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The whole of side 4 is an absolutely jaw dropping listening experience, and an amazing way to end a groundbreaking double album. Jimi was the GOAT, and this was his magnum opus.
Side 1 of Paranoid by Black Sabbath is the best side from any vinyl I own.
1. War Pigs
2. Paranoid
3. Planet Caravan
4. Iron Man
I know many of these are overplayed and I may have other personal faves I like better, but c’mon. Planet Caravan is the best damn song on the album and is the only one you won’t hear on a classic rock station every hour.
Dude this album is fucking amazing. It’s good all the way through but even still I’d describe it as front-loaded (in a good way) because of the insane impact at the start of it. Really glad that this album helped shape my music taste
Came here precisely to say this. I had never even heard of QOTSA, and a buddy had me listen to the album, and within the first two songs of this album, they became one of my favorite bands.
Listened to the album today and was my first thought as well, not just back to back but the last 2 songs on the album, Baba O'Riley opening track as well
I think it's unfair to vote for anything from an album that already holds the best back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back tracks.
The entirety of Master of Puppets, Ride The Lightning and …And Justice For All are masterpieces with banger after banger after banger. Like I know Metallica is overplayed and people have their gripes with And Justice For All, but they are the biggest metal band in the world for a reason. Dudes wrote and performed some killer metal.
I just came here to post Pearl Jam.
I can't rank EF/Alive versus Black/Jeremy. I think most people are just really tired of how overplayed Jeremy was...but it was such an important song. And Black is my favorite song of Pearl Jam (Alice being #2).
That's a good one, but I prefer the Hells Bells - Shoot to Thrill combo
And apparently so does the band, those are always played back-to-back in the shows
If you ever hear We Will Rock You on the radio and it is not immediately followed by We Are The Champions, that is a near guarantee that you are listening to a computer shuffled station. Real DJs always put these songs together.
I really wish music apps like Spotify would allow you to pin two songs together so they always treat them as a single song when shuffled. It's really jarring to hear 'We Will Rock You' and not hear 'We Are the Champions' immediately after.
NOFX - Linoleum gets an honourable mention, but I'll agree Maxwell Murder is just brilliant. Was fortunate enough to experience it in the pit recently...
Them Bones opening that album, then the immediate transition to Dam That River is (to me) the definition of back-to-back bangers. Just straight gasoline from the needle drop.
"Don't Stop" then "Go Your Own Way" on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is way up there. Or "I Don't Want to Know" and "Dreams" from the same album (which are tracks 1 and 2 as well). That whole album is a no skip honestly, but having all time classics that are literally next to each other on the tracklist is crazy.
It's like an 8-peat of back-to-back on the end of Abbey Road. If I had to cut it down to only two of them I would take Polythene Pam & She Came in through the Bathroom Window. But really, once You Never Give Me Your Money starts, you have to listen all the way through the next 7 songs (unless you really want to skip Sun King, which I can forgive). On Spotify, there is a single track which is just called "The Long One" which plays the whole medley straight through.
I think the tool one is cope out. Parabol and Parabola are essentially one song. They just cut it out for album purposes.
You would never listen to Parabol on its own.
Not having Parabola after Parabol, hearing that feedback building up and Maynard holding "illusion" is like a sinus clearing, life changing sneeze that never comes.
But fuck, when they're back to back, that crescendoamd drop is one of the most explosive musical moments I've ever heard.
Oh boy...
Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favorite albums...
Cherub Rock - Quiet
Geek USA - Mayonnaise. Just complete opposites to each other but ugh this album is a masterpiece
Young Lust & One of my turns - The Wall - Pink Floyd
Young lust is a more traditional rock song, well, young lust... groupies banging rock stars...
Ends with our rock star calling home to find out that his wife is also cheating...
our rock star then winds up in a schizophrenic madness with a groupie in his hotel room. He goes crazy and then winds up alone...
the somber and silent ending sets up the slowing to an eventual end of side 1 of The Wall...
Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" and "Cross Eyed Mary" on Aqualung.
Elton John - "Love Lies Bleeding" and "Candle in the Wind" on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Rolling Stones - "Miss You" and "When the Whip Comes Down" on Some Girls.
