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07-12-2014, 07:28 PM | #1 (permalink) |
AllTheWhileYouChargeAFee
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Average song length, 1944 to 2008
Been noticing this with some of the recent albums I've bought: There's a lot more long songs - or at least fewer short ones (like, 2 min) - nowadays than there were in the 60's and even 70's. Though it seems to have peaked in the early 90's:
https://plot.ly/~RhettAllain/131/average-song-length/
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07-14-2014, 10:30 AM | #2 (permalink) |
Mwana Nzala
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It would all depend on the artist and the genre itself.
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07-14-2014, 11:42 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Dragon
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Well Slayer's Reign in Blood has some short songs for the genre, and old school punk rock had some ridiculously short songs, so yeah I guess I would just say it depends on the genre.
If you had a gun to my head, I would choose a shorter song over a longer one, just because unless there's a lot of variety in a longer song, it tends to get dull. |
07-14-2014, 01:00 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Maybe it's the result of a new generation with A.D.D??
There is a scene in the Gouge documentary where Gil norton says he mentioned to francis the pixies songs were too short so francis went to a record store and showed him that artist he grew up with like Buddy holly also made short songs, so i guess it does depend on the genre and the format an artist usually uses..
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