# Songs Commonly Played back-to-back

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 24, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610 "2013-04-24T17:51:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/41 "2013-04-27T01:54:12Z")

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> [@DonLogan](#):
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> The Star-Spangled Banner / O Canada
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> O Canada / The Star-Spangled Banner

Well done, sir. Well done.

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**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/42 "2013-04-27T02:54:39Z")

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> [@Shakes](#):
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> Your move/ I’ve seen all good people. Yes

Technically, it’s one song ([I’ve Seen All Good People](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Seen_All_Good_People)), with two parts: Your Move, and All Good People. It’s listed as such (one track, two sections) on the original album (The Yes Album), though the first section was released as a single

Starship Trooper, on the same album, consists of three sections: Life Seeker, Disillusion, and Wurm.

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**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/43 "2013-04-27T03:02:21Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> I was going to post this but got totally distracted when I found out that is _not_ Peter Cetera singing with Steve Perry. I was so sure! :eek:

As you’ve likely discovered, it was Gregg Rolie, who was the primary singer for the band until they hired Steve Perry (Feeling That Way/Anytime was from “Infinity”, Perry’s first album with the band).

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**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/44 "2013-04-28T08:11:23Z")

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Scarlet Begonias/Fire on the Mountain  
Love-light/Not Fade Away  
Jack Straw/ Berth  
Aiko Aiko/ Women are Smarter

All by the Grateful Dead

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/45 "2013-05-02T15:05:50Z")

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The Guess Who - _No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature_

Heard it in the car yesterday, and if effed me up when they stopped it at the end of NST.

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/46 "2013-05-02T16:05:33Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman) - Led Zeppelin

This is the one I came in to mention. I’ve been hearing the same cart (I know, it’s digital now) so long I have the timing between the last note of Heartbreaker to the first note of Living Loving Maid down. It’s always confused me why they play these two together, though. They aren’t in that order on the album, which is usually the case with these 2-fers (such as Eruption/You Really Got Me).

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/47 "2013-05-02T16:30:14Z")

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> [@scabpicker](#):
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> This is the one I came in to mention. I’ve been hearing the same cart (I know, it’s digital now) so long I have the timing between the last note of Heartbreaker to the first note of Living Loving Maid down. It’s always confused me why they play these two together, though. They aren’t in that order on the album, which is usually the case with these 2-fers (such as Eruption/You Really Got Me).

What is the order of songs on the album that you have? I’ve never seen a version of LZ II where Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid weren’t back to back.

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/48 "2013-05-02T17:24:53Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> The Guess Who - _No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature_
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> Heard it in the car yesterday, and if effed me up when they stopped it at the end of NST.

Considering they sing the lyrics to both at the same time, that’s probably pushing the definition of “back to back”.

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/49 "2013-05-02T17:30:34Z")

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I like pushing limits. I’m kind of daring like that.

And you may be right.  
Edit: Had to look, from Wikipedia:

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> “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” is a song by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. It was released on their 1970 album American Woman, and was released on the B-side of the “American Woman” single without the “New Mother Nature” section.

That must be the version I heard yesterday. I was expecting the NMT segue, and it didn’t happen.

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/50 "2013-05-02T22:27:14Z")

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> [@edwards\_beard](#):
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> What is the order of songs on the album that you have? I’ve never seen a version of LZ II where Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid weren’t back to back.

Apparently only the cassette is that way, which is what I grew up with:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led\_Zeppelin\_II#Track\_listing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_II#Track_listing)

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> Cassette tape releases of the album had “Heartbreaker” ending the first side and “Thank You” starting the second side. “Moby Dick” played as the second track on cassettes with “What Is And What Should Never Be” moved to side two.

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**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/51 "2013-05-03T04:01:13Z")

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_Ohio/Find the Cost of Freedom_—CSN&Y

_I’ll Fly Away/Will the Circle Be Unbroken_—Willy Nelson

(all his other songs/Whiskey River Take My Mind)—Willy Nelson

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**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/52 "2013-05-03T04:20:46Z")

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Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen Santana

Sailing Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin Sally through the Alley Robert Palmer

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**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/53 "2013-05-03T20:56:30Z")

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These are basically songs with extra-long intro or ending instrumentals…  
Armageddon (Instrumental) & Monkey on your Back --Aldo Nova

Bringin’ on the Heartbreak & Switch 624 (Instrumental) --Def Leppard  
The Launch (Instrumental) & Cool the Engines --Boston

Silver Wheels (instrumental) & Crazy on You --Heart

But then there’s a few that just seem popular from concert renditions…  
Hello There & Come on, Come on – Cheap Trick (in the Budokan concert arrangement)  
Goodnight & Clock Strikes Ten (encore) --Cheap Trick (in the Budokan concert arrangement)

Carry On & Questions --Crosby, Stills, Nash

Fat Bottomed Girls & Bicycle race --Queen (back-to-back on a Greatest Hits album)

See Me, Feel Me & Pinball Wizard --The Who

Welcome to the Machine & Have a Cigar --Pink Floyd [Though I think the whole Wish You Were Here album should be played in one solid sweep, as should the entire Dark Side of the Moon album.]

–G!  
…stay tuned…

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**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-commonly-played-back-to-back/656610/54 "2013-05-03T22:40:42Z")

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Moving in Stereo/All Mixed Up by The Cars.

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