From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #752 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Saturday, May 19 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 752 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Albums everyone loves [Lindsay Moon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:55:40 -0700 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: Albums everyone loves Funny this thread comes up now. My son Dennis just had his 16th birthday and asked for a lot of music. Boy, did I end up feeling like a crabby old person. Barnes & Noble has no music department anymore. I went to Best Buy and found a lot of picked over stuff and mostly "Best of" compilations. So everything gets reduced to "I don't care about most of it, what was your hit and throw the rest out." He wanted old stuff like Temptations, James Brown and one request was Elton John (Best Buy had none). I just was really peeved about the whole situation. Of course I download music but I think back to my teenage years where I lived for the next album, pored over the album art and liner notes. And where artists like Joni took time to think about how the album flowed (the concept of Song to a Seagull). Of course I'm not telling anyone here anything new. I ended up downloading Elton John's first album, Madmen Across the Water and Honky Chateau to start. He said he does listen to stuff in album form, not shuffled. Maybe there's hope. Crabby old person, Lindsay ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #752 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send tojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------