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Points: 1381 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2008 at 15:42
I think with the right flow, an album can't be too long or too short.

I do find, however, that often times, anything longer than 70 minutes is too long. On the other hand, I find that 40-45 minutes might be too short (or at least it become obnoxious when it's the only cd in the car)
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2008 at 15:52
Well, as many 70's Prog Lovers, we all know that MOST of albums of the 70's, Prog and Hard Rock mainly, had as Minimun 30 min and as Max 50 min, of course some minutes of +, but Generally.

Sometimes Deep Purple albums that are 35 min long, they get a little bit short, but it's ok for me anyways, since it's Hard Rock, and all the songs are all played well, rather than the 60 min+ albums from nowadays of ridiculous pop bands with 21 songs and each song is a faliure.

So it also depends on the quality on the album, I suppose they've already said that before me.
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2008 at 15:58
Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

depends on the type of music,


and the quality(well at least if you like it) of the music.

Cause you CAN give ME 120 min of Deep Purple in one day.

But NOT 120 min of Britney Spears in one day, or neither a MINUTE!

As I said before, I stay with the 70's!

for Prog, generally: 40-55 min (not including live)
for Hard Rock generally: 30 min-45 min (not including live)
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2008 at 07:56
The longer the beter!
But to be honest i dont realy cear its up to the artist to shoose how long he want his album to be, i yust listen.
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Points: 5783 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2008 at 08:16
from 35 to 65 with 50-55 minutes as a paragon of ideal

Just checked my top-50 albums: only six from them are longer than 70 minutes
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