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Single Track or Medley

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 10:08 AM

Songs that appear in playlists sometimes individually, but usually as part of a medley of two or possibly more: "Funeral for a Friend"/"Love Lies Bleeding" "Heartbreaker"/"Living Loving Maid" "We Wil Rock You"/"We Are the Champions" "Falling In and Out of Love"/"Amie" "The Load Out"/"Stay" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band"/"With a Little Help from My Friends" And the granddaddy of them all: "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"Sun King"/"Mean Mr. Mustard"/"Polythene Pam"/"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"/"Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"You Never Give Me Your Money (Reprise)"/"The End." Most of these, obviously, come from the klassick rawk pantheon. In the early U2 years, "Into the Heart" and "Out of Control" seemed to be typically played together by the stations that played them.

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 10:10 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

I should have given these a Ranking of Esoteric Distinction.

G-Fafif Nov 26 2012 10:17 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

The song that went to No. 1 with a mere 41 words in the official title: "Medley: Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45". Most DJs went with "Stars on 45" as the name of the song as well as the name of the act, or "Beatles Medley," if they were willing to off the first couple of segments. [youtube]bO5ZqKMqU3I[/youtube] And there's a 15-minute version, too, albeit with no homage to the Archies or Shocking Blue. [youtube]ZOuZmEKmtWQ[/youtube]

Fman99 Nov 26 2012 10:29 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

I am partial to: "The Rock/Love, Reign O'er Me" and also: "Us and Them/Any Colour You Like/Brain Damage/Eclipse"

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 10:51 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

"Tainted Love"/"Where Did Our Love Go?" > "Tainted Love"

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 26 2012 11:01 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Yeah, Sgt Pepper/Day in the Life was the bullshit way the interns entered the song title in the countdown, that's why I made that reference. A common combo but not really the title.

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 11:07 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Well, the interns should have at least gone so far as to make it "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"/""A Day in the Life" in order to distinguish it from ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" or ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"/"With a Little Help from My Friends." But really, "A Day in the Life" needs no augmentation. Do these people even like music?

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 11:10 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Is "I Need You Tonight" more authentic alone or when paired with "Meditate"? OE: "Need You Tonight" at Q104.3: #981 in 2006, #819 in 2007, #728 in 2008.

Swan Swan H Nov 26 2012 11:33 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Billy Joel's "Prelude / Angry Young Man"

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 26 2012 11:39 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Not sure I'd list them with a slash but when I spin the vinyl I know one must follow the other: Police: Driven to Tears/When the World is Running Down Cars: Shoo-be-Doo/Candy-O and You're All I Got Tonight/Bye Bye Love Queen: Dragon Attack/Another One Bites the Dust All of the above can be and are played individually but I don't believe that's what ought to happen. I heard "Stay" without "Load-Out" on the radio and it was just... wrong.

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 11:44 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Some good ones there. None of them automatic, but those who know... know... they belong together. I think "Prelude/"Angry Young Man" was a (probably accidental) stroke of genius. An artist gets (or, at least, used to get) paid for his airplays by the track. By officially listing a song's prelude as a separate track, he scored twice when the DJ's needle would regularly drop before the prelude. The always savvy Steve Miller did this a year later with "Threshold"/"Jet Airliner," and later admitted that the kaching was his exact intent.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 26 2012 11:50 AM Re: Single Track or Medley Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 26 2012 11:55 AM

He did it a year earlier even with "[crossout:bt1o2fpz]Electro Lux Imbroglio[/crossout:bt1o2fpz]Space Intro/Fly Like an Eagle" (Electro Lux was the slash/lead-in to "Wild Mountain Honey")

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 11:53 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Fucking Miller.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 26 2012 12:00 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

Wrong again, I am. Electro Lux/Sacrifice is the right combo.

Swan Swan H Nov 26 2012 12:27 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

I have a fair amount of Celtic and Celtic-influenced music on my iPod, and virtually every album has a couple of instrumental medleys. For example: Solas - Tom Sullivan's/ Mick's Polka/ The Newmarket Polka Paperboys - Swallow's Tail Jig/ Cabin Fever Ceilidh/ Swallow's Tail Reel Great Big Sea - Jigs: Eavesdropper's/ Both Meat & Drink/ Off We Go Burning Bridget Cleary - Hornpipe Set: Miss Lucy Campbell/ Sean Ryan's Hornpipe/ The Headlands March/ Lad O'Brien's I assume this was the common way the songs were played live at dances or parties, and would then be recorded as such, but I really have no idea.

