[jamesgangnc[_3_]]

"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message
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jamesgangnc wrote:

No one really listens to albums anymore either.

No ?

Graham


Let's just say the bulk of the world quit listening to albums. I won't
argue that there is still some music that never got re-released on cds.
But that's because it's audience was quite limited which just further
supports my statement. If there was a market someone released it on cd.



In the old days, a record was listened to in 2 distinct halves of about 20
minutes each, that had a beginning, middle and end. Nowadays the (often
many) duff tracks on a very long CD are skipped. Not quite the same
listening experience at all IMHO. Mind you I don't smoke dope any more
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Gareth.
I won't argue that some music was produced intentionally designed for a
single lp side and to be played through. But even then the majority of the
music produced was targeted at single plays on the radio. I'll admit that
many new cds are produced as just a collection of tracks. Today, just like
yesterday, you do not find many that have arranged the tracks so they
combine to make something more complete than just a collection of songs.
But the factors that drive that are the same as they were back then.

Point is that you can get those albums on cd if you want. And you can
listen to them from track one to the end. Plus cd collections are a bit
more rugged. My album collection never grew past a certain size because
albums deteriorate when they are played. They require delicate handling.
And accidents happen to them, particularly when associated with the rest of
the culture that went with the music experience of that era, ie smoking
dope. The oldests cds in my collection are still just fine even though I
bought them 20+ years ago.