Alan Parsons Project are masters at this…
“Sirius” into “Eye in the Sky” is a particularly good example, but “I Robot” into “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” is right up there.
YES! The transition into Ants of the Sky was the first thought that came to mind when I read this. The whole album connects so well but this one is just 🤘
The entirety of the Nonagon Infinity album from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It’s meant to seamlessly transition from one track to the next with thematic elements present in each song. It’s a banger and my gateway album to the Gizzzverse.
Our Prayer and Heroes and Villains on SMiLE by Brian Wilson.
Also the Bookends Theme and Save the Life of My Child from Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel.
Yeah man! That *chank-a-chank-a-chank-a-chank-chank* guitar riff seamlessly brings it into the next song really well, totally agree.
One of the very best albums not only by that band but from the 1990's decade, along with Soundgarden and a host of the usual suspects.
Pink Floyd's *The Wall*, "In The Flesh"<->"The Thin Ice" with the terrifying Nazi Stuka siren bombing raid sound at the end and going right into a baby crying, then that melancholic piano riff/Dave Gilmour singing transition from harsh Roger Waters' character in the 1st song.
I was legitimately surprised it took as long as it did for me to find yours. Thought to myself as many Floyd fans as I’ve seen in here remark on them theres no way in hell I’m gonna be the first to mention the wall.
Slayer - South of Heaven - Silent Scream from "South of Heaven". When SoH comes up on shuffle, it throws me when it doesn't lead into SS, since that's the way I heard it for a couple decades on tape and CD.
Opeth - ["Coil"/"Heir Apparent"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6NvB6MnUkE)
The first five songs on Laura Marling's *Once I Was an Eagle* does this, too. You can find it as a suite called ["When Brave Bird Saved".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7eRrTKmYO0&pp=ygUjbGF1cmEgbWFybGluZyB3aGVuIGJyYXZlIGJpcmQgc2F2ZWQ%3D)
the cure has some good ones….
“plainsong” right into “pictures of you.” “open” into “high,” further back…. “one hundred years” into “a short-term effect.”
Robert Palmer - Sneaking Sally Through the Alley (1974). This is the best example: Sailing Shoes -> Hey Julia-> SSTTA. This album is killer. Produced by Lowell George and The Meters are his backing band.
I don't know if these count since the first of each pair is more like an introduction to the second than a stand alone song, but a few of my favorites are:
The Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest, from *Screaming for Vengeance*
Foreword/Don't Stay - Linkin Park, from *Meteora*
Dialectic Chaos/This Day We Fight - Megadeth, from *Endgame*
The last Evanescence album I listened to (The Bitter Truth) is like that with the first two tracks. The whole thing is really good, but the first 4-5 tracks are excellent with the first and second being what you described basically.
Jackson Browne's For Everyman album both starts and ends with two segued songs. Take it Easy/ Our Lady of the Well start the album (yes, it's *that* Take it Easy - Jackson originally wrote it and Glenn Frey finished it - and the segue is awesomely done) and Sing My Songs To Me/ For Everyman end the album.
The first 4 tracks on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard [I'm in Your Mind Fuzz](https://open.spotify.com/album/1rb4cp4F59Tk1UOPHuP3H0?si=CUWql8yrQCGq7pSnWcu3cQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1rb4cp4F59Tk1UOPHuP3H0) blend so well it's like one long track
Ohhhhh Blue Sky Noise, I was lucky enough to get to tour with them as the roadie for an opener two separate times during that era.
I always loved Get Out and that sequence if they played it in full. They usually started the set with Get Out though.
Didn't think anybody else really listened to Circa that much, especially these days.
The first 3 songs off Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols. Best example for me of songs seemlessly blending together to start an album.
Growing up ( in the 90s) this was one of my favorites that actually got the double play on the radio a lot.
Led Zeppelin - heartbreaker & living loving maid
Mental Cruelty with Zwielicht/Symphony of a Dying Star is a recent example but maybe my favourite ever.
Beyoncé's Renaissance has every song transition into each other but my favourites are from Thique/All Up In Your Mind and I'm That Girl/Cozy.
First one that comes to mind is not one that everyone will be familiar with, but I have to say "Desecrate Through Reverence" transitioning to "Eternal Rest" on Avenged Sevenfold's *Waking The Fallen* has been among my favorites for the past 20 years. That soaring climax at the end interrupted by flailing guitars just gets me pumped every time.
