also a double album of middling music is way worse than a single disc of middling music
Not sure I agree with that. Whenever a favorite album or song thread comes up, it's amazing to see how many people express polar opposites about so many different albums/songs. So while some songs may be considered drivel by one part of the fanbase, another part may love it. Having more material to enjoy increases the amount of chance that something is going to click and be enjoyable to each person. Sure, it also means that there's more of a chance for someone to hate more songs, but I'd rather have more material to pick from than less. There's always the skip button if I don't like something.
Amen, brother.
As with The Book Of Souls, I'm thinking if they cut song X and Song Y, they could've made a single CD, but of course that is always met with "No way bro, Song X and Song Y are awesome!"
Exactly. I mean, taking it a step even further, why not just say "I don't want DT to put out any more music for fear that it's gonna suck"? I mean that's just silly, and stating "I don't want a double album just because some of the material will probably suck" is essentially the same thing.
okay a point was missed somewhere. I'd rather have 60 minutes of tightly-written music than 120 minutes of them throwing every single thing they wrote into a huge pile.
then again, DT12 was an underwritten mess and it was shorter
now imagine a DT12 twice as long with the same consistent quality
i probably wouldn't have bought a double-length DT12
That's it though, how do you know a double-length DT12 would have had the same consistent quality? Obviously talking about songwriting. Why assume that the quality would be consistent with completely new songs that you haven't heard before? If you don't like it now, if it were double length there's just as much chance that you'll find songs you might like more, as much as there's a chance you also won't like them right? I'm just not sure why you'd assume one way over the other.
I see where you're coming from but I'm inclined to agree with Scotty and TAC here, opinions are too divided amongst the fanbase as it is (and considering how our personal preferences change all the time), to the point where you can't really make any claims without invalidating a lot of other people's experiences. So therefore it's all opinions (I think we're all aware of this). But you know, this might be taking it too far but I would liken it to when people say Rush should've stopped after Moving Pictures, or Metallica Should have stopped after ...And Justice. But then the people that believe this can't even agree, others will say Rush/Metallica should've stopped after Power Windows or Black Album respectively. In fact, why didn't DT just stop after MP left? I know there are people out there that believe DT should've stopped after KM left!
Way I see it, there's too much potential to limit with my tiny preconceptions.