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Oh, how I long for the days when record companies and artists released albums that you could joyfully listen from beginning to end, instead of them only having 1 or 2 good songs and a lot of crap you never want to hear again after the first run-through...
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   You said it, brother...! ::)

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Oh, how I long for the days when record companies and artists released albums that you could joyfully listen from beginning to end, instead of them only having 1 or 2 good songs and a lot of crap you never want to hear again after the first run-through...
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Dude, spoken like a true genius.

Tarzan Boy

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Oh, how I long for the days when record companies and artists released albums that you could joyfully listen from beginning to end, instead of them only having 1 or 2 good songs and a lot of crap you never want to hear again after the first run-through...
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Amen to that, brother!

Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Scorpions - Blackout
Journey - Escape
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With (though that's seriously pre-80's)
Ivor Biggun - The W*nker's Album ;-)


Phil

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Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear
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An excellent choice!  It's nice to see that there are still some Marillion fans around... :)

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The Police - Synchronicity
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Okay, now how could I have forgotten to mention this one? ???  Good choice, DJ! ;)

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Dude, spoken like a true genius.

Tarzan Boy
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It's cheaper this way for the record companies.  Previously, you had an artist in the studio, and they took the time to make their albums AND their B-Sides, and more work was put into the actual album tracks.  Now they figure, "Screw it.  We'll release the single, and instead of B-Sides we'll add some remixes of the same song and a radio edit.  Stuff like that.  Then we can just throw fill songs on, save time.  Use the B-Sides on the album. and get the promotion rolling on that single!"  We're the ones who get screwed.

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It's cheaper this way for the record companies.  Previously, you had an artist in the studio, and they took the time to make their albums AND their B-Sides, and more work was put into the actual album tracks.  Now they figure, "Screw it.  We'll release the single, and instead of B-Sides we'll add some remixes of the same song and a radio edit.  Stuff like that.  Then we can just throw fill songs on, save time.  Use the B-Sides on the album. and get the promotion rolling on that single!"  We're the ones who get screwed.
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As long as you're speaking about what gets played on the radio, I'll agree with you 100%, but since I don't listen to radio anymore - it doesn't apply to the artists/bands I listen to. I'd be having a hard time believing VNV Nation, Clan Of Xymox, Assemblage 23, Ikon, Wolfsheim, New Order, Tuxedomoon, et al. have ever practiced what you stated. Still, I get what you're saying.

Tarzan Boy

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Steve Perry's "Street Talk" was a very good album.
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Thanks for reminding me ;)

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I thought that The Cult's "Love" album was very good.
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I was just going to say that too.  :D

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This wasn't 80's it was early 90's but....Candlebox's self titled album.
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Another good one from that time frame is

Concrete Blonde's "Bloodletting"

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Definitely Def Leppard - Hysteria.
MJ - Thriller
G&R - Appetite
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Those are good choices and I'll also add GN'R's Lies.