January 01, 2006

Curious George: Song pairs. The link below (We Will Rock You) got me wondering. Which songs are usually played in pairs? The only ones I can think of are We Will Rock You/Champions (Queen) and Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (Soft Cell). There's gotta be others. Google isn't helping on this one.
posted by rolypolyman 18 years ago
  • Foreplay / Longtime by Boston.
  • and which link?
  • oh... duh. THAT link.
  • This is a very obscure thing to wonder about.
  • Old Friends / Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel
  • Just a Gigolo/ I aint got nobody Michael Row the Boat ashore/ Kum-bi-ah Misty/Funny Valentine (If chick singers are around) Stars and Stripes/Washington Post Swan Lake/Sylvia Shoenberg Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke op 19/ Webern Variations Op 27 Blues in F/ Rhythm Changes in Bb (jam session)
  • Chyren are you just gonna shit on the post or are you gonna freakin' participate or what? Sorry Chy. Last year's resolution to better manage my anger has officially expired (whew, that's a load off!). This year's is to generate as much random unprovoked hostility as possible. Thanks for playing
  • Good Times/Superfreak/Le Freak. unfortunately, you have nowhere much to go after you pull this one
  • Whole Lotta Love/ Living Loving Maid
  • I'd say Tainted Love/Love Cats (The Cure)
  • and for you deadheads out there, help > slipknot > franklin's and scarlet > touch > fire (oh my, oh my GOD!!!!!)
  • Brain Damage/Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon. Actually, the whole damn album is usually played together.
  • While not going together like the other two, some radio stations will play Southern Man (Neil Young) and Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynard) back to back because the latter references the former.
  • Whole Lotta Love/ Living Loving Maid I was going to say Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid.
  • Is there anybody out there/nobody home from Pink Floyd the Wall. Yeah, so they probably don't even bother to play them at all, but if they did...
  • oops you're right
  • Load out/Stay (Jackson Browne)
  • My example is crap -- these are songs I often play together.
  • Argh said: Whole Lotta Love/ Living Loving Maid Holy smoke, I have to hand it to you, that's a good one, at least in my book.
  • How about 3 songs: Mean Mr. Mustard/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/Polythene Pam (from The Beatles' Abbey Road).
  • The Beastie Boys "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" is actually 9 songs: "59 Chrystie Street" "Get on the Mic" "Stop That Train" "Year and a Day" "Hello Brooklyn" "Dropping Names" "Lay It on Me" "Mike on the Mic" "A.W.O.L."
  • Tainted Love/Love Cats (The Cure) ? That's messed up. Lights/Feeling That Way (Journey) *Loves Koko More*
  • I don't know about the Queen songs, but the reason the Soft Cell songs are played together is that they're one song or, put more accurately, one track... it's an extended remix of "Tainted Love" (or possibly an original long version that "Tainted Love" itself was extracted from). I've never heard their version of "Where Did Our Love Go?" on its own; it does seem to exist (on "Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing"), but you never ever hear separate recordings of "Tainted Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go?" played in succession, only the single track that blends the two. However, on some Soft Cell cds it seems to be a separate track number (as if there's a track break in the middle of the song).
  • Dominion/Mother Russia - Sisters of Mercy Good Mourning/Black Friday - Megadeth Eruption/You Really Got Me by Vam Halen gets an honorable mention. I've heard You Really Got Me played without Eruption, but never Eruption without You Really Got Me.
  • Speaking of Beastie Boys, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner and Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun are also hard to separate.
  • I've Seen All Good People/Your Move by Yes. They are one track on the album, but Your Move was also released as a single, I think.
  • Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding in My Hands by Elton John. Layla/Bellbottom Blues by Clapton. This is what happens when your parents are hippies. You know stuff.
  • Sirius/Eye In The Sky by The Alan Parsons Project.
  • Waitin' For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago by ZZ Top.
  • No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature The Guess Who?
  • Pink Floyd: The happiest days of our lives/Another brick in the wall pt 2 (most people dont even realize "happiest" is a seperate song- its just that little talking part at the beginning: "when we grew up there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could...")
  • Brain Stew/Jaded by Green Day. And it was years before I realized that "We Will Rock You" and "We are the Champions" were actually two different songs played back to back.
  • Queen again - Fat bottomed girls/ bicycle races ( or was that I want to ride my bicycle?) anyway - nearly always together oh and yes another vote for the Loadout/Stay
  • I am the Sea/The Real Me - The Who (Quadrophenia) I'd have expected drjimmy11 to have submitted this one ;)
  • who could forget Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In? you lot of dummies, that's who.
  • Goddamn hippie!