Re: denotation of "album"

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Bubele,

I personally use "recording" in conversation.  When I say "album" amongst people
much younger than I they look at me funny, like the RCA dog.  What was his name,
Sparky?

Lorele


Robert Cohen wrote:

> Do folks on this list--and, I guess more importantly, do music lovers/buyers
> out there and the industry generally--(still) accept "album" as a term
> including CDs (and cassettes) in its scope?  (E.g., if a band has issued 10
> "records"--which I imagine is a less useful/narrower-scope term--of which
> some were LPs and/or cassettes and others were CDs and/or cassettes.)
>
> I realize that the word used to be used in re LPs--but bear in mind that it
> had *no* actual coherence w/ respect to that usage at all--just a holdover
> from its use for sets (i.e., albums--as in photograph albums) of 78s.  Its
> continued usage in re LPs was a fascinating example, I thought, of a word
> whose usage (to mean LPs) was accepted by all w/out any thought, though
> few--only older folks, actually--could explain, if asked, why a long-playing
> record was referred to as an "album."
>
> Anyway, do you think I can use it (e.g., on [CD] liner notes) to refer to
> CDs as well as LPs and cassettes?  *I* always (informally) use it thus, but
> ... should I?
>
> Thanks to all --
>
> Robert Cohen
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