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Every Album Ever

By Winston Rowntree February 16, 2009 408,443 views
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Winston Rowntree is the author of Subnormality, the popular webcomic which he describes as containing "weird characters, endless opinions and occasionally huge walls of text."

Today, we bring you the fourth installment of an original comic Mr. Rowntree will be updating here on Cracked.

Check out past updates, in which Winston illustrated The Circle of Life for Jocks and Nerds or weeks before when he showed you How To Win At Panhandling and How NOT to Get Revenge on Your Ex.



This comic depicts every Mariah Carey album, The Emancipation of Mimi especially.

I agree with the poster that said that interludes do not make a classic album (Have any of you ever bought or downloaded a Janet Jackson album post-Control? *shudder*). Neither do instrumental cuts (Invisible Touch) or remix interlude cuts (Butterfly, Rainbow and Daydream - I'm looking at you) on last or next to last track.

11/5/2009 3:10:39 PM
207shawdy

this doesn't apply to most Iron Maiden albums, and pre-black album metallica.

11/3/2009 10:19:16 PM
Edgarska

I'd say this was true with The Church's "Starfish" but if anyone's ever heard of this one band, Clan of Xymox, and their album Medusa..doesn't follow this at all. Even the instrumentals are f*****g awesome, or at the very least nice and warming when you shoot up.

9/21/2009 2:22:02 AM
Disorder

Even Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Partially Follows this

9/20/2009 10:21:47 AM
ONI_R3

Ha ha, this is so true of about 95% of albums.

9/20/2009 7:57:15 AM
ReneeIsMe2day

Every track on a Sonic Youth album is either 12 or 13.

9/1/2009 7:23:52 PM
sn0wsh00s

Or Arcade Fire

8/19/2009 12:18:56 PM
ToastMeister

This doesn't apply to Radiohead.

6/18/2009 5:39:48 PM
reckoner

Actually, the 6th song is ALWAYS great. and if th erecord is any good then it' s mandatary that the last song be great. This is absolutely 100% true: if the last song sucks the album is not anywhere near classic by a long shot.
And one more thing: albums with "interludes" of any kind are NOT classics. It's almost as if the band knew th ealbum was so-so and they sabotage themselves throwing that s**t at you.

6/12/2009 10:06:14 AM
Unbeknownst

I hate albums like this (i.e. every band that calls itself indie despite being on a major label and being popular and mainstream)

5/11/2009 4:20:47 PM
cmetzger

The scary part is, that is 100% accurate these days.

5/4/2009 3:42:44 PM
MikeMack

It is:
Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There To Come Back

4/9/2009 3:39:05 PM
diggnity

mcgugange, you think Suck My Kiss and/or Californication are s****y songs? Hell, I was just remarking on how those two respectie albums break it up.

4/8/2009 10:05:29 AM
ademska

David Bowie doesn't follow this. But you know how they said Elvis was the King? Bowie's like the Emperor

3/24/2009 3:46:43 AM
greeenhaze

linkin park, red hot chili peppers and sum 41 are the artists who follow this exactly in my cd collection.
i also need to get a better cd collection.

3/23/2009 6:30:10 AM
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2/28/2009 9:04:56 AM
davidlover

New Found Glory's Catalyst follows this, though there aren't "Good" songs, just ones that a smaller doses of s**t.

2/28/2009 8:22:01 AM
nirvana4u

well my band's ep is only 6 songs, and f**k me they're awesome. we're coming over to conquer America in a couple of years. (Have to work through the sadly pathetic Australian music industry first)

2/27/2009 4:19:55 PM
davo

Sadly, that's the way it is nowadays...albums like The Wall are examples of a well-made album.

2/27/2009 2:40:09 PM
Dr_Ikari

that may be so but country artists have truer music than most

2/23/2009 8:23:21 AM
urbancowgirl
Cracked stuff on