The opening three of Blood on the Tracks is tough to beat: Tangled Up in Blue/Simple Twist of Fate/You’re a Big Girl Now
The opening three of Blood on the Tracks is tough to beat: Tangled Up in Blue/Simple Twist of Fate/You’re a Big Girl Now
‘Silence Kit’, ‘Elevate Me Later’, and ‘Stop Breathin’, although ‘Gold Soundz’, ‘5-4=Unity’, and ‘Range Life’ is also about as good as you can get.
Solid choice! I was stuck between offering my favorite and offering something that more people would know... Personally I’d probably go with something from Tonight’s the Night: Tonight’s the Night/Speakin’ Out/World on a String or Roll Another Number/Albuquerque/New Mama.
I had trouble finding a three-in-a-row knockout on one of the IRS records. Maybe these...
This list kinda got out of hand, but here some of mine:
Out of Time
Texarkana - Country Feedback - Me in Honey
Side One of “Copper Blue” is a top-seed contender for the strongest, most consistent, most incandescent five-song run on any LP ever. As the rules sit, though, “Changes” -> “Helpless” -> “Hoover Dam” takes a very correct place among the elect.
Man on the Moon - Nightswimming - Find the River, though that almost seems like it’s cheating.
Oh, wow, forgot to do R.E.M. I would probably choose...
Wrens, The Meadowlarks: Happy, She Sends Kisses, This Boy is Exhausted
Or maybe Oklahoma USA - Uncle Son - Muswell Hillbilly from the Kinks - I don’t love the middle one but it fits perfectly in that sequence.
Man these are all such great choices. Couldn’t argue with a single one. William Hughes you must know my wife, because yours was her immediate go-to as well.
If we’re going U2 then I’d say, from the same album, any stretch of Running to Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, In God’s Country, Trip Through Your Wire and One Tree Hill is going to be hard to argue with. With or Without You has just never really done it for me, and is frankly out of place on that album.
Allow me to remind you that ELO’s Out of the Blue opens with Turn to Stone, It’s Over, and Sweet Talkin’ Woman.