Some great news today about Pink Floyd, who have just won a legal battle against single track downloads. Check out Mashable for more details...
While iTunes is great etc, and it's just so much easier to access music than it ever used to be, there is a lot to be said about attention spans... I remember being so chuffed when I was able to download Horse With No Name by America, partly because I'd only heard it twice before in my entire life on the radio, and never actually knew who wrote it.
Yay for iTunes. But it goes back to endless debates I always used to have with friends about the integrity of the Album. Sometimes artists deliberately compose a work for extended listening. My mate ManAboutDairsie (he doesn't know that's his name yet...) and I always reckoned that too much got shoehorned into the 'new' CD format when it really took over from vinyl and cassette and it made albums a bit dull, just collections of tracks. And iTunes have proven us right, up to a point.
So that's why the Floyd should be saluted. Sometimes, the Album is the way to listen to music. Some Albums command you to make time for them - it may only be a few times a year or whatever. But it will be richly rewarded.
And purely from a cooking point of view, there is nothing better sometimes than making a roast dinner with Dark Side of The Moon on...
