>I especially miss the novelty LP album covers (like my original Led Zeppelin >III cover with the picture wheel in it) and the double albums with >suitable-for-hanging-in-your-dorm-room trippy artwork inside. It's a real >shame: the death of the LP and the small size of CD and tape covers seem to >have killed most of that whole art-concept aspect of albums.
I miss the cover of Monty Python's "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" (if you've seen it, you know what I mean). Actually, I miss "Matching Tie and Handkerchief." Well, I own the LP, but if you've heard it only on CD, you've unfortunately completely missed the joke, which is that is the world's first (and most likely only) "three-sided" album - they cut two grooves into one side of the vinyl LP, so the record player (what an archaic concept and word!) played first one track and then the other - which is utterly impossible to duplicate on CD. Sigh. -- Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
