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Old 09-11-2009, 07:40 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by toretorden View Post
But if you only include a few good songs from an album into your playlist and say that's a good album because it's got 3 good tracks, then you obviously have little basis for that statement.
If it only has 3 good songs, I doubt I'd call it a good album. But if it's a choice (for the same price) between:

Album A: 10 songs, all of them good
Album B: 15 songs, 12 of them good

I'd take album B. Sure, it may be "too long" and have some stuff I'm not wild about...but I'm 2 good songs richer, as far as I'm concerned.

Basically, I'm okay with an artist putting more on, even if the "extra" is mostly not that good. Whatever IS good, I benefit from. Whatever isn't, I can ignore in future.
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