This has got to be the most longwinded spam ever!
quoted 76 lines From: "Aaron Trumm" <aaron@nquit.com>
>From: "Aaron Trumm" <aaron@nquit.com>
>To: "- s h a r o n -" <bea@warp.nfld.net>, <idm@hyperreal.org>
>CC: "Larry Lines" <larry@nquit.com>
>Subject: Re: [idm] What is an album?
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:06:18 -0500
>
>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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>aaron@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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