Alright, I'm thinking suites of songs that are shorter than an album side. Some that I particularly enjoy are:

Robert Palmer, Sneakin Sally through the Alley, beginning of side 1 -- "Sailing Shoes"/"Hey Julia"/"Sneakin' Sally through the Alley"

Rupert Hine, The Wildest Wish to Fly (US version), end of side 1 -- "I Hang on to My Vertigo"/"Firefly in the Night"/"A Golden Age"

Planet P Project, Pink World, end of side 3 -- "Behind the Barrier (Pt. 2)"/"March of the Artemites"/"This Perfect Place (Pt. 2)" -- all of side three is dang near perfect, but it comes to such a wonderful crescendo with the March of the Artemites suite.

This all came about because I saw a song that I couldn't think of hearing without hearing the song that immediately follows it. If I had to encode this in MP3 format, I'd wrap it up all as one file.

Do you have any that you'd like to mention? Single song suggestions and side-long submissions will be immediately disqualified, pointed to and laughed at.

You're not talking strictly instrumental are you?

If not; I need some time to brainstorm, but one that immediately came to mind is the Led Zeppelin duo, Heart breaker/Living Loving Maid. I get violently angry when I hear HB on the radio w/out LLM. I dig the complete rhythm changeover.

I also like to hear Dave Brubeck's first few songs on Time Out played in correct order. Simply from repeated listening, anything different sounds odd. So Blue Rondo A La Turk > Strange Meadow Lark > Take Five.

Also the first half of ...And Out Come The Wolves by Rancid. Minus one song, to remain qualified

You're not talking strictly instrumental are you?

No, instrumental pieces, songs with vocals, or a mix of the two will all qualify.

...one that immediately came to mind is the Led Zeppelin duo, Heart breaker/Living Loving Maid. I get violently angry when I hear HB on the radio w/out LLM. I dig the complete rhythm changeover.

Yeah, good call on that one -- that's a perfect example of the sort of thing I'm talking about.

I also like to hear Dave Brubeck's first few songs on Time Out...

You know, every time this album comes up, I think to myself -- do I have that? Have I heard it? Recently? After this, I'm pretty sure I haven't. Ever. Need to fix that forthwith.

Also not familiar with Rancid.

Time out is mandatory listening, even if you are not that into jazz. Its like the Waynes World line; "I lived in the suburbs, so I was issued it with samples of Tide.".

That Rancid album is the best punk rock album I have ever heard. Its a real grower; something you can leave on repeat for months at a time. At least thats what I did in high school, when I had little money to get new music. I've not enjoyed their other albums anywhere near as much. They were kind of a flash in the pan, for me at least. Though the song Bloodshot is awesome.

Yeah, I know, I know, it comes up all the time.

A couple more from me:

Steve Hackett, from Spectral Mornings -- "Lost Time in Cordoba"/"Tigermoth"

Eric Johnson, from Tones -- "Trail of Tears"/"Bristol Shore"

Genesis has done this rather wonderfully a couple of times now. Two examples:

"Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..."/"...In that Quiet Earth"/"Afterglow" from Wind & Wuthering

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"Duke's Travels"/"Duke's End" from Duke

...come to mind.

There's a 3-song stretch on the new Murder by Death CD, Red of Tooth & Claw that just go together perfectly... "Fuego!", "Theme For Ennio Morricone" and "A Second Opinion".

I also love the last 3 songs of NIN's Still. "And All That Could Have Been", "The Persistence of Loss" and "Leaving Hope" are another amazing 3-song run.

It's hard to beat Orion and Damage Inc at the end of Master of Puppets.

Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music:

Modern Music/Dancing in the Moonlight/Honeymoon on Mars/Lost in the Neon World/Dance of the Uncle Sam Humanoids/Modern Music (reprise)

And yes, it was shorter than an album side.

Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider

Help on the Way -> Slipknot -> Franklin's Tower

Nine Inch Nails [The Downward Sprial] Eraser > Reptile > The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails [The Fragile Side One] La Mer > The Great Below

Nine Inch Nails [The Fragile Side Two] The Way Out Is Through > Into The Void

Knife [Silent Shout] From Off To On > Forrest Families

Dire Straits "" Sultans Of Swing > In The Gallery > Wild West End

Also, I really dig the Texas Trilogy that leads off Disc 2 of Lyle Lovett's Step Inside This House... "Daybreak", "Train Ride" and "Bosque County Romance". And the best part is that those 3 songs lead to my favorite on the album, "Flyin' Shoes".

It's hard to beat Orion and Damage Inc at the end of Master of Puppets.

That and "To Live is to Die" and "Dyers Eve" from ...And Justice For All

Another Girl's Paradise/Scarlet's Walk/Virginia is probably the combo I've played the most in recent years. Either that or Sweet Sangria/Your Cloud/Pancake/I Can't See New York, also off Scarlet's Walk by Tori Amos.

Didn't realize even Depeche Mode did this: "Love, In Itself"/"More Than a Party"/"Pipeline" is another one I probably wouldn't want to split up on MP3.