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The joy of anticipation

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I was in the car the other day with my 10 year old daughter, with a CD on (as you do) and in the gap between tracks, I sang the opening of the next track. When the track started, she was amazed and asked me how I knew it was going to be that track.

It occurred to me that in these days of digesting tracks one at a time (either on Spotify or another streaming website of choice) or via ipod shuffle, the joy of anticipation (knowing what next the next track will be) has probably been lost for the younger generation of music listeners.

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Four Tops

No matter how many times I play Reach Out by the Four Tops while djing the crowd always anticipates the chorus singing "I'll be there" during the bass just before. I wonder was it made this way deliberately to heighten anticipation. I always think it really adds to the chorus having the crowd come in early. Although I don't care for live LPs I also love the crowd's anticipation on No Woman No Cry. Me, I can't resist shouting "Come on son!" a split second before it appears on I'm Not Ashamed by Culture.

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STD | 18 September 2010 - 3:40pm

True

I know exactly what you mean but I think it's surprising how few of these actually exist. I can't listen to Peaches by the Stranglers without wanting Grip to start straight afterwards. I had a home made compilation tape in the car that I played so often that there are a few tracks that I expect something else to be played afterwards, I have no idea what they are at the moment but I could tell you as soon as the tracks finish!

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JohnW | 18 September 2010 - 4:43pm

Bowie

How about the slow drums at the end of Five Years segueing into the faster drums of Soul Love? Hard to hear one without expecting the other, if you know what I mean...

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masked tortilla | 18 September 2010 - 5:06pm

5 years / soul love

I always get a little shiver & have to play a little tsshh tsshh on my air drum kit when I hear that.

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jackthebiscuit | 18 September 2010 - 6:42pm

as someone

who has never 'randomised' or used shuffle on his iTunes/Pod I am in total agreement, one day by accident a Megadeth album went on shuffle as I was driving home, I had to pull onto the hard sholder of the M74 to sort it out

It be de Debil's work I tells ya!

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James Blast | 18 September 2010 - 9:22pm
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