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Favorite 4-track run from any album

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9:28a, 6/27/24
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I think we are done here.

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In reply to Mega Lops • 9:49a, 6/27/24
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That's not even the best 4 track run for Metallica.
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In reply to Know Your Enemy • 12:05p, 6/27/24
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Know Your Enemy said:
That's not even the best 4 track run for Metallica.
8-11 is up there.
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In reply to Know Your Enemy • 12:19p, 6/27/24
Know Your Enemy said:
Rocagnante said:
Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden

Rusty Cage
Outshined
Slaves & Bulldozers
Jesus Christ Pose

That's a damn good one. I'll have to ponder this for a bit
came here to post this sequence - a couple days late, I see.
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In reply to 62strat • 1:11p, 6/27/24
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62strat said:
Know Your Enemy said:
That's not even the best 4 track run for Metallica.
8-11 is up there.

Hard pass
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In reply to KidDoc • 1:26p, 6/27/24
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KidDoc said:
HollywoodBQ said:
Dio - Last in Line (Side One)
1 - We Rock
2 - Last in Line
3 - Breathless (not great but...)
4 - I Speed at Night

And for your six degrees of separation, circa 2006, I was taking Jimmy Bain to LAX one night and we were listening to Jim Ladd on 95.5 KLOS and he played "We Rock". We got to talking about the fact that Jimmy helped write the song. Or in his Scottish accent - he "hulped reet et"

Jimmy started talking about what a pain in the ass it was to record that song because they all lived in the Valley but Ronnie made them drive down The 405 to a studio in Culver City.
Good find there! I about wore that casette out in middle school.
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I was lucky enough to be able to take a Junior High field trip to Kenya when I was in 9th Grade. For two weeks in Kenya, I had the "Last in Line" tape in my Walkman. If I listen to "Last in Line" straight through, I get memories of game preserves, cheetah kills, lions, elephants, swimming with British girls (which wasn't possible in my neighborhood due to the separate men's and women's swimming pools), Masai tribesmen, and the big satellite dishes in the Great Rift Valley.

Living in Los Angeles 20 years later, through sheer happenstance, facilitated by my next door neighbor, I wound up becoming friends with Jimmy Bain and Vinny Appice. Over time, I met the rest of the guys in Dio and of course the most amazing experience was meeting Ronnie backstage in Irvine. I never even dreamed of meeting the band when I was riding around in a safari bus listening to songs like "Eat Your Heart Out" and "Egypt (The Chains are On)".



EDIT - forgot about the flamingos at Lake Nakuru. Imagine a 14 year old kid with Dio's "Last in Line" in his Walkman looking at more flamingos that I could have ever imagined.





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In reply to HollywoodBQ • 3:28p, 6/27/24
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meh..

Dio does nothing for me. Maybe I haven't heard enough (only know what I've heard on radio/Sirius)
It's all kinda cheesy to me.
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In reply to 62strat • 3:56p, 6/27/24
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Lol, Dio is cheesy but you nut over the black album?
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In reply to 62strat • 4:13p, 6/27/24
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62strat said:
meh..

Dio does nothing for me. Maybe I haven't heard enough (only know what I've heard on radio/Sirius)
It's all kinda cheesy to me.
You might not be old enough to have to have listened to cassettes all the way through.

If your only exposure is on Sirius XM and you've only heard "Rainbow in the Dark", and a few others, I'd definitely give the first 3 albums more of a listen. If you're watching on YouTube, the videos were all terrible.

Also, some of this is probably time period based. That initial scream on "Last in Line" was like nothing anybody had ever heard before back in 1984.

Ronnie kept performing at a very high level right up until cancer got him. A lot of singers can't hit the high notes anymore but Dio could.
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In reply to Know Your Enemy • 4:15p, 6/27/24
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Know Your Enemy said:
Lol, Dio is cheesy but you nut over the black album?
You think the black album is cheesy?

What planet are you living on?

I can't hear a dio song without imagining a person singing the lyrics while dressed up as a wizard extending his arms as if casting a spell.
Or something like that.
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In reply to 62strat • 6:59p, 6/27/24
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Cheesy? No. But it's fairly lame IMO. Maybe it's just been played to death but I listen to the black album slightly more than I listen to St. Anger or Lulu, which is never. Listen to Rainbow Rising. If you can't recognize the greatness of that album then I don't know what to tell you.
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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 9:05p, 6/27/24
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Zombie Jon Snow said:
You could almost take any 4 consecutive from Peter Gabriel So..... but 2-5 is my favorite

1. "Red Rain" 5:39
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2. "Sledgehammer" 5:12
3. "Don't Give Up" 6:33
4. "That Voice Again" 4:53
5. "In Your Eyes" 5:27
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6. "Mercy Street" 6:22
7. "Big Time" 4:28
8. "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)" 3:22
9. "This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" 4:25


And the first 4 from his next album Us are also solid

1. "Come Talk to Me" 7:06
2. "Love to Be Loved" 5:18
3. "Blood of Eden" 6:38
4. "Steam" 6:03




I would shift the So down 2. Mercy Street is my favorite PG song, and I always liked big time > sledgehammer.

