Artists need to write albums again.
 

Remember albums like Dark Side of the Moon, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heats Club Band, Led Zeppelin IV? Modern artists no longer write albums which are designed to be listened to from start to finish, this is a great shame, they simply write songs and put them together.

Who are you getting that idea from?

Embryonic by Flaming Lips. But that came out in 2009 so you may be right in that artist don't do that anymore.

There are a zillion examples of how your assertion is false. Open your ears.

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well i'm pretty sure "For Emma, Forever Ago" was written to be listened as one album from beginning to end which i do quite a lot. i understand what you mean but you're wrong most bands and artists want their albums to be listened to from beginning to end but unfortunately it doesn't happen very much anymore, it's the listeners' faults not the bands' or artists'

LMAO - that is all.

Step away from the top 40 mate, because real albums are still being written :).

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hmm... some albums in top 40 are occasionally good N.E.R.D.'s new album is wonderful, i really liked KOL's new album (although a lot of hipsters and diehard kol fans would disagree) and believe or not i actually enjoyed some of Katy Perry's new stuff.

Haha, I thought you might be credible until here.

Add people who enjoy good music to that list.

ok i listen to both mainstream and indie so what i liked "Firework" it's a good song, she's really not that bad of a musician though i did hate california girls just didn't like it.
why was "Pickup Truck" a bad song? why was "Back Down South" bad? why "Mary", "Pyro", "Radioactive", and "Beach Side" so terrible?

i thought it was a pretty good album (although a few songs weren't all that impressive" the songs i listed above were.


sorry that i'm not a true hipster

Even when Kings of Leon were supposed to be good, they were still a piss poor band.
Aha Shake and Youth & Young Manhood aren't very good, but they still have some artistic credibility. But now, they're writing middle of the road, dull generic shite they're even worse.

Apology accepted.

Artists no longer write albums that are designed to be played from start to finish? When did this happen, last night when i was asleep?

There are still many examples of artists who create albums that work as a whole product. See: Arcade Fire "The Suburbs." Swans "My Father Will Guide Me a Rope Up to the Sky." Hell, even Kanye's recent album is like that to some extent.

I don't even understand what the OP's grounds for this statement were. There are so many albums being recorded even now that are meant to be a full, cohesive package and not merely a standalone piece.

One really good example of this would have to be The Decemberists' 2009 The Hazards of Love album, which many have bashed for the fact that all of the tracks are so dependent on one another that listening to the whole album is pretty much a requirement.

Additionally, even back when Sgt. Pepper's, Dark Side of the Moon, and other such albums were being recorded, there still were quite a large quantity of albums which were "just songs", particularly in the mainstream.

As far as I can tell, that's pretty much how music has been for at least the last thirty years. And that estimate is probably very low.

Mmhmm, mmhmm, that's whatever you were talking about for you.

hmm, in hindsight, ive honestly got no idea what i was talking about...that was a retarded thing to say. my bad, haha

If you would like to hear these albums you speak of, just kick around here a bit and take some recs.

she has an awful voice w/o post production.

You can't be sure, probably the monitoring was awful. It's pretty hard to sing when you can't hear yourself.