May 26, 2023
Ah, you young kids with your 33 1/2 rpms. When I was young we had 78's and we liked them (even though they were scratchy and sounded like crap and broke if you looked at them wrong). An album meant this big cardboard "book" (like a photo album, hence the name) with individual sleeves for each record (one song per side).
But back to the modern era: one nice phenomenon of vinyl listening is that you had to get out of your chair to "turn the record over." This activity reinforced the architecture of listening to an album: two sides of songs each with its own structure, which gave secondary importance to the last track on side one and primary importance to the last track on side 2.
