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I'm glad my posts continue to inspire people. Also, I love "Drukqs". I could listen to that all day long and never get bored with it. There are so many interesting diversions on those 2 discs that it never seems to even be the same album sometimes; even then, it doesn't feel like there's filler.. everything is in its right place..
Uh.. speaking as someone who listened to the entire Merzbox during 2 separate weekends in a row, it's very hard for me to stop listening to an album.. I'll usually skip a track or two on a record if it's not something I dig, but even then I feel weird ruining the flow of an album.. though I will say that there are lots of noise albums that just get really really boring after 45 minutes (though not as boring as long noise shows..)... LOTS of fucking grindcore/punk albums that are longer than a half an hour (unless we're talking about Discordance Axis; I can listen to that shit all day)... basically, it's hard to make interesting noise, hip hop, punk, grind, power violence, soul, "brutal death metal", "real" black metal (what with it's shitty production), r&b, rock, indie, and pop albums that are longer than 30-40 minutes... wait, I think I named jsut about every genre.. uh.. I guess the general rule of thumb is that most bands who do albums longer than 45 minutes or so really just pack it with filler.... so yeah. Okay, okay, let me put me thesis in here: I don't really think many albums should be longer than 45 minutes. So, yeah, I can't think of any specific examples for this thread.
Oh, wait, yeah, I got one: Trout Mask Replica. I love Captain Beefheart with all my heart and soul, but there's just a bit too much fucking around in the studio and spoken word pieces and so on and so forth.. it's BY FAR his longest album, with none of his other proper albums (so, the original Bat Chain Puller doesn't count, for example) even being 45 minutes long if I remember correctly, and Zappa's production is fucking terrible.. dry dry dry, vocals way too loud and in-your-face, and too much treble and too many highs.. ugh. That album gives me a migraine. The music on it is brilliant, but Zappa's heavy-handed production and, uh, whatever else he "contributed", just make it boring to listen to.
That's really the only not-so-obvious example I can think of right now; the rest are pretty obvious..
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