Re: denotation of "album"

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

Kame'a Media wrote:

> Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Nipper.
>
> Wolf
>

That's right!  I knew one of you would know.  Of course, it's you Wolf.  :-)
Lorele

>
> >
> >
> > 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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