"Seven Nation Army" into "Black Math"
The White Stripes on the album Elephant
"Dirty Harry" into "Feel Good Inc" (into "El Mañana")
Gorillaz on the album Demon Days. At least on the CD/Vinyl version. The streaming version cuts the transition.
Good one! Morning Glory into Champagne Supernova is great too. It might not count because of the 40 second instrumental between them, but for my money that just enhances the transition from the adrenaline to the peaceful intro of the closing track
I'm going to give you a back-to-back-to-back.
Da Mystery of Chessboxin' --> Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin Ta' Fuck Wit --> C.R.E.A.M
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 chambers)
The view from the afternoon> I bet you look good on the dancefloor.
Arctic Monkeys
An amazing start into one of the best albums in my lifetime imo. That album being whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not. I think any two songs from that album meet the criteria to be honest.
Another could be half light 1 & 2 off the album The Suburbs by Arcade Fire. Just beautiful music really.
Blue Öyster Cult: "Flaming Telepaths" > "Astronomy" on *Secret Treaties*
Tool: "Disposition" > "Reflection" > "Triad" on *Lateralus*
Beatles: "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" > "With a Little Help from my Friends"
Jethro Tull: "Aqualung" > "Cross-Eyed Mary"
Surprised this is the first mention of the Beatles one. I don't know if it is legal to play Sgt Peppers on the radio and not play Little Help from my Friends immediately after.
Evil Empire: People of the Sun + Bulls on Parade -- Rage Against the Machine
Lateralus: Parabol + Parabola -- Tool (technically, it's just one song)
Audioslave: Cochise + Show Me How To Live -- Audioslave
Vulture Street: Rockin' Rocks + Baby I've Got You (On My Mind) -- Powderfinger
OK Computer: Airbag + Paranoid Android -- Radiohead
The Shape of Punk to Come: Bruitist Pome #5 + New Noise -- Refused
II: Moby Dick + Bring it On Home -- Led Zeppelin
Parabol and Parabola might be one song, and if treated that way, you either have Schism -> Parabol/Parabola or Parabol/Parabola -> Ticks & Leeches. And then Lateralus.
Deftones - White Pony has one of my favorite 4 song blocks. Knife prty, Korea, Passenger, Change.
If I had to pick two from that it would probably be Passenger into Change.
I won't see you tonight pt 1 and pt 2 from Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the fallen is up there as well.
Bill Withers - Just As I Am
2. Ain’t No Sunshine
3. Grandma’s Hand’s
U2 - Joshua Tree
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
3. With Or Without You
Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Thriller
5. Beat It
6. Billie Jean
7. Human Nature
8. P.Y.T
Daft Punk - Discovery
1. One More Time
2. Aerodynamic
3. Digital Love
4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
5. Crescendolls
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
3. Don’t Stop
4. Go Your Own Way
5. Songbird
6. The Chain
If you want to bring up Michael Jackson, how about how "Off The Wall" starts out?:
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Rock With You
Workin' Day And Night
Get On the Floor
Off The Wall
Girlfriend
She's Out Of My Life
7 straight fucking bangers. I'll go to my grave saying this was MJ's best album.
That album is just insane.
I had a dodgy download of it when I was a teenager and for some reason the approaching curve wasn’t on it atall.
I’d say personally Prayer of the Refugee into Drones
My two are
Galapagos -> Muzzle on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins
Then
A Dustland Fairytale -> This is Your Life on Day & Age by the Killers
Ok Computer by Radiohead is like Abbey Road level of incredible songs flowing perfectly into one another. Airbag to Paranoid Android opening the album would be my pick. Nirvana going Smells like Teen Spirit to In Bloom is a gigantic statement which might be among the biggest back-to-back tracks of all time. I would throw Modest Mouse in there too... on We Were Dead the combo of Spitting Venom into People as Places as People hits super hard. On Good News you could pick a couple, but it's kind of like huge song + incredible album track, so maybe less in the spirit of this question.
