Exactly. You cant have people just skipping the bad songs. You should have to listen to them.
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I'd be pretty surprised if many albums weren't put together with the following logic:
1) let's start with a good fast one
2) let's end with a good slow one
3) let's not have similar songs in speed and style next to each other
It's hardly cutting edge artistic creativity, Peter.
I think we're making swing the point here, which is that the truly great albums are actually telling a story. That story has a narrative arc and, by pïssing about with the order, you destroy that narrative. In the case of Bloodon the Tracks, it's the story of a doomed relationship. It goes full circle from Tangled up in Blue to Shelter from the Storm and - Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts aside - it makes sense in that order. We lose that if we stop listening to albums.
If you actually listened to the album, in the right order, you should realise that there is a story to Born to Run and the order of the songs is absolutely essential to that story. If you cant work out why it starts with Thunder Road and ends with Jungleland then you have thoroughly missed the point. It is also a good example of my earlier point regarding the sides. It is no coincidence that side 1 ends with Backstreets and side 2 opens with Born to Run.
Bad example. Born in the USA is arguably less significant but then it is nowhere near as good an album. I dont care too m ugh what you choose to do with the order of those. But if you **** with Born to Run then we have a problem. Oh yes.