Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!mit-eddie!rh From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: the top-40 approach to life Message-ID: <3268@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 20:38:13 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3268 Posted: Thu Dec 6 20:38:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:29:11 EST Distribution: net.music Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 30 >I have been badly >burned by buying "New Wave" albums on the strength of one >cut I've heard on the radio. I would like recommendations >from people who have found good total albums. >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!). Fine. If that's the way you want to live. Personally, I think that the concept behind singles sucks. It caters to a world in which a group will only record one or two good songs and then a bunch of shitty ones to fill out an album that people will buy for some obscure reason. I don't listen to groups unless at least half of their albums are listenable. That's probably why I like Pink Floyd so much, the album plays as a unit. In fact, if you don't play the whole thing IN ORDER, then it loses a great deal of meaning. If you're not looking for meaning in music, i.e, you just want some background noise to stop you from thinking, then listening to singles is probably adequate. I was really disappointed with "Tonight" because except for the 3 or so cuts you've already heard on the radio, I found the rest of the album to be unexciting. Maybe he's getting old. BTW, I heard that someone heard on WBCN in Boston one of the DJ's say that there'd be a new Pink Floyd album in March (or was it May?). Anyone heard anything else? Who'll be playing? -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh