# Songs by one artist that are always played together, rock and otherwise **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832 "2005-10-25T16:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/21 "2005-10-25T19:52:39Z")
Which would probably be the one **fishbicycle** mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/22 "2005-10-25T20:08:34Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > \*They also asked, “Daddy, what’s this song about?” If anyone has a good idea, please let me know. Wikipedia lists this quote from Queen lead guitarist and writer of WWRY, Brian May: > [@](#): > > ``` > "That was a response to a particular phase in our career when the audience was becoming a bigger part of the show than we were. They would sing all the songs. In a place like Birmingham, they'd be so vociferous that we'd have to stop the show and let them sing to us. So both Freddie and I thought it would be an interesting experiment to write songs with audience participation specifically in mind. My feeling was that everyone can stamp and clap and sing a simple motif. We did that record at Wessex, which is an old converted church that has a naturally good sound to it. There are no drums on there. It's just us, stamping on boards many times with many primitive delay machines and clapping. A bit of singing, a bit of guitar playing and that's it." > "At concerts, I discovered, people tend to do three claps rather than two stamps and a clap. The amazing thing is to go to football matches, or sports events in general, and hear people do it. It's very gratifying to find that it has become part of folklore, sort of. I'll die happy because of that." > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/23 "2005-10-25T20:27:40Z")
Soft Cell “Tainted Love” \> “Where Did Our Love Go?” Since part 2 is a cover song, I have to assume they are meant as two different tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/24 "2005-10-25T21:20:28Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > Soft Cell “Tainted Love” \> “Where Did Our Love Go?” > > Since part 2 is a cover song, I have to assume they are meant as two different tracks. I have the 12" remix and one blends (more so than segues) into the other. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/25 "2005-10-25T21:27:20Z")
> [@sponge(worthy)bob](#): > > “Eruption” by Van Halen is technically a seperate song (guitar solo) but is usually played right before “You Really Got Me” and sounds more like an introduction than a seperate piece. > > I think. I agree 100%. Which is why I was totally baffeled when they didn’t even include “You Really Got Me” on the Best of Vol.1 album. What was even more baffeling is when they had both songs on disc 1 of the Best of Both Worlds album but instead of playing them together put them on as tracks #1 and #7. I burned myself a copy and put them back in the correct order. ---
**Author:** ![CatsCradle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CatsCradle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatsCradle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/26 "2005-10-25T23:51:21Z")
Does Chicago’s _Hard to Say I’m Sorry/Get Away_ count? Radio always seemed to cut it off at the end of _Hard to Say I’m Sorry_ (at least when they played it in the Philippines when I was a wee lad); I only really heard _Get Away_ on the album. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/27 "2005-10-25T23:59:15Z")
Genesis Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea. I think some top 40 stations played only Home by the Sea, however. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/28 "2005-10-26T01:04:19Z")
> [@sponge(worthy)bob](#): > > “Eruption” by Van Halen is technically a seperate song (guitar solo) but is usually played right before “You Really Got Me” and sounds more like an introduction than a seperate piece. > > I think. It’s also not uncommon to hear _Intruder/Pretty Woman_. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/29 "2005-10-26T01:24:27Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > Playin’ in the Band\>Uncle John’s Band was a pretty common one, too. Same with Estimated Prophet\>Eyes of the World. How about Slipknot \> Help on the Way \> Franklin’s Tower or Cryptical Envelopment \> The Other One ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/30 "2005-10-26T01:28:13Z")
**Foreplay/Long Time** by Boston, although Foreplay, musically, is pretty much just that. **Long Distance Runaround/The Fish** by Yes **Talking Drum/Lark’s Tongue In Aspic Part 2** by King Crimson If the category is just Segues, then 25% of my music collection… Almost all of the **Frank Zappa** stuff, for starters, which is about 60 full albums, plus many of the extended suites of various prog rock artists (Supper’s Ready, Tarkus, Close to the Edge, etc…) ---
**Author:** ![Grandiloquent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2acd7d/32.png) [@Grandiloquent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grandiloquent)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/31 "2005-10-26T01:53:07Z")
Don’t forget Green Day’s “Brain Stew”/“Jaded” ---
**Author:** ![kazvorpal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kazvorpal/32/7794_2.png) [@kazvorpal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kazvorpal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/32 "2019-07-05T20:56:01Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Sorry to hijack the thread for a moment but did Jefferson Airplane also do “Wooden Ships”? The only version I know about is the one by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. > > As for songs that blend into one another, pretty much most of the tracks on The Who’s “Quadrophenia” album do this. I’m such an enthusiastic music historian that I am replying to this post two decades later, to clarify: Crosby and Stills wrote this _with_ Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner, while hanging out on David Crosby’s actual wooden ship, which was called The Mayan. I’ll go ahead and quote the rest of the song bio on [Genius.com](http://Genius.com), which I happened to have written: They were looking back at the shore from their peaceful refuge, imagining if the Warfare State had finally brought about nuclear holocaust, and they could see men in radiation suits assessing survivors to determine who is fit to live. Both bands recorded a version of it, the CS&N version being a pop hit. > **[Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships](https://genius.com/Crosby-stills-and-nash-wooden-ships-lyrics)** > > \[Part 1\] / \[Verse 1\] / If you smile at me, I will understand / 'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does / In the same language / \[Verse 2\] / I can see by your coat, my ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/33 "2019-07-05T21:16:57Z")
And I’m such an enthusiastic music pedant that I am replying to this post two decades later, to clarify. > [@plnnr](#): > > Playin’ in the Band\>Uncle John’s Band was a pretty common one, too… A tricky one, because the originals are by two different bands… _Playin’ in the Band_ was a Bob Weir song, off one of my favorite albums, _ACE._ The Dead incorporated a couple of Weir’s solo tunes off that album into their show. Notably _Mexicali Blues,_ _One More Saturday Night_ and \*Cassidy \*(my vote for “most intriguing song”… (why does a catch colt draw a coffin cart?) ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/34 "2019-07-05T23:38:53Z")
Devo had two of these I can think of: Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA Timing X/Clockout ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/35 "2019-07-06T01:37:41Z")
Does the Guess Who’s “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” count as one or two songs? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/36 "2019-07-06T03:51:08Z")
[TV Tropes calls these Siamese Twin Songs and they have lots of examples.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SiameseTwinSongs) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/37 "2019-07-06T13:53:37Z")
I can’t hear _Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)_ unless it has directly followed _Another Nail in My Heart_. ---
**Author:** ![kazvorpal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kazvorpal/32/7794_2.png) [@kazvorpal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kazvorpal)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/38 "2019-07-06T20:56:11Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Does the Guess Who’s “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” count as one or two songs? No Sugar Tonight was released without New Mother Nature, as a single. So it certainly can be seen as a shibboleth to determine whether the entity playing the song “gets it”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/39 "2019-07-06T21:14:39Z")
[Sirius/Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQalkIeE7s) I had to look it up to make sure, as I’ve always (I think) heard it played together, but the single version of Eye in the Sky does edit out the Sirius part, and they are two tracks on the album. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832/40 "2019-07-07T00:11:16Z")
> [@digs](#): > > \*Cassidy \*(my vote for “most intriguing song”… (why does a catch colt draw a coffin cart?) I’ve always viewed it as part of the general imagery of the song – the juxtaposition of death against new young life: Cassady dying and Cassidy being born. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-one-artist-that-are-always-played-together-rock-and-otherwise/327832.md?page=3)