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    Now we drive

  2. (but yes - remember )
  3. I'm remembering too...
  4. Actually you didn't need hit single - remember Pink Floyd? Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here or Animals didn't have singles...
  5. Originally posted by Alvin:Actually you didn't need hit single - remember Pink Floyd? Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here or Animals didn't have singles...
    Yes, but it was not such a good idea to drive while listening to them...
    (and I don't remember those drives anymore...actually...)
  6. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    Yes, but it was not such a good idea to drive while listening to them...
    (and I don't remember those drives anymore...actually...)
    me neither

    But also until 60's or half of 50's albums didn't matter - were just collections of singles... those times it was about singles only
  7. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]
    me neither

    But also until 60's or half of 50's albums didn't matter - were just collections of singles... those times it was about singles only
    Good point, but we're not here to remember those times - even I wasn't born then...

    We're simply here to remember when hit singles did matter to drive... (your album high up the charts )
  8. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    Good point, but we're not here to remember those times - even I wasn't born then...

    We're simply here to remember when hit singles did matter to drive... (your album high up the charts )
    what do you have with all that driving?
  9. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    Yes, but it was not such a good idea to drive while listening to them...
    (and I don't remember those drives anymore...actually...)
    Let me tell you a story, kiddies.

    Back when records like Dark Side of the Moon came out and there was this thing called a DJ. This DJ loved music and heard a record and had the freedom to play what they liked and what they felt. They could play deep cuts. They didn't have a formatted playlist with the same set of songs repeated every hour. In many ways, it was he (or she) who created the "hit" single.

    Then the labels stepped in. The suits had a big fancy, expensive power lunch and decided they couldn't allow this stoned, passionate, audiophile hippy to wrest control and dictate what the single was. And they started paying off the DJ's. Then the radio station suits wanted a slice of the pie. So, they started an auction for air time. "We have room for 15 songs and hour. We don't care what they are, highest bidders win the airtime" And now, you have your current radio formats. Which is why, you can still have a "hit" single these days if it's important enough for you to pay enough to have it played!

    ...and that's the rest of the story.
  10. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    Yes, but it was not such a good idea to drive while listening to them...
    (and I don't remember those drives anymore...actually...)
    Yeah. If you listen to Dark Side of the Moon while driving, you were definitely born in the CD age!
  12. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]
    me neither

    But also until 60's or half of 50's albums didn't matter - were just collections of singles... those times it was about singles only
    Valid point. Hence the "remember when". You had to be alive to remember, so my saga starts in the 70's.
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