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athelindAAAUGH.
The radio station just played one track from Rush's 2112 album.
For those who aren't familiar with it; 2112 is a "concept album" of the sort so beloved of Pretentious Prog Rock Bands like the Trio from Toronto. The "A" side is a single long story-based piece, divided into individual tracks solely for the sake of convenience.
Playing just "The Temple of Syrinx" is like ... like ... cutting off Star Wars right before the Death Star run.
Naturally, I have the CD, so I'm playing the entire album right the heck now, but, nevertheless, the damage is done. I'll have that irritating UNFINISHED feeling for the rest of the night.
How can you DO that?
The radio station just played one track from Rush's 2112 album.
For those who aren't familiar with it; 2112 is a "concept album" of the sort so beloved of Pretentious Prog Rock Bands like the Trio from Toronto. The "A" side is a single long story-based piece, divided into individual tracks solely for the sake of convenience.
Playing just "The Temple of Syrinx" is like ... like ... cutting off Star Wars right before the Death Star run.
Naturally, I have the CD, so I'm playing the entire album right the heck now, but, nevertheless, the damage is done. I'll have that irritating UNFINISHED feeling for the rest of the night.
How can you DO that?
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Date: 2010-04-22 08:07 am (UTC)I'll grant that many other concept albums are more easily split up into radioable bits, but as I usually listen to them as whole albums, I get a bit of that sense of incompleteness when, say, certain bits of Dark Side of The Moon are played by themselves.
What's even worse is when the station is doing some thing where they play two songs from the same artist in a block (two-fer Tuesdays) and they run a pair from the same concept album out of order...
Nnnnngh...