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Henry Plainview 
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 Posted: August 05 2009 at 23:27 |
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Is the Ring Cycle too long? ;-)
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Lost Follower
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Posted: August 06 2009 at 10:34 |
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I think many albums are far too long now. I don't want 70 minutes to be honest. Half an hour too long. Give me 40 mins of top quality and I'm happy. Unless it's a 'Best of' or something, then just cram it all on.
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Earendil
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 18:01 |
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It can absolutely be too long, but less due to length than the music. For example, some albums like The Whirlwind are perfect being 75 minutes long, others like Death Magnetic (Metallica) are good but much too drawn out. The Mars Volta comes to mind also as being too long sometimes.
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40footwolf
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 18:46 |
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Of course an album can be too long if it doesn't earn its length. Francis the Mute is a great example of this-you could cut that album in half and lose absolutely nothing.
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Heaven's made a cesspool of us all.
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40footwolf
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 18:46 |
 Eärendil wrote:
It can absolutely be too long, but less due to length than the music. For example, some albums like The Whirlwind are perfect being 75 minutes long, others like Death Magnetic (Metallica) are good but much too drawn out. The Mars Volta comes to mind also as being too long sometimes.
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Looks like we're on the same page 
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Heaven's made a cesspool of us all.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 18:55 |
40footwolf wrote:
Of course an album can be too long if it doesn't earn its length. Francis the Mute is a great example of this-you could cut that album in half and lose absolutely nothing. |
If it were a blank CD-R, we'd all be much better off. Might be able to make something decent out of those wasted polycarbonates.
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The Truth
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 19:03 |
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Man Walter, you're killin tonight.
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thellama73
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 19:13 |
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It's extremely difficult to make a consistently good and thematically coherent 70 minutes of music. Most modern albums that use the entire length of a CD are just collections of songs, not really albums, and there tends to be a lot of filler. I would much rather have a great forty minutes than a decent seventy. Also, the shorter albums are nice because it's easy to listen to the whole thing at once. People are busy, we don't often have the time to listen to an hour and a half of music at once.
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American Khatru
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 19:59 |
I'm in the stages of planning an album myself, and I have to say, though there's enough material for close to 80 minutes if we wanted, we just don't want it to be that long (not without real justification anyway, like coming up with a story about a young man named Rael  ).
It brings to mind another thing I preferred about the days of vinyl. Not only was the total time shorter, but you had the available time cut in half due to the fact that the listener had to go and flip the record over (or the tape for that matter), causing a pause, a space for consideration perhaps. That interval placed a palpable severance, one that might be used to advantage by an artist, between the last track on side A and the first on side B; this was a larger and better difference than found today between, say, tracks 4 and 5 in the middle of a CD. Much is great about CDs and mp3s, but I do miss that interval.
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catfood03
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Posted: November 13 2010 at 22:07 |
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Don't mind an CD being too long. I usually skip the tracks I don't like. As long as I get at least a solid 30 minutes worth of music out of the editing.
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Can albums be too long ??
