I want every song to have it's own image.

Though I was raised in the era of cassettes, and caught the tail end of vinyl, my interest in music really started at the dawn of the CD era. Back in the early days of CD's they came in boxes that were the same height as a record sleeve so that record owners could use the bins they had vinyl albums in...smart. What was great about these boxes was that - like vinyl - there was enough real estate for graphics to enable an album to look badass. Then, tho fill up the other empty real estate in the packaging they included copious amounts of graphics, lyric books, and photography. I can only assume landing an album graphic design gig paid an artist quite a bit. And with all of this, we ended up getting some extremely iconic art. Yes, album covers were the artistic canvases that spoke to a generation, several in fact.



So where do we stand now? We're in the process of leaving the concept of a physical album behind. Soon you will have some arbitrary graphic that's called an "album cover" for new albums. Really, it's just an icon. And if that's the case, I'd like to have a graphic - or icon - for every song.

And why on earth not? Like I pointed out earlier, albums used to have tons of graphics provided. None of that is needed anymore. Certainly not an album cover as people really aren't into albums anymore. What they are into is songs.

You want to sell more songs? Package 'em. Give them each their own icon. Let us ditch "cover flow" and embrace "song flow". And give some artists a chance at a new canvas for a new generation.