[AndrewG]

It's an interesting analysis. I know that many artists in fact will structure music in a certain way which may go completely unnoticed whether this is by style/running order as you point out or through musical technicalities. It's a reason why I've recently been drawn to Imogen Heap, I guess in my search for more depth and complex music. She has used the fibonacci series to structure the timing of her music and on her latest album also used 6 major keys and 6 minor keys for her songs (all different) + improv piece. Lots of artists I am guessing will try and stick to some type of structure or even theme to make an album a cohesive piece of work and not just a bunch of songs.

I guess what you could say against your analysis is:

* We are only dealing with 7 songs, was this by choice or simply running length and did the fact that we could only have a restrictive 23 minutes of music on each side of the original LP not influence the actual order thus perhaps debunk your theory?
* Paradise is more than a story focusing on teenage romance I'd say, it in fact takes us through the introduction, fun, sex, broken promises and ultimate crashing of a relationship. This I think is a bit different than Took the words. But there are similarities in its setup I agree.
* All Revved Up originally contained the slow blues rock intro which was probably dropped because of running length of the LP. I'm not sure it's therefore a simple party rock song in that sense but perhaps.
* FCOL, although containing vast dynamics like Bat is obviously a different type of song. It's interesting to note the album ends on "I love you", I think this was intentional?

It's an interesting hypothesis you point out but I'm not so sure it was intentional in that respect looking at the arguments against this.

I do think that the inclusion of Dead Ringer For Love on later CD releases was completely stupid and kind of destroys the unity of the 7 songs of Bat.