little Help From My Friends / Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

[horribleblob 212]

This morning?

 

1. Monty's Jurassic lark

2. Monster killer-mix

3. Thin at one end, fat in the middle

 

From Tartarsaurus by Doctors of Dub. Bit of a cheat as it's not strictly and album, these being the only three tracks.

[JenC 10]

Pink Floyd - Time / The Great Gig In The Sky / Money or The Great Gig In The Sky / Money / Us And Them - from The Dark Side Of The Moon

 

The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy) / Here Comes The Sun / Because - from Abbey road

 

The Libertines - Vertigo / Death On The Stairs / Horrorshow - from Up The Bracket

The Mothers of Invention - Plastic People / The Duke Of Prunes (which includes Amnesia Vivace as 2b. and The Duke Regains His Chops as 2c.) / Call Any Vegetable (which includes Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin as 3b. and Soft Sell Conclusion & Ending Of Side #1 as 3c.) - from Absolutely Free

[Lockjaw 11]

 

Sgt Pepper's / With A Little Help From My Friends / Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

 

...or, of course, WALHFMF / Lucy / Getting Better

 

or, of course, Lucy / Getting Better / Fixing a Hole

 

or, of course, Getting Better / Fixing a Hole / She's Leaving Home

 

or, of course, Fixing a Hole / She's Leaving Home / Being for the benefit.....

 

Seems too easy!

 

How's about Fairport Convention:

 

Come All Ye / Reynardine / Matty Groves

 

Or Bellowhead: Rambling Sailor / Jack Robinson / Copshawholme Fair

 

Or Kraftwerk: Autobahn / Kometenmelodie / Mitternacht

 

Or Bat Out of Hell / You Took the Words ... / Heaven can wait

 

?

 

Erm ...

 

...am I cheapening this?