The Glands s/t
That's insane. The songs are slower on side 2, but there's not a weak song on the entire record.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Nite flights by the walker brothers
― broodje kroket (dog latin)
Nothing will beat this.
Scott Walker, "'Til the Band Comes In"
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
... Pulp even wrote a song about it!
"It's like a late Tom and JerryWhen the two of them could've talkLike the Stones since the eightiesLike the last days of Southfork, ohhLike 'Planet of the Apes' on TVThe second side of ''Til the Band Comes In'"
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
("Nite Flights" still wins tho)
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Good call Tom on "Til the band comes in"! All the covers at the back destroy the glow of that wonderful 7/8-track first run
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
With the Beatles
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Anal Cunt "It Just Gets Worse"
Horrible sequencing for such great songwriting
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't virtually every album released after the CD became the dominant format qualify here?
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Otherwise, "Tarkus" by ELP.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Couldn't give a fuck about anything on Surfer Rosa after Where Is My Mind
or the fuckin' die bit
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
SOS Band actually used to be like this for a while. Something about using very hot producer/songwriters for the first side, and then substandard songs written and produced by less merited folks for the second side.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
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Crazy talk. Everything from track 3 forward on side 2 is essential. .
― Captain Hyrax (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
the white album then.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Nevermind
― herbal bert (herb albert), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
Brick is Red, I'm Amazed, & Oh My Golly are all gems (demo vers. of Amazed is better)
Serious answer: Van Morrison, Blowin Your Mind
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
Also maybe Marquee Moon & the first Roxy Music album (<tho I love this all the way thru)
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
'Genesis'
― Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus Jones, Doubt
― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
Robert Palmer, Sneakin' Sally through the Alley
― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
Not feeling Key Lime Pie at all. I thought just about everyone loved "All Her Favourite Fruit" and yeah, "June" is great. "Come On Darkness" is an excellent closer, etc...
Two I remember from childhood also had the singles stacked onto side one. The non-singles, while never awful, were quite unmemorable:
Pet Shop Boys - PleaseCrowded House - Crowded House (though strong through to the first track on the second side)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say "Woodface" is more obviously frontloaded than "Crowded House".
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly. Although "Chocolate Cake" seems an increasingly goofy opener with the passage of time, diminishing the effect on WF.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
the Electrik Red album, much as I love it, is kinda frontloaded -- i listened to it on shuffle so often that it took me a while to realize that my 5 favorite songs are tracks 1-5.
Ted Leo has a tendency to frontload his albums, the best stuff is almost always in the first five tracks
― lamp kind (some dude), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the '90s was the peak of deliberate label-mandated frontloading -- so many albums where the first single is track 1, second single is track 2, third single is track 3, etc. (Soul Asylum's Grave Dancers Union comes to mind)
― some dude, Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Most They Might Be Giants albums
― Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
Probably lots of 60's Motown albums.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link