Best four-song run on an album?

Happy > She Sends Kisses > This Boy Is Exhausted > Hopeless

^^ yes

amnesiac, the first four tracks make it radiohead’s best album

as we're all loving current 93 atm,

all the world makes great blood -> the great, bloody and bruised veil of the world -> into the menstrual night i go -> dormition and dominion

can hardly think of a better possible run of music

"Me So Horny"->"Put Her in the Buck"->"D--k Almighty"->"C'mon Babe"

Untitled
Obstacle 1
NYC
PDA

4+4+2

Hardcore UFO's
Buzzards & Dreadful Crows
Tractor Rape Chain
Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Hot Freaks
Smothered In Hugs
Yours To Keep
Echos Myron
Gold Star For Robot Boy
Awful Bliss

Veedon Fleece: Linden Arden Stole the Highlights, Who Was that Masked Man? Streets of Arklow, You Don't Pull No Punches (But you don't push the river)

The Grants > Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd > Sweet > A&W

I Got the Blues - Sister Morphine - Dead Flowers - Moonlight Mile

Hulloder > Dada Was Here > Thank You Pierrot Lunaire > Have You Ever Bean Green?

as it happens, the four best songs ever recorded are also a four-song run: Three Babies / The Emperor's New Clothes / Black Boys on Mopeds / Nothing Compares 2 U

This reminds me how long my music listening has been depressingly removed from “whole albums, in order”

Offhand:

- The last tracks on Behaviour and the first tracks on Very
- The first and last tracks on The Rising (I know it’s not well-loved but it’s a personal sentimental favourite)
- Little Star / Hopefully Yours / Murder in Maryland Park / I See You Again or any four song segment of that album

4+4+2

Hardcore UFO's
Buzzards & Dreadful Crows
Tractor Rape Chain
Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Hot Freaks
Smothered In Hugs
Yours To Keep
Echos Myron
Gold Star For Robot Boy
Awful Bliss

― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:42 (four years ago)

this is such a good answer

so many but the first four tracks on roman candle by elliott smith destroy me

The 2nd side of Rust Never Sleeps.

Side one of John Prine's first album.

Suede - We Are The Pigs > Heroine > The Wild Ones - Daddy's Speeding

Saint Etienne - Avenue > You're In A Bad Way > Hobart Paving > Leafhound (ignoring the 20 second Memo To Pricey interlude there)

Broadcast - Papercuts > You Can Fall > Look Outside > Until Then

Kylie - More More More > Love At First Sight > Can't Get You Out Of My Head > Fever

Sylvester - All four songs on Stars

Broadcast - Papercuts > You Can Fall > Look Outside > Until Then

The 3 songs before "Papercuts" are pretty amazing as well.

Maybe it would be more of a challenge to pick an album with 4 great songs in a row and nothing else that’s very good.

I've been trying to think of examples of this. Somebody already listed the only four songs from Rain Dogs that I like, except for "9th and Hennepin".

A couple of times Tori Amos really rallied at the end of very lengthy and not-entirely-satisfactory albums and came up with amazing four-song conclusions:

Another Girl's Paradise / Scarlet's Walk / Virginia / Gold Dust
Beauty of Speed / Almost Rosey / Velvet Revolution / Dark Side of the Sun

I like other songs from these records, but with each subsequent song in these closing quartets, it feels like she is raising her bets and pulling off a victory.

Cocoon > It's Not Up To You > Undo > Pagan Poetry

Too High > Visions > Living for the City > Golden Lady
Did I Hear You Say You Love Me > All I Do > Rocket Love > I Ain't Gonna Stand For It

More Lana — a six-song run, as good as any I know:

Black Bathing Suit > If You Lie Down With Me > Beautiful > Violets for Roses > Dealer > Thunder

The 2 of Us / Black or Blue / The Asphalt World / Still Life

Here's five:

Sailin' On/Don't Need It/Attitude/The Regulator/Banned In D.C.

Then you get a dub instrumental, so you can catch your breath.