By track to track transition, I mean when either one track lays over onto another, or there's foreshadowing that the other track will appear. Quite personally, I love Broken Social Scene's "Pacific Theme" to "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl."

My favorite one of these is on Dark Side of the Moon, where the end of Time leads into The Great Gig in the Sky as the woman starts singing-screaming.

The whole of Side 2 of Abbey Road.

After that, probably Since I Left You by the Avalanches.

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The whole of Side 2 of Abbey Road.

There ya go.

Plus the entirety Stevie Wonder's Innervisions and the new Bongolian album, A Psychedelic Trip to Outer Bongolia.

Oh my god. I am all about this thread. I'll post a lot more when i can think of them, but this comes to mind first.

Modest Mouse's...The Perfect Disguise> Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, tracks 4 and 5 respectively on The Moon and Anarctica.

What's this?---> ">", it's called a carrot and in the jam band community it is used to signify a shift from one song to another (like, Mike's Song>I am Hydrogen> Weekapaugh Groove, Phish anyone?)

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Originally posted by Moses, R.M.:
Oh my god. I am all about this thread. I'll post a lot more when i can think of them, but this comes to mind first.

Modest Mouse's...The Perfect Disguise> Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, tracks 4 and 5 respectively on The Moon and Anarctica.

What's this?---> ">", it's called a carrot and in the jam band community it is used to signify a shift from one song to another (like, Mike's Song>I am Hydrogen> Weekapaugh Groove, Phish anyone?)

I like that one a lot too. Also, Modest Mouse's "World at Large" into "Float On" was pretty good.

Don't really know if these count as track to track transitions, but the first thing that came to my mind where the two epic songs on The Decemberists' "The Crane Wife". Especially the first one on "The Island", just wow...

I gotta go with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah phasing "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" into "Is This Love?"

Led Zeppelin having "Friends" phase into "Celebration Day" is noteworthy in that the transition was a necessity due to one of the studio techs accidentally deleting the beginning of "Celebration Day".

The one that springs immediately to mind is "Ten Storey Love Song" transmogrifying into "Daybreak" on Second Coming by The Stone Roses.

great thread

first half of bjork's homogenic is perfect from 'hunter' to 'bachelorette'.

radiohead has done some records with perfect sequencing but the one that sticks out is 'idioteque' to 'morning bell' on kid A.

mbv's 'when u sleep', 'i only said', 'come in alone'....f'in brilliant on loveless.

i ll add more soon to this thread....

When I read the title of this thread I immediately thought of The Microphones' The Glow Pt. 2... I remember listening to that album for the first time and being completely amazed at how well everything flowed together. It really needs to be listened in its entirety to get the full impact.

All of Night Ripper

I made a quick copy of Night Ripper for a friend of mine. Later on we played it in the car and there were two second silences between tracks. It was extremely irritating to listen to.

I always liked "Haiti" into "Rebellion (Lies)" on Arcade Fire's Funeral.

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I made a quick copy of Night Ripper for a friend of mine. Later on we played it in the car and there were two second silences between tracks. It was extremely irritating to listen to.

It depends on your CD player, it flows on my discman, but on my boombox it has a 2 second pause.

The fadeout of the whirling strings on "Armchairs" segues into the whistling clarion call of "Darkmatter" which then builds to the helicopter blades of the electric guitar before Andrew Bird starts singing on the centerpiece of Armchair Apocrypha.

"You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son" to "Modern World"

The swirling end of "Dirty Harry," which leads very impressively into the maniacal, clever laugh of "Feel Good Inc." off of Gorillaz' Demon Days.

Wow, there are some strong choices here. I very much agree with Abbey Road, Avalanches, and especially Glow Part 2. So many nights spent slipping in and out of consciousness while listening to that record provided some interesting and unexpected moments. God, its been so long since I've listened to the Microphones.

Immediately the transitions from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea came to mind. The sequencing of those tracks is absolutely amazing. Its a shining example of what a solid, cohesive album sounds like.

I love that moment, near the end of 'Blacklisted', by Neko Case, where Ghost Writing concludes, and for 45 seconds there's silence and then the reprise of Outro With Bees begins, with the out of tune radio. It's just so inexplicably perfect.