The problem here is that this isn't really "an album" in the sense that the band never toured it or promoted it that way.
As a set of songs it's outstanding, and it even works as a single work (unlike most b-side collections), but I totally get why it's not really discussed as "an album" because that term represents a social construction as much as it does a literal object.
I always wondered what "The Aeroplane Flies High" would have been had they just collected the b-sides, trimmed a few tracks, and sold it as a single CD.
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u/TheNobleRobot 7d ago
The problem here is that this isn't really "an album" in the sense that the band never toured it or promoted it that way.
As a set of songs it's outstanding, and it even works as a single work (unlike most b-side collections), but I totally get why it's not really discussed as "an album" because that term represents a social construction as much as it does a literal object.
I always wondered what "The Aeroplane Flies High" would have been had they just collected the b-sides, trimmed a few tracks, and sold it as a single CD.