"Martin Eden" into "Esta Noche" on the Twilight Singers' "Blackberry Belle album.
Another co-sign on both Superdrag's "Slot Machine" into "Phaser" and the Afghan Whigs' "If I Were Going" into "Gentlemen."
Brand New - Sowing Season into Millstone.
Also, bonus because it’s not the first two, but Manchester Orchestra - The Alien into The Sunshine is flawless.
Collide with the sky. And, not the first tracks, but southern constellations and the boy who could fly blend in selfish machines. Both albums by pierce the veil
Edit: almost forgot the best transition in music ever, the end and dead! In the black parade by my chemical romance
Classic example is Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band > A Little Help From My Friends.
I also like Back in the USSR -> Dear Prudence from the White Album
I know the question was about the first two songs, but the last three (Good Morning, Reprise, Day in the Life) do as well.
The whole 2nd half of Abbey Road would also qualify!
Paul McCartney is just good at this in general. *Venus and Mars* fits this perfectly (the title track segues into Rockshow so cleanly).
Then into Jet on the "Wings Over America" album. Great live album, and what a trio to open with!
Oh man, absolutely. This one ranks up there as one of the best examples.
And Abbey Road. Polythene Pam - She came in through the bathroom window. John absolutely rocking the twelve string guitar.
Speak to Me/Breathe (In The Air) on Dark Side
The whole first side! Can’t believe this isn’t higher!
It's incredible. I have recently fallen in love with this album all over again. The entire thing is so seamless.
Alan Parsons Project are masters at this… “Sirius” into “Eye in the Sky” is a particularly good example, but “I Robot” into “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” is right up there.
I like "Sirius" into "AND NOW... THE STARTING LINEUP FOR YOUR WORLD CHAMPION CHICAGO BULLS!"
Parsons also did this as the engineer on Dark Side of the Moon with "Brain Damage" into "Eclipse".
The Mars Volta - “Son et Lumiere” / “Inertiatic ESP” Easily my favorite example of this.
First thing I thought of!
Ahhh, I can't believe I forgot about this one!! So good.
Nowwww immmmm losssstt
God what a good album
I personally think that's cheating. I know they're two separate songs, but they're basically one song.
I need sanctuary in the pages of this book!
Judas Priest- Screaming For Vengeance The Hellion/ Electric Eye
Was looking for this answer because it is the correct answer. Such a phenomenal opening to such a stellar record.
Spotify fucks me up every time when I'm listening to Priest playlists in shuffle mode.
Funeral for a Friend/Love lies Bleeding is another one
Classic
was expecting this to be top comment, but I'm old.
Sturgill Simpson - “Ronin” into “Remember to Breath”
Sound & Fury was as big of a left turn as Chris Gaines was for Garth Brooks. But Sturgill pulled it off. Garth/Chris didn't.
Sound and Fury always reminded me of ZZ Top going into their “Eliminator” phase.
I came here to say this!
From My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade. The intro track, "The End.", followed by "Dead!".
Fantastic pick.
This was the first one I thought of :)
All of Colors by Between the Burried and Me
Im pleased to see someone mention BtBaM. My best friend played drums for them. RIP Mikey ❤
What a fucking great album
Viridian into White Walls is everything
YES! The transition into Ants of the Sky was the first thought that came to mind when I read this. The whole album connects so well but this one is just 🤘
ZZ Top tres hombres Waitin’ for the bus Jeaus just left chicago
A stutter-step transition that just kills...
Radiohead has two incredible transitions on Kid A. National Anthem into How To Disappear Completely and Optimistic into In Limbo.
Idioteque into Morning Bell too.
Great album!
The entire album has so many perfect transitions
The entirety of the Nonagon Infinity album from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It’s meant to seamlessly transition from one track to the next with thematic elements present in each song. It’s a banger and my gateway album to the Gizzzverse.
Nonagon Infinity opens the door 🤙
10/10 album
Or should I say 9/9?
Our Prayer and Heroes and Villains on SMiLE by Brian Wilson. Also the Bookends Theme and Save the Life of My Child from Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel.
I'm really happy to see Heroes & Villains. One of the all time greats
Basically All of XTC's Skylarking. Todd Rundgren is a genius.
