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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum
I'm still not sure about this. My understanding was Tusk was always supposed to be a single album but they ended up with far too much material and decided they couldnt not use it so opted for a full double album. I've read your mention of Ken Caillat. I wonder if perhaps he personally had an idea at some point- rather than it being a band idea. KC's ideas and Lindsey's ideas were very different.
In the end I'm pretty sure the odd running order was deliberate to make the album uneven- particularly following Over and Over with The Ledge; lull them in with something they are familiar with and then immediately hit them with the new sound.
I've never personally had an issue with the running order- seems okay to me.
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I certainly can't speak on anything beyond what I was told. I was having a convo with KC, I forgot what my specific question was, probably something like "did you go in with the plan to make this a double album" or something similar, and his answer was basically "it wasn't always intended to be a double album" which sparked my interest. He went on to explain the concept of partner albums that were destined to tell two individual stories that would compliment each other.
I didn't press the tracking question (largely because the concept caught me off guard" it was my impression the idea died prior to finalizing the exact number of tracks, so it's possible there was no final track listing concept for partner albums but I'm guessing there was a rough sketch at least. I wonder if ine was to be more "pop" the other "creative leaps" or if it was just to tell a love story some sort of "get together" album and "breakup" album. I wish I had time to grasp how many questions I really had.
EDIT:::: I found word for word the part of my convo that I was looking for. We talked about several things but this line clears up what I mentioned. This Is straight from the horses mouth.
"It was supposed to be 2 single albums that eventully would fit in a custom jacket that both albums would form one picture, but the label chickened out and went w a traditional double album format"