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What are the 5 best songs in a row on an album, or consecutive 5 songs split between two albums (end to begining)

For me its gotta be either

Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine, Dead Flowers, Moonlight Mile from Sticy Fingers into Exile's first two tracks, Rocks Off and Rip This Joint

OR from Exile, Tumblin Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, and finally Lovin Cup... thats damn near perfect.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Stooges own this for me:

Down On The Street
Loose
TV Eye
Dirt
1970

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 25 February 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Predictable, but the first side of Television's Marquee Moon (See No Evil, Venus, Friction, Marquee Moon) followed by Elevation on side 2 would get my vote.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Owned by 'Doolittle' for me;

Debaser
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
I Bleed
Here Comes Your Man

Here Comes Your Man
Dead
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Mr. Grieves
Crackity Jones

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 25 February 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

To Here Knows When
When You Sleep
I Only Said
Come In Alone
Sometimes

or..

Arise
Dead Embryonic Cells
Desperate Cry
Murder
Subtraction

damn i could easily add a 6th song in a row to both of those.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Made of Stone
Shoot You Down
This is the One
I Am the Resurrection
Fools Gold

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 February 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Snrub, you are cheating!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick cave 'From her to eternity':
avalanche, cabin fever, well of misery, from her to eternity, saint huck (running order of the lp, so no 'in the ghetto' and no 'the moon is in the gutter')

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this thread and instantly clicked on it, and it turns out I was already beaten to the punch. The best 5 songs in order is clearly side 2 of Exile:

Tumblin Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Lovin Cup

But with that off the table, I'll take the first 5 from Slanted and Enchanted: Summer Babe, Trigger Cut, No Life Singed Her, In The Mouth Of A Desert, Conduit For Sale.

If I could skip Conduit and put in Zurich is STained, it'd be even better.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

first five tracks on Discovery, probably, for me.

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

for when you feel like rockin.

burden brothers.

1. buried in your black heart
2. shadow
3. beautiful night
4. come on down
5. you're so god damn beautiful

― brrrrrian, Friday, 25 February 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

MBV

When You Sleep
I Only Said
Come In Alone
Sometimes
Blown a Wish

or Orbital's "Insides" (excepting "The Girl With the Sun in Her Head")

and the end of Drugstore's debut is really tough to top

Baby Astrolab
Gravity
Nectarine
Star-Crossed
Accelerate

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

if "holland 1945" were track 5 on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, i think thatd be a good contender.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, we can span different albums, so

Spiritualized

Angel Sigh
Sway
200 Bars
Medication
The Slide Song

Spread Your Wings
Feel Like Goin Home
LAGWAFIS
Come Together
I Think I'm In Love

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(first five, that is...)

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Lilys' "Brief History of Amazing Letdowns" -- only five songs on it! (if you don't count 'evil kneivel' at the end, which is hardly a song).

1. Ginger
2. Ycyjqaftj...
3. Anyplace I've Lived
4. Jenny, Andrew and Me
5. Dandy

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Untitled
2. Obstacle 1
3. NYC
4. PDA
5. Say Hello to the Angels

― PB, Friday, 25 February 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Side 2 of Abbey Road, the whole thing.

― Chris O., Friday, 25 February 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm amen to Neil Stewart's first 5 songs of Marquee Moon; immensely listenable~

If Superheroes were no. 5 on Discovery, that would be pretty cut and dry to me.

First 5 Songs on Bowie's Hunky Dory I remember being engaging.

Last 5 Songs from Emergency and I were pretty hi-quality.

Some more strong stretches from recent albums that sprung to mind:

First 5 Songs on Hot Fuss contrast pretty strongly with the rest, so that sticks out.

The Neighborhood Suite and Une Anne Sans Lumierre on Funeral...
and also the next 5 songs.

Jp, jp, don't shoot~ But seriously.

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm Ready
Yellow Kid
The Banana Question
Another Year
Juicy, Juicy Juice

― ACCELERATOR, Friday, 25 February 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Teh Lurve Blow

Spread
Prototype
She Lives In My Lap
Hey Ya!
Roses

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic

God! Show Me Magic
Fuzzy Bird
Something For The Weekend
Frisbee
Hometown Unicorn

Something For The Weekend
Frisbee
Hometown Unicorn
Gathering Moss
If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You

― zeus, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

last 5 on Talking Book
"Razor Boy" through "My Old School" on Countdown to Ecstasy (though it's tough to leave off "Bodhisattva")
first 5 on John Wesley Harding

more recent choice:
first 5 on Fiery Furnaces EP

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Innervisions
Too High
Visions
Living for the City
Golden Lady
Higher Ground

This Year's Model
(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
Lip Service
Living in Paradise
Lipstick Vogue
Night Rally

Isn't Anything
Sueisfine
Several Girls Galore
You Never Should
Nothing Much to Lose
I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)

Oh, and no 5-songer would be complete without:

