Tuesday 9 October 2012

Tracklist

Brackets after song title show original artist.

1. Zzzonked (Enter Shikari)
2. Rise and Shine - original song title
3. I Hate This, Do You Like it? (Chickenhawk)
4. Thug Workout (Don Broco)
5. Think Or Swim (The James Cleaver Quintet)
6. Let's Die (Turbowolf)
7. Daughter Of The Sea (Young Guns)
8. Throttle (Wet Nuns)
9. Gandhi Mate, Gandhi (Enter Shikari)
10. Miles Away (Your Demise)
11. The Tables Have Turned - original song title
12. Bears By The Head (Hawk Eyes)
13. Muther (letlive.)

This track listing was not just a random bunch of songs put together. The lead single, Zzzonked, being the opening track, is a common convention in rock albums. For example Don Broco's 'Priorities', Green Day's 'American Idiot', and Lower Than Atlantis' 'Love Someone Else' are 3 examples of albums that have used the opening track on their album as the lead single and to promote the album, and this is what we are doing here. Track 4, in the case of my itunes library, is often a single, and a fan favourite, for example Deaf Havana's 'Little White Lie's' Green Days 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' 'Longview' and 'Let Yourself Go' Enter Shikari's 'Juggernauts, Hawk Eyes' 'Headstrung and Kasabian's 'Fast Fuse' all being track 4, and therefore we chose a song which had been released as a single for track 4, being one of Don Broco's most well known songs, as well as a fan favourite. The last track on the album is often the longest, slowest, and song with the most emotion, for example Enter Shikari's 'Constellations' and letlive.'s 'Day 54' The song Muther which we have chose as the last track is the slowest most emotional song from letlive's (the original artists) album, as well as being the longest on the tracklisting here. Often the penultimate song on the album in rock will be a fast or epic song, sometimes the heaviest song on the album, in the case of Enter Shikari's 'Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide' and Young Guns' 'Headlights' to end the heaviness and fast part of them album, allowing for the epic, slow, emotional finale, because if there were too many slow songs in a row, people may get bored, especially in the rock genre, the song Bears By The Head, is what I would consider the fastest and heaviest on this album, which is why it has been placed second last. The song directly in the middle, 'Daughter Of The Sea' is the song we all consider to be the best on the album, and therefore it is placed directly in the middle. This, being placed directly in the middle will keep the listener wanting to listen to the second half of the album as well, if they also agree that it is the best, or a very good song.

1 comment:

  1. Liam, you must explain where you stole these from and why, you need to explain the order of the songs (i.e. have you organised songs like they do on real albums with 7 being the best song, 1,3,5 generally being singles and 10 or 11 being the longest tracks).

    Also explain how these song titles fit your genre and appeal to your audience.

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