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Blasphemy! Heresy! No, seriously, this is just f'ing stupid.
wigfried:
I think its a fantastic idea.
almost thursday:
oh man wigfried, yr gonna have to explain why to me.
wigfried:
Well, it doesn't exactly say "recording albums if futile! Also, Hitler is good and babies are yum!" In as many words as the first post would lead you to believe. The gist, or at least what I drew from it, is that mr d would like to see a revival of the pre-beatles era of music-making, which teamed brilliant songwriters with great singers in a winning match. Girl groups being the most obvious example, but there are others. Given the rise of digital music technology and the overall dearth of record sales, it makes sense financially to do this, but it also makes sense artistically. More heads are better than one, etc. Yeah, its Brent D. so its designed to be controversial but the underlying idea is not a bad one - why pay 20 bucks for an album of iffy songs and maybe 2 or 3 greats when you can pay 99 cents and download a really wonderful tune?
almost thursday:
yeah, and i could understand that if every other album was mostly filler, but they aren't. bands don't know which songs will be singles, they just write as many great songs as they can. albums are awesome because they are cohesive works and more than the sum of their parts.
under this regime, any music that isn't tragically mainstream will suffer. i can just imagine some jive motherfucker writing a merzbow song. it doesn't work. if kathy dennis wrote the enxt pig destroyer song, it would destroy the both of them. all music would become the same if it was all coming from the same source, and it would be boring and pointless.
finally, me and you have different opinions of good song writers, kid. i hated the pippettes - if everybody on earth sounded like them i'd commit suicide. if this guy was in charge he'd destroy music once and for all, like a fucking lamoid cock. it's bullshit.
that article was based on the assumption that everybody is an idiot, which we are not. it doesn't work. simple as that.
wigfried:
--- Quote from: almost thursday ---yeah, and i could understand that if every other album was mostly filler, but they aren't. bands don't know which songs will be singles, they just write as many great songs as they can. albums are awesome because they are cohesive works and more than the sum of their parts.
Agreed, at least some of the time. For every Ok Computer or Kid A there's an Amnesiac or HTTT, albums that are seriously underwritten and not cohesive in the least, and would have worked better as a few singles and b-sides. It goes both ways.
under this regime, any music that isn't tragically mainstream will suffer. i can just imagine some jive motherfucker writing a merzbow song. it doesn't work. if kathy dennis wrote the enxt pig destroyer song, it would destroy the both of them. all music would become the same if it was all coming from the same source, and it would be boring and pointless.
Given the nature of the article and the names dropped within, I don't think that kind of music was considered. The article is primarily concerned with pop music, memorable hooks, etc. SONGS in the proper sense of the word, so artists who don't deal in those areas don't apply. Let Merz keep making noisy paeons to BDSM, he can't be any more marginal than he already is.
finally, me and you have different opinions of good song writers, kid. i hated the pippettes - if everybody on earth sounded like them i'd commit suicide. if this guy was in charge he'd destroy music once and for all, like a fucking lamoid cock. it's bullshit.
Can the condescending vitriol, "pops". This is discussion about pop music, everyone has different opinions and more than likely yours are just as unpopular as mine.
that article was based on the assumption that everybody is an idiot, which we are not. it doesn't work. simple as that.
See, I feel like the article is based on the presumption that the breach between critics and the vox populi could be bridged by giving critical darlings like Stuart Murdoch or Robert Pollard an outlet for their skills that goes beyond the work their own bands produce. Whether it goes too far for some peoples tastes is a matter of, well, taste.
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