An album lover in a single world

After a gluttonous and otherwise wonderful Thanksgiving, I left my lovely wife and child to rush home so that I could get to work on Monday. As I drove, the ipod spun (figuratively) my entertainment.

Since I got the iPod, I've shifted, with the rest of the music buying public, to a single song driven world. I still buy complete albums...mostly out of habit and my pack-rat tendencies, but then I usually gravitate to a few gems, and they end up on playlists with other songs that I like. iTunes and the iPod make this really easy. They make it very easy to listen to an eclectic mix of music in a drive home from work without wrecking the car. Enough adds for Apple.....

On this trip, after one of my favorite playlists, I decided that it was time to get back to albums. I couldn't believe how much I had missed listening to a full album. Over the remaining four hours of the trip and for the past few days, I have been thoroughly entertained by listening to full albums. Here are just four examples:

Achtung Baby - U2
Field Songs - Mark Lanegan
The Score - Fugees
Mongo Introduces La Lupe - Mongo Santamaria

Good stuff....I don't think I'll stop making playlists and messing with the iTunes Party Shuffle, but it's good to remember that people can put together a good, complete album.