"Classic Album Sundays"

Pretty cool, simple concept. Pushing back against "shuffle culture," some bars around the world participate in "Classic Album Sundays," in which patrons simply gather in a room and ... listen to a classic vinyl album all the way through.

In full, on vinyl, no talking: have we lost the art of listening to music?

 

Millennials are the worst (hipster food edition)

Can go here.

 

As long as I don't have to get off the bed to turn over the damn record.

 

Lauryn Hill, not quite six months older than I, is a creaky relic of a bygone age to be (re)discovered by hipsters on the equivalent of an archeological dig. And here I thought the arthritis in my fingers was making me feel terribly old today.

 

The vinyl part is fetishism, I acknowledge.

But listening to an album start to finish is, I would agree, a bit of a lost art.

 

Basically mp3s took us back to the Fifties and early Sixties, when most people's music collections were big boxes of singles.

In the late Seventies/ early 80s, the heyday of AOR, there were stations that played full albums every night. I remember for a couple years one station used to have Sunday Night Overnight album shows when they'd play nothing but full albums from midnight-6 a.m. They could usually get 8-9 albums in, depending if they squeezed in some commercials.

 

Eh, my life is no better for having to hear "Rocky Raccoon" every time I play the White Album.

 

It's like skipping the turtle chapters in "The Grapes of Wrath."

 

Or every skit on early Kanye albums.

 

The article mentions the skits on the Lauryn Hill album, too. "The Chronic" also had a bunch of them, I recall, including "Deez Nuts."

 

This guy tried it again. It still sucked.

Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry.