[HAM] **SPAM(5.2)** Re: My organ made the Billboard charts

[Rob Alexander]

At 11:46 -0500 2007/12/19, Ted Thompson wrote:
>Any particular tracks or are you throughout the album?  (listen to me...
>"album")

Heh :-)

"Album" is correct.

It's still an "album" regardless of the media it's presented on. An 
"album" is a collection of like things -- photos, songs, slides... 
"Album" doesn't mean "vinyl."

Heck, originally, an "album" really looked like an album -- it was a 
book with "pages" like a photo album.  Each "page" being a paper 
sleeve that held a 78-rpm wax disk, also called a "record" because it 
was, after all, a recording.

Then all those tunes made it onto one vinyl disk, but it was still a 
"record," and we still called it an "album."

Now that disk is plastic, or is files in a folder, but a collection 
of them released together is still an "album."

It's still a record, and it's still an album -- just the media it 
comes on has changed.

A bit of holiday pedantry.  :)

Rob (slowly spinning in the snow -- WAY too much snow...)