rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) (11/29/84)
Many thanks to all those who answered my recent questions! Now, I would like to ask for your help. I have been badly burned by buying "New Wave" albums on the strength of one cut I've heard on the radio. I would like recommendations from people who have found good total albums. I won't prejudice the conversation by saying whom I like and dislike. I will warn you that I wouldn't consider buying anything "heavier" than Billy Idol. (No Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister, et. al.) I know I will probably get many replys, so I thank you all in advance for your help. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) (12/03/84)
>I have been badly >burned by buying "New Wave" albums on the strength of one >cut I've heard on the radio. I would like recommendations >from people who have found good total albums. 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.
agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta) (12/12/84)
> 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. 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. The simple answer to the original question is don't hop up and buy an album the second you hear a good song off it. Wait, and if you hear more you like from it, or the one song sticks with you for a while, the album is probably worthwhile. If not, you'll soon forget about it, and be better off financially to boot. 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 don't like my apartment sounding like a radio station. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Banta {decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) (12/14/84)
>> 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.