Songs that go together
 

While driving to work this morning I heard "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen, and I automatically thought of "Bicycle Race" as a partner, cause that was the way they used to play them, "Bicycle Race" followed by "Fat Bottomed Girls". That got me thinking of other songs that when you hear one, you wait for them to play the partner song, like "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" by Pink Floyd. Can you think of any others?

Another Queen one, "we will rock you" followed by "we are the champions". At least my radio station always plays those back to back

Does anyone remember hearing the song "Hey Julia", followed by "Sneakin' Through the Alley with Sally"? Wasn't that Robert Palmer?

ZZ Top: "Waitin' for the Bus">"Jesus Just Left Chicago"
Zeppelin: "Heartbreaker">"Livin' Lovin' Maid"

Definitely Robert Palmer, although I'm not sure if I ever heard them played together on the radio or not. I think they follow each other on that album though.

Wilco "How to Fight Loneliness" and Rilo Kiley "Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight"

Cat Power "Free" and Ted Leo "The High Party"

Shakkazombie "Siroi Yami No Naka" and Belle & Sebastian "Step Into My Office, Baby"

But as for intended partners...

The medley part of Abbey Road

Wilco "Ashes of American Flags" to "Heavy Metal Drummer"

Broken Social Scene "Looks Just Like the Sun" to "Pacific Theme"

Off the top of my head.

Billy Joel: Stranger and Honesty

I forgot about "We will rock you" "We are the Champions". It is so natural to hear those two together that it doesn't sound right just to play one.

Green Day: Brain Stew / Jaded. I don't think most people even realize that they are two separate songs, since the guitar chord hangs over from the first to the second song.

i was trying to think of the song after brainstew
thanks redlemon, i also wasnt sure if every radio station does that or not, had a conversation with my friend about it a few months back and we just figured the djs didnt realize they were playing two songs or something

Simon and Garfunkel: Bookends and Old Friends

Van Halen - Eruption (massively awesome instrumental) ALWAYS bust right into You Really Got Me

they go perfect together

jane's addiction- three days followed by then she did. 18 minutes of some of the greatest epic orchestral rock you'll ever hear.

Jethro Tull - One White Duck/0¹⁰=Nothing at All. It's just one track on the album, but it's clearly two different songs.

Greatful Dead - Help on the Way>Slipnot>Franklin's Tower. I actually had to think about the title, because my former deadhead buddies always just called it Help Slip Franklins.

Phish - Mike's Song>I am Hydrogen>Weekapaug Groove

Blue Öyster Cult - Harvester of Eyes>Flaming Telepaths>Astronomy. The last three songs on the Secret Treaties album just flow into one another.

Pink Floyd - The Wall, Disc 2. Hey You>Is there Anybody Out There>Nobody Home. Then Vera>Bring the Boys Back Home. Then Comfortably Numb pretty much stands by itelf, linking the first half of the disc to the second. Then the Show Must Go On>In The Flesh. Then Run Like Hell. Then Waiting for the Worms>Stop>The Trial>Outside the Wall.

Cake - Comfort Eagle. I think this entire Album flows one song to another.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Another one like Dark Side of the Moon or Comfort Eagle where the entire Album flows together, but in particular, Cheap Day Return>Mother Goose>Wond'ring Aloud>Up To Me on side 1, and My God>Hymn 43>Slip Stream on side 2.

Now, some songs that just seem to work together:
John Cougar Melonhead - Human Wheels > Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years
Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule > ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Bush - Machinehead > Sponge - Wax Ecstatic

Boston, Foreplay and Long Time
Santana, Black Magic Woman and that instrumental bit at the end (actually a separate track)
Pink Floyd, The Happiest Days of our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

I actually get this alot with songs that went back to back on mix tapes I made as a kid. Because I listened to those tapes endlessly, now every time one of those song ends you hear the start of the next song in your head. And for the life of me, I can't think of a single one off the top of my head right now.

-Mikey

nickelback - how you remind me
nickelback - someday

http://www.thewebshite.co.uk/nickelback.htm

Soft Cell: Tainted Love and Where Did Our Love Go...that's the only one (er...two) I can think of...

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Traveling Man - Beautiful Loser. From "Live Bullet"

Around here when radio stations have their "two for Tuesday or double-shot Thursday or some other promo where the play two songs from the same artist. Most of them consider that grouping as one song.

Props to the people with Bookends > Old Friends and Help > Slip > Frank.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick... Pt. 1 > Happiest Days... > Another Brick... Pt. 2 > Mother
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage > Eclipse
Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain
Beatles - Back in the USSR > Dear Prudence
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band > With a Little Help from My Friends

I've also got a lot of weird ones because when I was in 8th grade, I recorded a bunch of songs off the radio on a couple blank tapes. So now, every time I hear the end of Jane's Addiction's "Been Caught Stealing," I expect Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" to start. The darndest thing: I can't remember what most of them are, but every time I hear one end, I immediately start singing the beginning of another song, and everyone around me thinks it's completely bizarre.

All the songs on Opeth's opus "Still Life" are tied together. But two songs on the album that need to be played together are "Face of Melinda" followed by "Serenity Painted Death".

Everyone who is a fan of progressive death metal should own this album, no question.

--jaded

I think all of the Beatles Abbey Road flows together, especially starting at track 9.
I think it goes like,

You Never Give Me Your Money > Sun King > Mean Mr. Mustard > Polythene Pam > She Came in Through the Bathroom Window > Golden Slumbers > Carry That Weight > End

even though there is a break between the tunes, i think Horizons and Supper's Ready from the Genesis album Foxtrot fit really nicely together.

also, the first 3 tracks of Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True... the cuts are Parade, The City of the Sun and Suit Fugue (Dance of the A&R Men).

also, the first couple of tracks from Marillion's Brave album.

and Paranoid Android followed by Subterranean Homesick Alien from Radiohead's OK Computer.

i need to check me out some Opeth. i know too many folks who are into them...