What's The Strongest Run Of Three Songs In A Row On An Album?
I recently came across the above tweet and pretty much fell down a massive music rabbit hole in search for the answer. My instant reaction was to look at some of the top responses and see if there was an obvious one, and I think there is, but the ongoing discussion has been so much fun that I felt the need to toss this question out to the Stoolies.
For my money, nothing is gonna top Thriller/Beat It/Billie Jean on ‘Thriller’ if “strongest” is the criteria. I don’t think I even need to defend that, as all three are GARGANTUAN smash hits that still chart to this day, but there’s some seriously great contenders that you should take a look at…
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I’ll also throw in ANY three songs on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, as well as NY State Of Mind/Life’s A Bitch/The World Is Yours (Illmatic), and Still DRE/Big Ego’s/Xxplosive (2001), and Reunited/For Heaven’s Sake/Cash Still Rules/Scary Hours (Wu Tang Forever) (and that’s three I swear), but now I want to hear your picks. Whaddya got for me?
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P.S. For the pop punk Stoolies out there (you’d be shocked at how many I run into at shows in the city), here’s some of my personal favorite picks…
-Way Away/Breathing/Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard (Ocean Avenue)
-Backseat Serenade/If There Sheets Were The States/Somewhere In Neverland – All Time Low (Don’t Panic)
-Weightless/Break Your Little Heart/Damned If I Do Ya – All Time Low (Nothing Personal)
-Remembering Sunday/Vegas/Stay Awake – All Time Low (So Wrong It’s Right)
-Ain’t It Fun/Part II/Last Hope – Paramore (Self Titled)
-Careful/Ignorance/Playing God – Paramore (Brand New Eyes)
-For A Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic/That’s What You Get/Hallelujah – Paramore (RIOT!)
-Madelyn/Cul-de-sac/I Just Wanna Sell Out My Funeral – The Wonder Years (The Greatest Generation)
-Kali Ma/Gold Steps/Lime St – Neck Deep (Life’s Not Out To Get You)
-Losing Myself/All You Are is History/Perfect Score – State Champs (Around the World and Back)
-I Miss You/Violence/Stockholm Syndrome – Blink 182 (Self Titled)
-Dance, Dance/Sugar, We’re Goin Down/Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner – Fall Out Boy (From Under The Cork Tree)