Favourite 3-song runs

Van Halen Fair Warning
Hear About It Later - Unchained - Push Comes To Shove

Rush Moving Pictures
The Camera Eye - Witch Hunt -Vital Signs

King Crimson Red
Red - Fallen Angel - One More Red Nightmare

Tool Lateralus
Schism - Parabol - Parabola

 

"With the Beatles" (November 1963) opens with

It Won't be Long --> All I've Got to Do --> All My Loving


Certainly the Toppermost of the Poppermost!


(Edit: I missed that the album represented is supposed to be "Not So Great"... this doesn't fit that, since I think "With the Beatles" is as good as any album outside of "The White Album" and "Who's Next")

 

Jeff Lynne had a particular knack for starting off albums strong, though the goodness certainly didn’t stop after side 1.

Face the Music:

Waterfall
Evil Woman
Nightrider

A New World Record:

Tightrope
Telephone Line
Rockaria

Out of the Blue:

Turn to Stone
It’s Over
Sweet Talkin’ Woman

Discovery:

Shine a Little Love
Confusion
Need Her Love

 

Barclay James Harvest -

"Poor Boy Blues" Holroyd 3:05
"Mill Boys" Lees 2:47
"For No One"

 

The Moody Blues, Long Distance Voyager:

The Voice
Talking Out of Turn
Gemini Dream

 

ELO A New World Record:
Tightrope
Telephone Line
Rockaria!

ZZ Top Fandango:
Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings
Blue Jean Blues
Balinese

Stones Exile On Main Street:
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn And Frayed

Of course these are all great albums so may not fit

 

Traffic John Barlycorn: Glad, Freedom Rider, Empty Pages

 

I think The Doors "Waiting for the Sun" is vastly underrated, but because so, many here may find it "Not So Great."

If that's the case, I submit:

Love Street --> Not to Touch the Earth --> Summer’s Almost Gone



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Steely Dan "Aja"

Black Cow
Aja
Deacon Blues

otherwise known as Side 1

 

Steely Dan "The Royal Scam"

Kid Charlemagne
The Caves of Altamira
Don't Take Me Alive

 

Some favorites, but all are from fantastic albums (and not counting a ton of great 3-song runs on GbV's Bee Thousand album or Samiam's self-titled album):

Pearl Jam (No Code):
Hail, Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree

Pearl Jam (Yield):
Faithfull
No Way
Given to Fly

Afghan Whigs (Gentlemen):
When We Two Parted
Fountain and Fairfax
What Jail Is Like

Afghan Whigs (Black Love):
Crime Scene, Part I
My Enemy
Double Day
... and then later ...
Bulletproof
Summer's Kiss
Faded

The Wedding Present (Seamonsters):
Dalliance
Dare
Suck

Green Day (Dookie):
Basket Case
She
Sassafras Roots

 

Santana - Abraxas

"Singing Winds, Crying Beasts"
"Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen"
"Oye Como Va"

 

Oops... make that a Black Cow as opposed to the Brown one mentioned above...

 

No Reply, I'm A Loser, Baby's in Black woulda been my choice! Phenomenal!

 

Fantastic!

 

Elton John

Candle In The Wind
Bennie and The Jets
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 

Joe Jackson - Look Sharp:

One More Time/Sunday Papers/Is She Really Going Out with Him

 

Carole King - Tapestry

I Feel the Earth Move
So Far Away
It's Too Late

 

Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA
I'm on fire, No surender, My Hometown

this was easy, of that album we could easily put all, or almost, the songs

 

Bob Dylan
Desire,
Hurricane, Oh Sister, Romance in Durango

 

Angelo Branduardi canta Yeats
La canzone di Aengus il vagabondo, Il capello a sonagli, Il violinista di Dooney


Obviously that who doesn't know the Italian language can not understand the texts.
But it does not do anything ... here matters the music moves forward.
And what a MUSIC!

 

Nah, everything welcome! Just more of a bonus if the album is poor/patchy, but still can’t be dismissed. 2nd post was: “Of course, the best trios on great albums are also included”.

Also, I’m finding that even on great albums, there is not often 3 great songs in a row. Something like London Calling by the Clash has at least a couple of runs, but also a fair bit of filler. These are my two ‘runs’ for that album:

• Hateful
• Rudie Can’t Fail
• Spanish Bombs

Or on the vinyl, side 2:

• Lost In The Supermarket
• Clampdown
• The Guns Of Brixton

 

Squeeze Argybargy:

Pulling Mussels
Another Nail in My heart
Separate Beds

 

A few more:

'What Goes On' - 'Some Kinda Love' - 'Pale Blue Eyes' ("Velvet Underground" - Velvet Underground)
'Hung Bunny' - 'Roman Dog Bird' - 'Sacrifice' ("Lysol" - The Melvins)
'Ballet for a Rainy Day' - '1000 Umbrellas' - 'Season Cycle' ("Skylarking" - XTC)
'Dirty Creature' - 'Giant Heartbeat' - 'Hello Sandy Allen' ("Time and Tide" - Split Enz) (this is one of my fave three-song runs)
'The Classical' - 'Jawbone and the Air-Rifle' - 'Hip Priest' ("Hex Enduction Hour" - The Fall)
'Look Back In Anger' - 'Boys Keep Swinging' - 'Repetition' ("Lodger" - David Bowie)

 

The Beatles - Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End