does anybody even read liner notes and things like that anymore? (i know i do)

maybe i'm being too hard on our youth but the vision i have is that in the world of downloading the content of liner notes (and labels) has become less important.

that doesn't mean it shouldn't piss you off. i hate it too....especially when the cd label doesn't match the song listing in the booklet. dang i hate that!

An older Michael W Smith CD (Go West Young Man) had an interesting "typo". The list of songs was hand-printed so that the titles twisted and turned all around the back cover of the case in different colors. (Imagine the "Go West Young Man" that traces Smitty's head on the front of the album, but in color and a lot more writing.) And for "How Long Will Be Too Long," the wrong form of "too" was used. I can't remember if the booklet was correct and the case wrong, or vice versa, but somebody had noticed it and fixed it, but only in one of the two places. They were otherwise identical. Very odd, and very annoying.

Mark, I'm 21, I download a lot of music, but I still love buying records for the artwork and packaging. And liner notes.

Especially vinyl. It just seems like you have something really.. I dunno. Sacred. When you get this completed project that combines visual AND musical art.

But I'm a big music nerd, so I'm sure I'm definitely in the minority.

Michael W. Smith. Whoa I listened to him when I was like 8. Him and Amy Grant. Yikes. Those were the days.

I love liner notes and cover art. Which is why it grates on my nerves when the track listing on the CD and liner notes don't match. I haven't run into any typos though.

Sort of off-topic, I've noticed far too many typos on news sites like MSN or Yahoo. I realize the first impulse may be to post the story as quickly as possible. However, is it necessary to forego correct spelling or formatting? grrrr

good to hear that a young person cares about the liner notes...especially on vinyl!. maybe i should ease up and try not to stereotype young folks.

i remember when i was a kid i would bring a new album home, put it on, and then read the liner notes/lyrics as it played.

Totally, Mark. I make everyone leave me alone and sit there and read and listen. Ahhh bliss.

haha.

a good friend of mine has the every time i die - last night in town cd and like it has the same page in the layout four times...

Man, liner notes on vinyl - those were the days. I remember a really old album whose artist and title I won't mention to avoid sending Amber into flashback mode, and it had a beautiful cover. So beautiful that my parents commissioned a local artist to reproduce it as a larger oil painting that they hung in the house. I don't know if it ever moved back to the States or if it stayed in the Philippines, but it was incredible.

Now the artwork is design to fit a five-inch canvas, and blech. But I've read liner notes for year, though not as many recently. Thursday I plan on picking up four or five CDs, and I'll first throw away the ads that come stuck inside the things more often than not, then read them cover to cover while the disc is playing. It's a ritual.

And I'm 31. And haven't listened to that MWS album in many years, but it's a typo that sticks in my mind. :)

I remember a CD on JMT which included in the liner notes: "God doesn't read liner notes".

The worst example I can think of LP to CD liner notes is for the best of Ramones CD where they just optically reduced the LP liner notes to fit the CD book, it was about 4 pt type.

My favourite liner notes are for the original Red Seal double LP version of "Metal Machine Music", and the gatefold for the Velvet Underground 1969 Live.

But for production of CD books, traycards and labels, nobody really gives a damn at the company, since the first departments to go over the last ten years were quality control in production. As a cost cutting measure, all of the majors have gotten rid of their senior people back end people, leaving production on autopilot.

i've downloaded entire cd's sometimes and liked it so much i go out and buy so i can have the cool liner notes and cd label. and i'm 16 so that makes me young

I noticed while reading the lyrics on the (i think) first track of Dismissed's album Taking The Good With The Bad the word "silented" is used. That's not even a word. I'm still not sure why it bugs me so much though...