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In reply to Chipotlemonger • 9:16p, 6/27/24
Chipotlemonger said:
Thought of Pearl Jam earlier when I posted but forgot to include.

Anyways, from their debut album Ten:

2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black


This!
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9:48p, 6/27/24
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If we could choose 4 of the first 7, including 2 of the best openers of all time, Big Wreck would have the greatest string of any debut rock band: we must include the criminally unknown UNDER THE LIGHTHOUSE
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In reply to Redstone • 10:27p, 6/27/24
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Redstone said:
If we could choose 4 of the first 7, including 2 of the best openers of all time, Big Wreck would have the greatest string of any debut rock band: we must include the criminally unknown UNDER THE LIGHTHOUSE

That Song is incredible. One of my all time favorites.
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11:26p, 6/27/24
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite

Two Princes
Off My Line
How Could You Want Him
Shinbone Alley / Hard to Exist
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11:37p, 6/27/24
Tool - 10,000 Days album

Lost Keys
Rosetta Stoned
Intension
Right in Two
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In reply to Know Your Enemy • 1:08a, 6/28/24
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Good call on

Rainbow - Rising (side one)
1 - Tarot Woman
2 - Run with the Wolf
3 - Starstruck
4 - Do You Close Your Eyes
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9:55a, 6/28/24
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first half of Ghost reveries.

Also the second half of Ghost Reveries.
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9:58a, 6/28/24
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Cheap Trick's debut 2 are very underrated in the context of best debut openers.

1. "Elo Kiddies"
2. "Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School"
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In reply to Another Doug • 1:26p, 6/28/24
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Another Doug said:
Zombie Jon Snow said:
You could almost take any 4 consecutive from Peter Gabriel So..... but 2-5 is my favorite

1. "Red Rain" 5:39
-----------------------------------
2. "Sledgehammer" 5:12
3. "Don't Give Up" 6:33
4. "That Voice Again" 4:53
5. "In Your Eyes" 5:27
------------------------------------
6. "Mercy Street" 6:22
7. "Big Time" 4:28
8. "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)" 3:22
9. "This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" 4:25


And the first 4 from his next album Us are also solid

1. "Come Talk to Me" 7:06
2. "Love to Be Loved" 5:18
3. "Blood of Eden" 6:38
4. "Steam" 6:03




I would shift the So down 2. Mercy Street is my favorite PG song, and I always liked big time > sledgehammer.


Yep. Mercy Street is amazing. Arguably an equally great set of 4 - just personal preferences really or pick a day for me.
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In reply to Zombie Jon Snow • 1:36p, 6/28/24
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Zombie Jon Snow said:
Another Doug said:
Zombie Jon Snow said:
You could almost take any 4 consecutive from Peter Gabriel So..... but 2-5 is my favorite

1. "Red Rain" 5:39
-----------------------------------
2. "Sledgehammer" 5:12
3. "Don't Give Up" 6:33
4. "That Voice Again" 4:53
5. "In Your Eyes" 5:27
------------------------------------
6. "Mercy Street" 6:22
7. "Big Time" 4:28
8. "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)" 3:22
9. "This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" 4:25


And the first 4 from his next album Us are also solid

1. "Come Talk to Me" 7:06
2. "Love to Be Loved" 5:18
3. "Blood of Eden" 6:38
4. "Steam" 6:03




I would shift the So down 2. Mercy Street is my favorite PG song, and I always liked big time > sledgehammer.


Yep. Mercy Street is amazing. Arguably an equally great set of 4 - just personal preferences really or pick a day for me.
Also, in my life I have probably listened to "Us" more, agree the first 4 are probably the best set of four on that album.
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1:44p, 6/28/24
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can't believe I forgot about one of my favorite complete albums start to finish.

and the first four opening tracks on the A side are nothing short of incredible imo

Blind Faith:
Had to Cry Today - Winwood
Can't Find My Way Home - Winwood
Well Alright - cover of Buddy Holly/Crickets
Presence of the Lord - Clapton


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In reply to Ag_07 • 4:01p, 6/28/24
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Moondance is a top 5 record for me. Just consistently amazing
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4:21p, 6/28/24
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Michael Jackson - Bad
1. Man in the Mirror
2. I just Can't Stop Loving You
3. Dirty Diana
4. Smooth Criminal
5. Leave Me Alone

Katy Perry - Teenage Daydream
1. Teenage Dream
2. Last Friday Night
3. California Girls
4. Firework
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