Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone is into long novels, so you could get your uncle a book he could just look at, like The New Yorker 25th Anniversary Album which contains, among other things, lots of funny cartoons. Not only that, but think of the snob appeal this nicely done book will have when it finally comes to the Elephant's graveyard of Christmas book gifts--the coffee table...
...sponsors will provide at least two male escorts, dressed in tails, so she can dance away every minute of the ball if she so wishes. Photographers will be on hand, naturally, constantly taking candid and posed pictures, which they will gladly (and expensively) collate into a leather album. In this way, the memories of this glorious evening can, with a little prompting, glow in her heart forever...
...this is expensive. Besides the original fee, a family must pay to attire its daughter in her virgin white gown and often outfit her escorts as well. Other expenses include tickets for any guests they wish to bring, and the binding for the previously mentioned photo album. In addition to the official ball, the family may wish to give a private ball of their own. All told, a debut can easily cost over a thousand dollars...
With prices out of control, greatest hits albums are not a bad way to save money, but there are several drawbacks. First, a good album is not merely a collection of songs but has a thematic unity and a coherent wholeness that is lost when you pick a couple of tunes from several LPs and throw them together into a mishmosh. Second, a record company executive's idea of a band's best songs may not bear much resemblance to the ones you yourself would consider a group's top efforts. Third, it's just not considered cool to have...
...album finds its strength in its diversity: tempo and mood change greatly from song to song--and yet, as exciting as this is, it also presents a problem. When can you play Pronto Monto? There's Cat Stevens for those mellow, I-might-be-depressed-soon times, and there's the Stones and Geils for the other times, but Pronto Monto falls somewhere in the middle. You have to listen to this album, because the emotional and musical jumps reach out and grab your attention. A year older, Kate and Anna talk of new loves, but their music moves just...