Out of order

Sep 24, 2008 11:02

It turns out that I discovered I've been listening to a music album all wrong for the past year. You see, I downloaded the album "And" from Jonah Matranga's website when it was released (www.jonahmatranga.com, in case you are curious). The mp3 album did not have track numbers embedded in its metadata, nor were the track files named so that they would automatically be sorted by number (like 01, 02, 03, etc.). So, I've been listening to the songs in alphabetical order thinking this was the sequence they were supposed to be in. I actually really liked it that way, too. Now, I'll try to relearn the order as proscribed by the author, but I'm not sure it will be the same. It's like when I reconstructed the Beach Boys' lost Smile album based on lots of research (and some bootleg downloads) and listened to it for a few years, only for Brian Wilson to release what he believes the album should have been. Some of the tracks were removed, a couple were added, and I kinda liked it better when Good Vibrations was in the middle of the album instead of at the end. In fact, now I think I want to go back and find my bootleg copy just for another listen of "my" sequencing.
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