Posted on 05/28/2007 5:23:23 AM PDT by WL-law
SUE EVERYBODY!
And let's make the radio broadcasters, who always used to be BRIBED to play the material for free PR now pay ROYALTIES!
Win Hearts and Minds!
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It will be a happy day when this shoebutton and buggywhip industry's leaders and lawyers hurl themselves out of windows, trailing ticker tape.
Pink to give one example.....
- I think Rap has long passed it’s sell-by date. It’s a musical dead end presented by illiterate, inarticulate performers who can’t sing, dance or play any musical instruments. Every “song” has the same background music and the lyrics are generally nonsensical and laden with four letter words for shock value.
At one time music groups were made up of artists who came together by lucky chance or because of a shared interest in a certain musical form. Suddenly, such groups changed. They are now put together by image consultants and marketing experts. Members are chosen to reflect certain demographic sub groups, taught to move about on-stage by choreographers and project chosen attitudes based on surveys. Songs are written for them and all they do is perform like trained seals. The first time that I became aware of this was with the Spice Girls although I’m sure it must have started before them.
The music industry “weasels” (as David Letterman used to refer to them as) are now reaping the result of their plan to milk the public by assembling these “money machine” groups while keeping most of the profits for themselves. The gravy train is coming to a halt.
These people think they can take one song that had fair success and use it to sell about 14 more songs on an album that no-one wants to listen to. You end up buying a CD that is unlistenable except for one tune.
“social ripping” is what people did in the PRE-internet days with record players and cassets.
It was just a slow process so the record companies had a monopoly on high speed duplication.
Even under fair use it was fair for brother and sister to copy since the same household owned the record.
It was also considered de minimus and not worth their consideration. I suspect it is much the same in volume today despite the loss of the high speed duplication monopoly.
I haven’t bought a physical CD in three. Digital all the way.
A local retail store that caters heavily to the pierced adolescent demographic opened a new “classical CD room.”
I expressed surprise that a store selling rock CDs, horror and porn DVDs, posters and clothing/novelty paraphernalia with swear words all over them would be promoting classical music CDs with a whole separate dedicated area.
The guy behind the counter told me that classical music is the only kind of music that people pay for on CDs anymore. Since all the major CD retailers have gone out of business, this store is now pretty much the only place to buy classical CDs in our part of metrowest Boston.
I have thousands of songs. And I haven’t purchased a CD in over ten years.
I have no sympathy for the record companies.
One thing about the Grateful Dead is they were not greedy with their music. They allowed free audio recordings of their long concerts by attendees. A local radio show here on Fridays (Lone Star Dead) plays these non-professional recordings of the Dead from many past concerts. I’m so low tech I record the shows on cassettes...eehehheehhe!
PS. I’m a staunch conservative too... I just really like the Grateful Dead music... their music was not political either although they were spawned from the liberal left...
Real problem, as someone already said, The Music Sucks
If you can call it music.
Hearing Ghetto-punks and their broken English talking about their ho’s and stuff has gotten so old
What kills the music industry is that no new type of music has emerged. In the past...you had rock n roll start...then the Brit Inasion....then album rock...then New Wave...then rap. Nothing really has happened since
Country music is still strong, mainly because its the only format where people still sing and play instruments
The same thing can be said for satellite radio. I find myself listening to the 50s, 60s and 70s music on XM. No commercials either.
Its called the "American Idol" syndrome! A Sinatra, Patsy Cline or Billie Holiday would never make it under the Simon Cowell model.
I don’t like hearing that the music scene is dead. The musicians didn’t disappear, new musicians are being trained to replace Hall and Oates :P
The idea of a “scene”, as sold to Westerners through mass media for the last 100 years is dead though. Geospatial definitions of new art doesn’t work well anymore.
In a one week period, it is possible to d/l more quality music from musicians freely distributing music than any person would ever have enough time to listen to. I’ve got almost 50 hours of European/South African/Indian music (all genres) I still haven’t gotten around to listening to. Being really tired of East Coast emo wankers trying to relive the glories of musicians a generation ago, I just looked online and got stuff from abroad.
But the overall problem with CD sales is the lack of talent, both from the artist, and from the producers. Nothing sounds like a band anymore.
I would still buy CDs and support the artist. I like having the pictures, lyrics, and information that can be found on a CD. Knowing who might have played on various CDs for various groups. (when they actually had musicians) But that's just me. I'm an old guy. An old guy with two of my own cds for sale :)
In later years I learned about kids that could sing and make a record and become rich. Some became famous. Managers were an industry that sprung up like weeds and all were getting laid.
Technology took the kids off the midnight street corner and put them in a studio and the glamor wore off (or was stripped away) and it all became a more than full time job.
Enter rampant drugs, and lives were lost.
Momentum forced the industry to stay alive.
The time of psychedelia was a brief and dangerous time of relief, but could not sustain itself nor be sustained.
I fear for the current trend of country music because it will do what music always seems to do ... take a young person and fling their brain into areas they can't comprehend and waste precious years trying to figure it all out, or find themselves or go into a cave ... and our nation needs to be remembered and reclaimed and brought back to a way and time when kids could hang out on a street corner at midnight ....
Shoo doop, shoo be doo
Shoo doop, shoo be doo
Shoo doop, shoo be doo
Shoo doop, shoo be doo
In the still
of the night.
(sigh)
So much emphasis in music these days is on the visual yet the art is based in the audio realm. I want my soul chords to be moved by the music and not by bodily gyrations or overuse of special effects (audio or visual).
Me neither. You can't watch a commercial or movie (or even a sporting event on TV) today without being "assaulted" by Rap or Hip-Hop music. I'm sick and tired of Hollywood and the MSM trying to cram this stuff down our throats.
I don't like the Ghetto/Gangsta Rap culture, and I resent it being forced upon us!
Give this man a ceegar!! You are absolutely correct. They spun the higher price at the time CD's were introduced as being due to the higher cost of producing them. No one understood the technology at time, so we bought it.
Exactly.
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