The Perfect Album (a challenge)
This idea courtesy of Mr Dominic Parsons, who should really know better than to plant something so virulent, so memetic, into my brain:
The Perfect Album (a challenge)
An album of 15 tracks (an admittedly arbitrary, but by my research satisfying, number)
made up of the best tracks ones, track twos, etc. from other albums
made up only of ‘proper’ albums (no compilations/soundtracks/etc)
and only 'proper’ tracks (no bonus tracks/alternative versions/etc)
In my case I’m adding the rule that it has to be an album that I own the whole of, not just stray tracks (much as it pains me to have to drop Game of Pricks twice from the roster), and - of course - no repeating of album/artist.
Feel free to play along at home and experience for yourself the strange balance of pleasure and agony that these High Fidelity-style games always manage.
CLARIFICATION: As Miles notes (haha) below, there is a problem with the Frankenstein’s Monster method I’ve suggested here. The original idea was to create something that could be an album in and of itself, that flowed and had a rhythm and personality of its own; it came up in a conversation about how albums work, whether there’s a pattern to the good tracks (frontload them all or make you wait? stick them next to each or spread them out?) and to the types of tracks that tend to be first and last.
This was merely omitted in an attempt to keep it streamlined/because it seemed the natural thing to do when making, essentially, a mixtape/out of my own clumsiness of expression.
(He also suggests 15 is too many songs, which was what I thought when Dom suggested the idea (I think 15 was his number) and I would have gone for 12 but then I realised that The Sea is a Good Place to Think About The Future is track 13 on Romance is Boring, so he’s wrong.)
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sleepssundays said:
… I have so many problems with these rules/this premise! alex-spencer posted this