> I happen to like cd's. I like experiencing the songs in
> the order that the artist presented them (just as I prefer
> a film's reels (or data) to be projected in the order
> determined by the filmmaker [excepting CHELSEA GIRLS]). I
> scrambled Ella Fitzgerald's Ellington Songbook on my cd
> player and it was nice, but when I went back to the original
> ordering, I noticed that some connections that became apparent
> when the album was played that way. Maybe albums are no
> longer made this way (I stopped with Sarah Vaughan), but this
> hyper-dividing seems to present some serious aesthetic issues.
I'm with you on this. The album form lives. But it's easy to listen to whole albums in mp3, too.
Mike Beggs