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From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: NEW MUSIC - album recommendations needed
Message-ID: <4796@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 13:01:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 13:01:28 1984
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Reply-To: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)
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Summary: 

>> I buy more 45s than I do albums. 
>> I never play two songs in a row by the same artist
>
>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.  

Gee, what do you do if the artist doesn't have an album and the song
is only on a 45? What do you do when an artist has an album and everyone
raves about it, but you discover you like only one song on it?
	As for hit songs most of the 45s I buy don't even make it 
anywhere near the top 100. The top 40 approach applys to albums too, 
so you can still be strictly an Album Oriented Rock type person and only
be listening to the top 40.
	I'd rather jump up every 3-5 minutes and make the music 
suit my mood then be content with the order the album imposes on me. 
Sometimes I can't even make it through a whole song, because 
through association I think of another song that would better 
express the feeling I'm after. I just can't turn on the radio, 
or plunk down an album or put on a tape and then go about my business.
When I do listen to music the experience usually has to be intense 
and has to follow a feeling I'm after.

>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 think those are all top 40 bands, you know 'hit' ALBUMS.

>I don't like my apartment sounding like a radio station.

	What, you never heard a radio station play a whole album? They
do occasionally. Besides when you pick the songs you want to hear
it will never sound like a radio station because your selection 
will be more personal than some dj's selection.