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Expecting one song to follow another...

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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').

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RobertC | 28 September 2009 - 10:21am

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)

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Six Dog | 28 September 2009 - 10:27am

Dire consequences flow

unless "Thank You" follows "The Lemon Song"

Page is an Adept y'know.

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Sheev | 28 September 2009 - 10:32am

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.

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Douglas | 28 September 2009 - 10:32am

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!

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Jayhawk | 28 September 2009 - 10:41am

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.

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Pat Carty | 28 September 2009 - 10:56am

Zeppelin Again

Rock n Roll must follow Black Dog, as sure as night follows day, tick follows tock etc

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Iainso | 28 September 2009 - 11:06am

Ziggy

Soul Love after Five Years
Moonage Daydream after Soul Love

etc
etc

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Sinj | 28 September 2009 - 11:19am

Scary Monsters after Up the

Scary Monsters after Up the Hill Backwards

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tim tunes | 29 September 2009 - 1:34pm

Spoon

Very good. Indeed.

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Leedsboy | 28 September 2009 - 11:20am

OK

where "Fitter Happier" follows on from "Karma Police" - the hazy noise fades into creepy computer spoken word = the RIGHT way

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badger_king | 28 September 2009 - 11:21am

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.

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jimmymack | 28 September 2009 - 12:03pm

'Trampled Underfoot' must be followed by 'Kashmir'...

it's just how it is.

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Patrick Crowther | 28 September 2009 - 12:10pm

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.

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Lenny Law | 28 September 2009 - 3:22pm

Traffic - John Barleycorn

Freedom Rider must follow Glad - or else!!!

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Ger The Boptist | 28 September 2009 - 3:35pm

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'

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ChaosandMorphine | 28 September 2009 - 3:41pm

Ooh, Jonny, Jonny, Jonny

and to completete the perfect sequence - "Goodbye Lucille #1"

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Sheev | 28 September 2009 - 7:07pm

Mmm,

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ChaosandMorphine | 28 September 2009 - 8:11pm

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.

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Tim Turner | 28 September 2009 - 3:48pm

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.

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FamilyMan | 28 September 2009 - 4:57pm

Little Feat

Long Distance Love simply HAS to follow All That You Dream. There is no other option.

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Chris | 28 September 2009 - 8:25pm

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.

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Tom | 28 September 2009 - 8:58pm

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).

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BrianH | 28 September 2009 - 11:21pm

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.

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Theo Zoffrok | 29 September 2009 - 1:30pm

Feel free

It is an immutable law of nature

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Sheev | 29 September 2009 - 2:43pm

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!

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Rigid Digit | 29 September 2009 - 8:39pm
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