For those that suggested that I listen to the whole album, of course I tried that with every album, ultimately, there was only one cut on the album worth playable. 50 years ago, there was no streaming, and you had no choice but to buy the entire album...bummer. Even so, the single good track was worth the purchase, and I have no regrets. On many occasions I've bought the original LP in the beginning, and when the cd came out, I bought a cd copy of the album with full knowledge that only one cut on the album was worth listening to. If the rest of the album doesn't measure up, I'm certainly not going to force myself to listen to music that I don't enjoy, too much good music available to spend time on the stuff I don't like.
When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song.
Over fifty years of buying music, I've bought scores of albums because of one track...only to find out that one track was the only one on the entire album that was listenable to me.
'Losalamitoslovesong'.... by Gene Harris on the 'Astralsignal' album is but one example.
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Nowadays there are no more surprises....today, you can audition the entire contents of an album before buying it. Prior to the internet, there was no way to audition an entire album. For those of us that bought a lot of music from the 70’s thru the end of the century, we had to roll the dice and cross our fingers when buying an album. |
lg1,I have to chuckle regarding the Billy Cobham 'Spectrum' album. The only tune I can listen to on that album is 'Snoopy's Search/Red Baron'. Nearly 50 years later, it is still the only cut on the album worth my time. Different strokes for different folks. |
larry5729..uh, Larry...it’s pretty obvious today you can select individual songs via streaming. The original post is regarding albums we bought prior to the internet age with no way to audition the entire album before purchasing it. Also, a lot of those albums purchased on vinyl were never released on cd or in any digital format.
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