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> in the original order I agree with most of what you said, but so many albums include awful filler music between hit songs. This was one of the reason mp3 dow

• max76 7y ago
  > Everybody knew record companies were just adding filling to get to a certain album lengths. Sometimes. Maybe even often. Never always. To me the highest achievement a recording artist can make is an entire album that is a good coherent work of art best enjoyed as a whole. Some artist actually deliver this.
• Finnucane 7y ago
  Music producers have been doing that since the invention of the LP. Along this line: reissues of LPs that include every alternate take.
• jslabovitz 7y ago
  For typical single-based pop/top-40 that could be true. But for the long tail of most album-oriented music (including the fairly obscure stuff I listen to), its the producer and musician(s) working together to create a coherent artistic work. Obviously that doesn't always result in an album of consistently great songs, but in my experience as as an occasional musician, recording engineer, and producer, there's always more material than will fit on the album. Part of the creative process is to build that into a form that best expresses the concept of the work as a whole. That usually involves selection & curation, not adding extra filling. My opinion, of course.