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Albums you really get into

June 03, 2007

For a few years I have been listening to real music, and I always buy albums. Alot of people say "why buy the album when you'll only like two songs from it?" Well that is true only if your listening to the back street boys, Madonna, or Britney Spears (in that case you're lucky to like two songs from the album).

This week I bought Linkin Parks new album, pretty much because I would and I already had Hybrid Theory and Meteora (both were gifts). I didn't expect much, but I am really linking this album. Not just a one or two songs thing, but I've just been letting the album play through from start to finish. I always listen to an album from start to finish when I first get it, it really helps you get the album rather than thinking of it as a collection of songs, you appeciate it as a whole worth. This is part of the reason I like buying albums. It's an ok album, nothing spectacular, but probably LPs most polished album yet.
Take for example, the highly successful Green Day, their latest album (2004) was a rock opera. The only way to truly get the message from all the songs was to listen to the whole album in a sitting, an experience you don't get from the top 10 on video hits on a sunday morning, or by buying individual 99c tracks off iTunes.

Of course, the ever changing popularity game has no time to sit back and enjoy an album as they have to get caught up in the latest and greatest single from the artist of the moment as promoted by the record company. And that's part of the appeal of rock music, it's alot more real than sensationalist celebrity of the moment pop music artists.

And of course there are those who move on from boy bands and proove themselves to be legitimate artists, such as Robbie Williams, one of the greatest entertainers today.

As I have now gone off topic I will finish this post. Until next time I post, have a good one.

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