In this episode we discuss another neglected aspect of music: album sequencing. When you're making an album, what goes first and what goes last? Obviously you should put the worst song first!
Bonus All-Time Great album word cloud: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd!
Categories covered:
- 20 great song which is the shortest one on a sub-40 minute album
- Turner: Breaking Glass - David Bowie - Low
- Jon: Intro - Bad Brains - Bad Brains
- 51 & 52: Best one-two punch on an album (consecutive songs that just hit you hard)
- Jon: While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
- Turner: Love -> Building on Fire and Memories Can't Wait - Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
- 59 song that gets much worse when taken out of its album context
- Turner: Fitter Happier - Radiohead - OK Computer
- Jon: Eclipse - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Even though Stylus is dead, they still provide an archive of their old postings. Here's the column 'Playing God', which inspired and named this episode.
- Dramatic structure, which is Turner's archetypal method of sequencing albums.
- The lyrics to Fitter Happier, because they're just so cool and full of anticapitalist ennui
- And speaking of anticapitalism, we mentioned Naomi Klein and her book No Logo, which was a big influence on Radiohead during the recording of OK Computer.
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