A Nice Long Album With Fifteen Or So Quality Tracks, Well, Um, No Actually....

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Have you ever bought an album and thought, "Oh goody" when you've seen the track listing or the display on yr cd player say that there's a nice big number of songs, only to be disappointed when you listen because a lot of them are actually shitty samples or fillers a mere fifteen or so seconds long?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

share your "being cheated" stories....

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I sometimes find a different problem - there are 15 tracks all of a fair old length and it makes the album too bloody long.
Unless it's all great, which is rare, I'd rather listen to an old LP length of 40 minutes than 70 minutes of stuff. I just can't retain my interest level for that long. And I think you get an extra drop in quality control from the artists stretching it out that bit longer.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i love long albums or albums with many tracks - at least the idea of them tho perhaps it does suggest there's more chance of filler or 'meaningless' interludes - albums like that work for me tho e.g. 'Homework' and 'Since I Left You' as do the hip hop opuses that were '3 Feet High & Rising' and 'Fear Of A Black Planet' - i used these 4 examples before but they remain among my favourite albums

― blueski, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i always get a warm glow when a cd is between 47 and 56 minutes long -- it feels like they've made the effort without trying to pad the thing out. unless its a compilation, of course, in which case i expect 76 minutes and 59 seconds or whatever the maximum is.

― Yes/No Interlude (Yes/No Interlude), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

So Tough by Saint Etienne. First I felt cheated by the number of tracks, then by the quality of some of the later tracks.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Well blueski, there are always exceptions and I'd agree with you about 3 of the 4 (haven't heard Homework).

But in the same way the old rule about double albums being crap had exceptions too. In fact, I actually don't agree about the old rule, some of my favourite albums being of that length.

I guess the difference with double albums compared to long CDs is the natural pause you get when flipping/swapping LPs. Breaks the listening up into more manageable chunks.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't really look forward to a big # of songs...usually less is more, IMO. but i remember being a little disappointed when i got Smart Went Crazy's 'Con Art' because i'd seen it listed as 18 tracks and 70+ minutes and figured that meant a whole bunch of great songs like on their first album. but there turned out to be several pretty worthless lo-fi instrumental interludes, and the last track is 20 minutes of near-silence. still, i shouldn't complain because the album still includes a dozen great songs that surpass the 1st album.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the absolute worst, most egregious case of this i've ever seen was back in 1995. For a whopping $16, I bought Wax's 13 Unlucky Numbers on the strength of that song "California," but was absolutely disgusted and pissed off when I found that tracks 11, 12 and 13 were completely blank. Perhaps some asshole either in the band or at the label thought it was a funny play on the album's title to rip off and mislead the consumer, but needless to say, I was livid. And to add insult to injury the damn thing was only 22 minutes long. I wanted to hurt someone.

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Friday, 1 November 2002 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the people who did 'building a bridge to your heart'?

― adam b (adam b), Friday, 1 November 2002 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Stooges Box Set anyone, anyone

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 1 November 2002 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh no bryan! oh no!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(i'm agreeing with ya, just remembering the horrors of the actual rec).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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