Particularly when the single isn't even dead, and people still buy them for the b-sides and the remixes. If it really had been dead for ten years, you wouldn't see the singles floating around, and yet you do. I was sceptical about the artcile, generally.
Besides, essentially what they are saying is the reverse of the death of the single, in that people are *more* willing to buy the single that they like. If people don't buy the album as much, well, it means (at least hopefully) that people will stop putting crap filler on albums and perhaps generate more creativity by figuring out ways to create longer-play sets of music that don't necessarily conform to the idea of the "album."
Question: How gigantic a dork am I if I've been dancing in my chair to the Pet Shop Boys and New Order for the last hour?
It's not my fault. It's spring, it's gorgeous out. I need happy dancing-like-no-one-is-watching music.
Question: How gigantic a dork am I if I've been dancing in my chair to the Pet Shop Boys and New Order for the last hour?
Answer: Not a dork at all. Around here, the only way to qualify as a dork would be if you were dancing in your chair to Joan Rivers and Bob Newhart.
And maybe not even then.
Slate responds to the NYT article Tommy posted yesterday: [link]
So, I'm desperately looking for a copy of the piece "You're So Cool," by Hans Zimmer, from the True Romance soundtrack. I tried to buy it, but iTunes is not selling that particular soundtrack (and I'm not very interested in signing up for any other music download services).
Anybody got a copy they can ::ahem:: to buffistarawk?
Corwood, problem with that article. It suggests that the wave of the future for the CD is the local niche store for people that aren't looking for just the new Mariah Carey.
During any random visit to my local Tower Records, I could find the new Sugababes (import), a CD reissue of a late '60s album by Glen Campbell, a New Wave compilation, the Mammas, and a 2-CD collection of Perry Como's greatest hits. In fact, I did buy all of the above, and a lot more that would qualify as at least "not mainstream" at the local Tower (though not all on the same visit). And in Fairfax, Virginia -- hardly ground zero for the non-mainstream.
OK, Tower wasn't local. But it had a whole lot more than the latest hits. And now it's gone.
Anyone heard the new Yoko Ono album Yes, I'm a Witch? I just love the song "Toyboat." I bought that and a few other tracks from iTunes - so far I'm liking what I've heard....
Sean, I've got it, and I'll try to put it up tonight. I'm kind of in media res with my ipod right now, but hopefully it will be available to me.
Also, it's one of my favorite pieces of music ever. I had no reference point for it before my friend H explained it was from a freakin' Tarantino movie. I was astonished.
Yes, I\'m a Witch
is a cool album. A bunch of indie/alternative bands reworking Yoko\'s songs, but with Yoko providing the original tracks. The resulting songs are more than remixes; sometimes only Yoko\'s vocals remain from the original. My favorite is the Flaming Lips\' take on \"Cambridge 1969,\" originally on one of the early Lennon/Ono albums, but then I\'ve always favored the more extreme side of her
oeuvre.
