Hazel Motes

between cd's and lp's. I've got a good 1800 records in my collection, and to this day, at the age of 29 I'd say there are no better 2 songs that play back to back on a record than For Whom The Bell Tolls/Fade To Black on Metallica's Ride The Lightning.

Just 2 PERFECT songs and very DIFFERENT songs back to back.

beavis69

Ha, the first thing i thought of when i saw the thread title was Blackened/Master of Puppets. I start my runs everytime with this cd and when he yells "Fix me" during Puppets i feel like i could run forever.

auto

We've done this before and my answer is still:

REM:

Begin the Begin
These Days

wishbone

beavis69

Well thats embarrasing, i mixed up my opening "B" songs off Metallica albums. You are correct, i meant Battery.

Ky-Fi

I'll go with:

So Lonely
Roxanne

off The Police's Outlandos D'Amour.

Phodg

D.N.R./Down For Life - Testament (from The Gathering)

After the relentless speed of D.N.R., the mid-pace riff in Down For Life just sounds massive.

Apple Gooncha

The Talking Drum/Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II

from King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic album.

cungar

Exactly what I was going to put.

Those two songs should get married they're so compatible.

inri222

Joy Division :

Disorder
Day of the Lords

Atrocity Exhibition
Isolation

Slayer :

Post Mortem
Raining Blood

The Clash :

Clampdown
Guns of Brixton

Cro-Mags :

We Gotta Know
World Peace

TGM

Pearl Jam - Ten

Even Flow
Alive

Decker

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Thunder Road
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out

Obey The D

Pantera - VDOP

Walk
Fucking Hostile

Mike86

Can't believe I'm the first to say this one.

The Beatles: Abbey Road- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

wishbone

Some previous discussions for album lead-offs,

Favorite two-song album lead-off... [Part Two]

Favorite two-song album lead-off...

Hokeyboy

THE BEATLES -- Magical Mystery Tour -- Strawberry Fields Forever & Penny Lane

You could do a zillion Beatles examples though. Hmm...

IRON MAIDEN -- Powerslave -- Powerslave & Rime of the Ancient Mariner

BLACK SABBATH -- Sabotage -- Symptom of the Universe & Megalomania

Turd Ferguson

I still have to go with "Baba O-Reilly" followed by "Bargain" on on The Who's "Who's Next".

Turd Ferguson

I also love "Middle of the Road" followed by "Back On The Chain Gang" leading off the Pretenders "Learning To Crawl".

superdeluxe

Siamese Dream Geek USA>Mayonaise.

Highfire

Though not anywhere near as popular as the ones mentioned so far, Whatever Gets You By into The Drawing Board by The Features gets to me every time. It's the perfect start to their album "Some Kind of Salvation."

Ky-Fi

That's a good call.

Hiro11

Husker Du off of New Day Rising:
"New Day Rising" into "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" - crushing opening anthem leads into even more crushing second song anthem.

Sex Pistols off of Never Mind the Bollocks
"Holidays in the Sun" into "Bodies" - almost too obvious to mention, but this may be the most blistering open to any album ever.

Can off of Soon over Babaluma:
"Chain Reaction" in "Quantum Physics" - propulsive, rhythmic epic slowly degenerates into echo-y, atmospheric ambient. Some of the best drumming I've heard in a rock record.

Chemical Brothers off of Dig Your Own Hole:
"Dig Your Own Hole" into "Elektrobank": I love the linking of these two great beats

Elvis Costello off of My Aim is True:
"Angels Wanna Wear my Red Shoes" into "Less Than Zero": the loose, poppy Red Shoes drops into the neurotic, poppy Less Than Zero. Two great but completely different singles.

Grateful Dead- "Scarlet/Fire" my personal favorite Dead live two-fer.

arminius

I was trying to choose which 2 on this side but I think it's just all 4.

The Stooges Fun House

Down on the street
Loose
TV eye
Dirt

bunkaroo

First one that came to mind was Fight Fire with Fire/Ride the Lightning.

Honorable mention to 6:00/Caught in a Web from Dream Theater.

cdollaz

Airbag
Paranoid Android