r/Northlane • u/Azure_Skies • Oct 02 '24
alternate Node track order
Do you guys ever make "improvements" to your favorite albums' track listings? Sometimes it can be a fun creative exercise to try and change up the flow of things and see if you can make something new. It can be a good way to breathe life into an album you've listened to a lot of times as well.
- Ra
- Animate
- Impulse
- Soma
- Obelisk
- Nameless
- Rot
- Leech
- Ohm
- Node
- Weightless
Some records are more receptive to this than others but ones that are a collection of songs like Node here can be pretty fun to mess with. I personally see this album as four pairs of songs and two individual songs. I always thought Ra would be a killer opening track, so from there I kept all the song pairs intact but changed the order of them up to make it flow better.
I only flipflopped the Node/Ohm pair but the way they normally flow works great in this context too I've found. I considered Nameless an intro to Rot when making this but it could be fun to stick that interlude somewhere else too now that I think about it, maybe even at the very end since Weightless ends on such a comma.
Anyway this is the only place I could think to share this where someone out there might take something away from it lol so uh enjoy I guess?