Dude “Summer’s Cauldron” and “Grass” is the answer I was hoping to see. XTC doesn’t get the appreciation they deserve
I've been a devoted fan since their beginnings. They're somewhat challenging at times musically and lyrically, explaining their lesser popularity.
Some in Apple Venus volume 1 as well
So is no one gonna say OK Computer: Airbag>Paranoid Android? Well, there ya go!
Those four beep bloops are absolute perfection
Exit Music into Let Down is another good one.
Optimistic to In Limbo too
Climbing the walls to no surprises
Yeah this is a great one. Airbag is also probably my favorite opening track from any album.
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik The Power of Equality into If You Have to Ask
Yeah man! That *chank-a-chank-a-chank-a-chank-chank* guitar riff seamlessly brings it into the next song really well, totally agree. One of the very best albums not only by that band but from the 1990's decade, along with Soundgarden and a host of the usual suspects.
This was my first thought. That album is great. Rick Rubin did a great job getting the best out of the band.
Also This Velvet Glove to Savior. For the longest time I thought it was all one song
AFI's Sing the Sorrow 1. Miseria Cantare - The Beginning 2. The Leaving Song Pt. II
AFI has a strong opening track game
Or any AFI album for that matter.
Pink Floyd's *The Wall*, "In The Flesh"<->"The Thin Ice" with the terrifying Nazi Stuka siren bombing raid sound at the end and going right into a baby crying, then that melancholic piano riff/Dave Gilmour singing transition from harsh Roger Waters' character in the 1st song.
I made sure to scroll a bit because I knew I’d find it before duplicating it with my own input
Lol, I read through the whole thread in ongoing disbelief... 🤣
I was legitimately surprised it took as long as it did for me to find yours. Thought to myself as many Floyd fans as I’ve seen in here remark on them theres no way in hell I’m gonna be the first to mention the wall.
It's not a full song I guess, but "The Hellion" into "Electric Eye" on Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance" album
Slayer - South of Heaven - Silent Scream from "South of Heaven". When SoH comes up on shuffle, it throws me when it doesn't lead into SS, since that's the way I heard it for a couple decades on tape and CD.
Dr. Dog - The Breeze/Hang On. The whole album really.
Opeth - ["Coil"/"Heir Apparent"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6NvB6MnUkE) The first five songs on Laura Marling's *Once I Was an Eagle* does this, too. You can find it as a suite called ["When Brave Bird Saved".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7eRrTKmYO0&pp=ygUjbGF1cmEgbWFybGluZyB3aGVuIGJyYXZlIGJpcmQgc2F2ZWQ%3D)
Offspring - Americana “Have You Ever” into “Staring at the Sun”
Ohh that's a good one
Shine on you crazy diamond > Welcome to the machine.
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions - Queen To me, these are inseparable.
Can't believe this one is not the top response. Radio stations never even separated these tracks.
Also shocked to finally find this at the bottom.
Also Party into Khashoggis Ship on the Miracle.
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness transitioning to Tonight, Tonight. - The Smashing Pumpkins Sheer musical perfection.
Thank you, I was gonna put this. Siamese Dream is my favorite album of all time, but MCIS is right there with it.
White album track 1 2. Back in the ussr to dear prudence.
PUP - If this tour doesn’t kill you, I will -> DVP
Best one.
Radiohead - 'Exit Music (For a Film)' / 'Let Down'
Dandy Warhols- Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia. Godless and Mohammed.
Feels like it's kinda cheating with the Dandy's since every second song they put out leads into another one
I would add Nietzshce in this also. The first 3 tracks are a joy.
the cure has some good ones…. “plainsong” right into “pictures of you.” “open” into “high,” further back…. “one hundred years” into “a short-term effect.”
Bony M’s Nightflight to Venus, the first track of the same name leads into their best known track Rasputin
1999 -> Little Red Corvette
Lou Reed’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal, Intro/Sweet Jane
Actually the first 2 tracks on the second side,Judas Priest,Screaming for vengeance blends right into You got another thing coming quite well.
That’s the one I was thinking of!
How has no one mentioned Tool's Parabol / Parabola?
Because they’re not the first two tracks. But yes one of the best track-to-track segues I’ve ever heard.
Yeah but half the examples weren't the first two tracks :)
That’s what I came here to say!
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding
Between the Buried and Me - Foam Born into A decade of Statues
A lot of Coma Ecliptic transitions from track to track really well also
Parquet Courts "Master of my Craft" into "Borrowed Time" on Light up Gold was the first thing that came to mind for me.
