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Orange Album on a Sunday Afternoon
Club members,
Last Sunday I had a strange day, no one was home for about 2 hours and had the house all to my self, so I put the Orange Album on with my head set and just was in awe how good this album is. From The No Worry’s Company to Still a friend of mine is a journey for me. My favorite on this album is count on me. I would recomend this. I heard so many cool things on all of these songs, one is the cool drum playing on Im in it for love , and all the cool drum parts and awesome guitar work on Club 27. And Jung’s favorite Sweet Loraine , wow this album has it all and to have John Sabastain help out on a couple of songs is sweet . So let me know how you all feel on this post.
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Hi Bill. I like the way you put it, the experience of the album as a “journey”. it is indeed. I always get something fresh out of it every time I listen to it, because it is a work of art. The more often you listen to it, the more it draws you to it. Just like Pet Sounds and Sargent Peppers, it’s an album that will be treasured and enjoyed forever, will never tire of it, it’s so good. It gives endless joy and inspiration. No More Worries Company, It’s Alright, Count On Me, Close To You, Sweet Lorraine, In It For Love, Club 27, Still A Friend of Mine…love them all.
Just like Orange, every song is good for you, positive and makes you think and contemplate life and feel so many emotions. What a journey it takes you through.
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Well put Jung, this album is at the very top of my list for sure. Your 100% right every time I Listen I hear something I missed before. And it is put together perfect from the first track to the last track. Briliant
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Jung I am with you on the Christmas Album, in fact I listened to it Thursday coming home from work. Why not? Such a great album and makes you feel so good with the current world we live in. Walking on Air is soo good you can play it anytime in my book.
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I like the flow of this album.
The Future sets the listener up to listen to the entire album.
Once Upon A Time is a timeless masterpiece.
This album fits my daily commute perfectly.
Priceless
“Make sure you get your passage home”JP
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Here’s what Mona said nearly two years ago when I asked about how they decide on the song sequences on their albums:
We try to make the message and music of an album flow nicely. What does “flow” mean? We aren’t quite sure ourselves but we know when it doesn’t. ????
It’s a bit similar to a live show – we probably wouldn’t play a soft ballad, a heavy rock’n’roll song and then a quiet acoustic number consecutively unless there is a conceptual reason to do so, within the message and structure of the songs.
As much as we primarily write in individual songs rather than concept albums we still always have an overarching idea in mind, a story and mindset that ties it all together. So sometimes that requires songs to be in a certain order.
With ORANGE, for example, we always knew we wanted to end with Still A Friend Of Mine so we worked backwards from there. We created “The Future” as an intro to open the doors to an orange experience …
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David, thanks for posting that account from Mona. Yeah, that thematic unity and artistry and flow in an album is so well defined in Mona’s explanation on how they do their albums. It is certainly more than the sum of the individual songs. In many of the great symphonies and orchestras where there are several movements, there is a progression between the pieces, a journey of the emotions a unifying arch across the entire piece. In some of Bach’s piano works like the Goldber Variations that consist of over a dozen short piano pieces, each piece is a variation on a theme. That concept was carried forward by the Beatles in their albums, and it’s so wonderful to see it alive and tradition carried forward by MLT. I don’t think the Beatles necessarily said oh that’s how the great composers did their works, but by intuition and understanding the artistic aspect of how emotions progress in the human experience, the same kind of progression found in literature too.
In this section of that video “A World without Beethoven”, it illustrates just that, the thematic unity in a musical work Brian Wilson and the Beatles adopted that incorporates the overarching unity and flow within an album. I’ve book marked a short 10 minute section between 38:10 to 48:00 of the video. Have a listen, it’s fascinating.
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Thanks for digging up Mona’s take on things. This is a great thread. Can I add an obvious example of a central theme running through an album? DSOTM presents the conflicts of life from first breath to the last. Work, greed, money, death, and insanity are all included. I love albums that beg to be listened to in their entirety.
It’s kool how artists will follow similar patterns of the classics without consciously thinking about it.
I think Bill brought up a good point. MLT songs are very upbeat and high energy, which can prompt the listener to click play one more time. Sometimes a quick trip to the store for milk and bread gets extended, because Once Upon A Time started just as I was about to turn onto my street.
JP
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JP, Floyds Dark Side of the Moon certainly received the love, fame and glory it deserved as one of the greatest albums of all time. I liked the write up on Wikipedia:
“The Dark Side of the Moon is among the most critically acclaimed records in history, often featuring on professional listings of the greatest albums of all time. The record helped propel Pink Floyd to international fame, bringing wealth and recognition to all four of its members. A blockbuster release of the album era, it also propelled record sales throughout the music industry during the 1970s. It has been certified 14× platinum in the United Kingdom, and topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, where it has charted for 957 weeks in total. With estimated sales of over 45 million copies, it is Pink Floyd’s most commercially successful album, and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. In 2013, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Now how do you like my dark side of the moon? 🙂
Now time to put on the “Orange Album on a Sunday Afternoon” here.
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This is a great shot of the moon man
“There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.”
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Orange just has that #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified Creativity Juice that flowed from beginning to end and in between, each time you listen, something new hits you that you learn that of which you did not notice before then, etc…
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