Chris Azure writes:
quoted 4 lines It's this "interaction"> It's this "interaction"
> between tracks, and the entire album structure, partly, that lets me
> appreciate ["Snivilisation"], and I've never really been able to appreciate
> anything else to the same degree.
I wonder if this is due to "They don't make 'em like they used to anymore"
syndrome ...
cf. Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" (1979) and "Closer" (1980)
Wire "154" (1979)
Siouxsie & The Banshees "A Kiss In The Dreamhouse" (1982)
Test Dept. "The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom" (1986)
Cindytalk "In This World" (1988)
John Foxx "Metamatic" (1980) [A record *everyone* on IDM should hear ... ]
David Byrne & Brian Eno "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" (1981)
(and if I thought a bit more, about a million others ... )
All of these demonstrate that "interaction between tracks ... and the entire
album structure". True "albums" as opposed to "a collection of tracks".
The term "Tour de force" comes to mind.
(Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of albums in the here & now that I like
quite a bit. But I don't know how many of them have that sweeping "grand
connectedness" of the above. I love "In Pine Effect" to death but it's still
a collection of disjoint-set tracks. Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough,
but the recent CDs and vinyl are 15 feet away from me ... (-: )
- Greg