What makes for better albums? 1 dictator mixing everything and playing every instrument...

What makes for better albums? 1 dictator mixing everything and playing every instrument, or collectives with every member contributing?

Depends who the dictator is and who else is in the band

Depends on the members

When you're dealing with a bunch of talentless hack junkies like Billy was, dictator route is best

This is an album multiple people wrote

This.

This is an album one person wrote

it's like moving a couch up a flight of stairs
if everyone is telling everyone else what to do you'll have a lot more difficulty than just having one guy lead the rest

mike dean

Not two people? Also that's weird I'm listening to ATDI and mars Volta...and antemasque just came on

HELP

MATADOR CHASED A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
MATADOR CHASED A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
MATADOR CHASED A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP

Dictator, democracy more like mediocrity

No it's not. Stop using analogies, they don't work

>Omar and Cedric are one person
This explains so much

What I like is when a bunch of idiosyncratic personalities come together and each songwriter contributes at least one piece, but you can easily tell who wrote what.
Pic related: It's mostly Nils' songwriting, but Gene's "Teen Devil Worshipper" and "Drowning", and Dan's "Motherfucker" round out the album.
Also, a 10/10 Residents cover.

Cedric didn't write any of the music for Frances the Mute, only lyrics

depends u fucker

pumpkins were good and it was all billy. REM was good and it was a democracy

The Pumpkins were best when Billy had to answer to someone. Whether that was Butch, James/D'arcy or whatever, they kept him in check.

SP2.0 are complete trash and no one has the guts to tell billy "no"

Good examples to argue both sides really
I thought James Iha played an important role in the making of their first few albums though?

Machina was the best sp though

yes they do and billy agrees

Interestingly though, each instrument was tracked completely independent of the rest of the band so that each musician would have to interpret their own part as the entire song, and to see what this interpretation would lead to

i think the conflict makes better music

TASTE THE VAPOR

Therefore he had a hand in writing the album

In some bands, at least. Fleetwood Mac and Richard & Linda Thompson are perfect examples of what tension between bandmates can produced if it's channeled correctly.

But there's also great albums were someone went into Stalin mode and churned a masterpiece, just like Billy Corgan did with Siamese Dream.