best 3 song sequence on an album

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by dfmcpete:
Speaking of Pavement
opening of Wowee Zowee:

1. We Dance
2. Rattled by the Rush
3. Black Out

Why wasn't this album more popular?

i think that wowee zowee is just so disjointed, there's no sense that it's going anywhere. that being said, father to a sister of thought is one of my favorite pavement songs.

however, when a song from wowee zowee comes up on my ipod, i don't skip it. individually, i like the songs, as an album. . .ehhh. sort of also how i feel about rem's "green."

malkmus always said it was an album best appreciated on shuffle, and it makes sense. i'll always like "crooked rain" most for sentimental reasons, but "wowee zowee" is definitely the best in my book. it's got that perfect midpoint of slacker charm but malkmus also really trying to make a great album. "slanted" has tons of classic tunes, but it's very one-dimensional, fidelity-wise. WZ's got everything – faux brit-folk, snotty punk, kraut-rock, slide guitar country rock, etc. i've always maintained that it's like their "exile on main street" and it will take a couple decades for people to really catch on. so i guess we've got 10 more years. and if it wasn't for "flux=rad," the "grave architecure"/"at & t"/"fight this generation" trio would be tough to top.

Originally posted by BookerT:
and if it wasn't for "flux=rad," the "grave architecure"/"at & t"/"fight this generation" trio would be tough to top.

ok, i'll agree with that. which begs a question- did pavement purposefully throw in a crappy song to mix things up? as i noted above, take out 5-4=unity and unfair, gold soundz and range life are classic pavement songs. . .what i can't remember is, and smackie made the reference above, was the album made for album/tape or cd? obviously, that would make a difference on setting up the tracks.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by BookerT:
and if it wasn't for "flux=rad," the "grave architecure"/"at & t"/"fight this generation" trio would be tough to top.

ok, i'll agree with that. which begs a question- did pavement purposefully throw in a crappy song to mix things up? as i noted above, take out 5-4=unity and unfair, gold soundz and range life are classic pavement songs. . .what i can't remember is, and smackie made the reference above, was the album made for album/tape or cd? obviously, that would make a difference on setting up the tracks.

i think pavement was always doing little things to fuck with people. i remember when WZ was released the promo copies had wrong song titles and all the reviews had bad titles. and yeah, "unfair," "gold soundz" and "range life" were three of their easiest to like songs, so of course they'd throw their brubeck tribute in the middle. they certainly weren't a band to frontload an album.

Highway 61 Revisited
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Desolation Row

Dylan's Desolation Row

The opening of The Stooges Funhouse

Down on the Street
Loose
T.V. Eye

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Highway 61 Revisited
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Desolation Row

Dylan's Desolation Row

i was gonna say that any three consecutive songs from "bringing it all back home," "highway 61 revisited" or "desire" (not counting any strings that include "joey") would be better than anything mentioned here, but, y'know. no need to bring dylan into a silly (but fun) game like this.

Glass Slipper
If I'm A Man
Arctic Snow

Burning Brides - Fall of the Plastic Empire

Originally posted by BookerT:
but, y'know. no need to bring dylan into a silly (but fun) game like this.

How about "Best of" albums?

Paranoid
War Pigs
Iron Man

Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n Roll

what grotty said

Tracks 2,3 & 4 on Gentlemen (Afghan Whigs):
Gentlemen
Be Sweet
Debonair

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing:
7. Stem/ Long Stem
8. Mutual Slump
9. Organ Donor

Jumping Someone Else's Train
Boys Don't Cry
Plastic Passion

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (original vinyl tracklisting)

You Are Invited
Gyroscope
The City

Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
How about "Best of" albums?

A Design For Life
Motorcycle Emptiness
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next

Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed

Lots of them, four that I have now in front of me.

Jonathan Richman - Jonathan sings
That summer feeling
This kind of music
The neighboors

Ballboy - Club Anthems (the whole first five songs)

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Wake up
Haiti
Rebellion (Lies)

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Artic World
Warakurna
The Dead Heart

Outkast "ATLiens", tracks 1-3

"You May Die"
"Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)"
"ATLiens"

Beach Boys "Pet Sounds", tracks 7-9

"Sloop John B"
"God Only Knows"
"I Know There's an Answer"

big dipper
car
fling

built to spill - there's nothing wrong with love

motor away
hit
my valuable hunting knife

alien lanes (just to be different)

"Safe European Home"
"English Civil War"
"Tommy Gun"
from the Clash's "Give Em Enough Rope"

"Lost in the Supermarket"
"Clampdown"
"Guns of Brixton"
from the Clash's "London Calling"

"Uptown"
"Head"
"Sister"
from Prince's "Dirty Mind"

"Fight Like A Brave"
"Funky Crime"
"Me & My Friends"
from Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Uplift Mofo Party Plan"

punch drunk
postcard
d.boon

from Uncle Tupelo's Still Feel Gone

Windfall
Live Free
Tear Stained Eye

from Son Volt's Trace

Darklands
Deep One Perfect Morning
Happy when it Rain

from Jesus and Mary Chain's Darklands

Little Too Clean
Sometime To Return
Cartoon

from Soul Asylum's Hang Time

Originally posted by you be pickup:
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing:
7. Stem/ Long Stem
8. Mutual Slump
9. Organ Donor

Yes motherfucker.

How about the first three tracks of "Daydream Nation":

Teen Age Riot
Silver Rocket
The Sprawl