quickest ways to ruin a song or album?

[neckermanncj]

I always hated 'intro' tracks that have a boring acoustic guitar or piano before the album erupts on the second track. For me, I just want to hear the music, no need to add intro's to the beginning of albums, just get right to it.

intro tracks just make the song that comes after it more EPIC!

[Mega-Tallica]

intro tracks just make the song that comes after it more EPIC!

Yeah, I guess it's a sort of build-up. Sometimes it fits really well, but most of the time it doesn't seem needed.

[Rockbandfan23467]

Re-recording tracks from previous albums. I've already heard the song; I don't care if you're a Progressive Post-Punkcore band now.
I'll use Whitesnake as an example. To my knowledge, they did this thrice; Here I Go Again (82/87), Crying in the Rain (82/87), Fool for Your Loving (80/89). Two out of three of these were actually worse than the originals (Crying in the Rain and Fool for Your Loving). And the one that was better (Here I Go Again) featured worse lyrics than the original ("like a drifter I was born to walk alone" instead of "like a hobo I was born to walk alone").

Why is drifter worse than hobo?

[Teh_Jakester]

Why is drifter worse than hobo?

Why is it better?
Hobo makes more sense. Boxcars and such. Drifter was put in to Americanise it, I think.

[Squaretriangles]

'Hobo' is kind of an ugly word, don't you think?

[Rockbandfan23467]

Why is it better?
Hobo makes more sense. Boxcars and such. Drifter was put in to Americanise it, I think.

Well, drifter sounds better to me, but I guess that's just my LOLOPNION.

[WhiffleBallTony]

Depending on how I'm playing it, but Suites (if they're all meant to go as one song) or Partial Narratives/Intros/Outros that're broken up, instead of being the single track.

There's usually a gap between the tracks that messes up the flow-together, and it makes for irritation on shuffle play.

Same here. I would probably listen to "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" much more if it was one solid track, not something broken up into pieces.

[Mega-Tallica]

Same here. I would probably listen to "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" much more if it was one solid track, not something broken up into pieces.

I wouldn't have the attention span to listen to one solid 42 minute song. I like it breaked up because I don't like every part of the song. Throw out Goodnight Kiss and I may be able to listen to the whole thing as one song.

[WhiffleBallTony]

I wouldn't have the attention span to listen to one solid 42 minute song. I like it breaked up because I don't like every part of the song. Throw out Goodnight Kiss and I may be able to listen to the whole thing as one song.

I'm the opposite. It's always hard for me to jump into the middle of, say, The Wall.

[KingProgdor]

I have no qualms about long tracks that are broken up into sections. More because I like the extra scrobbles on last.fm than anything.