It's true.
When you have a good well rounded album that sounds that fits well there tends to be a classic 'closer'.
Yet the record companies try throwing "eXtra" tracks on the end, which tend to be remix's or live versions of songs, that just ruin the flow of the album.
Yeah, at first you won't care as it's just extra songs and you may even buy the album for those songs-but you will get to the point where you want to listen to the album as a whole, not with the cling-ons at the end.
Notable reference- Turn on the bright lights. Pointless 1minutes interlude that fades in and out after Lief Erikson that devalues it. Suppose with ipods and playlists this rant is a bit pointless as you can just chop and change, but i just had the noise of another track after that final closer. Anyone else agree or am i just being a dick?
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And the US version of Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur has something similar as well as having Popscene added to the tracklist.
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Bonus tracks piss me off.
Queens of the Stone Age are especailly bad at this. Songs for the Daef ends so well - and then there's a couple of stupid live track at the end...
Damn The Man, man.........
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firstly you wait 20 frigging minutes for them, and then they normally turn out to be complete gash!
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Erm download the following tracks...
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love's forever changes ends with a load of studio outtakes - them stopping and starting the same song... gah
BUT
i do love me a bit of value, and the idea of using the entire capacity of the cd is a good one. i kinda feel that vinyl is better for listening to albums as albums.
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'bonus tracks are good as long as they are on a reissue of an album, and as long as there is at least ten years between the original and reissue of said album'.
I think new albums with bonus tracks blow.......what's the point in the producer and band sequencing a good running order and then the bloody japanese or german record company sticking some unrelated tracks on the end of their version, and importing it back to the UK at a mark up......bah humbug