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The Vinyl Countdown - The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again (Paperback)
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The Vinyl Countdown - The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again (Paperback)
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Vinyl may be final nail in CD's Coffin ran the headline in a Wired
magazine article in October 2007. Ever since the arrival of the
long-playing record in 1948, the album has acted as the soundtrack
to our lives. Record collections--even on a CD or iPod--are
personal treasures, revealing our loves, errors in judgment, and
lapses in taste. In The Long Player Goodbye, Travis Elborough
explores the way in which particular albums are deeply embedded in
cultural history, revered as works of art, or so ubiquitous as to
be almost invisible. While music itself has experienced several
different movements over the past sixty years, the album has
remained a constant. But the way we listen to music has changed in
the last ten years. In the age of the iPod, when we can download an
infinite number of single tracks instantaneously, does the concept
of the album mean anything? Elborough moves chronologically through
relevant periods, letting the story of the LP, certain genres,
youth cults, and topics like sleeve designs, shops, drugs, and
education unfurl as he goes along. The Long Player Goodbye is a
brilliant piece of popular history, an idiosyncratic tribute to a
much-loved part of our shared consciousness, and a celebration of
the joy of records.
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