clearly defined "types of song" on an album.

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you know, where an album can clearly be divided into "the ones that sound like x" and "the ones played in x style" if you get me. with little mixing and matching of the styles employed. just a few of this, a few of this and a few of this.

this hit me about aphex twin's "drukqs" a bit. there's the oriental music-box numbers. there's the short piano doodles. there's the manic drum'n'bassy numbers. ok, a few of the songs deviate from the formula, and some bridge the gap a bit. but most of the tracks can be allotted to one of the above categories.

What albums sound like this to you?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

'Diverse' mid-90s intelligent dance music albums which you could pretty much guarantee would have one or more of the following:
- 'we can do drum 'n' bass too' number
- spy soundtrack number
- drifting ambient number
- heavy breakbeat number

Foremost examples include: Headstates by Slam; the first Death in Vegas album, Propellerheads, etc.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent idea. mid-90s major-label alt-rock:
- obscuro noisenik number w/nonsense lyrics, usually put near end, for that "Pere Ubu and/or Pavement were too formative influences on us" flavor
- ballad w/cello (power optional)
- "punk" "raver" w/screaming
- big hit single(s)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Mid 80s thrash metal album:
- at least one song with a misleadingly pretty/ sensitive acoustic intro that surprisingly turns into a raging thrash number#
- song about nuclear warfare
- song about televangelists
- post-fade to black/ remember tomorrow power ballad about being suicidal
- remainder: out and out thrash!

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

DMB only have 2.5 songs. (sweet sad ballad, happy rocker/mad rocker)

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

That's more than AC/DC. (absolutely no criticism intended though, mind).

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ballad, anthem, rocker. Tick any number from;

Embrace
Stereophonics
Oasis
etcetera

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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