Songs That Are (Almost) Always Heard Together

Here’s one that you still regularly hear on the radio:

Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?

 

INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate

 

Just realized that no one has mentioned Supertramp's Easy Does It / Sister Moonshine from Crisis? What Crisis. These songs get airplay here in Vancouver. Great tunes!

 

Springsteen: Incident On 57th St / Rosalita

 

Not Fade Away/Going Down The Road/Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead
Help Is On The Way/Slipknow/Franklin's Tower - Grateful Dead
Lazy Lightning/Supplication - Grateful Dead as well as Bob Weir's various solo projects
Behind The Lines/Duchess - Genesis
We All Fall In Love Sometimes/Curtains - Elton John

 

I would imagine Serenade and How Fair This Spot by Sarah Brightman. The latter is Rachmaninoff, the former a barely one-minute intro specially written for it, and it works perfectly.

 

Elvis always had the trio of "C C Rider/I Got a Woman/Amen" kick off his shows.

 

China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance (until 3/24/86)

 

The Doors -- Peace Frog/Blue Sunday

Not much of a fan of the former, but love the latter.

 

The two songs I call the "evil twins".

"Summer of '69" by Brian Adams and "Livin' On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi. Many DJs play these together. I'd happily not hear either ever again. I cannot stand them.

 

Grateful Dead:

Dark Star--->St Stephen--->The Eleven--->Turn On Your Lovelight--->Feedback--->We Bid You Goodnight

 

-Judas Priest - "The Hellion"/"Electric Eye"
-Queensryche - "Anarchy-X"/"Revolution Calling"
-Journey - "Feeling That Way"/"Anytime"

 

Traffic: Glad/Freedom Rider

You hear the first on its own quite a bit but almost never the second without Glad

 

On the album, the 2 songs were constructed as a medley, running for 4:52. Randy Bachman wrote "No Sugar Tonight" and Burton Cummings wrote "New Mother Nature." When "No Sugar Tonight" was released as the B-side of the "American Woman" single, "New Mother Nature" was omitted. I always assumed that it was the producer's idea to do so in an attempt to get a 2-sided hit (fearing that the radio wouldn't play the almost 5-minute medley). It's one of the things that led to the rift between Bachman and Cummings. Cummings basically accused Bachman of omitting his "New Mother Nature" from the single, saying in the Anthology liner notes, "Maybe Randy didn't have anything to do with my song being cut from the single. Maybe Prince doesn't get any chicks." In 1972, after Bachman was gone from the band, on the Guess Who's Live At the Paramount album, they did a reinvented version of "New Mother Nature" and released it as a single, like they were pointedly excluding Bachman's song. In later years, in Guess Who reunion shows and in Cummings' solo gigs, the medley was restored.

 

Crack The Sky - Hold On / Surf City

 

Hendrix all of side 1&3 of EL

Fleetwood Mac Oh Well Part 1&2

Allman Bros Don't Want You No More- Its Not My Cross To Bear

Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs - In This Place

Lynryd Skynyrd Don't Ask Me No Questions-Workin For MCA

James Gang Aashton Park - Woman - The Bomber

Who I Am The Sea-The Real Me-Quadrophenia

Bad Co. Burnin Sky - Like Water

Police Don't Stand To Close To Me - Driven To Tears - WTWIRDYMTBOWSA (yep its a title of a Police tune off Mondatta Zenyata not abbreviated of course)

When I worked F.M. radio in the 1970s I always liked the way these tunes segued into each other....

So I played them like that most of the time as most DJs did

Good change up thread also

Thanks!

 

Or double shot Tuesday.

Or double shot weekend

 

This is the first example I thought of, but in reality, they are rarely played together these days--that is, "Incident on 57th St." is rarely ever played. But when it is, "Rosalita"--which does get a lot of play lone---usually follows.

 

When I started in radio in 1971 there was no such thing as double or triple shot anything...there also was no such thing as a program director.Those folk came in around 1977...

Up till then DJs pulled their own music and played what they wanted & without suits dictating what and when to play something....

I agree those double & triple marketing ploys were quite disgusting..

A.O.R. is the main reason I quit radio

 

Prince - Kiss/Anotherloverholeinyohead
Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions

 

Yep. Before the late 70s not only did DJs pick their own music, they could play a whole album side if they felt like it.

The double shot B.S. seem to get popular in the mid to late 80s.

 

Ziggy Stardust / Suffragette City

 

Also if you worked the 2-6am slot you could basically do your show with very limited commercials (head shops,record stores,bars etc....

Whoever was doing the 2-6 timeslot was the envy of other DJs....

Although it was traded off every 6 months or so

The 2-6pm slot was pretty popular if one was into meeting and interviewing bands as they blew into town on tour...

Personally I have favorite artists that I appreciated but hero worship never was my bag

 

Neither of them were hits by any stretch of the imagination, but most I can't listen to one with out the other

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Blossom> Life is Beautiful

 

My introduction to Zeppelin was the first box set so I always hear Communication Breakdown in my head after Heartbreaker.