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 12:32 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

Yabbut, stringing three or so reels together on one track is the way Irish music gets printed. What we're looking for is songs that get commercial airplay that are listed as separate album tracks (even have a brief dark line between them on the vinyl) but by intent or tradition have found themselves linked and played together.

Swan Swan H Nov 26 2012 01:14 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

"Old Friends" and "Bookends Theme" were separate tracks on Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends album. "Bookends," as it was now called, appeared on Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. On the Old Friends boxed set they were merged on a single track as "Old Friends/ Bookends."

G-Fafif Nov 26 2012 01:36 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

It actually came up in conversation over the weekend that the lone hit of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was, per its slash lines, three hits: "Whispering/Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon". [youtube:2kc1w05z]4CK-f-Hhij4[/youtube:2kc1w05z]

Mets – Willets Point Nov 26 2012 01:52 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

They Might Be Giants "Fingertips" is either one long, odd song or a suite of 21 tracks.

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 01:57 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

I'm remembering those special weekends at WNEW where they would play the entire Beatles catalog in alphabetical order, and some poor sad sack would be tasked with putting the needle down on the tiny groove whenever one of the Abbey Road medley songs would come up.

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 01:59 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

Here's two examples of pimply faced AOR tracks that tend to be played in pairs, the first serving as more of a prelude than a song. "Foreplay"/"Long Time" - Boston “Eruption”/“You Really Got Me” - Van Halen

Edgy MD Nov 26 2012 02:02 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

"Moving in Stereo" and "All Mixed Up" --- more commonly played alone or together? How would you play them?

RealityChuck Nov 27 2012 06:39 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Spirit -- "Prelude/Nothing to Hide," from one of the ten greatest rock albums of all time. [youtube:wj3tgz1p]UPm9NDwas9I[/youtube:wj3tgz1p] Elton John -- "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" [youtube:wj3tgz1p]wAhpIjazFN0[/youtube:wj3tgz1p] ("Funeral" is better live than on the album).

Edgy MD Nov 27 2012 09:06 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Edgy MD wrote: "Moving in Stereo" and "All Mixed Up" --- more commonly played alone or together? How would you play them? Anybubs?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 27 2012 09:12 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

I've always heard 'em together.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 27 2012 09:13 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Oh I think they are also intended to be strung together but the connection is stronger in my mind between the other pairing on that album mentioned above. They intentionally left only a beat between the end of 'You're All I Got Tonight' and the beginning of 'Bye Bye Love' They fit like a puzzle, not like they are taped together with synths.

Edgy MD Nov 27 2012 09:14 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Substitution mass confusion clouds inside my head.

Edgy MD Nov 29 2012 03:13 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

Greg Hawks, rolling out the sax. [youtube:1igl1qx9]3gX9bgOjs-4[/youtube:1igl1qx9]

metsguyinmichigan Nov 29 2012 09:01 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

The Kings with "This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide" Good '80s stuff!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 29 2012 09:11 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

good one!

metsguyinmichigan Nov 29 2012 09:45 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

I recently found a cool live version!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 29 2012 10:04 PM Re: Single Track or Medley

There's dynamite footage out there of the keyboard guy in a yellow jumpsuit bouncing on American Bandstand. As far as I know first and only song with the stones to rhyme "Donna" and "Toronto." um, very Canadian, eh? [youtube:2ak3rx44]a7M49n9M8Ug[/youtube:2ak3rx44]

Swan Swan H Dec 01 2012 09:21 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

I heard "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" on the Nassau Community College Saturday Morning '70s show today, and while it does not meet the Edgy standard for slasherization (it really is just one song) it reminded me that McCartney's "Venus and Mars" and "Rock Show" were quite often melded into a single play.

Edgy MD Dec 03 2012 07:46 AM Re: Single Track or Medley

Yeah, that's a good one, they are side by side opening both Venus and Mars and Wings over America. Not a medley explicitly, but I'd find it jarring to hear one without the other. And I'd additionally be surprised to hear the live tracks from WoA without "Jet" slammed on the end. I think Abbey Road gave McCartney an interest in finding new complexity and depth by stringing songs together. "Band on the Run" is a single track, but it's also kind of a three-song suite.