I feel its the music director's choice.. Few years back me and my friends who are ardant fans of Rahman as well used to discuss this in school.. Those were the times when CDs werent affordable and only cassettes.. If you notice the last track of Side B in most of the Rahman albums will be the best of the album.. For example, Anbe Anbe in Jeans, Kaadhalenum therveludhi from Kaadhalar Dhinam etc.. So we used to discuss saying Rahman is so clever by keeping the best track in the last so that it will force people to hear all the tracks of the album just to hear this last track instead of fast forwarding it.. The course of it will make one understand the beauty of other tracks in the album, which grows on you on repeated hearings..
On 8/13/08, Anil Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do ARR (and other MDs) decide the ordering of the tracks in an album or > is that dictated by music companies/director et al. > > By order I mean - the order in which the songs follow each other in a > CD/Tape .. > for instance in JYJTN it was > > Kabhi Kabhi > Pappu > Jaane Tu (female) > and so on ... > > Typically my ipod is always on the shuffle mode (and hence I used to hear > the tracks in the album in random order) - lately I have switched off the > shuffle mode and hear out the album in the original order and thats what got > me thinking .... > > -- > -A > http://viewsnmuse.blogspot.com > > > >
