There is literally no reason to listen to albums or think of them as a discrete unit of music. Albums are not superior to singles. They are collections of stand-alone songs. Nothing more. The whole is not more than the sum of its parts. The only reason we consume music this way is because of the century old technological limitations of vinyl records and the convenience of distribution models from the 1950s.
There is literally no reason to listen to albums or think of them as a discrete unit of music...
Cameron Flores
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Oliver Wright
This has already been debunked.
Justin Wilson
What are
>Concept albums
>songs that flow into one another
>General concepts with albums
>Prog rock
>Prog Pop
>anything prog
>Anything made specifically to flow
Alexander Long
It hasn't, because it can't be. It's the truth. At no other time in history has music ever been created or consumed in this manner. It's purely the practicality of commercialization left over from half a century ago. Albums as a format will be dead within 20 years, and it's 30 years overdue already.
Lucas Gutierrez
The "album" is a conceptual continuation of a classical symphony. Long form musical works have been a tradition for hundreds of years.
Jack Roberts
Albums are never going to die. No one wants to pay 1 or 2 dollars for a track(s) when they can buy an entire set at once, and for cheaper.
Jace Hughes
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Anthony Collins
No, it isn't. At all. Symphonies and long form compositions are written as a complete work. The "album" is nothing more than a collection of discrete, unrelated compositions by the same artist, grouped together only because of the convenience of having been recorded at the same time.
"Concept albums" could and should be nothing more than complete compositions. If the musical and lyrical themes are not closely related enough to constitute a complete composition then they are nothing more than discrete songs strung together on the same apparatus, no different from any other album. The same goes with "prog", which is no different from any other genre of popular music where unrelated compositions are collection together for reasons of convenience rather than any unifying subject matter.
Jackson Wright
Symphonies have movements which are usually discrete, despite sharing common core ideas, and are often written sequentially and not simultaneously. Then you also have suites or collections of shorter works in classical music, where the individual pieces have even less to do with one another, and the whole thing even further resembles a modern "album", like pic related.
Kevin Butler
holy hell this is retarded as fuck, does it not occur to you that artists arrange and order songs based on how well they work together as an album, specifically selecting a combination of songs that work well together?
>It's purely the practicality of commercialization left over from half a century ago.
No shit, but artists work within that medium in a deliberate and thoughtful manner, thus the album is an important format.