TheChikenMaster
I'm Unbalanced
choosing song order is like having sex. Go in gently, get ruff, the climax, then soften it out in the end.
Here's how I did mine. I thought of it in terms of an old vinyl LP:
Track 1) strong
Track 2) stronger
Track 3) rip heads off
Track 4) change it up a little
Track 5) really throw em a curveball
Track 6) getting back to normal - if this was an LP, it would be the end of side one
Track 7) strong - beginning of side two
Track 8) stronger
Track 9) curveball/weaker song
Track 10) filler/weaker song
Track 11) decent song
Track 12) rip heads off to close the album
I like the way my album flows together, so my formula worked for me. Your results may vary.
I think that the only way is to go with your instincts ~ whatever they may be. In truth, we assume so much about the way people listen to albums and if they listen to albums. The list that Greg gave was really fascinating because that is moreorless exactly how George Martin hit on sequencing Beatle albums in 1963~4. But at the end of the day, people will take what they're given and then they'll do with it what they will.I was actually wondering more about the how and why people arrange their CD's. Start off with a bang but save the biggest band for later? Just put them in the order of what you think your best tunes are, starting with the "best"? Think more along the lines of tempo and build up to faster tunes?
I do it by instinct more than anything I guess. But I wonder if I should put more thought in it.
The way I see it is if someone buys it, I couldn't care less what they do with it. If they never make it past song 4, then I don't care, as long as they paid.
The list that Greg gave was really fascinating because that is moreorless exactly how George Martin hit on sequencing Beatle albums
That doesn't surprise me. Greg's a huge Beatles fan. He copies everything they do.
But surveys show that 68% of people have no clue how to turn off the "random play" function........so the question is moot before it begins....
True, but my private poll indicated that 94.68% don't know how to turn it on.........But surveys show that 68% of people have no clue how to turn off the "random play" function........so the question is moot before it begins....
Something happened to me in 1976 that has served as the template of my album listening ever since. I was 13 and for no logical or sensible reason I can fathom, I 'borrowed' a Beatles cassette {"67~70"} from my friend's Dad. I was banned from their house at the time. Anyway, took it home and listened to it that night while I did my physics homework. Like the Jackson 5 three years before and The Pink Floyd three years later, it blew my head off and totally changed my musical headspace. I could not get over the Beats' 1967 output, I couldn't concentrate on my homework and I listened to side one of that cassette all night. Seriously ! I listened to it every day, many times. Washing up and washing the kitchen floor became a pleasure because now I had my own music !I like it through and through, you know those albums you listen to only the first 4 songs over and over agian, and then one day you get onto the next 8 and you find some real hidden gems you never knew existed
If I was a spy and I was being tortured, I'd never talk ! You'll get nothing out of me ! Except for one weakness~ the CD shuffle. I hate the very concept. That's why I record all my CDs onto tape. I stopped listening to music radio because of that randomness. My greatest joy would be a busted shuffle.For those who still buy CDs: first of all, god bless you ; and second of all, do you really use the shuffle mode when you first bring the CD home?
AHA!!! You just gave yourself up, Snidely Whiplash! If someone ever had to get you to talk, now all they have to do is submit you to endless random shuffle until you break .If I was a spy and I was being tortured, I'd never talk ! You'll get nothing out of me ! Except for one weakness~ the CD shuffle. I hate the very concept.