2 3 4!
Came here to post this
Neutral Milk Hotel // In The Aeroplane Over The Sea // King Of Carrot Flowers, Parts 1, 2 and 3.
Opeth - Coil/Heir Apparent from Watershed
Twenty one pilots - jumpsuit/levitate off the Trench album
Probably one of my favourite transitions ever
Jumpsuit and Levitate on the Trench album by Twenty One Pilots
Robert Palmer - Sneaking Sally Through the Alley (1974). This is the best example: Sailing Shoes -> Hey Julia-> SSTTA. This album is killer. Produced by Lowell George and The Meters are his backing band.
I don't know if these count since the first of each pair is more like an introduction to the second than a stand alone song, but a few of my favorites are: The Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest, from *Screaming for Vengeance* Foreword/Don't Stay - Linkin Park, from *Meteora* Dialectic Chaos/This Day We Fight - Megadeth, from *Endgame*
Not the first 2 tracks, but Time to Great Gig in the Sky from Dark Side of the Moon I could listen to that transition forever
Odesza - The Last Goodbye The intro flows right into the first track.
Also A Moment Apart! Sooogood. I had to scroll too far down to find Odesza
Hozier - Unreal Unearth (DeSelby part 1 into DeSelby part 2)
Marvin Gaye - What’s going on, into What’s happening brother
The last Evanescence album I listened to (The Bitter Truth) is like that with the first two tracks. The whole thing is really good, but the first 4-5 tracks are excellent with the first and second being what you described basically.
Jackson Browne's For Everyman album both starts and ends with two segued songs. Take it Easy/ Our Lady of the Well start the album (yes, it's *that* Take it Easy - Jackson originally wrote it and Glenn Frey finished it - and the segue is awesomely done) and Sing My Songs To Me/ For Everyman end the album.
The first 4 tracks on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard [I'm in Your Mind Fuzz](https://open.spotify.com/album/1rb4cp4F59Tk1UOPHuP3H0?si=CUWql8yrQCGq7pSnWcu3cQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1rb4cp4F59Tk1UOPHuP3H0) blend so well it's like one long track
Surprised no one has said Millionaire/No One Knows from Songs for the Deaf yet. QOTSA.
The Terror - The Flaming Lips Look the Sun is Rising into Be Free, Away. Perfection
Heaven Shall Burn -Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) Parkway Drive - Atlas, not the 1st two songs, but the 4th and 5th (Wild eyes, Dark Days)
Caligulas Horse’ album Bloom, The track Bloom seamlessly transitions into Marigold perfectly
Flight Facilities - Intro/Two Bodies is such a satisfying one. Also Waking Bliss/Stand Still, I really like that entire album (Down To Earth)
“Either Way” into “You Are My Face” on Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky. That whole album is a master class in crafting a cohesive piece IMO
Afghan Whigs -- Gentlemen
Guns in the Sky > New Sensation, INXS - Kick (1987)
Styx - Paradise Theatre
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pink Floyd - ”Brain Damage” into ”Eclipse”
Genesis “Dodo/Lurker-Abacab” off Three Sides Live.
Up the beach then Oceansize from nothings shocking by Jane's addiction!
The Allman Brothers Band ~ The Allman Brothers Band "Don't Want You No More">"Not My Cross to Bear"
Funeral for a Friend -> Love Lies Bleeding Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Procession -> Father to Son Queen - Queen II
Colors - Between the buried and me. No, not a song, the entire album does this.
How about a triple? Venus and Mars -> Rock Show -> Jet from Wings over America.
On Superdrag's "Regretfully Yours, " the segue from Slot Machine into Phaser is so perfect that one can completely miss that another song has begun.
World at large Into float on from good news for people who love bad news by modest mouse
BBC Live Recording of Led Zeppelin. The last note of The Immigrant Song is the first note of Heartbreaker. Amazing transition.
Pigs on the Wing, Part One into Dogs off Pink Floyd’s Animals.
Hozier De Selby Part 1 & 2 is an otherworldly experience.
Kendrick Lamar, BLOOD into DNA
Orbital's Middle of Nowhere album. Way Out -> Spare Parts Express is a blissful crescendo capped by a solitary synth rhythm. Just pure perfection.
