Best four-song run on an album?

Hunter - Joga - Unravel - Bachelorette - All Neon Like (yeah, that's 5)
World In My Eyes - Sweetest Perfection - Personal Jesus - Halo (or alternatively Halo to Policy of Truth, so 7)
My New Career - Methods of Dance - Ain't that Peculiar - Nightporter
There must be some good ones for Cocteau Twins

I haven't thought much about it

No Action
This Year's Girl
The Beat
Pump It Up

As Mitski has just released an album, Fireworks -> Your Best American Girl -> I Bet On Losing Dogs -> My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars off the last album was simply incredible

Whiskey & Water
Blood
City Sickness
Patchwork

Run Come Rally
Seventy-Two Nations
Zion Land
Know How You Stand

'DNA'
'Yah'
'Element'
'Feel'

I can take or leave Yah

One More Time -> Aerodynamic -> Digital Love -> Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Saturday, September 18, 2010 7:20 AM (seven years ago)

On Sight -> Black Skinhead -> I am a God -> New Slaves

Sick & Tired
Tomorrow
Rise & Shine
Beautiful One

Heart Skipped a Beat > Fantasy > Shelter > Basic Space
Sensitive > Rude Boy > In the House of Yes > Blush
Feel Like Makin' Love > Greatdayanmornin' / Booty > Untitled (How Does it Feel?) > Africa

Hello Mabel > Kama Sutra > Humanoid Boogie > Trouser Press

Pulling Mussels (from the Shell) > Another Nail in My Heart > Separate Beds > Misadventure

Utterance - Puff She Puff - Rockstone - Carbine
and from the same band, cheating a tiny bit:
Shine Eye Gal - Leaving to Zion - General Penitentiary - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

When you were mine/time after time/she bop/all through the night
Or just side A, some days. (Money changes everything/girls...fun/wywm/tat)

Overcome - Ponderosa - Black Steel - Hell is Round the Corner
Esoterica of Abyssinia - Space Prophet Dogon - The Shining Path - The Flower

ahhh, you know, i could name scott walker's songs on "nite flights" or whatever but that feels like cheating. to me this is killer four song runs on records i don't necessarily listen to all the way through, all the time.

so for me that's "crystal ball". honestly i listen to "crystal ball" instead of "sign o the times" because it has more great songs on it than "sign o the times", but since it's six sides i don't listen to it all the way through. my favorite four-song runs on that record:

rebirth of the flesh -> play in the sunshine -> housequake -> ballad of dorothy parker

and

the ball -> joy in repetition -> strange relationship -> i could never take the place of your man

you know, sides one and four. sides one and three of the released "sign o the times" also work just fine.

Fast Robert > Mare's Nest > The Stench of Honey > Buds and Spawn

Can It All Be So Simple -> Da Mystery of Chessboxin' -> Ain't Nothin' Ta Fuck Wit -> C.R.E.A.M.

― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, September 18, 2010

11:59
Will anything happen?
Sunday girl - french version
Heart of glass

xp interesting that josefa picked a different run from the same album!

goes to show it's the best album.

Violator

Personal Jesus - Halo - Waiting For The Night - Enjoy The Silence

Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night:

Albuquerque/New Mama/Lookout Joe/Tired Eyes

This makes for the fourth REM album to appear in this thread, but: Belong -> Half a World Away -> Texarkana -> Country Feedback

West End Girls > Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) > Love Comes Quickly > Suburbia

and could've switch out 'Suburbia' for 'Two Divided By Zero' ...

Help Me -> Free Man in Paris -> People's Parties -> The Same Situation

Moondance -> Crazy Love -> Caravan -> Into the Mystic

Girl Don't Tell Me -> Help Me, Rhonda -> California Girls -> Let Him Run Wild

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.