[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.

[henkster]

The really good bands did concept albums. You listened to them to hear a story. That’s not done anymore because too few people have the sufficient attention span to listen to tehm and divas don’t hire songwriters with that depth of intellect.