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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
That's too bad -- after one gets tired of the "lead" songs, you discover some of your new best favorites on the rest of the album! But only if you play the whole thing straight through because it's on vinyl and there's no "skip" button, or programmed play.
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Often the best stuff on the album is the stuff that never gets airplay.
"[B]eauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason, we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently—possibly almost invariably—analytical and impersonal tests will show, we believe, that when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep."
— Charles Ives (1874–1954), American composer.
Essays Before a Sonata (1920), Epilogue, part 8.