Originally Posted by
Mojo31
As a musician, I would think that you, perhaps more than or at least as much as anyone else on here, would appreciate the art that is involved in the vinyl format. From the album covers, sleeves and inserts, to the order in which the tracks are arranged and transition, to the tonality of the music, vinyl albums convey a sense of art that is missing in CDs, MP3s, and streaming formats.
When your community band performs a concert, is the music chosen so there is a flow to the set, or do you just randomly select 3, 4, or 5 songs that are disjointed from one another and awkwardly transition?
You are correct I have never bought any music for the album cover. It's purely an audio play.
As for the band concerts, good question--I've wondered it myself. Sometimes there's a clear theme (one time we had a "western" concert), but often it seems we just follow a formula of a couple marches + a couple movie/musical themes + etc. and randomly pick songs to fit the genre.