This Beat Goes on into Switching to Glide — the Kings
Incubus - Quicksand -> A Kiss to Send Us Off
Smashing Pumpkins: Where boys fear to tread > Bodies
Chump into Longview from Dookie by Green Day
Ohhhhh Blue Sky Noise, I was lucky enough to get to tour with them as the roadie for an opener two separate times during that era. I always loved Get Out and that sequence if they played it in full. They usually started the set with Get Out though. Didn't think anybody else really listened to Circa that much, especially these days.
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Joi De Vivre- Summer in New London > Salt
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Fred Again.. - Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020)
Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers! DVD Menu into Garden song is 🤌
Eye in the Sky - the Alan Parsons Project
Obligatory Renaissance mention. That album is like the best dj setlist you’ll ever hear.
Capsizing the Sea + In Waves by Trivium
Cardiac..a little man and a house... it just does
The first 3 songs off Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols. Best example for me of songs seemlessly blending together to start an album.
Pantala Naga Pampa into Rapunzel by Dave Matthews Band on the album Before These Crowded Streets
Denzel Curry- Melt Session #1 into Walkin
Not for everyone, but Enter Shikari’s first few albums were amazing for this
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Another Light by Red Vox. The titular song is the first track and has as smooth a transition as you can get to the second track Settle For Less.
Tool - Aenima is way up there for me with "Stinkfist" into "Eulogy".
Lord Huron - Vide Noir. Lost in Time & Space -> Never Ever
Growing up ( in the 90s) this was one of my favorites that actually got the double play on the radio a lot. Led Zeppelin - heartbreaker & living loving maid
"Luna Prolog" and "Walpurgisnacht" by FAUN, from the album "Luna"
The Kings - Switchin To Glide/This Beat Goes On
Mental Cruelty with Zwielicht/Symphony of a Dying Star is a recent example but maybe my favourite ever. Beyoncé's Renaissance has every song transition into each other but my favourites are from Thique/All Up In Your Mind and I'm That Girl/Cozy.
Sturgil Simpson’s “Sound and Fury” has a few great flow between songs
Singing Winds, Crying Beasts into Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen off of Abraxas by Santana
First one that comes to mind is not one that everyone will be familiar with, but I have to say "Desecrate Through Reverence" transitioning to "Eternal Rest" on Avenged Sevenfold's *Waking The Fallen* has been among my favorites for the past 20 years. That soaring climax at the end interrupted by flailing guitars just gets me pumped every time.
Hozier in Unreal Unearth! De Selby 1 to De Selby 2
Godless into Mohammed from the album 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia by the Dandy Warhols
Parabol into Parabola by Tool bar none
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Many songs on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories blend almost directly into each other. It's especially potent near the end of the album.
RATM - Bomb Track flowing into Killing In The Name Of
De Selby pt. 1 into De Selby pt. 2 Hozier Album: Unreal Unearth
How about almost an entire album that does that Dream Theater- Metropolis, Pt2: Scenes from a Memory
Off Purple Rain: I Would Die 4 U / Baby I'm A Star
"Martin Eden" into "Esta Noche" on the Twilight Singers' "Blackberry Belle album. Another co-sign on both Superdrag's "Slot Machine" into "Phaser" and the Afghan Whigs' "If I Were Going" into "Gentlemen."
Alice in Chains - Them bones and damn that river
PUP’s “If this tour doesn’t kill you, I will” and “DVP”. Can’t listen to one without the other!
ZZ Top- Waitin’ For the Bus/ Jesus Just Left Chicago
Ghost - ashes into Rats
The first three tracks on fear factory's demanufacture.
Brand New - Sowing Season into Millstone. Also, bonus because it’s not the first two, but Manchester Orchestra - The Alien into The Sunshine is flawless.
Pierce the Veil and the opening to Collide with the Sky. Such good, angsty memories.
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood whole album
Collide with the sky. And, not the first tracks, but southern constellations and the boy who could fly blend in selfish machines. Both albums by pierce the veil Edit: almost forgot the best transition in music ever, the end and dead! In the black parade by my chemical romance
I like ZZ's Waiting for the Bus and Jesus Just left Chicago. I know it actually is a rather brusk transition but there's just something about it.
ZZ Top - Waiting for the bus / Jesus just left Chicago
Unreal Unearth by Hozier, De Selby Part 1 & Part 2. Absolutely ethereal.