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Casual reader here, jus' wondering why there's so few threads discussing actual albums here, (aside from the rare 'Classic or Dud', or stuff that hasn't actually been released yet). Is this because:

i) The mp3 generation has made individual songs more important
ii) Since everyone here knows a heck of a lot about music, they only look at albums in the context of an artist's entire career
iii) Conventional music discussion has exhausted everything that's worth saying about albums
iv) Albums are cuddly little things worth treasuring privately

Or a variety of other answers I'm too lazy and/or stupid to figure out. Suffice to say, if I were a Senator on the 'I Love Music' Congress, I'd appeal for a 'Discuss This Album' topic. With a snappier acronym. My point still stands.

― National Frump Disco, Sunday, 30 March 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Albums aren't "pop" or "fun"?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 30 March 2003 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

That was a pointless answer, Andrew.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 30 March 2003 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

one bad habit i have got into is looking up albums on slsk and just picking about 3 or 4 tracks at random or just downloading the first 5 or 6 tracks and then never getting round to downloading the rest. not especially relevant here perhaps but then again it confirms the idea that the album concept is becoming lost to people like me somewhat.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 30 March 2003 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Bummer, S

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 30 March 2003 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I find the album a dead, arbitary concept that's a hangover from the last century. Sorry.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 30 March 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

In many ways it is but you don't you wacko

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 30 March 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm very much still into buying and listening to full albums. i've seen plenty of discussions about full albums on ilm, though, tbh.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 30 March 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Is the album dead? Could someone answer this question pretty quickly for me? I've just spent an entire weekend reviewing long-playing CDs, so I'd hate to think it was a waste of time... Yours somewhat bemused...

― Dave Stelfox, Sunday, 30 March 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

of course not dead - dying perhaps tho

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

but then newspapers are supposedly a dying format

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

yes the album is dead and yes you wasted yr time dave

you should have done a spice girls 10

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"yes the album is dead and yes you wasted yr time dave.
you should have done a spice girls 10"

Ha ha. I think I'll stick with the Murs, 50 Cent and Barbara Morgenstern albums for now - also loving Mis-Teeq even more than I ever did... there's a bit of life in albums yet... just curious, what do we propose could replace the album when artists want to release an album's worth of songs?

― Dave Stelfox, Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

the 45 minute mp3

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

we dissuade them from such a pointless activity

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

destroy songs.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Thought about this alot recently. Was about to say "Yeah of course albums are dead, stupid. Just like films, everybody watches slide shows now, and publishers don't even bind books anymore because ppl prefer to rip out the good pages" like I did on a thread ages ago. But then, if ppl made films or books like albums - ie waiting until you have enough 'acceptable' pictures to pass the 90-minute mark or written enough pages etc, then it would be a better analogy, it's just that after years of 'behind-the-album' demystification ppl realise that most albums get thrown together as arbitrarily as their choices of music are. Who sits down and says "I'm going to write an album now!" and plots every snare hit and rushed syllable? For most it's like arranging the tea leaves at the bottom of a cup. (Hey, maybe Jon and Ian Anderson REALLY WERE the most intelligent auteurs ever!)

― dave q, Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Who sits down and says "I'm going to write an album now!" and plots every snare hit and rushed syllable?

The Avalanches?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(Then again music crit is the only field where the practitioners pride themselves on not knowing anything technical, sometimes not knowing anything whatever, can you imagine most film crits saying something like 'Die Hard 7 sucks. But all action films are shit anyway, I hate them [end of review]')

― dave q, Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

plenty of people decide to make albums!!!

― Dave Stelfox, Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Plenty of people 'decide' they're going to be pop stars too

― dave q, Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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