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The whole album is about a dichotomy. Which one? on the cover because he was caught up between being famous and trying to be "godly". I feel like he's also subconsciously telling us about his bipolar disorder. First 3 tracks he starts off "godly" but then "falls into temptation" after Famous. He feels at his lowest (Lowlights) after Feedback. Highlights right after lowlights is definitely a nod to bipolarism. And the end of Real Friends bleeds into Wolves, so when he's asking how many real ones are around him, it sounds like the wolves are circling
It is.
But it's not at the same time if it makes sense.
If you see TLOP as a collection of all of his previous albums sounds then
But for real tht s*** is everywhere
TLOP great sequencing for the original album imo
Not All Heroes Wear Capes was sequenced great but that shouldn’t count cause producers better sequence and transition their s*** immaculately
Every Kanye album till tlop
ye, ksg and JIK have good sequencing too. They just not that great as what came before
Igor is pretty incredible sequencing.
DAMN is perfection.
Every Kanye album up to and including Yeezus
RD Blueprint 444 and Black Album are insanely good sequencing.
Daytona is flawless
A written testimony is great too
Every Metallica album till Load
Jay Z 4:44
MBDTF
Gorillaz Demon Days
Odd Eye Circle - Max and Match
Yeezus
808
More recently:
Bo Jackson
Vince Staples
BA PACE - REDBOOK
Lord Apex - Supply & Demand
Amani - An Unknown Infinite
Every Metallica album till Load
Jay Z 4:44
MBDTF
Gorillaz Demon Days
Odd Eye Circle - Max and Match
Yeezus
808
Never liked AOTL -> Monster
I’ve never understood people who were like in principle or whatever opposed to resequencing an album. There’s like many examples where the artists didn’t have input or they assigned the decision to someone else. There’s a great example of this where U2 just asked some girl (I’m sure she’s important, I didn’t look into exactly she is) to decide the sequencing for Joshua Tree and she just ordered the songs in terms of popularity. It’s just all the singles for the first half. There’s no artistic thought process put into the flow of the album. Plenty of other cases of this.
I’ve noticed lately a lot of albums sonically have sequencing that is all over the place but still somehow makes sense
Best example. The perfect album
That's why It's the hip hop "bible" and nas is "Jesus" all rappers should aspire to make an album this good it's short and he makes every second count it's straight to the point no bullshit and it's cohesive it all just flows into each other seamlessly transitioning from one theme to another effortlessly it sounds like one guy produced the whole thing but there's like 5-6 different producers.