Entertainment For Lively Minds
Inverting your favourite albums
Here's an idea. If you're bored of all your favourite albums - which I think I might be - then try, as I may, swapping the sides. For example, I've always been of the opinion that the second half of Exile On Main Street is inferior to the wealth of good stuff that you get on the first half. Now, is this because of an actual difference in song quality, or is it just that my concentration or enthusiasm is waning after ten songs? So, today I'm going to put it on in the car and start with Happy. My son loves Abbey Road. Me too, but it's getting a little overplayed. So, seeing as it was so nearly released like this, why not start with Here Comes The Sun and let the CD run until the abrupt edit at the end of I Want You (She's So Heavy)? And - here's one for Mark Ellen - The Band's second album, but starting with Jemima Surrender...
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Get Happy!!
I think you need a copy of Get Happy!! I still don't know which side is which!
Well, actually...
Abbey Road was going to have the medley on side A and finish with I Want You. I'm not sure when the HJH switched it, but it was probably motivated by all that "And in the end..." gubbins.
Abbey Road: medley/I Want You switch
Isn't that what I said? Not being picky, just want to know if I've misunderstood.
Sorry, I missed your line
Sorry, I missed your line "seeing as I was almost released like this" and just jumped right in at the opportunity to be a Beatledullard.
Beatledullards...
...of the world unite!
When I was a boy....
..my best friend’s mum owned “Hounds of Love” for many years and never got round to hearing the second side (the hits were all crammed onto side one so she had no incentive to flip the LP).
This is one of the great “albums of two halves” with side two taken up by a dreamlike “song cycle”. That’s not to say that there’s a dip in quality as both sides hold up equally well…. (unlike Love’s “Da Capo”)
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” was another one which served all the hits up on side one. At the time I used to routinely start the album from track 7, keen to avoid the “played-to-death” singles..