With the Beatles― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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