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Expecting one song to follow another...
Posted by DrJ on 28 September 2009 - 10:00am.
The rise of the iPod and the ability to shuffle entire collections of music at a whim has made one of the lovely side effects of the long player disappear: That sensation of expecting a particular track to start after another one ends.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm digging the Duckworth Lewis Method and I'll break out in a cold sweat if I don't hear Gentlemen & Players start up as soon as The Age of Revolution ends.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer after Something.
My Little Japanese Cigarette Case after The Underdog (anyone else like Spoon?).
Favourite examples please of this phenomenon...
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I-ching Pod reveals
Nature's Way after Nothing To Hide (Spirit '12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus)
Eibhli Ghai Chiuin Ni Cherbhail after Fine Lines (John Martyn 'Inside out')
The Angels Took My Racehorse Away after Shaky Nancy ( RT 'Henry The Human Fly')
Franklin's Tower after Help On The Way (Grateful Dead 'Blues for Allah)
Carolyn's fingers after Athol-Brose (Cocteau Twins 'Blue Bell Knoll')
Country Girl after 4+20 (CSN&Y 'Deja Vu').
Well......
The "law" says that I Am The Resurrection MUST follow This Is The One
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for must follow Where The Streets Have No Name
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart after Yes...(with the ridiculous "You're invited to Rising Tide's tribute dinner to Margaret Thatcher..." clip)
Dire consequences flow
unless "Thank You" follows "The Lemon Song"
Page is an Adept y'know.
Abbey Road
The perfect example: all those songs on side 2 following one another in the correct order.
As long as you stop before Her Majesty starts.
And, personally, it's the appearance (not non-appearance) of Maxwell's Silver Hammer which spoils Something for me.
White Album
Goodnight after Revolution 9. Just try actually listening to Rev 9 for once, then Goodnight. What blessed relief and peace - it's brilliant!
Exile
Every song must follow the one before it on Exile ON Main St. If Rocks Off pops up on the Ipod then that's me gone for the following hour.
Zeppelin Again
Rock n Roll must follow Black Dog, as sure as night follows day, tick follows tock etc
Ziggy
Soul Love after Five Years
Moonage Daydream after Soul Love
etc
etc
Scary Monsters after Up the
Scary Monsters after Up the Hill Backwards
Spoon
Very good. Indeed.
OK
where "Fitter Happier" follows on from "Karma Police" - the hazy noise fades into creepy computer spoken word = the RIGHT way
I've always loved the way that..
..the clip-clop start of The Gnome cuts in after Interstellar Overdrive runs down on Piper at the Gates of Dawn
I'd have to also nominate the magnificent three in a row from Notorious Byrds Brothers...Draft Morning into Wasn't Born to Follow then Get to You is a sublime sequence that has to heard in order.
'Trampled Underfoot' must be followed by 'Kashmir'...
it's just how it is.
I still get aggrieved
At albums I love on vinyl being on CD. They should have a decent pause after the end of side 1. It's disrespectful otherwise.
Traffic - John Barleycorn
Freedom Rider must follow Glad - or else!!!
First of all, Spoon are Fantabulous
Side two of 'The Hounds of Love'. A bit of a cheat I guess, there are hundreds of examples, but that one jumped out at me right away.
Ooh, the whole of Steve McQueen, but especially 'Bonny' into 'Appetite'
Ooh, Jonny, Jonny, Jonny
and to completete the perfect sequence - "Goodbye Lucille #1"
Mmm,
Born To Run
‘Meeting Across The River’ into ‘Jungleland’ - it's something about the horns/violin interface.
Conversely, my first recording of ‘Born To Run’ (the song) was taped off the radio - Noel Edmonds’ Sunday morning Radio 1 show, in fact – and was immediately followed by a Janis Ian song called something like ‘Run Too Fast (Fly Too High)’. To this day, as Bruce’s final 'whoa -oh’ fades away, I still find myself expecting to hear Janis.
Santana's Abraxas
All the tracks on Side 1 of the album in particular have to follow each other. Singing Winds leads into Black Magic Woman then into Oye Como Va and finally into Incident at Neshabur. Then, and I agree with Lenny, there must be a break before Side 2 starts.
Little Feat
Long Distance Love simply HAS to follow All That You Dream. There is no other option.
Yellow Subrevolver.
The first time I heard songs from Revolver was on the 1999 version of the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack, so for ages I expected "Love You To" to follow "Eleanor Rigby" on Revolver.
Red and Blue Beatles...
...those two famous compilations are a cause of similar confusion. I bought them in 1974 and only had two other Beatles albums on vinyl – Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper – until I started buying them on CD around 15 years later.
This still catches me out on Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour. Thanks to long-ago memory triggers I expect to hear Yellow Submarine after Eleanor Rigby instead of I'm Only Sleeping, and Magical Mystery tour after Fool On The Hill instead of Flying (even though MMT has already been on by that point).
The answer as usual is David Bowie
Sorry Sheev, couldn't resist: the whole of Ziggy is a masterclass in sequencing: the drum fade of Five Years segues into the drum intro to Soul Love; whose serene fade out is interrupted by the crunching power chord intro of Moonage Daydream, and so on. Perhaps my favourite is Ziggy Stardust into Suffragette City.
Feel free
It is an immutable law of nature
From an old compilation tape I had in the car
The Damned - Smash It Up, one seconds silence, Doors - Light My Fire.
As mentioned previously somewhere on this 'ere site, the burnt-in memory from listening to the same vinyl LP for long periods of time - one track must lead to another. Anything else is just wrong!