QOTD: Best 3 Song Stretches • Page 3

would also nominate

cotton -> against pollution -> pigs that ran straightaway into the water, triumph of
the mess inside -> jeff davis county blues -> distant stations

 

The Mess Inside makes a strong case for being my favorite/most heartbreaking Mountain Goats song, but I'm not sure I could ever just pick one.

And now I'm going to spend my whole workday listening to the Mountain Goats. Not a bad thing.

 

it's my second fav album ever (favorite on a good day) but i sometimes get a little bit annoyed that hast thou considered the tetrapod is followed by magpie. like the album reaches this climax of intense and unbridled vulnerability but instead of resolving it by retreating/withdrawing (song for dennis brown) it lingers a bit too long imo. magpie doesn't serve much of a purpose within the context of the story and hast thou into song for the dennis brown would make the album a perfect 10 for me

 

Another one I love:

"Reinventing Axl Rose," "Baby, I'm An Anarchist," "Walking Is Still Honest."

 

I totally agree, Magpie is a fine little song in its own right, but doesn't add anything where it is in the track listing, especially after what a raw and emotionally vulnerable gut punch Tetrapod is. It's like on Tallahassee when Oceanographer's Choice goes into Alpha Rat's Nest, and it gives listeners a chance to breathe and internalize what they just heard, and Magpie doesn't really give you the chance to do that. Tetrapod into Dennis Brown would be unreal, and would work damn well sans Magpie.

 

Degausser --> Limo --> You Wont Know (The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New)

If I Believe You --> Please Be Naked --> Lostmyhead (I like it When You Sleep... - The 1975)

Fake Empire --> Mistaken For Strangers --> Brainy (Boxer - The National)

Aint It Fun --> Part II --> Last Hope (Paramore - Paramore)

Dream House --> Irresistible --> Sunbather (Sunbather - Deafheaven)

 

oops forgot one of the best ones:

Bruised --> Im Ready --> La La Lie (Everything in Transit - Jacks Mannequin)

 

^^^ Good fucking call

 

Say You Will - Welcome to Heartbreak - Heartless off 808s

Three Evils - The Crowing - Blood Red Summer - off In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth : 3

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Hangar 18 - Take No Prisoners - off Rust in Peace

How Much a Dollar Cost - Complexion - The Blacker The Berry - off To Pimp a Butterfly

 

I'd probly take the last three songs on Everything In Transit, but it's hard to be wrong with that record.

 

An Introduction To The Album --> The Scope Of All Of This Rebuilding --> In Framing

Honestly, my favorite 3 song stretch on Home if i had to pick. This is another really hard one because track after track is perfect.

 

All My Best Friends Are Metalheads > Five State Drive > Nervous In The Alley from Hello Rockview by Less Than Jake
Re-Do > Tears Over Beers > The Weekend from Sports by Modern Baseball
Attractive Today > Everything Is Alright > When You're Around from Commit This To Memory by Motion City Soundtrack
American Hearts > Long Nights > Fear And Loathing On Cape Cod from We are the only friends that we have by Piebald

 

Man, Millstone through You Won't Know would be such an incredible run if I liked Limousine more.

 

I'd say In Framing -> Your Deep Rest -> Among the Wildflowers.

 

From Everything in Transit, it'd probably be The Mixed Tape -> Bruised -> I'm Ready.

 

A few more

Clean Sheets Aren't Just for Keepers -> Surely Not? Afraid So -> I Can Hear Your Lungs Rattling (Modern Art & Politics - Arrows)
The Future Is Cancelled Pt. 1 -> Montreal -> More Tequila, Less Joe (The Future is Cancelled - Captain, We're Sinking)
The Blacker the Berry -> You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said) -> i (To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar)
A Live Nativity Scene -> Built to Last -> Say Matte (Breakthroughs in Modern Art - Six Gallery
Rage Against the Dying Light-> Ra Patera Dance -> Mental Health (Harmlessness - The World Is...)

 

Rays on Pinion > The Birthing > Isak (Baroness- The Red Album)

That's the only one that immediately popped in my head.

 

Tiny Little Boy / When'd You Find Me / Turnpike

Out of Step / Falling Asleep / Em

New Nathan Detroits / Killing a Camera / Never Will Come for Us

Ignorant Piece of Shit / Piano Song / They'll Only Miss You If You Leave

M / I'll Take You Everywhere / Tuesday

Old Jaw / Repine / Late Lives

The Background / Motorcycle Drive By / God of Wine

 

@Zac Djamoos Good call with braid

 

The latter two are my least favorite gj songs, but they transition sooo smoothly.

 

I need a best 5 song stretch so I can rave about the first five songs on SYG's Mutiny!

 

From Major/Minor:

"Treading Paper" -> "Blur" -> "Words in the Water"

 

Cooking Up Something Good - Dreamin' - Freaking Out the Neighborhood
(Mac Demarco - 2)

Anytime - Lay Low - Knot Comes Loose
(My Morning Jacket - Z)

Just One Thing - Steam Engine - One in the Same
(My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves)

I Still Remember - Sunday - SRXT
(Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City)

10 Mile Stereo - Real Love - Take Care
(Beach House - Teen Dream)

Easy - Green Aisles - It's Real
(Real Estate - Days)

In the Garage - Holiday - Only in Dreams
(Weezer - Blue Album)

 

"King Park" -> "Edward Benz, 27 Times" -> "I See Everything"
-La Dispute, "Wildlife"

"Lover I Don't Have to Love" -> "Bowl of Oranges" -> "Don't Know When But a Day is Gonna Come"
-Bright Eyes, "LIFTED"

"Skeleton" -> "Swear to God the Devil Made Me Do It" -> "Twin Size Mattress"
-The Front Bottoms, "Talon of the Hawk"

"The Word Lisa" -> "Rage Against the Dying of the Light" -> "Ra Pareta Dance"
-The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, "Harmlessness"

This differs from what others have been saying but:
"Jesus" -> "Degausser" -> "Limousine"
-Brand New, "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me"

 

I almost put this, because this is a strong combination, but I personally have to put "Mental Health" with the two tracks that follow. Plus I feel like "The Word Lisa" is a good sort of intro to the spectacle of "Rage Against" and "Ra Pareta". But this is definitely a good stretch by itself.