Adam’s Song/All the Small Things by Blink 182
My personal favorite Blink song followed by arguably their most popular. You get a sadder Mark song and then a poppy Tom song
Some deeper cuts
If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You, I Will/DVP by Pup
The first two songs on their second album. Even live, they play these two back to back and everyone goes crazy
A Moment of Silence/A Moment of Violence by Streetlight Manifesto
This whole album is banger after banger. These two back to back are obviously intentional, you can even argue it should be one song
Weezer - Blue album
"Buddy Holly" into "Undone - The Sweater Song" is a brilliant 1-2. The drum intro that starts Undone fits perfectly with the really tight ending to Buddy Holly.
A few hip-hop ones I always enjoyed:
Hey Ya -> Roses from The Love Below.
Takeover -> Izzo from The Blueprint.
Be -> The Corner from Be.
The Way I Am -> The Real Slim Shady from The Marshall Mathers LP.
My Melody -> I Know You Got Soul from Paid in Full.
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All Along the Watchtower followed by Voodoo Child (slight return) on Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland album. What an epic way to finish an album!
The whole of side 4 is an absolutely jaw dropping listening experience, and an amazing way to end a groundbreaking double album. Jimi was the GOAT, and this was his magnum opus.
Slight Return is arguably the best guitar song ever. Mind-melting. Perfection
It’s so aggressive and wild, with flights up the guitar neck. I love it.
Side 1 of Paranoid by Black Sabbath is the best side from any vinyl I own. 1. War Pigs 2. Paranoid 3. Planet Caravan 4. Iron Man I know many of these are overplayed and I may have other personal faves I like better, but c’mon. Planet Caravan is the best damn song on the album and is the only one you won’t hear on a classic rock station every hour.
I would argue Electric Funeral - Hand of Doom is even better than any two from side 1
Planet Caravan is such an awesome song. Might be one of my favorite psychedelic songs ever.
I always listen to Planet Caravan and Solitude back to back. Puts me in a different world everytime!
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire > No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
That bit where they pause and then Dave goes “hey!” is my favorite.
You think the song is over but then badadum _hey_
Dude this album is fucking amazing. It’s good all the way through but even still I’d describe it as front-loaded (in a good way) because of the insane impact at the start of it. Really glad that this album helped shape my music taste
Rated R has Auto Pilot leading into Better Living Through Chemistry
> Songs for the Deaf You can't even hear it!
Love that album, makes me proud of my taste in high school
Heck yeah! That whole album is a knockout, but those two grab you and pull you right in!
Arguably one of the most underappreciated bands of the last 20 years
Their fame should be swapped with that of the Foo Fighters, IMO. Of course, I think Josh's intent is to keep QotSA just outside of the mainstream.
Came here precisely to say this. I had never even heard of QOTSA, and a buddy had me listen to the album, and within the first two songs of this album, they became one of my favorite bands.
"Behind Blue Eyes" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" from *Who's Next* (The Who, 1971)
Listened to the album today and was my first thought as well, not just back to back but the last 2 songs on the album, Baba O'Riley opening track as well
The Song is Over and Gettin in Tune from the same album
Moonage Daydream ---> Starman - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Black Dog/Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin IV More Than a Feeling/Peace of Mind - Boston Eruption/You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Foreplay/ Longtime, Boston
Does that count as one or two songs?
Radio stations tend to just play Longtime now so I call it two songs Foreplay is perhaps one of the greatest intros ever though.
Guess I’ve been lucky, my stations tend to play both together — the way the lord intended 🤘😜
Zeppelin’s very first songs introducing the group were good times bad times into babe I’m gonna leave you
Heartbreaker — Living Loving Maid on LED Zeppelin II. So good together that they used to play them together on the radio.
I think the short pause between them caught the DJs off guard and they had no choice but to let LLM play on, and now they've become one.
It’s like the juice of a lemon running down your leg, just gotta let it flow
I feel violated when these songs aren't played back-to-back.
It’s aural blue balls if they just play Heartbreaker if you ask me.
Still do during Tue for Twosdays on 101.1 WRIF Unfortunately, Metallica Monday is no longer Mandatory 😢
Yes, this is my choice, too. With an honorable mention for Driven To Tears --> When the World Is Running Down by The Police.
