What aspects of an album are you a sucker for?

Anonymous · 2012-07-05T13:51:09-04:00

What feature of an album will instantly make you award it points, regardless of the rest of it or the quality of the album? Mine is an upbeat, "let's get this started" second song after what's often a great first track but isn't quite as to-the-point. Arcade Fire are masters of this - especially Keep the Car Running after black mirror, which really just makes you want to hear what the rest of the album has to offer. Even the title of "Ready to Start" with the lyrics "Now I'm ready to start" make it clear that this is one of those seconds tracks. It's almost as though the first track was just a warm up - a stretch, but then the second track is the push to really get things going. Other records that do this well include: Dog Man Star, Collapse into Now, For Emma Forever Ago, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and maybe even Revolver. So, what are yours?

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For me, it's a KILLER closing track. Either something epic and grand, or a short song that captures the sentiment of the entire album and seems to say "goodbye." Some of my all-time favorites are:

The Beatles - "A Day in the Life" (Sgt. Pepper)
Tom Waits - "Anywhere I Lay My Head" (Rain Dogs)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Raining in Darling" (I See a Darkness)
Tool - "Third Eye" (Aenima)
Joy Division - "Decades" (Closer)
Nirvana - "All Apologies" (In Utero)
Yes - "Heart of the Sunrise" (Fragile)
Slowdive - "Dagger" (Souvlaki)
David Bowie - "Rock n Roll Suicide" (Ziggy Stardust)
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