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 - 8 hours 37 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.