Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-186.190.60.186-20141229193842/@comment-53539-20141230190404

It happens a lot in the music industry. the first album grabs attention, the second *might* be an improvement... but after that to stay popular the musicians always seem to stick to a formulaic method of songs to make money.

This is also why you tend to find most albums traditionally were built round one or two hit songs and why originally singles did well enough to warrant existing in the first place. The singles were the songs people felt would be popular enough to get the artist noticed. the rest of the album tended to be crap.

Back in the old days of records and record players, side A was all the hit songs and side B was just there. Side A was what they wanted you to buy the record for. A few musicians and groups got popular for side b work;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_%28The_Four_Pennies_song%29

Basically this is why when EOU was set up, I purpose suggested we stuck to different producers for every example to avoid the issue with boorishness.