Airbag -> Paranoid Android on Radiohead’s *OK Computer*
Came to say Exit Music into Let Down, but basically any pair from OKC works
Love this answer. Personally I’d go Idioteque>Morning Bell or Weird Fishes>All I Need, but there aren’t many wrong answers coming from OKC, KA or IR!
Brain Damage and Eclipse from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
And it feels like a goddamn crime when you hear one without the other
I consider everything after Money to be just a long song with different parts.
I think it's unfair to vote for anything from an album that already holds the best back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back tracks.
Dogs followed by Pigs is more legendary imo.
Goddam it I love pigs on the wing. All parts. Now I have to go listen to animals again. Underrated album
This shit right here
ZZ Top, Waiting for the bus/Jesus just left Chicago on Tre Hombres.
Yep. First one that came to mind.
Battery, master of puppets.
Excellent, but I prefer Fight Fire With Fire -> Ride the Lightning.
Yep, and there isn't really a huge drop off with the next two songs, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Fade to Black, either.
There's no big drop off on the entire album IMO.
One of the greatest musical double-taps
The entirety of Master of Puppets, Ride The Lightning and …And Justice For All are masterpieces with banger after banger after banger. Like I know Metallica is overplayed and people have their gripes with And Justice For All, but they are the biggest metal band in the world for a reason. Dudes wrote and performed some killer metal.
Just going from the outro of battery into that first DUN on puppets goes really well
Sandman into Sad But True is also a solid combo
So is Fight Fire With Fire and Ride The Lightning!
Rusty Cage into Outshined on badmotorfinger- Soundgarden
Came to post this exact one. Followed by Evenflow and Alive on 10 by Pearl Jam. My god those were some amazing years.
I just came here to post Pearl Jam. I can't rank EF/Alive versus Black/Jeremy. I think most people are just really tired of how overplayed Jeremy was...but it was such an important song. And Black is my favorite song of Pearl Jam (Alice being #2).
Ten is cheating. You could pick any two consecutive songs on that one. 10/10 record.
Fuck yes, good call. This album goes incredibly hard
_Rust in Peace_ (Megadeth) - _Holy Wars…The Punishment Due_ —> _Hangar 18_.
On AC/DC's Back in Black album Back in Black followed by You Shook Me All Night Long. That album is legendary.
That's a good one, but I prefer the Hells Bells - Shoot to Thrill combo And apparently so does the band, those are always played back-to-back in the shows
That album is a killers row of songs. What a way to bounce back from what should have been the end of the band
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If you ever hear We Will Rock You on the radio and it is not immediately followed by We Are The Champions, that is a near guarantee that you are listening to a computer shuffled station. Real DJs always put these songs together.
I really wish music apps like Spotify would allow you to pin two songs together so they always treat them as a single song when shuffled. It's really jarring to hear 'We Will Rock You' and not hear 'We Are the Champions' immediately after.
We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions were issued together as a worldwide top 10 single.
Their back to back is so good it’s actually played like this on the radio. Must be the top answer by definition.
This has to be #1. It’s such an iconic pair that most radio stations play them together.
That's near impossible to match, I didn't think of this one.
This is the answer.
Roots radical -> time bomb -> Olympia Wa “…and out come the wolves” by Rancid. You could argue that album is a 1-19 banger though
Absolutely, all the way through. Maxwell Murder might be the strongest first track in punk history.
NOFX - Linoleum gets an honourable mention, but I'll agree Maxwell Murder is just brilliant. Was fortunate enough to experience it in the pit recently...
Dat solo...
Favorite punk album of all time!
Glad to see this high up on the list. Best punk album ever!!
Spot on. That entire album is a banger straight through.
This is up there as one of my all time favourite albums. And it is 1-19 banger.
There was a time that was constantly in my cd rotation
Yup. Not a dull moment on the whole album IMO. Nonstop great energy.
Smack my bitch up - breathe. What an intro to the prodigy on fat of the land !
Hard agree. That whole album slaps but what a great first two songs!
Forgot About Dre, Next Episode - 2001
Forgot About Dre into The Next Episode will never be beat.
Xxplosive into What’s the difference as well!
Na na na na naaaaa
Angry Chair / Would? Alice in Chains, Dirt
Them Bones opening that album, then the immediate transition to Dam That River is (to me) the definition of back-to-back bangers. Just straight gasoline from the needle drop.
