Such range and variety
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They are still the same songs though for all your protestations and you accept songs can be played in an order other than they appear on an album. I don't think WES is a machine (not according to your mum anyway) so a playlist is not necessarily compiled by one, as you seem to think. Quiet possible for those listening to an artist's complete recorded work to select songs that work together or are pleasing to them, surely? Would you only go to a gallery and insist on seeing an artist's portfolio in the order he/she created works of art of would you trust a curator to put together a show that reflects the artist's assembled works in the most interesting light?
I have attended a few musical performances in recent years where an artist is celebrating the anniversary of an album* and they have played the entire concert in the exact sequence of the record.
I am not convinced by it as a live experience, and that is before one overlooks the inevitable fact that most albums have low points**
*A theme which appears to have lost the run of itself
** Apart from All Mod Cons
Stranglers did this the other year when they played the whole of Black & White.
Like All Mod Cons there are no low points.
While all the points made in defence of playlists are valid, there is something As God Intended It about listening to an album properly - ie, tracks in the correct order and ideally on vinyl, so the impact of the tracks at the end of side 1 and beginning of side 2 make themselves felt. And with no fecking disembodied singles and b-sides tacked onto the end of the CD and basically ruining the thing. Grrr.
Indeed, however it is when one creates a playlist of various artists that the concept comes into its own.
A quick perusal of my most recent creation lists 94 songs and a secondary perusal of artists at the beginning show’s such variety as Tubeway Army, The Clash, SFA, The Waterboys, The Ramones, Immaculate Fools, Bowie, Stone Foundation, Nick Heyward, Boards of Canada and naturally Weller in various guises – the 3 obvious ones plus others where he has guested on other artist albums.
And yes – Something Better Change and Peaches.
You have to be open to almost all types of music Wes. Except Country and also Country & Western.
It's name is not a coincidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8
I was really talking about the craft of an album. So in your analogy, if an artist had done a series of works in a particular order and had assembled them in that order to tell a story, would you not want to see them in that order?
Anyway, its just me. I like an album.