Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:agz From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: NEW MUSIC - album recommendations needed Message-ID: <703@pucc-k> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 17:28:25 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.703 Posted: Tue Dec 11 17:28:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 05:29:20 EST References: <596@ccice5.UUCP> <4719@fortune.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University Lines: 30 > I buy more 45s than I do albums. Unless you've heard the album > already you're taking a chance. So when I hear a song on the radio > I like I look for it on a 45. Besides I have a rule when I'm at > home playing records, I never play two songs in a row by the same > artist (both sides of an album at one sitting - GOD FORBID!). > For people in the San Francisco area you can go to Rough > Trade records and they will actually play a record for you before > you buy it, and these are new records. I NEVER buy 45s. I have better things to do than jump up every 3-5 minutes to change the record, and thoroughly enjoy listening to much of the other material on the albums, other than the "Hit song" from it, if a hit song is on it. The simple answer to the original question is don't hop up and buy an album the second you hear a good song off it. Wait, and if you hear more you like from it, or the one song sticks with you for a while, the album is probably worthwhile. If not, you'll soon forget about it, and be better off financially to boot. And just a semi-off-subject comment: never listen to more than two songs in a row by the same artist. I could sit back all afternoon and listen to Floyd or Alan Parsons or Jefferson Airplane/Starship. Consistantly good music! I don't like my apartment sounding like a radio station. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------