What they do provide is a valuable historic record of a bygone era.
For some of us older inhabitants of the press gallery it brings back a bygone age, as surely as an Everly Brothers record, a milk bar, or the theme to Take It From Here.
I am sure she was calculated in each album's singles or the videos she produced for each record, but Elliott feels like a bygone product of a simpler time when what really mattered was the music.
Beyond being a record of the landscape and architecture of a bygone age, the old photographs also hint at the economic developments of Macao.
It's a good Metallica record and requires no relegation to memories of a bygone era, especially when that era is one that, for the songwriters themselves, exists primarily in the past.
As TV networks, major record companies and film studios become dinosaurs of a bygone age, where will the sex symbols of the future come from?
The list of the biggest-selling records of all time is a product of a bygone age, and a new way of calibrating those figures is needed.
Like Bugg, the music he most identifies with is from a bygone era, although Ezra says what he loves most about those records is how young and free they sound.
Thanks to recession, technological change and wider social trends, the record shop as a mass-market phenomenon now belongs to a bygone age.
Certainly "10,000 Days" evokes a bygone time when musicians expected listeners to swallow their albums whole (unlike vinyl records, which required constant flipping), and in order (unlike MP3's, which encourage constant flitting).
Sylvia evokes a bygone era when iconoclastic young poets used to gather on weekends and listen to the latest recording of Robert Lowell reading his work.
