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From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: NEW MUSIC - album recommendations needed
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 17:28:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 17:28:25 1984
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> 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.


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Andy Banta			{decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz
Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major"
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