Nowadays & the vinyl sequencing etc

Maybe it can work randomly anyway. It might feel fitting for any song to begin side 2.

Broadcast's TENDER BUTTONS has an entirely different (and better) tracklisting for LP.

espers' II also has a different/better tracklisting

I've brought up Modest Mouse's inconsistent approach to vinyl a few times before on ILM. In a nutshell: Lonesome Crowded West is vastly improved by a slight reshuffling of track order and the insertion of "Baby Blue Sedan" (though I don't like the song terribly much, it somehow glues the record together!), and Good News... also benefits from adding "I've Got It All (Most)" as the last track - upping the good:bad ratio on the last half of the record and strengthening its momentum. MEANWHILE, though, Moon & Antarctica seems to have absolutely ZERO thought put into its sequencing vis-a-vis vinyl, as transitions between tracks are actually cut off mid-sound at the ends of sides...just terrible, as if nobody even listened to it before shipping it out.

On this note, may I say playing side 2 of The Bends first and ending with side 1 makes much more sense and gives a much better listen, with "Just" opening and "(nice dream)" closing; "Planet Telex" and "Street Spirit" both open/close sides very well but I never thought they were good bookends for an entire album. I sometimes wonder if they mistakenly mislabeled the sides...

That's funny - I've never felt that way about The Bends, and even though I've never owned it on vinyl, I have always imagined flipping the record over after "(Nice Dream)" - it just sounds like the end of one side. I imagine this with a number of albums I've only ever owned on CD.