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Aug. 10th, 2016 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWhat an odd editorial decision— I’m listening to part of a multi CD set, a retrospective of the artist’s works during a particular period. There are multiple versions of several songs in the set. Sometimes, the versions are grouped together. Sometimes, they aren’t. Other times, some are together and others are elsewhere.
I think things might be in order by recording date, but I’m not convinced that that’s justification. I can see a musical historian or musician, professional or amateur, wanting to contrast versions and finding it easier when they’re grouped together. I can also see listeners like me who are trying to get a taste and decide what we think or people who are listening just because they like the songs feeling kind overwhelmed (and, dare I say, bored) by multiple versions all at once. I’d just like to have all of the versions together or all of them jumbled up so that the same song didn’t play two or three times in a row.
I’m glad this set comes from the library because I don’t think I’d want to listen to it through repeatedly. Right now, I’m in the middle of a run of five different versions of the same song. There are two sets of three later in this CD, and it started with the same song twice (and there are four other sets of two).
I think things might be in order by recording date, but I’m not convinced that that’s justification. I can see a musical historian or musician, professional or amateur, wanting to contrast versions and finding it easier when they’re grouped together. I can also see listeners like me who are trying to get a taste and decide what we think or people who are listening just because they like the songs feeling kind overwhelmed (and, dare I say, bored) by multiple versions all at once. I’d just like to have all of the versions together or all of them jumbled up so that the same song didn’t play two or three times in a row.
I’m glad this set comes from the library because I don’t think I’d want to listen to it through repeatedly. Right now, I’m in the middle of a run of five different versions of the same song. There are two sets of three later in this CD, and it started with the same song twice (and there are four other sets of two).
