http://www.tangzine.com/2009/08/a-small-degree-of-comfort/ Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.tangzine.com/2009/08/a-small-degree-of-comfort/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 mikealph Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:28:31 +0000 http://www.tangzine.com/?p=2832#comment-1669 Many of my favorite bands are ones that consistently put out albums that are just that, albums. When I think about Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Arcade Fire's Funeral, Radiohead's OK Computer, Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin, Beck's Sea Change, or Sufjan Stephens' Illinois, I certainly think of great individual songs, but I mostly think of listening to the entire albums from beginning to end. So few artists can do that these days, because many of them are struggling just to put together enough songs to fill out the typical 10 tracks of a CD. The bands that succeed in making real albums are the ones that will continue to be talked about in the future, just as albums like The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet and, of course Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks are still talked about today. Many of my favorite bands are ones that consistently put out albums that are just that, albums. When I think about Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Arcade Fire’s Funeral, Radiohead’s OK Computer, Flaming Lips’ Soft Bulletin, Beck’s Sea Change, or Sufjan Stephens’ Illinois, I certainly think of great individual songs, but I mostly think of listening to the entire albums from beginning to end. So few artists can do that these days, because many of them are struggling just to put together enough songs to fill out the typical 10 tracks of a CD. The bands that succeed in making real albums are the ones that will continue to be talked about in the future, just as albums like The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet and, of course Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks are still talked about today.

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