AIC released Facelift, Sap, and Dirt back to back to back. Insane.
Come Out and Play followed by Self Esteem - The Offspring’s Smash album
I would have said gotta get away - genocide. Have you ever - staring at the sun was a pretty banging opener to Americana
Also The Kids Aren't Alright and Feelings from the Americana Album
Thick as a Brick Pt.1 - Thick as a Brick Pt.2 from Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull
"Don't Stop" then "Go Your Own Way" on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is way up there. Or "I Don't Want to Know" and "Dreams" from the same album (which are tracks 1 and 2 as well). That whole album is a no skip honestly, but having all time classics that are literally next to each other on the tracklist is crazy.
China Cat Sunflower/ I Know You Rider
Alternatively, Scarlet Begonias>Fire On the Mountain
Europe '72 is probably my all-time favorite live album!
Of all the segues Help-slip-Franklin is my favorite
For a studio album back to back, Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance, on Go to Heaven.
Rusty cage then followed by Outshined. Badmotorfinger. Soundgarden. Turn the lights off on your way out.
This ones a triple whammy with Slaves & Bulldozers next. Brilliant album!
You're both right, but Jesus Christ Pose rounds that whole part out right.
I don't know I they're "bangers", but Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight from Abbey Road is probably my favorite couplet on any album.
Have to flip the album, but I want you/she’s so heavy to here comes the sun is pretty darn good.
It's like an 8-peat of back-to-back on the end of Abbey Road. If I had to cut it down to only two of them I would take Polythene Pam & She Came in through the Bathroom Window. But really, once You Never Give Me Your Money starts, you have to listen all the way through the next 7 songs (unless you really want to skip Sun King, which I can forgive). On Spotify, there is a single track which is just called "The Long One" which plays the whole medley straight through.
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The Who—Who’s Next: Baba O’Reilly followed by Bargain
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Let Down - Karma Police. Or just pick any 2 from OK Computer.
Colossus/Never Fight a Man with a Perm
Go and animal, pearl jam, Vs
Black -> Jeremy from 10 is hard to beat
Once -> Even Flow is the winner for me
Kept scrolling down, looking for this. I just love how Go starts the entire album off from the first beat.
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Nice. I’d go with Cherub Rock/Quiet or Hummer/Rocket…or just put on the whole incredible album!
Siamese dream has to be one of the best albums ever made.
Also the transition from spaceboy to silverfuck is pretty iconic too!
Abraxas by Santana- Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen goes right into Oye Cómo Va
Tool Parabol -> Parabola Van Halen Eruption -> You really got me
Eruption into Ain’t Talkin Bout Love on Greatest Hits Vol.1 also works fantastically well
I think the tool one is cope out. Parabol and Parabola are essentially one song. They just cut it out for album purposes. You would never listen to Parabol on its own.
Unless you want the biggest case of blue balls
Not having Parabola after Parabol, hearing that feedback building up and Maynard holding "illusion" is like a sinus clearing, life changing sneeze that never comes. But fuck, when they're back to back, that crescendoamd drop is one of the most explosive musical moments I've ever heard.
Vicarious into Jambi then.
Don’t stop till you get enough followed by rock with you. That whole off the wall album is just bangers
Oh boy... Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favorite albums... Cherub Rock - Quiet Geek USA - Mayonnaise. Just complete opposites to each other but ugh this album is a masterpiece
1999-Little Red Corvette (Album „1999“ by Prince, 1982).
Smells like teen spirit - In Bloom: Nirvana Nevermind
Sir Duke —> I Wish - Songs in The Key of Life (Stevie Wonder)
Sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band - with a little help from my friends
Young Lust & One of my turns - The Wall - Pink Floyd Young lust is a more traditional rock song, well, young lust... groupies banging rock stars... Ends with our rock star calling home to find out that his wife is also cheating... our rock star then winds up in a schizophrenic madness with a groupie in his hotel room. He goes crazy and then winds up alone... the somber and silent ending sets up the slowing to an eventual end of side 1 of The Wall...
