The album that no doubt has gotten more listens than any other is a double album, Dire Strait’s Alchemy. I’m a softie for concert/live albums, strange because I don’t go to many concerts, but imagining the venue, and the layout of the stage and whatnot from the sound it part of the fun.
Later I rented the video of the concert from Blockbuster and was more than a little disturbed to find out that the scoundrels who mastered the album changed the order of the songs. Sure, I heard the fades on the album, but I figured it was just crowd noise they were trimming. I remember first being shocked – ThEy CaN’t dO tHaT!! – and then being deeply conflicted about whether I should continue to listen to the album in the ordinal order, or in the actual order. Yeah, I got over it eventually.
Delicate Sounds of Thunder, Live: Right Here, Right Now, and AC/DC Live all got a lot of ear time as well.
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