Three of a perfect trio (UpwardSpiral)
Inspired by sputnikuser UpwardSpirals' list from earlier today (credit to you bro) I thought i'd give it a nudge myself and create my own list of favourite three part song cycles, be it a trilogy or triad or maybe just pure coincidence. I find that some of my favourite moments in music are defined by an album that has a trio of songs that give the album flow and complement each other musically.
These songs go together like Scarlett Johanssen, Monica Belluci and Alicia Vikander together in a hot tub. I'll tap in when one of them gets too hot... |
| 1 |  | Kyuss
Welcome to Sky Valley
100 degrees/Space Cadet/Demon Cleaner...the whole album is split into three song cycles but this trio is my favourite. |
| 2 | | Kyuss
Welcome to Sky Valley
Gardenia/Asteroid/Supa scoop and the mighty scoop |
| 3 |  | Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation
Trilogy - The Wonder/Hyperstation/Eliminator Jr. |
| 4 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Irony Is a Dead Scene
Hollywood Squares/Pig Latin/When Good Dogs Do Bad Things....i've always felt that the Come To Daddy cover (while good) totally screws with the flow of the first three songs. |
| 5 |  | Devin Townsend
Ocean Machine: Biomech
Funeral/Bastard/The Death Of Music....one of the most epic trio of songs you'll ever hope to hear |
| 6 |  | Isis
Panopticon
So Did We/Backlit/In Fiction....truth is you could choose any three from Panopticon but I just think it's the triple punch that hits you in the solar plexus. |
| 7 |  | Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Have A Cigar/Wish You Were Here/Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts VI-IX |
| 8 |  | Genesis
Selling England by the Pound
Dancing With The Moonlight Knit/I Know What I Like/Firth of Fifth |
| 9 |  | David Bowie
Low
Warszawa/Art Decade/Weeping Wall |
| 10 |  | Yes
Close to the Edge
Obvious choice, the whole album is a three part cycle. |
| 11 |  | The Cure
Disintegration
Prayers for Rain/Same Deep Water/Disintegration |
| 12 |  | Depeche Mode
Violator
Enjoy The Silence/Policy Of Truth/Blue Dress |
| 13 |  | King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
21st Century Schizoid Man/I Talk To The Wind/Epitaph |
| 14 |  | dredg
El Cielo
It Only Took A Day/Whoa Is Me/The Canyon Behind Her |
| 15 |  | Bjork
Vespertine
Pagan Poetry/Frosti/Aurora |
| 16 |  | The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium
Son Et Lumiere/Inertiatic ESP/Roulette Dares |
| 17 |  | Arcade Fire
Funeral
Haiti/Rebellion/In The Backseat |
| 18 |  | Tool
10,000 Days
Wings For Marie/10,000 Days/The Pot |
| 19 |  | Tool
Lateralus
Lateralus/Disposition/Reflection |
| 20 |  | A Perfect Circle
Mer de Noms
Judith/Orestes/3 Libras |
| 21 |  | A Perfect Circle
Thirteenth Step
The Noose/Blue/Vanishing |
| 22 |  | The Gathering
Mandylion
Strange Machines/Eleanor/In Motion |
| 23 |  | Ulver
Perdition City
Lost in Moments/Porn Piece/Hallways of Always |
| 24 |  | Pain of Salvation
The Perfect Element, Part 1
Used/In The Flesh/Ashes |
| 25 |  | Queensryche
Operation: Mindcrime
Spreading The Disease/The Mission/Suite Sister Mary |
| 26 |  | Evergrey
In Search Of Truth
State Of Paralysis/The Encounter/Mark Of The Triangle |
| 27 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar/No One Knows/First It Giveth |
| 28 |  | Opeth
My Arms, Your Hearse
Prologue/April Ethereal/When |
| 29 |  | Opeth
Ghost Reveries
Ghost Of Perdition/Baying Of The Hounds/Beneath The Mire |
| 30 |  | Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet
Anesthetize/Sentimental/Way Out Of Here |
| 31 |  | Cloudkicker
Beacons
Here Wait A Minute/We're Going In, We're Going Down/Oh God |
| 32 |  | Cloudkicker
Fade
From The Balcony/The Focus/Seattle |
| 33 |  | Scale the Summit
The Migration
Odyssey/Atlas Novus/The Olive Tree |
| 34 |  | Enslaved
Isa
Bounded By Allegiance/Violet Dawning/Return to Yggdrasil |
| 35 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
Phoenix In Flames/Thaw/Jane Doe |
| 36 |  | In Flames
Whoracle
Jotun/Food For The Gods/Gyroscope |
| 37 |  | Cynic
Focus
Uroboric Forms/Textures/How Could I |
| 38 |  | Down
NOLA
Temptations Wings/Lifer/Pillars of Eternity |
| 39 |  | Coheed and Cambria
From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
The Willing Well parts 2,3,4 |
| 40 |  | The Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream
Soma/Geek USA/Mayonaise |
| 41 |  | Hopesfall
The Satellite Years
Waitress/Dead In Magazines/Dana Walker |
| 42 |  | Thursday
No Devolucion
Magnets Caught In A Metal Heart/Empty Glass/A Gun In The First Act |
| 43 |  | Thrice
The Illusion of Safety
Kill Me Quickly/A Subtle Dagger/See You In The Shallows |
| 44 |  | A Wilhelm Scream
Career Suicide
I Wipe My Ass With Showbiz/5-9/The Horse |
| 45 |  | Pixies
Doolittle
Here Comes Your Man/Dead/Monkey Gone To Heaven |
| 46 |  | Trophy Scars
Holy Vacants
Extant/Qeres/Archangel |
| 47 |  | The Devin Townsend Band
Accelerated Evolution
Deadhead/Traveller/Away |
| 48 |  | DJ Shadow
Endtroducing...
