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I
would not consider myself a music guy.
When I was in middle school, I took Chorus and I do have an ear for
hearing and recall lyrics, but I did not get and substantive training in an
instrument and did not stick with music as an extracurricular.
I
didn’t own any CD’s growing up and I still do not buy music to any level. I think I occasionally get a copy of a video
game soundtrack as a bonus item, but that is so rare as to be mythological in occurrence.
This is all kind of moot, as today I am talking about my reaction to an AV Club article from April 2018. The premise had
to do with what is the best 3 songs back to back on any album. I kind of hated the article, because aside
from the Michael Jackson entry they start off with and the Kanye entry a little
later… I had not heard of any of these songs.
I kind of know about Pearl Jam… But who the hell is Matthew Sweet? What music nerd put this… Whatever.
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| Kudos to the AV Club's graphics team, this is a fun image. |
I
decided to put together a few song lists that I feel represent great 3 song
combos. It was sort of a fun exercise,
because I am a singles guy, so going to Wikipedia to find the track listings of
albums I recall liking to pick the best 3 pack combo was a really different way
to look at music.
Who
knew Albums could have such unique feels when looked at as albums as opposed to
collections of singles? Probably lots of
people.
Might as well give my unasked-for
opinion.
Opening to the Beatle's Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
There is also the debut of the
Police with Outlandos d'Amour,
1. "Next to You"
2. "So Lonely"
3. "Roxanne"
I am also an angry white boy so
there are 2 runs of three songs from The Eminem Show
2. "White America"
3. "Business"
and this one from the same Eminem
Show is broken up by a skit, so I don't know how that counts,
10. "Without Me"
12. "Sing for the Moment"
13. "Superman"
Anybody else like Linkin Park's Hybrid
Theory?
5."Crawling"
6."Runaway"
This one is a little less
remembered, but I loved the hell out of Gnarl's Barkley's St. Elsewhere,
2. "Crazy"
3. "St. Elsewhere"
4. "Gone
Daddy Gone"
And before he became a public crazy
person, B.o.B. had B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray,
2. "Nothin'
on You"
3. "Past My Shades"
4. "Airplanes"
(Just
for the record, B.o.B. has come out a “Flat Earth Truther” and is perhaps the
most famous person to have such… Beliefs?
Suspicions? Delusions. And he released an antisemitic diss-track
aimed at Neil DeGrasse Tyson. It is
called “Flatline” and it would be
catchy if it were not such toxic garbage.)
Also, if we want to make it a 5-track
streak, there is the opening to the Killer's debut album Hot Fuss,
2. "Mr.
Brightside"
4. "Somebody Told Me"
Another 5 run, CCR's side 2 of Cosmo's
Factory,
1. "Up Around the Bend†"
2. "My
Baby Left Me"
3. "Who'll Stop
the Rain‡"
As I said, I am not a music
guy. There are better critics for music
online, and I am sure that my various lists here would make a music nerd call me
a pleb. I have talked about what I like
in music before, but that is just an unordered
list of personal favorites.
If you liked reading this and want
to make your own list of things, do so in the comments, or put it in your own
blog and post a link here. And I mean…
If you liked reading this, by all means share this with your hipster music snob
friends so they can call me a piece of shit and then turn me on to “real”
music.
Or whatever.
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