Changing the order of tracks and skipping some

Although I'm not fond of listening to albums with some original tracks replaced by other ones, I've been experimenting much with finding "optimal" order of the albums' original tracks. In the case of post-1970s and longer albums, I'm also often skipping some tracks when listening to my "optimal" version.

Some examples of my listening order to my personally optimal versions are:

Yes - Fragile (LP): side 2 ;; side 1
Caravan - Grey and Pink (LP): side 2 ;; side 1
Comus - First Utterance (LP): side 2 ;; side 1
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (CD): 2,1,3,4 ;; 5,6,8,7
Eskaton - 4 Visions (CD): 1,2 ;; 4,3
Metallica - Master of Puppets (CD): 1,2,4 ;; 5,6,7
Pink Floyd - Animals (CD): 1,3,4 ;; 5,2
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine (CD): 2,3,4,6 ;; 5,8
Steel Mill - Green Eyed God (CD): 1,3,4,2 ;; 7,5,6,8
Taal - Skymind (CD): 1,4 ;; 5,6
;; indicates a short listening break between two halfs of an album

Sometimes I return to listening in the original order of tracks.

Have you tried something like that?


Edited by David_D - 20 hours 58 minutes ago at 13:24

When I bought my first copy of Argus by Wishbone Ash it was on cassette. For some reason I don't understand, sides one and two were reversed and for years I thought the album started with The King Will Come and ended with Blowing Free. That actually made sense to me because The King Will Come is an obvious opener for live shows and Blowing Free was often the show closer or encore. It was only when I replaced my cassette with a vinyl copy that I realised that Time Was was the opening track but I still think the cassette order of songs is better.

I prophesy disaster wrote: I don't see the point of changing the order of the tracks on an album. I feel that if I play an album in the wrong order too often, then I will be creating an incorrect memory of the album, making the album sound wrong when played in the correct order.

It's not like that I listen to both the original and "my" version. It usually starts with that I dislike or am not satisfied with the original, and when I find one I like, I keep listening to it. Unless, I sometimes decide to return to the original version or listen to a new, maybe less modified, one.

Edited by David_D - 3 hours 41 minutes ago at 06:41

Hi,

Amon Duul 2 - Wolf City. In the original LP, the title track opened the album. Later a different version had Surrounded by the Stars as the opener which was the beginning of the original side 2 of the LP. I think the change was done because Surrounded by the Stars was heard and played a couple of times, thus, it was better known.

Caravan - The New Sinfonia. It was not complete, and it was not in the correct order. The remastered version has the complete show in order.

Edited by moshkito - 1 hour 20 minutes ago at 09:02