Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
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.