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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: RockLog: TSooL at the Bluebird |
| Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:35:49 -0400 |
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At 12:31 AM 4/11/2003 -0500, Bill Silvers wrote:
>>I still like EXTENDED REVELATION best of all the Soundtrack's albums,
>>personally. Still, I have to repeat: Motorpsycho are doing the same thing
>>as TSOOL, they're doing it better, and (for what it's worth) they're
>>occasionally doing it for around three and a half minutes at a time.
>
>Well, the time thing is a personal preference, and one which you rightly
>point out has better specific than general application. I do think that
>songs simply running too darn long is a common problem these days, and I've
>found that across the genres of music that I listen to. Certainly I find
>myself thinking having those thoughts a lot more often than I find myself
>wishing that an artist would run a tune out for another 1:30. <g>
Amen, brother. The time issue is one I've been bitching about for years.
Not only in terms of album length -- seriously, folks, there simply aren't
that many LPs that need to be longer than 38 minutes -- but in terms of
song length. As you said, too many bands have been driving songs into the
ground, to the point that several years ago, I instituted a policy: if I
picked up an album by a power-pop artist I'd never heard of, one of the
main things that would make me put it back down unheard was if the timings
on the back cover consistently ran over 4 minutes. Because you just know
that that last 90 seconds is just the same friggin' chorus repeated OVER
and OVER and OVER and OVER.
I remember that Toms album that Bruce reissued a few years ago had a song
on it called "Hook" that used that technique. I think it was supposed to
be ironic, but that didn't keep it from being profoundly annoying, enough
that it helped spoil the rest of the album for me.
S
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