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[henkster]

One thing you will lose when you lose the album: Great album art.

[left that other site]

(Sigh) Those were the days.

My Favorite Albums:

Let It Bleed-The Rolling Stones
Van Morrison-Live in London
Steely Dan-Royal Scam
Allman Brothers-Eat A Peach
Led Zeppelin-ZOSO (or whatever it was called!)
Bob Marley-Babylon By Bus
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Hector Berlioz-Symphanie Fantastic
Eugene Ormandy-Carmina Burana
Blind Faith-Their one Album
Good Bye Cream
Switched On Bach (LOL!)

I had wallfulls of albums, Classical and Classic Rock, but those were my favorites.

I also had some independent Jazz albums that had been done by some friends of mine. Boston had an amazing music scene back then.

[SamAdams76]

For better or worse, the iPod killed the album. As soon as I had the ability to load my entire music collection onto the device, I just hit the Shuffle button and slowly weeded out the filler tracks until I was left with just the hits (and some personal favorites).

I haven't listed to an "album" from beginning to end for about 10 years now.

Now I stream music into my home stereo from either my personal music library or from a personalized station on Pandora.

[Alex Murphy]

Ah, the old Technics turntable - looks like a SL-D2!