Dirty Mind
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Uptown
Head
Sister
Partyup

― ffirehorse, Friday, 25 February 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Without followups:
Helen Love - Radio Hits

Rollercoasting
Rockaway Beach For Me Heartbreak Hotel For You
Summer Pop Radio
So Hot
Golden Summer

With followups, Baxendale (Over YWHYR and TRHJB) seems pretty unbeatable:

Electric Trains
Top Deck
Music For Girls
American Friend
Tian Dreams

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 25 February 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

MBV
When You Sleep
I Only Said
Come In Alone
Sometimes
Blown a Wish

Interpol
1. Untitled
2. Obstacle 1
3. NYC
4. PDA
5. Say Hello to the Angels

Wow. Somebody beat me to both of those... I'm not in front of my collection right now, but the first four track of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain are invincible. I can't remember what the fifth one is, but i'm sure it's primo.

And (again, I'm not with my CDs) but I think the last five tracks of Blank Generation, starting with "Walking on the Water" are perfect... although I can't remember the tune to "The Plan". argh.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 25 February 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the end of abbey road

..and i'd take the last 5 songs on marquee moon over the first 5. 'friction' is a great tune, but has always seemed to me like the weakest link on that album....

― 6335, Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Raise by SWD

Sci-Flyer
Pile Up
Son of Mustang Ford
Deep Seat
Rave Down

such a murderer's row right there.

― tk (tk), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The Queen is Dead
Frankly Mr Shankly
I know It's Over
Never Had No One Ever
Cemetry Gates

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Marshall Mathers LP
(slightly cheating here by discounting the two interstitiary skits)Kill You
Stan
Who Knew
The Way I Am
The Real Slim Shady

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Seems sort of sloppy to tack on the last song of side a, and the entire flipside, but american stars n' bars definitely benefitted from a digital age reissue:

Bite The Bullet
Star Of Bethlehem
Will To Love
Like A Hurricane
Homegrown

SLAP

― deanster, Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet's 3rd

Candy Says
What Goes On
Some Kinda Love
Pale Blue Eyes
Jesus

― Matt Chesnut, Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ocean Rain:
Thorn of Crowns
The Killing Moon
Seven Seas
My Kingdom
Ocean Rain

This is Hardcore:
The Fear
Dishes
Party Hard
Help the Aged
This is Hardcore
(I only wish the rest of the album could have kept pace with this amazing start.)

― D. Bachyrycz, Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Born Under Punches
Crosseyed and Painless
The Great Curve
Once in a Lifetime
Houses in Motion

or maybe,

Paranoid Android
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Exit Music
Let Down
Karma Police

― a banana (alanbanana), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

no, wait:

Walk On By
Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
One Woman
By the Time I Get To Phoenix
I Stand Accused

― a banana (alanbanana), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

PrincePurple Rain
Darling Nikki, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Purple Rain...BUT I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Purple Rain also work nicely into 1999 & Little Red Corvette.
or....
Def Leppard Hysteria
Women, Rocket, Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me
or...
You Am I Hi Fi Way
Ain't Gone & Opened, Minor Byrd, She Digs Her, Cathy's Clown, Jewels & Bullets

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 February 2005 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

1. pink moon
2. place to be
3. road
4. which will
5. horn

1. candy says
2. what goes on
3. some kinda love
4. pale blue eyes
5. jesus

yes.

― rockaction (rockaction), Saturday, 26 February 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Freedom of '76
I Can't Put My Finger On It
A Tear For Eddie
Roses Are Free
Baby Bitch

Recognize
I Can't Wait
Coldblooded
Got Your Money
Rollin' Wit You

― teh nicklishis guy, Saturday, 26 February 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Illmatic
NY State of Mind
Life's a Bitch
World is Yours
Half Time
Memory Lane (Sittin in the Park)

The Entertainist
Candy
Worst MC part 2
No Beats
Futurist Ain't Shit To Me
This One Jam
(Though it'd be better if the last one was Cum On You)

The Predator
Wicked
Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha
The Predator
It Was A Good Day
We Had To Tear This Muthafucka Up

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 February 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

well, "Radio City":

Mod Lang
Back of a Car
Daisy Glaze
She's a Mover
September Gurls

that's pretty good.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Breathless - The Glass Bead Game
1. Across the Water
2. All My Eye and Betty Martin
3. Count on Angels
4. Monkey Talk
5. Every Road Leads Home

The Chameleons - Strange Times
1. Mad Jack
2. Caution
3. Tears
4. Soul in Isolation
5. Swamp Thing

The Birthday Party - Mutiny/The Bad Seed
1. Sonny's Burning
2. Wild World
3. Fears of Gun
4. Deep in the Woods
5. Jennifer's Veil

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tried and True"
"Happy Colored Marbles"
"Hey There Fancypants"
"Captain"
"Chocolate Town"
from Ween - Quebec

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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