Best Foot Forward/Building Steam/The Number Song |
| 49 |  | Tricky
Maxinquaye
Overcome/Ponderosa/Black Steel |
| 50 |  | Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin to Fuck Wit/C.R.E.A.M/Method Man |
| 51 |  | Dr. Dre
2001
Forgot About Dre/The Next Episode/Let's Get High |
| 52 |  | Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
POWER/All Of The LIghts/Monster |
| 53 |  | Janelle Monae
The Electric Lady
Give Em What They Love/Q.U.E.E.N/The Electric Lady |
| 54 |  | Shapeshifter
Soulstice
In The Rain/Earth/Bring Change |
| 55 |  | Bonobo
The North Borders
Cirrus/Heaven For The Sinner/Sapphire |
| 56 |  | Michael Jackson
Thriller
Thriller/Beat It/Billie Jean |
| 57 |  | Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Funeral For A Friend/Candle In The Wind/Bennie and The Jets |
| 58 |  | The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead
The Queen Is Dead/Frankly Mr Shankly/I Know It's Over |
| 59 |  | Laura Stevenson
Wheel
Telluride/L Dopa/The Wheel |
| 60 |  | Live
Throwing Copper
Stage/Pillar of Davidson/White Discussion |
| 61 |  | Strung Out
Exile In Oblivion
Analog/Blueprint of the fall/Katatonia |
| 62 |  | Sigur Ros
Agaetis Byrjun
Svefn-G-Englar/Staralfur/Flugufrelsarinn |
| 63 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows
House of Cards/Jigsaw Falling Into Place/Videotape |
| 64 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer
Exit Music/Let Down/Karma Police |
| 65 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
Everything In It's Right Place/ Kid A/National Anthem |
| 66 |  | mewithoutYou
Brother, Sister
O Porcupine/Brownish spider/In a sweater poorly knit |
| 67 |  | Iron Maiden
Powerslave
Back in the village/Powerslave/Rime of the ancient mariner |
| 68 |  | Jon Hopkins
Immunity
Open Eye Signal/Breathe This Air/Collider |
| 69 |  | Daft Punk
Discovery
One More Time/Aerodynamic/Digital Love |
| 70 |  | The Prodigy
The Fat of the Land
Smack My Bitch Up/Breathe/Diesel Power |
| 71 | | Converge
Jane Doe
Hell To Pay/Homewrecker/The Broken Vow |
| 72 |  | Fair to Midland
Arrows and Anchors
Whiskey And Ritalin/Musical Chairs/Uh-oh |
| 73 |  | Faith No More
Angel Dust
Midlife Crisis/RV/Smaller and Smaller |
| 74 |  | Bad Brains
Bad Brains
Attitude/The Regulator/Banned In D.C |
| 75 | | Devin Townsend
Ocean Machine: Biomech
Voices in the fan/Greetings/Regulator |
| 76 | | Tool
Lateralus
The Grudge/Eon Blue Apocalypse/The Patient |
| 77 | | Cloudkicker
Beacons
It's just wide open field/It's bad man we are hit/Amy I Love You |
| 78 |  | Alexisonfire
Crisis
Keep It On Wax/To A Friend/Rough Hands |
| 79 |  | Isis
Oceanic
The Beginning and the End/The Other/False Light |
| 80 |  | Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
The Cold Part/Alone Down There/The Stars Are Projectors |
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