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By GoatmasterGeneral · Posted
Asarhaddon - Era, Germany Blood Red Fog - Fields of Sorrow, Finland 2020 -
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By GoatmasterGeneral · Posted
I like full lengths under 40 minutes, and EP's of at least 18 - 20 minutes. 10 - 15 minute EP's just annoy me. No matter how good the music is, it just seems like too much of a tease. Just when you're starting to really get into it, it's over already. So I typically won't buy those super brief ones, unless maybe a band releases a few of them in a relatively short timespan and then I can play them together as if they were sides of an album. My sweet spot though is full length albums in the 25 to 35 minute range. I consider 25 minutes the minimum cutoff to qualify as a bona fide full length, regardless of how many tracks they break it up into. I suppose this is due to the types of bands I tend to gravitate towards typically releasing a lot of ~30 minute albums. I've gotten used to that runtime. Which is not to say there aren't some longer 55 minute albums that I absolutely adore, but it has got to be a pretty special album to hold my interest for a solid hour. When albums get too long, let's say more than 70 or 75 minutes that's just stupid imo. I'd tell bands if you have that much music flowing out of you please break it up into two separately digestible, standalone 35 minute albums. That way the listener has the choice of playing one or the other or both if he so chooses. I understand like FA said that you could theoretically pause an album and come back to it later. But realistically speaking, chances are I won't come back to it later, I'm much more likely to just put on something else. So I'll generally deliberate the pros and cons a little longer when considering the purchase of an album that runs much over 45 minutes. As far as the filler issue goes, I've noticed that 70's, 80's and 90's albums of traditional metal, or anything with clean vocals really did tend to be more erratic as far as the quality of the songwriting went from track to track. Back in the day I got pretty used to buying albums with as few as 2 or 3 tracks that I really really enjoyed. If an album had even 4 or 5 out of 8 or 9 total tracks that I thought were good, that was a major score. To find an album with no skippers at all was almost unheard of back then. That would have been like the holy grail of rock/metal albums. Because almost every album had at least a few weaker tracks, even if you didn't necessarily always go to all the bother of getting up to skip them. But nowadays I don't seem to have that problem anymore with my black and death metal albums, or very rarely anyway. At this point if an album has even two songs I'd consider bad enough that I would feel the need to skip them, I probably wouldn't even buy it. Most albums these days get played straight through front to back no questions asked. Which is ironic because it's so much easier to skip a track now in the digital era than it was back then with those stupid vinyl LP's. I don't know if this means the average quality of metal songwriting has improved drastically over the years, or maybe I just relate to these more extreme sub-genres better than I did to the hard rock and trad metal of yesteryear? Some people would probably say that with extreme metal all the songs sound basically alike, so it you like one or two on an album you know you'll probably like them all. I wouldn't say that I agree with that take, but I suppose it is true that bands were more likely to make a conscious effort to try and vary the sound of their songs on an album more back in the day. -
By FatherAlabaster · Posted
You're still doing better than me. I routinely go for weeks without listening to anything for enjoyment lately.
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