Say you have an album recorded and are trying to decide what order to put the songs in. Do you put them in order of how good you think they are (cos no-one will ever listen to the whole thing anyway) or in an order you think makes musical sense?
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the latter. though it's always good to have something reasonably fab/attention-grabbing at the start.egg_ said:Say you have an album recorded and are trying to decide what order to put the songs in. Do you put them in order of how good you think they are (cos no-one will ever listen to the whole thing anyway) or in an order you think makes musical sense?
Latex lizzie said:tell a story kinda way is best methinks.
egg_ said:Say you have an album recorded and are trying to decide what order to put the songs in. Do you put them in order of how good you think they are (cos no-one will ever listen to the whole thing anyway) or in an order you think makes musical sense?
Heh, well I hope so, seeing as it's the number one trick in the Book of StoatUnclealo said:Though sometimes having a total change without warning is a good effect
egg_ said:Heh, well I hope so, seeing as it's the number one trick in the Book of Stoat
Been listening on random play and have come up with something but John reckons we should just put the stuff in order of goodness. Pretty hard to tie a ragbag of songs like these together, seeing as they were written over an eleven year timespan
Bizarrely, alphabetical order means all John's singing is at the start and all mine is at the end. Doesn't really workGong Farmer said:Alphabetical order?
egg_ said:Heheh
Central Bank is a very old one in new clothes
egg_ said:Heheh
Sure thing Ro - lots of the songs you mentioned though aren't on it ...
Here's the list (in the order I think is best):
Central Bank
Saltee Tango
Nobody in Heaven
Rivethead
Resistolero
Periscope Down
Shit on the Mirror
Capital
Acunamanacana
Fat Pig
Oh Happy Day
Folk Song
Some of these you might not know - Central Bank is a very old one in new clothes, lots of guitar, drums dropping in and out, kind of talked vocal and a melodic piano bit near the end; Saltee Tango is the shipwreck song; Shit on the Mirror is another kind of seafaring one, but a bit weirder; Folk Song is an actual folk-song type song written by John (with acoustic guitars and the like)
Need suggestions fast, mastering is starting today ...
1950's said:I always like albums that finish with a nice downbeat song for some reason.
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