I'd say "Woodface" is more obviously frontloaded than "Crowded House".
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