When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song.

I appreciate our 'new era' of streaming, streamcasting, Spotify, et all...

No more buying an album, tape, or CD to find the 1~3 cuts that caught my ears were the only ones of interest.

Since FM has mostly become pointless, what with the rotations run (I can do my own, thanx anyway...) or the 'genre' played...not to mention locationlocationlocation of being in a 'mountain town'.

...antennas on towers with rotators seemed to make the reactionary 'neighbors' think you were a weird spy-type or in touch with the aliens.  It didn't matter whether of another country or the 'off-planet' sort....

Now, a bookmark list that scrolls long enough to span my 'Noises of Interest' short term memories of the this 'n that of my past, present, and where to go next.

Gotta love the Future....you're There constantly...;)

@edcyn: I loved living in that end of Burbank. I walked my dogs over to the Bob Hope Park everyday and let them sniff around awhile. You know The Safari Inn on West Olive? Lucinda Williams stayed there while recording one of her 2000’s albums.

Did you ever eat at Don Cuco’s? Best Mexican food I’ve ever had! Around the corner is Bob’s Big Boy; open 24 hours, so that’s the place to go after a late night gig (some of mine went to 1 or 2 in the A.M.). On Friday nights there is a Vintage Car Show in the Bob’s parking lot; lots of pompadours and ducktails, cuffed blue jeans, and chicks with short bangs and tats. Love it!

By the way, David Lynch says it was in Bob’s that he sat all night during some of the time he was working on Eraserhead, drinking coffee (and no doubt eating cherry pie ;-) and working on the script. He has a home in the Hollywood Hills now of course. ;-)

I've been buying records since 1973 and could never bring myself to do something like that.

I probably have over 6,000 cd's and albums, far too many sit unused and stashed away all over house due to excessive filler and or changing musical interests. Not a very utilitarian use of resources. I find much greater utility in streaming, I only have to press buttons on tablet to skip tracks, albums, no more putting up with filler tracks. Much more enjoyable listening sessions these days.

One easy solution is to stream music.  You can sit down and select individual songs from various albumns and perhaps create play lists by genre.