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Old 03-21-2017, 02:09 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
Go and listen to all those albums all those guys released 2 and 3 a year in the 60s. I'll bet you discover there's a handful of decent tracks surrounded by filler cause they only released the album around a few singles.
This is true. For a long time an album was seen as nothing more than a sort of support act for the singles, and filler they could certainly be. Quantity doesn't really trump quality: I'd rather have a really good album every 2 or more years than four substandard albums a year, or whatever.
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