Song order on your CD

[vtx]

Just curious if anyone has a song order template they follow when planning a CD?
I'm releasing my 2nd CD,,Keys to Life..I thought the song order on my first one was a bit to random.
Do you put your best song first or second?Mix the fast ones in between slow ones?
Vocals before instrumentals or just the order they were written?
Is there a certain flow to a cd that keeps you listening to the whole thing? ,ie. builds to a climax.Or is it simply the quality of the tunes?
I have 7 songs...2 with vocals[mor],,3 fast moving synth races and 2 ambient dreamers..

thanx..

[xoxos]

open all the finished tracks on separate audio tracks in a new song. treat that songfile as your album and mix the order of the songs..

nice that way, because you can fade them in and out, add segues, then cut it all up nice.

[dystonia_ek]

You might want to listen to your tracks in varying orders to look for ends and beginnings that sort of 'hook up'.

Hard for me to say though, because I tend to conceive albums from scratch so the order is determined before they're even recorded.

[APK77]

I also look for tracks that "hook up" or somehow flow into one another. But generally I put what I think are the best tracks 1st, 2nd, and last (gotta end on a good note). I also tend to alternate tracks as the album progresses rather than put similar tracks together -- creates variety. And longer tracks I usually put near the end.

I do electronic/ambient, not vocal stuff though.

[vtx]

open all the finished tracks on separate audio tracks in a new song. treat that songfile as your album and mix the order of the songs..

nice that way, because you can fade them in and out, add segues, then cut it all up nice.

I like that idea,,if one fades to another but you still want a song marker,,do you just take out the 2 sec interval? or combine into one song and put a number somewhere inbetween?