re: Pet peeves in albums or songs

I personally love the groovy outros. Black Sabbath had groovy sections in a ton of their songs, like Fairies Wear Boots where the groovy section serves as a bridge.

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track bleeds into the next track for a second or two, meaning you can't listen to the next track on its own without hearing a snippet of the previous song.
I write concept albums and this happens alot with that. I've never really thought about it before,..and i have to say that I dont care if people don't like it.

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I made this mistake on a past recording. We had a song that was meant to be a Pt1/Pt2. Unfortunately, there was a weird note in the lead guitar so the chord didn’t resolve until the start of the Pt2, so we weren’t able to split them into two tracks as hoped. The part 1 was supposed to be the single, but when the two tracks were left as one, the resulting song was 7 minutes long, far too long for radio play. Our use of intros and solo breaks left us with an album where all the songs were too long for most radio stations these days.

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skits that are scattered throughout rap albums.

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This. They break up the momentum and continuity and are really bad attempts at humor or bravado usually. Seems like that really started with The Chronic and then Kanye beat it to death on College Dropout and he even had Bernie Mack in his first unfunny role.

I don’t like snippets of movie scenes dropped into a movie soundtrack.

If I’m listening to a soundtrack, it’s because I really liked the music. I don’t want random dialogue breaking up the flow.

Example: the Leaving Las Vegas soundtrack would be a great jazz album without Nic Cage dropping in between songs.

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I personally love the groovy outros. Black Sabbath had groovy sections in a ton of their songs, like Fairies Wear Boots where the groovy section serves as a bridge.

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The ending to The Writ is great.

Baby I'm a wantchew.

Orchestras and string sections in songs by bands with no business using them. It's one thing to do it if you are the Moody Blues or ELO but otherwise, particularly in country songs--because nothing says country like a bunch of fat balding guys in tuxedos reading sheet music-at best it comes off as pretentious and artsy-fartsy. At worst it saps all of the life and energy out of a song.

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2 Hidden tracks on 90s albums that were inevitably horrible like "Sick Party" on 1977

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I’ve always thought of that as a joke more than a hidden track.

Great album that I need to dig out, btw.

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I’ve always thought of that as a joke more than a hidden track.

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I feel like most bands did this with joke tracks for fans, but there's nothing like the feeling of expectation that there's one last track out there that might be great (my wife loves the two hidden versions of "Belgium" on Bowling for Soup albums) and then it's just some stupid bullshite of dudes farting into a mic at 300am.