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| Two-Fer Tuesday! |
| 07.27.05 (6:05 am) [edit] |
You know what we never hear in the music industry anymore?
The two-song combo.
I’m talking about when radio stations play two songs by the same artist that are always sandwiched together. It’s all over classic-rock radio.
For example, what do you always hear after Queen’s “We Will Rock You”?
That’s right… “We Are The Champions”.
There’s very few of these, but you do hear them on the classic rock stations all the time. Like ZZ Top’s combo of “Have Mercy” and “Jesus Just Left Chicago”. Or Journey’s “Feelin’ That Way” and “Anytime That You Want Me”.
The Beatles, after crafting the “Sgt. Pepper” / “With A Little Help” combo, went one further and strung together two sets of three songs on their “Abbey Road” album: “Mean Mr. Mustard” segues into “Polythene Pam” and ends with “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”… and of course we have the famous “Golden Slumbers” / “Carry That Weight” / “The End” opus.
But you never hear anything like that today with rock from the 90’s or from this decade. The last famous combo was done by INXS in 1987, with “Need You Tonight” and “Mediate”. And most of the time “Mediate” doesn’t get played. On the radio you never hear two songs by Pearl Jam or Soundgarden or Weezer or Matchbox 20 or Creed that always get played together.
The video scene, however, is another story. There’s a burgeoning trend in hip-hop videos to combine two songs into one video. That can take on many fashions: The first song can be in its entirety and after that comes a snippet of the second song; both songs get shortened; or the second song can even pop up in the middle of the video. (Anyone remember “Jazz / Buggin’ Out” by A Tribe Called Quest in 1991?) On hip-hop radio, though, the two songs don’t get played back to back.
So if songs can get paired up in videos, why not on the radio again? I challenge all the alternative rock stations out there to make a new two-song combo that can go into heavy rotation. If Green Day can revive the multi-song suite with “Jesus of Suburbia”, this can be revived too.
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