mwm@ea.UUCP (12/22/84)
[We don't need your fascist groove thang.] /***** ea:net.music / fortune!strock / 5:06 pm Dec 3, 1984 */ 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. /* ---------- */ 45s? They don't fit on my CD player :-). I quit buying 45s long ago. For most albums, the stuff I like best on the album is *not* the stuff I heard on the radio. If I just bought the 45s, I'd miss all the good stuff. Now, for an actual recommendation (that was what the base note was all about, wasn't it?): Get Laurie Anderson's "Big Science." Put on the the title cut (track 2), put your CD player in "annoy the neighbors mode" (repeat track), and play it until you almost understand it. The rest of the album isn't quite as good - but is still very good. As the lady says: "This is the time, and this is the record of the time." If you must, this album is available in vinyl. Now, if only I could find her live album in CD. <mike