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Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:29 pm
by ErickC
I have been trying to write a piece of work that rips off Scary Monsters for some time, but I've never been able to make it work. The reprise is hard to do in a way that doesn't suck, so a definite NC for when someone can pull it off.
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:59 am
by twelvepoint
Not only are reprises fine, it seems kinda cool that people pay enough attention to a live set to even notice you did a song twice.
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:43 am
by Bernardo
The Elma full length was structured like that, though a VERY brief version of the idea:
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:50 am
by twelvepoint
jason from volo wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:25 am
twelvepoint wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:59 am
it seems kinda cool that people pay enough attention to a live set to even notice you did a song twice.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree. Nearly all live performances I have been involved with in my band are 3-4 hours long, mostly covers, and in suburban bars. The fact that we aren't emptying out the place is apparently a good sign that we don't completely suck. But no matter what, at the end of the night, those last one or two hours are mostly folks that have been overserved. Drunks have surprisingly good memories when motivated to heckle the band just for the sake of doing so.
It's funny, most of my band history has been playing original punk/indie music with 3-4 band bills playing to 30-70 people and making 25 bucks and a few drink tickets. Seems like the general business scene can be fun, low-pressure, and put a few bucks in your pocket. Downside I guess is you get heckled, but I guess you can work on your snappy comebacks
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:34 pm
by Mason
I know PRF friends The Martha's Vineyard Ferries, and I believe also the band Flin Flon, have had albums where the same song appears on it twice. Not a reprise or an alternate arrangement, just the same track again. Not Crap to that.
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:40 pm
by Jimbo
When it works, it works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't. Most of the albums I got that have reprises on them, I dig it. In some albums, it's the only part I like - for instance, the song "Coattails of a Dead Man" on Primus's Antipop album is somewhat a reprise of the intro track, and the rest of the album is rank nu-metal garbage.
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:20 pm
by Dovira
Not sure I understand what you're referring to, but I was gifted a CD by my mother on some birthday by a dancehall group called T.O.K., where
one song later returns as
another with changed lyrics and beat, but the same motif. Don't feel like listening to it today 'cause it's homophobic trash (and the album has about four good songs anyway) but it works there and is fun.
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:44 pm
by Isadore Nabi
Tonight's the Night is NOT CRAP NOT CRAP. (A reprise on Reprise, even.)
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:06 am
by speedie
I draw the courts attention to the end of Sgt. Peppers. Reprise before "A Day In The Life"
Not Crap. Side of waffles.
Re: Album sequencing: reprise
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:19 am
by brownreasontolive
speedie wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:06 am
I draw the courts attention to the end of Sgt. Peppers. Reprise before "A Day In The Life"
Not Crap. Side of waffles.
Exhibit B:
You Never Give Me Your Money, reprised into Carry That Weight.