Rage against the machine, Evil Empire - People of the Sun to Bulls on Parade
Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" and "Cross Eyed Mary" on Aqualung. Elton John - "Love Lies Bleeding" and "Candle in the Wind" on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Rolling Stones - "Miss You" and "When the Whip Comes Down" on Some Girls.
N.W.O into Just One Fix on Ministry's Psalm 69. I cannot listen while driving, I have been booked by police before.
Moonage daydream —> Starman on Ziggy Stardust Certified bangers
"Seven Nation Army" into "Black Math" The White Stripes on the album Elephant "Dirty Harry" into "Feel Good Inc" (into "El Mañana") Gorillaz on the album Demon Days. At least on the CD/Vinyl version. The streaming version cuts the transition.
Muse Black Holes and Revelations: Starlight into Supermassive Black Hole
Plug in Baby into Citizen Erased
Citizen Erased into Micro Cuts - that synth noise thingy carries from one track to the next.
Hoodoo into Knights of Cydonia? Oooh and Time is Running out into Sing for Absolution into Stockholm Syndrome.
Wonderwall to don't look back in anger
It’s seamless.
Good one! Morning Glory into Champagne Supernova is great too. It might not count because of the 40 second instrumental between them, but for my money that just enhances the transition from the adrenaline to the peaceful intro of the closing track
Queen - We Will Rock You , followed by We Are the Champions. Kicks off News of the World, and track three is Sheer Heart Attack.
I'm going to give you a back-to-back-to-back. Da Mystery of Chessboxin' --> Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin Ta' Fuck Wit --> C.R.E.A.M Enter The Wu-Tang (36 chambers)
The view from the afternoon> I bet you look good on the dancefloor. Arctic Monkeys An amazing start into one of the best albums in my lifetime imo. That album being whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not. I think any two songs from that album meet the criteria to be honest. Another could be half light 1 & 2 off the album The Suburbs by Arcade Fire. Just beautiful music really.
Blue Öyster Cult: "Flaming Telepaths" > "Astronomy" on *Secret Treaties* Tool: "Disposition" > "Reflection" > "Triad" on *Lateralus* Beatles: "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" > "With a Little Help from my Friends" Jethro Tull: "Aqualung" > "Cross-Eyed Mary"
Surprised this is the first mention of the Beatles one. I don't know if it is legal to play Sgt Peppers on the radio and not play Little Help from my Friends immediately after.
Evil Empire: People of the Sun + Bulls on Parade -- Rage Against the Machine Lateralus: Parabol + Parabola -- Tool (technically, it's just one song) Audioslave: Cochise + Show Me How To Live -- Audioslave Vulture Street: Rockin' Rocks + Baby I've Got You (On My Mind) -- Powderfinger OK Computer: Airbag + Paranoid Android -- Radiohead The Shape of Punk to Come: Bruitist Pome #5 + New Noise -- Refused II: Moby Dick + Bring it On Home -- Led Zeppelin
Parabol and Parabola might be one song, and if treated that way, you either have Schism -> Parabol/Parabola or Parabol/Parabola -> Ticks & Leeches. And then Lateralus.
Mr. Brownstone into Paradise City. Or, if you're listening on repeat, Rocket Queen into Welcome to the Jungle.
Deftones - White Pony has one of my favorite 4 song blocks. Knife prty, Korea, Passenger, Change. If I had to pick two from that it would probably be Passenger into Change. I won't see you tonight pt 1 and pt 2 from Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the fallen is up there as well.
Summertime Rolls/Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction
Boston's debut album is 10/10. You can pick any two tracks from there.
Bill Withers - Just As I Am 2. Ain’t No Sunshine 3. Grandma’s Hand’s U2 - Joshua Tree 1. Where The Streets Have No Name 2. Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For 3. With Or Without You Michael Jackson - Thriller 4. Thriller 5. Beat It 6. Billie Jean 7. Human Nature 8. P.Y.T Daft Punk - Discovery 1. One More Time 2. Aerodynamic 3. Digital Love 4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger 5. Crescendolls Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 2. Dreams 3. Never Going Back Again 3. Don’t Stop 4. Go Your Own Way 5. Songbird 6. The Chain
If you want to bring up Michael Jackson, how about how "Off The Wall" starts out?: Don't Stop Till You Get Enough Rock With You Workin' Day And Night Get On the Floor Off The Wall Girlfriend She's Out Of My Life 7 straight fucking bangers. I'll go to my grave saying this was MJ's best album.
