SONG PLACEMENT

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Am I imagining things but is song #2 on a CD/LP/whatever, almost always better than the lead off song. And, is song 5 almost always one of the better songs on an album though the rest might be mediocre and that very few collections (even best of's) can make it past #7 at best?

― The Archbishop (Archbishop), Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I routinely put CDs in and skip directly to Track 2 without even thinking about what CD it is. Listening to horrible intro skits on Hip-Hop CDs probably put me in this habit as much as anything.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 10 April 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Track 2s are usually great. Track 5s too. When albums are too long, song 7 is the one during which that particular realization occurs. There are a million exceptions, but I've found this to be true.

The song 5 thing is the only one I have an explanation for (assuming it's a ten song album we're talking about) - some bands (like mine) still think in terms of side one and side two - you gotta end with a strong song at the end of side one so the listener feels compelled to turn the shit over!! everyone knows that

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 10 April 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The best albums follow John Cusack's mix tape rules in High Fidelity. You start out with a real corker. Then you bring it up a notch. But you don't want to blow your wad all at once, so then you bring it down a notch. Et cetera.

There are many rules.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 10 April 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I love track seven man! I noticed this while making mixes, since I was taking track seven from so many different albums... and then completely out of the blue, a friend of mine told me how he usually loves track seven on his albums as well! Track seven 4evah, track five is weak and for squares.

― original bgm, Thursday, 10 April 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the odd numbered tracks >1 are the winners. #3, 5 and 7 are where the action is at.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

since we're already far past the point of banal here - any thoughts on the last song?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yea i was thinking the same thing, roger. what about the last song ?? i have some shitty albums with maybe two good songs and the last song is always one of those two.

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought about the Side 2 thing... but does it really come into consideration when making "straight to CD" music? I guess it may.
The thought had come to me when I was walking back from work theother day. I had JD's Unknown Pleasures on the CD player. After the short lull, She's Lost COntrol came on.... what a great song... I remember (I hope correctly) that it opened side two of the LP.

Sometimes, but not often I have found these days, that the last track can be a winner. Like I said in my opening statement, as you get down the line on many CDs these days... at least the ones I have been listenintg to, the songs have been getting weaker and weaker...
Are bands just putting too many songs on their albums or what?

― The Archbishop (Archbishop), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

and sometimes the first track is the only song worth listening to ? i'm sure we all own many of those. i have noticed several times when I a buy a CD for one song, that song is, more often than not, the leadoff track.

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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