Side 1 or Side 2? Rumours

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by elle

another way to analyze this can be by the songwriter:

Side one: 3 LB songs, 1 SN song, 2 CM songs

Side two: 2 SN songs, 2 CM songs, 1 FM song

for me, there's no doubt that 3 stellar LB tracks (according to everybody in the top 2 LB albums thread at least?) win over any side where there is no LB penned songs.... unless you count the arrangements and the guitar solo that makes the Chain what it is.

no matter how much i love The Chain and Gold Dust Woman, and IDWTK is cute, they cannot live up to the side one on which almost every track is stellar (Don't Stop haters aside, i think it's a stellar song, and even boring Dreams cannot drag it behind the side 2).

i'm not sure that i understand the "side 1 was commercial, and side 2 was artistic" argument. is IDWTK or Oh Daddy really more artistic than GYOW or SHN?

If Dreams is boring, then what is Songbird? A sleeping pill?