----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Scotthomewood@cs.com>
> Do those with kids still see in their actions what we went through 
> when new
> albums came out and artists toured etc? I mean, do kids still react 
> the same
> way about music that we did? I mean, the question sounds simplistic 
> I know, but
> I remember living and dying for certain albums when they came out, 
> listening
> to them with friends, our lives being consumed with that type of 
> stuff. Is it
> the same? Or is it all games now? Those with kids, please chime in.
>
I realize that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data," but based on 
the music habits of the few teenagers I know right now, I suspect that 
what's happened since the rise of iTunes is a return to the primacy of 
the single over the album: in other words, popular music has returned 
to the state it was at from its birth until around 1967 or so.  You 
would think cultural conservatives of the Lefsetz stripe would be 
thrilled with this turn of events, but apparently the fact that These 
Kids Today have the nerve to listen to their own music instead of the 
AM radio hits of mid-60s is untenable.

S

NP: OFFEND MAGGIE -- Deerhoof