Thank you for your answer. You've confirmed what I thought with new ideas added. I
meet such empty spaces from time to time in various albums, like Orb's Orblivion
and Tony Wakeford's Le Croix. What I noticed is that many people usually miss that
bonus track. And even when they discover it they tend to miss it due to blank
space they do not want to listen to. Most of them do not want to have it when they
tape it. I, personally, usually try to leave everything as it is. In Ae's case my
opinion is that it is like as you said the time to think/readjust after listening
to it as noone can say that they make easy to comprehend music.
Take care.
Alien
P.S. I never put Ae's discs in the queue of the discs in the changer as for me it
would be just horrible to listen to something like Miles after Ae made their own
universe in my imagination. It would destroy the picture. Sorry, tastes differ. 8)
Rgeary2@aol.com wrote:
quoted 28 lines I believe the empty space is just that...empty space. It's an old trick,
> I believe the empty space is just that...empty space. It's an old trick,
> really--and it does one of a couple of things.
>
> --hides a bonus track, or in AE's case bonus noise, so that if you just get up
> and turn off the player after the last track you'll miss it.
>
> --sort of serves as a conceptual separator, making the album as a whole the
> songs preceeding the blank, and then making a little 'experimental space' for
> you. i think this is the point of the space on beck's new one-- after 11
> really low key songs, there's one kinda psychedelic rocker after that.
>
> actually, i wonder if the silence & bonus noise is a nod to weird rockers like
> beck and sonic youth...i know beck has been doing that for years, and the
> liner notes to 'stereopathetic soulmanure' cheerily inform the reader that
> after the songs they'll be treated to "four minutes of silence and bonus
> noise."
>
> So short answer-- nah, you're not really shortchanging yourself by cutting the
> silence down. in fact, i think AE's goes on a little long, and only makes
> sense when you have the disc on loop, as someone previously brought up.
>
> rob
>
> ooh, one other thought--since most (? many?) people now have cd changers,
> maybe the bonus silence is to put a nice space between one disc and the next,
> giving you a little time to think/readjust after AE? hmm...i know it had that
> effect for me last night, where the move from AE to Miles' Bitches Brew was
> eased a bit.