A part of me misses physical objects
ask a lot of folks what they're listening to on their iPod or equivalent and they have to look to see what it's called and have NO idea what it would look like if they had to identify the album in a line up of CDs, I've got stuff on mine that if I put it on random I swear I've never heard it before in my life, but was probably just downloaded on a whim one evening as it was a one-click freebie, it's all become a bit ethereal and disposable hasn't it?
I miss cleverness in the physical object that I could explore, some folks like Pink Floyd and Radiohead and such used to do all sorts of clever tricks that made the music almost insignificant to the medium itself and the packaging surrounding it, and it gave the band a sort of folklore beyond their image onscreen or facts in mags etc and was just a teensy bit magical.
Bit of a dead art now really...
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:42,
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Yep
My ultimates are Lemon Jelly. Everything they've ever released is BEAUTIFUL. Just such a joy to own.
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SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:44,
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I still have that live album Pulse by Pink Floyd someplace
have to wonder if I dug it out if it would still have one... ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_(Pink_Floyd_album)#LED_packaging
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:56,
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All I can think of now is a sad glowing record in a dark corner of the loft
It;s made me quite heartbroken
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SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:01,
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Aw!
In a box in the celler as it happens, still pull 'em out now and then for a breath of fresh air! ;)
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:39,
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^this^
I got my first mp3 album a couple of weeks back (it's not available as a physical album), and I was really dissapointed that there were sleeve notes.
Just the tracks and a JPG of the front cover.
It sounds daft, but I felt a bit cheated.
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:51,
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