10. You’re excited to buy a double album, get it home, take off the shrink wrap…and that’s when you discover it isn’t a gatefold. Two records in a single sleeve is an abomination and should have been outlawed long ago.
9. Live albums that aren’t at least doubles. There’s so many examples of this. They obviously had more recordings but decided to wait 50 years to release them as ‘bonus’ tracks.
8. The daft concept of ‘bonus’ tracks on new releases. How is it a bonus? No other shorter version exists. A bonus is an addition to an established selection, so you can't have a bonus without one, that’s just an extra track.
7. Finding a rare album only to discover it’s the cheapo re-release on a budget label like Marble Arch or Hallmark.
6. Short records. I’ve got loads of albums from the 60s which are 25 minutes long and even some from the 70s. C’mon guys at least try and pad it out with a jam.
5. Hidden tracks. Why? OK it’s not listed, is only 60 seconds long and it's half a minute after the last track on side two but what does it achieve?
4. Out of order track listings. It always smacks of a bad relationship between band and label that they couldn’t decide and waited to the last minute after which the producer had just guessed. Made even worse the addition of sticker with the correct listing.
3. Top opening albums. An opening on the right is perfectly fine, why do you have to ruin my neatly lined up shelves of records? should it go in sideways or upright?
2. Records which don’t have any or complete information on. I want to know the engineer, where it was recorded and the name of the backing singers, thank you. And while we're at it - what’s with no timings? You must know how long each track is, why not tell us?
1. Those double albums which say side 1 and 4 on one disc and two and three on another. It was a brief trend but a pointless one. What did it achieve? Is chronological order so bad?
