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Old 08-23-2010, 02:28 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frumious B View Post
The neat thing is that while the songs on CTTE are longish, the album itself is just 38 minutes, which makes for a rather quick and breezy listen with not a second of wasted space, particularly in an era of releases that are more CD length and padded accordingly. I've noticed shorter albums returning in the last few years and that is a welcome trend to me.
Yeah, my opinion is if you are going to make an album longer than an hour every single minute better be pure gold. Very few bands have pulled this off for me. I really do prefer 30-40 minutes of awesome music to 75 minutes of average crap.
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