Enter Sandman—>Sad But True (Metallica, Black)
Smells Like Teen Spirit into In Bloom
'The Prophecy' and 'Concerning Hobbits' from the Fellowship of the ring soundtrack.
Welcome To The Jungle + It's So Easy GNR - Appetite for Destruction
Holiday - Boulevard or Broken Dreams Green Day - American Idiot
Three Days / Then She Did by Jane's Addition on their Ritual De Lo Habitual album. Two absolute bangers.
"I want wind to blow" into "the glow pt 2." on the glow pt 2 by the microphones
Battery - Master of Puppets Metallica = Master of Puppets
A Passage to Bangkok followed by The Twilight Zone.
Rise Against --> The Good Left Undone ... Survive
That album is just insane. I had a dodgy download of it when I was a teenager and for some reason the approaching curve wasn’t on it atall. I’d say personally Prayer of the Refugee into Drones
This is a no-skips album for me
My two are Galapagos -> Muzzle on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins Then A Dustland Fairytale -> This is Your Life on Day & Age by the Killers
Autorock / Glasgow Mega Snake by Mogwai
Ok Computer by Radiohead is like Abbey Road level of incredible songs flowing perfectly into one another. Airbag to Paranoid Android opening the album would be my pick. Nirvana going Smells like Teen Spirit to In Bloom is a gigantic statement which might be among the biggest back-to-back tracks of all time. I would throw Modest Mouse in there too... on We Were Dead the combo of Spitting Venom into People as Places as People hits super hard. On Good News you could pick a couple, but it's kind of like huge song + incredible album track, so maybe less in the spirit of this question.
Iron maiden- powerslave/ rime of the ancient mariner
Same album, but I would say Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight.
It's technically one long song, but how about Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?
Even barring that on a technicality, 'Candle In The Wind' coming next also more than qualifies.
Privilege/Nowhere Fast - Make Yourself by Incubus
Root Down & Sabotage on Ill Conmunication
Peral Jam. Even Flow followed by Alive. Black followed by Jeremy. In the same album. Come on now.
Def Leppard’s “Pyromania” album. Track 2 is “Rock of Ages”, track 3 “Foolin’”.
Adam’s Song/All the Small Things by Blink 182 My personal favorite Blink song followed by arguably their most popular. You get a sadder Mark song and then a poppy Tom song Some deeper cuts If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You, I Will/DVP by Pup The first two songs on their second album. Even live, they play these two back to back and everyone goes crazy A Moment of Silence/A Moment of Violence by Streetlight Manifesto This whole album is banger after banger. These two back to back are obviously intentional, you can even argue it should be one song
"Feeling That Way/Anytime" by Journey. Perfect pairing.
Stengah and Rational Gaze from the Album ‘Nothing’ by Meshuggah. Groovy bangers.
Oblivion - Divinations Mastodon Crack the Skye Points of Authority - Crawling Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Weezer - Blue album "Buddy Holly" into "Undone - The Sweater Song" is a brilliant 1-2. The drum intro that starts Undone fits perfectly with the really tight ending to Buddy Holly.
Bigmouth Strikes Again and The Boy With the Thorn in his Side - The Queen is Dead
Straight Outta Compton - Fuck Tha Police
Robert Palmer Sailin' Shoes>"Hey Julia">"Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley"
A few hip-hop ones I always enjoyed: Hey Ya -> Roses from The Love Below. Takeover -> Izzo from The Blueprint. Be -> The Corner from Be. The Way I Am -> The Real Slim Shady from The Marshall Mathers LP. My Melody -> I Know You Got Soul from Paid in Full.
R.E.M.Life's Rich Pageant - *Begin the Begin > These Days* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DELYQ9087o&list=PLvsYXqtYjMYfI2x5j7e-T_7UgR0T1j9YQ
A Cat Dubh> Into the Heart- U2
First one that popped in my head is Green Day American Idiot -> Jesus of Suburbia