Yeah, it’s Tuesday, but I forgot to post yesterday. Here are four more three-song runs that are all killer, no filler.

Run 1: The Beatles, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Any Time At All,” and “I’ll Cry Instead” (from A Hard Day’s Night): The Beatles are obviously one of those bands where you could throw a dart at a board with all their albums listed on it and pick a random three song run and it’d be full of bangers. This is still one of my favorite Beatles albums, and these songs really hold up.

Run 2: Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “She Belongs To Me,” and “Maggie’s Farm” (from Bringing It All Back Home): Again, much like the Beatles, many of Dylan’s albums are front-to-back amazing (we’ll ignore those born again albums in the late 70s/early 80s and most of what he did in the late 80s). These songs were a sonic manifesto in 1964, with Dylan going electric and tearing the roof off the place.

Run 3: Sting, “La Belle Dame Sans Regrets,” “Valparaiso,” and “Lithium Sunset” (from Mercury Falling): I’ll admit, I have a soft spot for the work of Sting, both solo and with the Police. Mercury Falling may be one of my favorite albums he’s released, and these three songs – the French “La Belle Dame Sans Regrets,” the sailor’s voyage of “Valparaiso,” and the country twang and pedal steel guitar of “Lithium Sunset” – are the closing three tracks on the album, and they serve as an excellent summation of what he was doing here.

Run 4: Wilco, “Muzzle Of Bees,” “Hummingbird,” and “Handshake Drugs” (from A Ghost Is Born): Possibly my favorite Wilco album, possibly tied with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. These songs are mellow and odd and a perfect summation of where Wilco was at this point in their career.