Le Monsieur Talks Albums.

Well, here is an article that hit me in the right place tonight. There aren't many people saying it these days, but the album is much more preferable to the single track. Disagree? Well, I do on occasion too. The thing with music is that it divides and unites everybody in their various agrees and disagrees. The album experience is one that I prefer raw and unedited.

Arudou Debito, taking a break from his worthy human rights issues, drops an article in the vein of the cultural commentary. As an avid listener of almost every genre of music in popular existence, I wholeheartedly agree with the point he makes about the modern theory of single track listening that is slowly diluting the art of making an album. For Le Monsieur, this is something which definitely needs addressing. As a generation of serious music fans become enabled with iPods etc we slowly see the point of the album disappear completely from the psyche of the modern listener, when it should be growing and nurturing the listener to a lifetime's enjoyment. To be honest, there probably isn't much that can actually be done about it.

After all, the fact remains that there are still many good albums released, and in my opinion they do contain tracks that are good on their own, but only to a degree. Can you imagine listening to the same song twenty times in a row? Very unlikely, unless you're a musician learning chords or a listener with highly obsessive tendencies. Of course, you could just love a song that much, that you need to listen to it twenty times. But it does rarely happen, and the album is the reason for that. The album is like a family of songs that belong together, and their right to be unseperated remains.

But, since talk is cheap, here's some of Le Monsieur's suggestions for a good listen all the way through album:

Blondie - Eat To The Beat
Dolores O'Riordon - Are You Listening?
Love Psychedelico - Love Psychedelic Orchestra
Prince - The Rainbow Children
The Invisible - The Invisible

Of course, there are many more, but only you can discover them!

Le Monsieur