Best first and last songs on an album?

[Big KC]

Pet Sounds... Wouldn't It Be Nice
 ...Hang Onto Your Ego

[crevers]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
 Feeling Gravitys Pull/Wendell Gee - Fables of the Reconstruction (R.E.M.)

Damn, I was thinking that.  Nice call.
 
 First place...
 Race for the Prize / Waiting for a Superman - Soft Bulletin (Flaming Lips)
 
 Runners-up...
 Mass Romantic / Breakin' The Law - Mass Romantic (New Pornographers)
 Misunderstood / Say You Miss Me - Being There v.1 (Wilco)
 Narcolepsy / Lullabye - Reinhold Messner (Ben Folds Five)
 Me and Mia / Walking To Do - Shake the Sheets (Ted Leo & RX)

[chaz]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  Five Years/Rock and Roll Suicide - Ziggy Stardust (Bowie)
 
 

Woah....great call.

[Guiny]

Metallica - Blackened/Dyers Eve
 Anthrax - Potters Field/This Is Not An Exit (original CD)
 Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry/S.M.F.
 Primus - The Return Of Sathington Willoughby/Arnie
 Slayer - War Ensemble/Season In The Abyss

[hostiledm]

the un-listed intro and outro on Catherine Wheel's Adam and Eve.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by Big KC:
  Pet Sounds... Wouldn't It Be Nice
 ...Hang Onto Your Ego

"caroline no" is the last song on pet sounds, "hang on to your ego" was not released until the 1996 re-issue as a bonus track.

[renton007]

BJM: Going to Hell/Wisdom (Strung Out in Heaven)
 Johnny Cash: Delia/The Man Who Couldn't Cry (American Recordings)
 Television: See No Evil/Torn Curtain (Marquee Moon)
 Neil Young: My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue/Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) (Rust Never Sleeps)

[pela123]

ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space/cop shoot cop--spiritualized

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by Big KC:
  Pet Sounds... Wouldn't It Be Nice
 ...Hang Onto Your Ego

"caroline no" is the last song on pet sounds, "hang on to your ego" was not released until the 1996 re-issue as a bonus track. [/b]

Oh SNAP!
 
 By the way, I've learned not to argue with Venerable about Pet Sounds.  Kid's wicked smart!

[Big KC]

i knew that...
 
 
 ...the 1996 re-issue is way better anyhow. it's pretty much the best album ever.

[chancegardener]

'Holidays in the Sun' / 'EMI' - Sex Pistols
 'Precious' / 'Mystery Achievement' - Pretenders
 'Purple Haze' / 'Are You Experienced' - Hendrix

[Firebutt McGee]

Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Spellbound" and "Voodoo Dolly"
 
 Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill" and "The Morning Fog"
 
 Sonic Youth - "Schitzophrenia" and "Master-Dik"

[Mobius]

Five more . . .
 
 "Sympathy for the Devil" / "Salt of the Earth"
 
 "One of These Days" / "Echoes"
 
 "You can get it if you really want" / "Harder they come"
 
 "Debaser / "Gouge Away"
 
 "Planet Telex" / "Street Spirit"

[El Jefe Design]

Girl's Against Boys - V-Lux album
 In LIke Flynn/Bughouse
 
 Having just seen them at the T&G Fest where they played the album straight through, this was a perfect start and end.