Favorite two-song sequence on an album

[gboiler1]

I like Adios and Trouble Again as my two best songs back to back, anybody else?

Would like to hear some other preferences

[erik]

Given that there are so many of us, you're likely to get a ton of wildly different answers. And many of us have a multiple number of favorite two-song sequences.

But I suppose if you held a gun to my head (please don't, by the way [LOL]), I think it would be "A River For Him" and "Adonde Voy", on Winter Light.

[gboiler1]

Indeed! list your favorite child's first name also LOL

[germancanadian]

Tough choice, so many good ones but I guess my favorite one is Heat Wave and Many Rivers to Cross from Prisoner in Disguise. Many good lesser known songs on that album like Hey Mister and Silver Blue.

[eddiejinnj]

I would have to say that my favorite is "WWIBL" to "Willin'" off HLAW!!!! Runner-ups are "Lies" to "Tell Him" from "Get Closer" and "The Waiting" to "Walk On" on "Feels Like Home". Great idea for topic gb!!!! eddiejinnj

PS: Alyn made me think and another runner-up for me is "Party Girl" into "HDIMY" off Mad Love.

[gboiler1]

totally with you on WWIBL to Willin', my runner up for sure

[alyn]

I can only answer with a bit of a tangent to the question but the albums I find I need to listen to straight through and kind of struggle to pluck out individual songs to listen to separately are Hasten Down The Wind and Mad Love... I'm happy to make compilations from all her other albums, mix and match (keeping the obvious sets of albums through Linda's career apart country / AOR / Riddle / Mexicano) but those two albums... it has to be the whole 40 minutes or nothin', never mind just two songs :-)

[geno]

There are just to many to list. I've been a fan of Linda's since early '74. I have nothing but her studio albums excluding her Latin, Christmas and lullaby. I can categorically say it would be any 2 that didn't have a hit preceding or following. I'm kind of like Linda it that respect, the hits start to sound like a washing machine. I've didgitalized all my music in lossless. Mostly listen to my entire library now with shuffle on. When just Linda is on I have 2 Playlists 1 with hits one without.

[eddiejinnj]

Hey Alyn: How ya been? Still loving that B&W photo!!! You look so friendly in it. I especially agree with you re: Hasten but stylistically Mad Love is her most consistent album. eddiejinnj

[RobGNYC]

"Lose Again"/"The Tattler"
"Down So Low"/"Someone to Lay Down Beside Me"
"Simple Man, Simple Dream"/"Sorrow Lives Here"
"Maybe I'm Right"/"Tumbling Dice"

[Deleted]

Agree with WWIBL and Willin'.. Linda brilliantly declares her disappointment with love, and then searches the American landscape for answers ..

[erik]

Quote by robertaxel:

Agree with WWIBL and Willin'.. Linda brilliantly declares her disappointment with love, and then searches the American emotional landscape for answers ..

Also the shift from one kind of "twang" (neo-rockabilly) to another (C&W/rock).

[rick]

Although the album "Prisoner in Disguise" doesn't get much love on here, I harken back to the days of LPs and listening to my Linda albums in college and then going to see her live in concert. I always loved it when she did in concert back-to-back "Love Is a Rose" and then "Hey, Mister, That's Me Up on the Jukebox." So, those two back-to-back hold a special place in my heart.

Close seconds would be --

"Lose Again" / "The Tattler" ("Hasten Down the Wind")

"The Waiting" / "Walk On" ("Feels Like Home")

"When Will I Be Loved" / "Willin' " ("Heart Like a Wheel")

[alyn]

Jun 25, 2020 14:23:51 GMT -5 eddiejinnj said:

Hey Alyn: How ya been? Still loving that B&W photo!!! You look so friendly in it. I especially agree with you re: Hasten but stylistically Mad Love is her most consistent album. eddiejinnj

I'm good, thanks Eddie... yes that was me aged about 19 a long long time ago.... I was not supposed to look friendly, I was with two hairy mates and we decided to go for a Wild Bunch look in a western themed pose in a photo studio, I guess I might just about pass as a 'baby faced assassin'... or not :-)

 I like it when I get an agreement :-) I'm still hopelessly besotted by Hasten Down The Wind, it's a lifetime sentence! And definitely Mad Love for the 'edge' it brings over.... two delightfully contrasting albums and Linda at her peak...

