both of you I think - albums were vinyl before there was anything else, but
they were called records - records are always vinyl, except that sometimes i
call a release a record, just cuz it sounds cool and my label is NQuit
Records even though I've never done vinyl and I don't say "I make cds" to
people because that sounds like I'm in manufactering, but if I say "I make
records" they know I'm a producer and nobody ever says "I make albums" -
people never called cassettes anything but tapes "I just got young m.c.'s
tape" - then somewhere along the way album meant a long play release, and as
cd's came out people mostly just called 'em cds "I just got the new young
m.c. cd" but it wasn't accurate to call someone's release a cd because it
would be released on multiple formats so you had to have a name that didn't
depend on the media and so there's album - I always wonder about this
actually too, it always vaguely worries me and I don't know what to do so I
just call 'em albums or call 'em by name, "You should go pick up Third
Option's "Cult Of Nice", it's my new album"
*laugh*
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NQuit (Never Never Quit)
aaron@nquit.com
www.nquit.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "- s h a r o n -" <bea@warp.nfld.net>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:41 AM
Subject: [idm] What is an album?
My partner and I have this continual disagreement:
-- I say an "album" is a collection of tracks by an artist that constitute a
release, in any format. (E.g. "I am totally enamoured with Funckarma's new
album 'Solid State'. I recently received the CD from Forced Exposure and
have been listening to it a lot since. Such beautiful colours! I no longer
consider Funckarma brown."
-- He says an "album" is the vinyl format of a release. (E.g. "Most of
L'usine's EPs are albums, which we can't get because we don't have a
turntable. But a lot of the tracks appear on A Pseudo Steady State anyway,
so we might not be missing much.")
Which one of us has the terminology correct?
-Sharon in Canada
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