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Uninterrupted Album Listening Club - BBC news

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Very cool. And I feel super-nifty because I have both those MoFi disks, though, lately, I've been listening to Ziggy on a 5.1 re-mix on SACD.

Great recordings, though. I like the idea that an album is a single work, not just a collection of individual 3-minute works.
 
This was especially true with so-called "concept" LP's. Nowadays the single is all that matters and there's always a bunch of filler (crap) to go with the 1 or 2 good songs worthy of "single" status. I say, back to whole-album efforts; I'd certainly buy more at full retail if they weren't so spotty. Till then I only go for used and tried-tested-and-true artists/albums.
 
Is this done in complete darkness? :D

If there's such a "club" in my area, I'd join. When I was in college in the mid 80s, I took a course in "History of Rock 'n Roll" to boost my GPA and we had "assignments" to listen to various album for the purpose of discussions in class about their importance. So, in many ways, the idea of a "record club" isn't new (for me, at least).

Btw, I grew up listening to every single track on an album....filler or not. Even today, I listen to my CDs from beginning to end. None of this skipping around from artist to artist, song to song, etc.
 
soundboy said:
When I was in college in the mid 80s, I took a course in "History of Rock 'n Roll" to boost my GPA and we had "assignments" to listen to various album for the purpose of discussions in class about their importance.
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Hey, I took a "History of Rock'n'Roll" course too (at Northeastern) and received lots of ribbing for it back in 84-85. I can't remember the instructor's name, but he was originally from S.F. and his favorite artist was Zappa. I still have the book we used in class.
 
I paused when she turned the amp on. Musical Fidelity, Dual Mono Power Amplifier. And a Grado cart on the TT

Good gear ;)

Interesting idea.
 
thefragger said:
I paused when she turned the amp on. Musical Fidelity, Dual Mono Power Amplifier. And a Grado cart on the TT

Good gear ;)

Interesting idea.
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Actually looks like a A-308 Musical Fidelity, Dual Mono Power Amplifier.

Interesting quote from a different story about the same club.

"Yet Classic Album Sundays makes one important point. Not about the sacred format of the album, but about the way we increasingly treat music as a disposable lifestyle accessory. When organizer Colleen Murphy talks about making people turn their phones off, shut the door and give these “works of art” some “heavy listening”, she is surely on to something.

We are all busy people and, as music fans, we now have unlimited musical distraction at the end of a broadband connection. We have increasingly little time to listen to a reserve of recorded sound that is growing exponentially every day. I find this can easily lead to drive-by enjoyment, a kind of panicked attempt to absorb as much music as possible – but without truly engaging with it. This is not the way to navigate your way through what Murphy believes to be profound art."
 
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