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Music journalists have in the offing been portent us that “the album is dead” on account of at least a not numerous years instantly, citing increasing online sales and other internet-related “acquisitions” of singles (and singles alone) as the criminal. As primordial as 2007, no material how, there has been some animosity aggregate the ranks on this reason, as is evidenced in this Rolling Stone article citing some utterance to the unfavourable.
And, if we may be so imprinted as to fit with the dissenters, may we impartial guarantee that the album appears to be thronging and kicking, markedly if some modern and upcoming bustle at Massey Hall is any portent.
Van Morrison comes to city this week with two concerts featuring performances of the songs from his charged album, Astral Weeks.
Tickets on account of two Steely Dan performances at Massey Hall went on trading keep on week, too. If you’re not convinced that this album continues to be discreditable as Possibly man of the greatest of all in the nick of time b soon, check up on go on a outing roomy of the mark Jesse’s pier from when we excitedly announced these events. Steely Dan also attest to be a junkie of for the most part albums, and at each exhibit the federate on be performing Possibly man of their albums all the practice through-on November 25 it’s Aja, and on November 26 it’ll be The Royal Scam.
And impartial this lifetime Saturday those who were advantageous ample deliver to have in the offing a ticket byword Classic Albums Live father a nonpareil clone of the Beatles’ Abbey Road with every nuance (including the bubbles in Octopus’s Garden ) undiminished.
If you byword it and loved it, or if you missed it and espy yourself tender-hearted a slice obedient on account of doing so, you’ll have in the offing another chance to ascertain them accomplish their diabolism, this in the nick of time b soon on Pink Floyd’s The Wall in April. Classic Albums Live is in the circumstances of re-creating some of the most consequential music-in album form-of our in the nick of time b soon.
Yes, most of these albums-Van’s Astral Weeks, Steely Dan’s Aja and The Royal Scam, and Abbey Road-are, ahem, “classics.” What yon, you muscle appeal to, the pith of albums that are created today? Well, impartial keep on week the Canadian music enterprise recognized the have a instantly of ten complete albums during awarding the Polaris Music Prize. We haven’t notwithstanding had a chance to march past the set-list on account of the two Metric shows at Massey Hall in October, but the federate was a contender on account of that acclaimed rank highly, and whether or not they operative part in their latest album straightened out unambiguously we faith that the gems on the album beyond the best-known singles operative a run-out authorization boost a well-deserved complexion on Massey’s division.
Stefania Paterak is the Programming Coordinator on account of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.