12-10-2019, 09:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2019, 10:03 PM by Thoughts Of You (Jenna).)
Nearly forgot it was happening again this year.
(bloke in The Guardian wasn't impressed last year
National Album Day: celebrating nothing but a revenue opportunity - Michael Hann )
BBC Radio Two seem to have decided to mark it by doing the same as last year and hijacking Pick Of The Pops (usually a chart run down of two years charts from around this date) for what was last year a pointless chart of predictable songs of the most 'sold' albums since the UK charts started including streaming. fake edit: this time
it was a chart of (mostly) only 21st century albums.
Missed most of it and caught the end, playing Adele - first thought, 'that's too recent for Pick Of The Pops',
21 is the "biggest selling album of the 21st century" apparently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50013491 (I remember Adele's 19 being constantly in the album chart & feeling like "who is still buying this, doesn't everybody already have at least two copies by now?")
Elbow have released a one long track version of their new album so you physically can't skip & have to listen to it in order. https://www.nationalalbumday.co.uk/news/...album-day/
I like Elbow a lot (or did) but this is stupid, & unless it's drm'ed up the wazzoo you'll be able to rip it and split it into tracks anyway - if anyone was actually buying to listen to, instead of just having it as an oddity in their collection & streaming it on shuffle.
I like being able to put cds on shuffle, it means I get to give initially weaker seeming tracks another chance,
hearing them in a different order.
HMV have released some limited edition coloured vinyl to mark today. Not sure if they've understood the whole
Don't Skip theme in their hurry to cash in or they genuinely think the Spice Girls Spice is one of the "albums that deserve to play played in their entireity from start to finish."
(according to my spell checker (HMV and/or National Album Day pr people don't know how to spell entirety).
eta: some politicians got asked about music too.
https://www.ukmusic.org/news/politicians...-album-day
& a Tory Mp talks about Pet Sounds like he's never listened to any music in his life, just remembers reading a
printed Encyclopaedia Britannica article about it once in the very distant past.
"Julian Knight MP (member of DCMS Select Committee)
Beach Boys – "Pet Sounds" (1966)
I would nominate "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys. I really like an album with a story behind it,
and I think that the album was a ground-breaking one in terms of having a cohesive artistic goal.
The album came at the zenith of Brian Wilson’s creative talents and was inspired by that
Great British icon, The Beatles. Wilson managed to produce a masterpiece of work, which at the same time battling with serious mental health issues."
Official National Album Day website.
(bloke in The Guardian wasn't impressed last year
National Album Day: celebrating nothing but a revenue opportunity - Michael Hann )
BBC Radio Two seem to have decided to mark it by doing the same as last year and hijacking Pick Of The Pops (usually a chart run down of two years charts from around this date) for what was last year a pointless chart of predictable songs of the most 'sold' albums since the UK charts started including streaming. fake edit: this time
it was a chart of (mostly) only 21st century albums.
Missed most of it and caught the end, playing Adele - first thought, 'that's too recent for Pick Of The Pops',
21 is the "biggest selling album of the 21st century" apparently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50013491 (I remember Adele's 19 being constantly in the album chart & feeling like "who is still buying this, doesn't everybody already have at least two copies by now?")
Elbow have released a one long track version of their new album so you physically can't skip & have to listen to it in order. https://www.nationalalbumday.co.uk/news/...album-day/
I like Elbow a lot (or did) but this is stupid, & unless it's drm'ed up the wazzoo you'll be able to rip it and split it into tracks anyway - if anyone was actually buying to listen to, instead of just having it as an oddity in their collection & streaming it on shuffle.
I like being able to put cds on shuffle, it means I get to give initially weaker seeming tracks another chance,
hearing them in a different order.
HMV have released some limited edition coloured vinyl to mark today. Not sure if they've understood the whole
Don't Skip theme in their hurry to cash in or they genuinely think the Spice Girls Spice is one of the "albums that deserve to play played in their entireity from start to finish."
(according to my spell checker (HMV and/or National Album Day pr people don't know how to spell entirety).
eta: some politicians got asked about music too.
https://www.ukmusic.org/news/politicians...-album-day
& a Tory Mp talks about Pet Sounds like he's never listened to any music in his life, just remembers reading a
printed Encyclopaedia Britannica article about it once in the very distant past.
"Julian Knight MP (member of DCMS Select Committee)
Beach Boys – "Pet Sounds" (1966)
I would nominate "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys. I really like an album with a story behind it,
and I think that the album was a ground-breaking one in terms of having a cohesive artistic goal.
The album came at the zenith of Brian Wilson’s creative talents and was inspired by that
Great British icon, The Beatles. Wilson managed to produce a masterpiece of work, which at the same time battling with serious mental health issues."
Official National Album Day website.