The Album As Mullet

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Business at the front, party at the back = the mullet.

How about examples of albums which are 'heavy'/conceptual on one side and then have poppier songs on the other. eg.

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
ELP - Tarkus
David Bowie - Low

As Low suggests this doesn't always have to mean honking side long epics, just records where there's a definite difference in character between the two sides and one seems more ambitious/serious/complex.

NB unlike the mullet and hair I think this is a grebt way to arrange your album.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

is that a fish on your head or are you just glad to see me?

how bout Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On album
stonkin' funk jams on side 1, makeout tunes side 2

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Obv this qn mostly applies to when the LP/cassette was standard format.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Royal Trux 'Veterans of Disorder' - greasy & stringy at the front, glowing razor-festooned dreadlocks at the back?

― dave q, Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Obv this qn mostly applies to when the LP/cassette was standard format.

Not really; i think 'blueprint 2: the gift and the curse' is the latest example of what you described.

― gi66y, Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Love's - Da Capo (Pop songs great, side long track is shit)

vs.

Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (Pop songs shit, side long track is great)

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

But the modern hoxton mullet = blandly trendy upfront, avant-garde middle and tackily retro at the back...

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I am startled that Tom seems to be quoting Puck RWSF.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Abbey Road?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

please, please, please stop

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― steve k (stevek10), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ritual de lo Habitual (?)

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The first Zappa one Freak Out!, even tho the bizness is hardly that, when compared to the acid hippy noize on disc 04, it's Perry Como.

― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 16 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Temptations - Wings of Love. First side is amazingly foot-stompingly funky (courtesy of an AWOL Funkadelic rhythym section) and the second side is atrocious ballads cut by a completely different band.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 January 2003 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the tonsorial equiv of dbl albs where side 4 is one long track (ie 'Blonde on Blonde' by Dylan, 'Washing Machine' by Sonic Youth)?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

That Kevin Ayres disk was like this, wasn't it? The 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus or something like that. And I think I like the long side best.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink Floyd's Meddle and Atom Heart Mother

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

jandek's "lost cause"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

White Light, White Heat

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Most extreme example I've ever come across is Moev's "Obituary Column (Ha)" - side one and side two might as well be different bands.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Spacemen 3 "Recurring" (guess which side is which)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The one side with the drones and the...oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Roxy Music - Manifesto
Anthony Phillips - Sides

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 17 January 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

David Bowie - Low

Tom, these albums are party at the front, business at the back.

Long at front, Short at back IS NOT a Mullet.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 17 January 2003 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Dead Prez - Let's Get Free.

The only difference being that the 'business' half fucking rules while the 'party' bit is just plain embarrasing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 January 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I read that as "the business have fucking-rules (garbled) party" .. whatever it means, that's the spirit!

Todd Rundgren - Faithful

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 January 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

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