While pulling an all-nighter at university to get a good start on my final-year project (before my morning meeting with my supervisor), I'm at a uni computer cluster, and to keep me from getting too bored (and for some ambience, as I work better with music anyway), I brought headphones and a few CDs to listen to. One of those, and the first one I'm listening to, is Linkin Park's newest album, A Thousand Suns. I had this for Christmas but haven't listened to it until now. And the first three songs have made me fall in love with the album instantly.
It's not just that they're good songs, though they are indeed pretty amazing. It's the flow, the brilliant way in which the three songs seamlessly blend together to form a single longer piece that is literally euphoria to the ears. You can't really get the full effect without listening to the album itself, but I urge you to try it by listening to these three songs together, simply start one as soon as the previous one starts to end.
If that didn't work then I apologise, as I say, the full effect is better when you listen to the album itself. Nevertheless, this isn't a new thing. I've had it with other albums too, even other Linkin Park albums (for example, the opening 'Foreward', to Meteora), as well as other artists.
I just feel this is a great way to start an album, and as a musical device sounds absolutely great. So, what other albums have you heard where something similar has happened, where the transition between songs flows so seamlessly and beautifully that they could easily be a single longer song? This includes ones where each individual song is supposed to be part of the same thing (for example, Muse's 'The Resistance' ending, or Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta). Also, what albums have drawn you in so powerfully, and what sort of musical techniques have enticed you in the past to fall in love with an album so easily?
EDIT: Okay, carrying on through the album, it seems like this continuation carries on through the entire album. I sincerely hope so, at least, given I'm now eight songs in. And it sounds AMAZING... (imagine I said 'amazing' with the Chaos Theatre Toronto acoustics
)
It's not just that they're good songs, though they are indeed pretty amazing. It's the flow, the brilliant way in which the three songs seamlessly blend together to form a single longer piece that is literally euphoria to the ears. You can't really get the full effect without listening to the album itself, but I urge you to try it by listening to these three songs together, simply start one as soon as the previous one starts to end.
If that didn't work then I apologise, as I say, the full effect is better when you listen to the album itself. Nevertheless, this isn't a new thing. I've had it with other albums too, even other Linkin Park albums (for example, the opening 'Foreward', to Meteora), as well as other artists.
I just feel this is a great way to start an album, and as a musical device sounds absolutely great. So, what other albums have you heard where something similar has happened, where the transition between songs flows so seamlessly and beautifully that they could easily be a single longer song? This includes ones where each individual song is supposed to be part of the same thing (for example, Muse's 'The Resistance' ending, or Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta). Also, what albums have drawn you in so powerfully, and what sort of musical techniques have enticed you in the past to fall in love with an album so easily?
EDIT: Okay, carrying on through the album, it seems like this continuation carries on through the entire album. I sincerely hope so, at least, given I'm now eight songs in. And it sounds AMAZING... (imagine I said 'amazing' with the Chaos Theatre Toronto acoustics
)
