#album sequencing

[2amwakeupcall]

I’m sequencing a 35 minute album, how long should each song be?

Length of tracks on my 35 minute album

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 4

Track 5

Track 6

Track 7

Track 8

Track 9

Track 10

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

[yoonspeanut]

Love Yourself : Tear Sequencing

love yourself tear’s sequencing is probably one of the best in a BTS album

it begins with singularity a song about losing yourself when you find someone/something else. it feels a little to me like how the little mermaid would have gone had ariel not found her prince. losing her voice, her most important part of herself, for someone she didn't even know  

then fake love a song which is about love turning sour. a love you'd give everything away for but not get anything back. it's the part where singularity instead of just realizing what they've lost themselves starts hating what the love which caused them to lose so much but at the same time they cant let go of what they've gained  

then from love breaking someone it moves on to a broken someone in love in the truth untold. unlike the two previous songs where love made them lose something, here they feel like they're going to lose love because of themselves, because they don't deserve it.  

then 134340 which is a perfect fit in the middle of the truth untold and paradise. it's a bittersweet story of a love of the past. a love you can't let go but can't hold on to either. a love who deemed you unimportant  

from here the movement into paradise, a song to remind you to take a while for yourself, seems natural. 134340 talks about the person prizing themselves but also prizing the one who left them behind. paradise is about prizing yourself and loving yourself the way you'd love others. paradise tells you it's okay to not have a dream as long as you're happy. 

this is where the album starts becoming positive, telling us that we don't need to have big ideals or to reach the end of the race. it seems like a breath of fresh air after the darker themes dealt with before but it is also a message to the members themselves. a reminder to take a breath. a reminder to pause to just smile in the middle of all this pain and hurt that they're harbouring 

love maze calls back to the previous themes of hurt and angst but still has a positive note. they talk about love being harsh and cold but still wanting to embrace it happily. it is a promise of forever. even in the midst of uncertainty (we know what situation this album was written in) a promise of always staying together.  

magic shop is a also a promise, but one of comfort. they show us how much they trust us and how they know how much we believe in them through this song. there are a lot of references to the past with namjoon referencing his older tweets, hoseok referencing his thank you note from hyyh 1 and yoongi referring to the last. they go on to add that everything they have done in the past was for us, to comfort us and take our pain away.  its a reminder of how we listened to them and their story and now in turn they want to listen to us.  

naturally from the promise to tell their own story and listen to ours in magic shop, it goes on to airplane part 2 where they actually tell their story —, their love for music,  their insecurities as ‘stars’ in the spotlight.  

from talking about stars which they don't see (presumably in themselves) they move on to anpanman where they talk about becoming their own hero as well as a hero for all those around them. not a superhero just a normal regular hero who will just uplift you. they also talk about their fear of who they are and the hurt they often mask in order to remove some of ours. they talk about their fear of letting us down while being a simple hero, no superman, just an anpanman. 

from their fear they move on to their confidence in themselves in so what. a reminder to just trust ourselves and go for it. to not fall into our meaningless worries and just say so what and go. so what somehow feels like a call back to the run era, with them telling us to let go of our worries no matter how big or small and just be ‘young and wild and free.’

then the outro which brings the whole album full circle. the goodbye which talks about the pain and betrayal of goodbyes going back again to the initial theme of the album, the pain which love leaves behind, the anger which is the only remain of a promise which was never kept.

all lyrics from doolsetbangtan

[oedicomplex]

why does shuffling an album feel like a sin against god.

[2amwakeupcall]

Update

Hello loyal followers (All 2 of you (or however many -- I don’t actually keep track)),

I know haven’t been very good about creating hashtag content recently All my pages have been pretty silent since the Cracked Gyroscope cover went live (If you still haven’t checked them out, please do because they’re very good and just put out a B-sides record that is also -very good-).

I wish I could say that I’ve been lax on content creation because I’ve been working behind the scenes on a new release, but alas, that is not the case. Rather, what has been taking all my time is the infamous -life stuff-. What that means for me right now is mostly job hunting, mentally preparing to move across state lines, and trying to find affordable used decade-old Toyota Corollas for sale.

One thing I have been doing is writing songs. Since I started my new songbook last fall, I’ve filled almost half the pages with mostly bad, some good songs. I’ve probably cranked out 80 or so tunes in the last 4 months, and although the vast majority won’t see the light of day, you need a good amount to cut down from, and I do have that. Because I’m planning a move soon (a couple weeks, should my current job prospect pan out), I’m not making any plans to record before I’m well situated in a new town, with a new job, and finances willing, a new studio setup. I have some rather ambitious plans once that all does line up, but without ever having worked a 9-5 job, I have no idea what I’m gonna feel like doing after coming home every evening, so I will refrain from mentioning anything until I get that process going.

I’m currently torn between writing another concept album (a la How Much Work), and another more traditional album (a la City Blues). I don’t want to overdo concept albums, partially because I think it would get old, and partially because I actually really enjoy the challenge of weaving a music narrative from songs that aren’t actually telling the same story in as literal a sense.

Anyway, that’s what’s going on. Headline: Not a lot! Stay tuned though, because I’m hoping to get something going sooner or later, and I’ll also try to post here a bit more (probably in the form of track explainers, like I used to for five minutes before giving up immediately).

Peace!

[dailyduranie]

How Beautiful the Closing Down

How Beautiful the Closing Down

Listening to Paper Gods, I am struck by how strongly the album ends. Has any Duran Duran album closed with a stronger trio of songs than Butterfly Girl, Only in Dreams, and The Universe Alone? Very few, when I actually sat down and thought about it. Why does it matter? Duran Duran album sequencing provides insight into how the band views their own material. Sure, Simon will say he can no more…

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