{"id":2845,"date":"2005-05-14T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/14\/2845.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:02","slug":"top-five-albums-kept-away-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/14\/top-five-albums-kept-away-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Albums Kept Away from the Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Top Five Albums You Must Hear From Start to Finish\n<p>Before I begin: I assume that this is specifically those albums which work best as albums. Those albums which derive power from their construction, and work best if you listen to the whole thing. The stuff left off the shuffle, but which I like anyway. Which means, mostly, cast recordings.\n<ul><li><I>Evita<\/I>. By the time we get to &#8220;Don&#8217;t Cry for Me, Argentina&#8221;, it&#8217;s actually moving. Really. No, not when Madonna sings it, obviously.<\/li>\n<li><I>The Rocky Horror Show<\/I>. Not the Picture Show, which is fine, and all, but the original NY stage recording, which hits the musical parodies perfectly. It&#8217;s easy to forget, with all the ridiculousness around it, that the show itself is really very clever and funny, and the cleverest and funniest thing about it is the way it lampoons song styles.<\/li>\n<li><I>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/I>. In particular, <I>I<\/I> have to hear this from start to finish, because if I listen to the one-disc &#8216;highlights&#8217; version, I get all cross.<\/li>\n<li><I>Quadrophenia<\/I>. Oh, I actually have this on shuffle, along with everything else, but it is so much better to listen to the whole story. In fact, I used to get annoyed at having to switch CDs, back in the days when actual physical CDs were required to listen.<\/li>\n<li><I>Little Shop of Horrors<\/I>: This is mostly a start-to-finish album for me because if I only listen to one or two songs, I&#8217;ll have strains of all the others stuck in my head all the next day.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Your Humble Blogger is, as you surmise, not a big fan of concept albums. That is, I have nothing against the idea of the concept album, which I like a lot, but there aren&#8217;t very many actual concept albums I like a lot. I&#8217;ve been shuffling my music for three years, more or less, and in that time, I haven&#8217;t felt the need to listen to very many albums from start to finish.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Five Albums You Must Hear From Start to Finish Before I begin: I assume that this is specifically those albums which work best as albums. Those albums which derive power from their construction, and work best if you listen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17406,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/17406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}