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If I'm listening to a pure rock album, short and raw is best. Ramones exemplifed this. Yet, there is nothing wrong with an epic album, if its done right. "The Wall", or "Daydream Nation", for example. I love the journey these albums put me on, it feels cinematic, or even like a sonic novel of sorts. Yes 60mins or over can and often are artists at thier most over-blown and pretentious, but when its done right you feel like you've been somewhere by the last few notes of the album, and can be quite satisfying. Albums that never feel too long:
Sonic Youth-DDN
The Clash- London Calling
Blur-Modern Life Is Rubbish
Refused-Shape of Punk to Come
and of coruse Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde
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