Today is National Album Day… Try explaining that to anyone aged under twenty five for whom the concept of the album is as alien as the concept of the concept album was to punks of yore…
Just to recap, entertainers and pop combos used to make things called LPs, a carefully sequenced collection of songs pressed on two sides of shellac and listened to intently by a Jack Russell terrier who, lacking opposable thumbs, had to wait patiently for his owner to turn it over halfway through…
Lest you be stuck for ideas on this inaugural occasion, – or are simply embarrassed to admit that you do not actually own such a thing – we invited our writers (plus a few amongst theCV Massive ™) to offer up 75 words about an LP of their choice…
Honestly, the fuss they made about doing so, you’d think we asked them for a proper day’s work!
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Phil being Phil seems to have written about listening to Killing Joke, rather than one specific album by them… As his English teacher wrote in his school report: “Philip would achieve so much more if he wasn’t such a little smart-arse..!”
