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What makes a great album great?
Spartan Pho3nix:
What seperates a GREAT album from a PRETTY GOOD album?
What's that extra step that makes a great album so great and memorable and perfect?
A great album is the sort of album that you stay up an extra hour to listen to. It's an album that doesn't LET you turn it off.
What makes "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" catchy and perfect everytime you hear it?
What makes "Loveless" the ideal noise record?
What makes "The Soft Bulletin" such a bundle of perfect pop?
What makes "Slanted and Enchanted" so catchy a perfect amoung all it's imperfections?
All of these albums are GREAT. But what makes them so? Some changes here and there, and there albums would just be "very good." This can be illustrated in other albums by these artists, amoung other things.
What gives these perfect albums that little extra that just gives them endless replayability of perfect music?
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London Calling. That's a fricken perfect album. 19 songs of perfect perfection. Everything's ideal. 27 years after it was released, it's still great.
Storm Rider:
Great albums have uniform quality. Not that every track has to be a classic, but when listening to a great album you should never have the urge to hit the 'skip' button.
Octillus:
A great album feels cohesive. It lacks the feeling of "Hey these songs will be singles and the rest will be filler" that commercial bands try to push these days
Paper Beats Rock:
Yes guys, having lots of good songs can make an album great, well done!
I like originality, I like it when you can barely describe how a band sounds without referencing four or more other bands. I've been listening to TV On The Radio recently (thanks tinjessla!) and I looked them up on LastFM and it comes up with the most similar artist as being The Shins, they're nothing alike! That's one of the things that makes an album 'great' for me, if it fills a particular niche that nothing else can fill. I mean, if I wanted some indie-ish folksy stuff I could listen to Iron And Wine or Elliott Smith or Sufjan Stevens or Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, maybe even some Brighteyes. Those artists are all good, I would even say they are great, it's just that they're not 'Great' great.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Octillus ---A great album feels cohesive. It lacks the feeling of "Hey these songs will be singles and the rest will be filler" that commercial bands try to push these days
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Ugh, you're right, I hate it when bands do that. As songwriters ourselves, my band and I have never once written songs that we found to be disposable. If we don't like it, it doesn't go on the albums. Simple as that. I wish people would do that more nowadays, 'cause I know most of my favourite bands did it that way.
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