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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
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 Posted - 09/07/2006 : 02:22:33
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For any artists that have a good collection of albums over a decade simply select the highlights of each albums and put them in a file keeping their track numbers. Logically all the tracks number one will follow each other (in a ramdom way or according to their name), and then numbers two and so on... Unnumbered tracks may find themselves at the end of the collection.
Number one tracks are often great to be played in the beginning.
Last tracks go well following each other in an increasing climax.
I tried this with artists who released a lot of different and well structured albums. I started with Marc Almond and it was a amazing and perfectly coherent compilation. Then I did it with Bowie and Frank Black. All my ghosts followed by Los Angeles is very pleasant though I would never think of linking them together in an intentioanl and premeditated "best of".
A ten or twenty years difference between two songs of the same artist may not be an obstacle for them to fit well together. Of course sometimes it is weird: Space Oddity followed by New Killer Star may sound odd in terms of sound though themes are connected.
Doctor Joe is (at last) jobless and free to experiment stupid things with his computer and inform his abstract friends he would never like to meet (especially the French ones).
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cassandra is
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 09/07/2006 : 03:32:46
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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *
1091 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2006 : 08:25:23
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Cassandra Is, hello there! Of course you are not part of the batch! First, I saw you and remember well, and by the way I do not consider you as a French member of this forum for obvious reasons. Don't worry!!
Jediroller & Ziggy. you are attentive and good Bowie believers. My suggestion was actually a test.
You passed it.
Oh, cassandra, I would like to show you my collection of Frank Black tracks but I don't feel recopying the whole list which is quite huge. Do you know the way to copy and paste the text of a selection of .mp3 files?
that would be adorable of you.
See you!
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/07/2006 : 09:55:58
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It is indeed an interesting idea, but how about you just take an artist that has produced at least ten albums, take the first track from one of the albums, then the second from another, third from another and so on?
Rather than being a best of, it's just creating new albums by that artist, from their current catalogue.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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