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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I disagree that most of them are in the first category.
In my experience virtually all of them are in the second category. The whole point of an album is that you can expand more than what you could with a single. Why do you think the album became the thing that rock bands concentrated on rather than singles?
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Your quintessential pop/rock band will be trying to maintain a poppy sound throughout the course of an album. Because pop ultimately is the aim of their music. E.g. Beatles, Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand etc.. There's a clear divide between that sort of band, and a band that only seeks a poppy sound
at all on three or so tracks.
My divide is between full-fledged pop/rock and something that's only trying to be a half or a quarter pop/rock. Such a division can definitely be identified within the realm of rock music.