Best song trifecta - one group

Drive-By Truckers:
1. Decoration Day
2. Outfit
3. Carl Perkins' Cadillac

Wilco:
1. Hummingbird
2. Poor Places
3. Via Chicago

Death Cab for Cutie:
1. Styrofoam Plates
2. Company Calls
3. What Sarah Said

 

Props to Double J for saying Debbie Gibson!

Journey
1. Any Way You Want It
2. Don't Stop Believing
3. Faithfully

Heart
1. Crazy On You
2. Barracuda
3. Dreamboat Annie
(no, none of that crap they did in the 80s)

Rick Springfield
1. Jessie's Girl
2. I've Done Everything For You
3. Don't Talk to Strangers

Cyndi Lauper
1. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
2. Money Changes Everything
3. Time After Time

 

IIRC, that was one of Diane Warren's earlier and lesser-known hits. Still a good song, though, and you're dead on about the timing. Expose was on its last legs by then, it probably would have achieved a much higher chart position had it come out even a year or two earlier.

Fixed!!

 

Actually, I love 'I Drove All Night.' Totally forgot about it. And what about She Bop? But I'll stick with my Journey, Heart and Rick Springfield picks. Fo sho.

 

Not sure if this is how I would actually do it, but consulting my most-played list on iTunes, it could be three Young Jeezy tracks.

"Get Ya Mind Right"
"Thug Motivation 101"
"Lets Get It / Skys The Limit"

 

Wilco:
Wishful Thinking
Remember the Mountain Bed
Via Chicago (live album)

Marah:
Walt Whitman Bridge
Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft
East

 

What a great thread.

Here's what I'll add:

Bob Dylan:
Positively 4th Street
Knockin' on heaven's door
Standing in the doorway

Elliott Smith:
Angeles
Coming up roses
Baby Britain

Radiohead:
Fake Plastic Trees
No surprises
Electioneering

Wilco:
Wishful thinking
I'm always in love
I"m the man who loves who

Velvet Underground:
Stephanie Says
Who loves the sun
I'm waiting for the man

The Clash:
Hateful
Guns of Brixton
Death of glory

Blur:
No distance left to run
bang
coffee & tv

The Beatles:
For no one
Lovely Rita
cry baby cry

 

2 live crew
1. the fuck shop
2. head, booty and cock
3. if you believe in having sex

 

prince

blue light
morning papers
incense and candles

the eagles

hotel california
life in the fast lane
new kid in town


public enemy

don't believe the hype
fight the power
bring the noize

marvin gaye

what's goin' on
distant lover
let's get it on

ac/dc

highway to hell
hells bell
give the dog a bone

 

You're fucked, Fever_Dog. The definitive list is ...

1. Seven Bizzos (seven days, seven ways)
2. Dirty Nursery Rhymes (My momma and your momma were talking a little shit. My momma called your momma a bulldagging ass bitch.)
3 (tie). Dick Almighty, I Ain't Bullshittin', Put Her In The Buck

I leave you with this ...

"Hey wait, I got one, did this, I got one, check this out
The two dudes, dig this, the two dudes
Two dudes dressed like nuns, right (scratch)."

 

Springsteen
1. Badlands
2. Born to Run
3. Murder Incorporated

Live
1. All Over You
2. Shit Towne
3. Sun

U2
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. I Will Follow
3. Vertigo

BoDeans (have to be the live performances from Joe Dirt Car double CD)
1. Idaho (no, Idaho, I don't want you on the deserted island with me)
2. Naked
3. Good Work

Violent Femmes
1. Gone Daddy Gone
2. 36-24-36
3. Held Her In My Arms

OR

1. Add It Up
2. Black Girls
3. American Music

OR

1. Dance Motherfucker Dance
2. Out the Window
3. Kiss Off

 

Gut-Man, you totally beat me to it! I was on my home from work the last 15 minutes, too. Anyway, continuing the much love for the boys from York, Pee-aay ...

Live:
1. All Over You
2. Run to the Water
3. They Stood Up For Love

1. White, Discussion
2. Sparkle
3. Show

1. Lightning Crashes
2. Overcome
3. I Alone

1. Love Shines
2. Shit Towne
3. Dance With You (the encore version they always end their shows with )