99% of albums are front or back-loaded
>>128837439most albums should be front loaded because it saves time, best tracks first. I know some try to be the Odyssey and tell a story and what not i get having structure in those but for most albums just put your best songs first then get calmer and calmer at the end.
>>128837439What doth album sequencing, OP?
So just listen to the bits that are good, stupid.
>>128837439why are we still trying to force albums to be relevant as a format? isnt that just a little sad
I personally think Anathema's Alternative 4 peaks in the middle, namely the run of songs from Empty to Inner Silence.>but Fragile Dreams is the hitProbably my least favorite song on the album.>>128837895I still listen to music primarily in album format. Not exclusively, but I'd say about 80% of the time these days.
Historic recording of ensemble music from Manchuria (Northeast China), c. late 1920shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNz6KxTJxHE
>>128837439I've noticed with time that 99% of pre-90s albums have their best track at the beginning of side B.
>>128837439Name three (3) examples.
>>128837439A MAN IS RAPING A LADY
>>128837439What about when it's both with shit in the middle like Powerslave
>>128839192Huh, I remember wondering why so many CDs had the hits around track 7 until the Clinton era when the hits started to go on first.