All things good with you?

[Linda Fan 5]

From “I’m a Fool to Want You” to “You Took Advantage of Me” on Lush Life
And “Entre Abismos” to “Cuando me Querias Tu” on Frenesi
Her sequencing is always so stunning and she was upset when the record company re-ordered the songs on her Christmas album in a way she disagreed with.

[PoP80]

Aside from the slickly melded When Will Be Loved/Willin' pairing, I would add Desperado/Don't Cry Now and Down So Low/
Someone to Lay Down Beside Me.

[Latin from Manhattan]

When WIBL - Willin' Lose Again - Tattler. There are some beauties on "Canciones de mi Padre" as well.

[eddiejinnj]

Hanging in there, Alyn!!! The last couple years have been difficult family-wise and stuff with my knee and sciatica. I try and stay in shape and also work and do yardwork but it has to be spaced out. Stuff happens. So nice of you to ask. Latin, I think you have posted before but welcome and it is easy to join forum.
You are so right about Canciones. All of Linda's Spanish albums are stellar. eddiejinnj

[memac62]

From Don't Cry Now, Everybody Loves A Winner/I Believe In You

From What's New, What's New/I've Got a Crush On You

[eddiejinnj]

I know I'm cheating but one more: "Crazy Arms" into "I Won't Be Hanging 'Round" The long ending to CA into the words "I've been alone too long sitting (sounds almost like setting) by myself". It gives me goose pimples. Neil Young got it right about Linda "a soulful girl with big brown eyes" in the liner notes of "Decade". eddiejinnj

Also when I read Linda Fan5's first choice from Lush Life, I said hmmm that not the order but I realized (and I looked it up) that of course the cd version it would run back to back. I have the cd but I originally bought the album and a gorgeous album pkg it is. In my mind "I'm a Fool to Want You" is an ending song meaning it was the last song on side one of the album.

[moon]

Blue train to feels like home

One of my favorite Linda albums

[GLinNC]

“It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” followed by “Faithless Love,” which are two of my all-time favorites of her performances.  Of course on Heart Like a Wheel, they follow another of her stellar renderings, “You’re No Good.”  “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” and “Faithless Love” are the perfect way to help listeners know that the musical journey they’re on is just getting better and better...and of course it does get better and better.  Start to finish, not one disappointment.  

Honorable mention:  On Trio II, “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” followed by “After the Gold Rush”—two more of my very favorites.

[Partridge]

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress/ I Knew You When

[Richard W]

Back in the USA / When I Grow too Old to Dream.

I mean, what? Who would do that?

I imagine: Linda's '70s 'stached guy fans going slack-jawed with discombobulation when, during the first spin of the album, the rock and roll crescendo of BitUSA (side 1, track 1) faded and the shimmering sounds of a vibraphone oscillated from the floor speakers of their Pioneer stereo systems, the jarring juxtaposition of classic rock and unremembered standard demanding that that second song would be listened to.

This 1-2 WTF perfectly illustrates the chameleonic facets of Ronstadt's instrument. Yes, it's the same singer singing both songs, but the strutting rock voice she uses to propel BitUSA is a completely different species from the gorgeous croon she butters WIGtOtD with. Different tone, different colors.

Unlike, say, Barbra Streisand, who has also applied her magnificent voice to songs from eclectic genres, too—but in the end it's always the same Streisand voice, whether she's rocking Stoney End or trumpeting Don't Rain on My Parade.

The Live in Hollywood album is a prime example of Linda's vocal diversity, where she does five rock songs in a row (beginning with Hurts so Bad and ending with BitUSA) of five different rock subgenera (pop, FM rock, blues-rock, new wave, and classic rock) and she never utilizes the same vocal attack twice. The hot, magma red of Hurts So Bad, for example, is awesomely different from the white heat of How Do I Make You.

[gboiler1]

Reply to moon, I especially love her emphasis on the letter "K" at the end of some of the lines, on Blue Train

[eddiejinnj]

Me too, gb!! "Like a pearl necklace falling from around my neck" eddiejinnj

[vikingfan]

The first one that comes to mind is the way I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine fades into Mr. Radio on Get Closer. I'm sure when I think about it more, I'll have others.