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"There hasn’t been a packaged album side worth listening to the whole thing in order since Abbey Road." Comments like this are revealing.

philwelch 16y ago
I was about to come here and write a comment about how you could barely go a sentence through the post without finding a patently absurd statement, and that was going to be at the top of my highlights list. Since you stole my headliner, I'll post a few other false or highly questionable remarks that would have had me dismissing this as shallow linkbait as early as 2007: "...crash in flames the way Apple’s late and unlamented Newton did, only much more loudly and publicly because of all the hype it’s gotten" (the Newton was just as widely hyped at the time) (about the iTunes store) "You could listen to the whole song before you bought it, not just a small clip." (the opposite of the truth) "Consider the case of an airline passenger relaxing in her seat, eyes closed, iPod mini hung around her neck with a cord, or maybe just lying in her lap -- the very picture of relaxation. Suppose she wants to skip forward or back in the song list. She just presses the forward or back button....Now think of the same thing with in iPhone, which doesn't have separate forward or back buttons, just an icon on a touch screen. The user has to interrupt her blissful reverie, open her eyes..." (or she could double-click or triple-click the headphone cord) (And, back to the original point, I own at least a dozen albums made since Abbey Road worth listening to in their entirety--in fact, each of them is more worth listening to in their entirety than Abbey Road itself, in my opinion, and one was even produced at Abbey Road Studios!)
qq66 16y ago
You must be thinking of Graceland Side 1 :)
dasil003 16y ago
Yeah I can name three from this year already: Janelle Monáe "The ArchAndroid", Arcade Fire "The Suburbs", and The Roots "How I Got Over" Not better than Abbey Road, but definitely worth listening too in whole.
michael_dorfman 16y ago
Definitely. Never trust anyone who hasn't heard "Dark Side of the Moon."

philwelch 16y ago

I was about to come here and write a comment about how you could barely go a sentence through the post without finding a patently absurd statement, and that was going to be at the top of my highlights list. Since you stole my headliner, I'll post a few other false or highly questionable remarks that would have had me dismissing this as shallow linkbait as early as 2007: "...crash in flames the way Apple’s late and unlamented Newton did, only much more loudly and publicly because of all the hype it’s gotten" (the Newton was just as widely hyped at the time) (about the iTunes store) "You could listen to the whole song before you bought it, not just a small clip." (the opposite of the truth) "Consider the case of an airline passenger relaxing in her seat, eyes closed, iPod mini hung around her neck with a cord, or maybe just lying in her lap -- the very picture of relaxation. Suppose she wants to skip forward or back in the song list. She just presses the forward or back button....Now think of the same thing with in iPhone, which doesn't have separate forward or back buttons, just an icon on a touch screen. The user has to interrupt her blissful reverie, open her eyes..." (or she could double-click or triple-click the headphone cord) (And, back to the original point, I own at least a dozen albums made since Abbey Road worth listening to in their entirety--in fact, each of them is more worth listening to in their entirety than Abbey Road itself, in my opinion, and one was even produced at Abbey Road Studios!)

qq66 16y ago

You must be thinking of Graceland Side 1 :)

dasil003 16y ago

Yeah I can name three from this year already: Janelle Monáe "The ArchAndroid", Arcade Fire "The Suburbs", and The Roots "How I Got Over" Not better than Abbey Road, but definitely worth listening too in whole.

michael_dorfman 16y ago

Definitely. Never trust anyone who hasn't heard "Dark Side of the Moon."