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That Leonard Cohen album with Jazz Police on it? Take Jazz Police off it.

Edit: The European tracklisting of Alice in Chains' Dirt makes for such a better listen than the US one. God knows why they went with any alternative.

That's a hard one for me, almost like "songs that would be better if the sections were shuffled around". Album sequencing is a huge deal to me, I usually have a very hard time getting into records that are not sequenced to my taste, to the point of not knowing them well enough to contribute an answer.

Basically any album that starts with a 10-12 minute track followed by 3-4 minute ones. That's also because I like to listen to the first track to get a feel, even if I don't want to listen to the whole thing.

kokorodoko wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 1:57 pm Basically any album that starts with a 10-12 minute track followed by 3-4 minute ones. That's also because I like to listen to the first track to get a feel, even if I don't want to listen to the whole thing.

I think there are many examples to counter that view, including Terraform, Millions Now Living... and Larks Tongues in Aspic. Sometimes the stronger statement is that one.

I am not sure if this counts, and I've mentioned this before, but the only thing that could make Master of Puppets more perfect would have been if the song Master of Puppets started on the same little stab that Battery ended on.

On the Megadeth side, there's something about sequencing that spans two albums and has been driving me crazy for years. Thematically speaking, Mary Jane should have been on Peace Sells... I don't know if there's a song off that album that should have ended up in its place. Wake Up Dead and My Last Words don't really fit into the occult/mystic theme of the album as a whole, but they're really good openers and closers and I don't know how I would sequence either of them into So Far, So Good, So What! despite both of them generally fitting better into the "life sucks and I'm angry about it" theme of that album (putting both of them on that album would also be a good reason to eject the kinda not-so-great Anarchy in the UK cover).

I dunno... Hook in Mouth and My Last Words pair together pretty well. Mary Jane would go well in between Bad Omen and I Ain't Superstitious, so maybe it should look like this:

Peace Sells
Wake Up Dead
The Conjuring
Peace Sells
Devil's Island
Good Mourning
Black Friday
Bad Omen
Mary Jane
I Ain't Superstitious

So Far, So Good... So What!
Into the Lungs of Hell
Set The World Afire
Anarchy in the UK (*sigh* I guess...)
502
In My Darkest Hour
Liar
Hook In Mouth
My Last Words

Part if me feels like Come As You Are and Smells Like Teen Spirit ought to have been swapped. Yeah I get that the latter is the "big hit," but as an album opener it feels really awkward to me. The first time I listened to the album as a whole, having already heard all the singles on the radio, I thought it just felt really weird having Smells Like Teen Spirit as the opening track. Overall, In Utero has much better sequencing than Nevermind, which sounds kinda thrown together sometimes. Blew and Serve The Servants sound like album openers, and I think Come As You Are does, too. Smells Like Teen Spirit feels like a song that the album should build into, maybe a couple tracks back from the front.

Nearly every album released after 1990 that went straight to CD.

I would remove half the material from 90% of all hip hop albums. Also extra tracks on CD reissues: Stupid.

Curtis Mayfield’s Back to the World is an absolutely perfect record until you get to the last track: “Future Song,” the most cloying ballad Mayfield ever wrote.

Remove Joey from Bob Dylan's Desire and add Golden Loom, Rita May and Catfish (there's room for all three).

My Cod, what an album.