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March 04, 2006
what's up with THAT?
...so, i'm all hip and cool and everything, and i know people who send me songs and recommendations and stuff, i even have my own XM station going for me and all like that, because i am so, you know, totally with it, and so i am grooving along with iTunes and iMyself am looking at the sort criteria that are available, you know you can sort them by song Name, or by Play Count, or by Time, or by Artist, or by Album -- BY ALBUM???
isn't an album one of those shiney black vinyl things that comes in a cardboard sleeve, sometimes it's a fold-out that is great for getting the seeds out, and you play albums on a turntable, or the late-night disk-jockey does...
all the hip and cool and with-it bands that my friends listen to always say, "This song is on our new CD." ...i mean, isn't it a litmus test to figure out if an artist has jumped the shark if, at their concerts, they say, "This song is on the new album." -- if you say that don't you get played on oldies stations?
i thought iTunes was all about the end of the Album. shoot -- i thought iTunes was all about the end of the CD!!
the Album is dead. Long Live the Album!
posted by matthew at 04:29 PM
Hey man, thanks for buying my new album!
posted by: Barry Manilow on March 4, 2006 05:37 PM
matt,
i don't think there is anything i can say about your views on albums that isn't offensive.
posted by: Derek on March 4, 2006 05:57 PM
I still have my Discwasher with D4 fluid dating back to the 80s!!
posted by: Jack on March 4, 2006 09:15 PM
Isn’t funny how the kool and hip misuse words and their meanings. They strive to be special, but only get dissipated in civilizations’ afterglow. Album has come to mean a collection of relational works. Not a piece of vinyl. Album is a word which is derived from the Latin albus meaning white, and was first used to describe agenda lists on white parchment for use in the roman senate.
Ah! John Lennon. The White Album. We thought it was because the cover was white. Talk about being cool.
As for iTunes; iPods; iMarriages; or iYiYiYi – We have turned ourselves into a quantity defeats quality; distraction defeats concentration; bland defeats poignant koolsters. Why bother enduring and enjoying a relation body of work.
Maybe tonight I’ll read the first chapter of Brothers Karamazov; then the second chapter of Gone with the Wind; the third chapter of the Divinci Code………………………….
Hey iChapter – You never know!
posted by: AGNETO on March 5, 2006 08:50 AM
Uh, I meant a record, man. You know, an LP. An album. Matt's one of my biggest fans.
posted by: Barry Manilow on March 5, 2006 09:12 AM
I think the term used most frequently now is - Album drops June 6th...you know...like, it becomes available for purchase, drops, if you dropped an album from our day the fecker would crack.
BTW - Still waiting for Jack to pillage my old albums before I give them away, Sound of Music is calling you Jack.
posted by: Care on March 13, 2006 06:31 AM