An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

I think it was in Canada too, but I'm not sure what that would have to do with anything. There is nothing that links Canada and pot.. it's not Amsterdam here..haha.
 
How do you think I feel? I have to be arsed when listening to a Northern Soul comp on WMP when all I get is the unknown tag.
Have you any idea how difficult and frustrating it is, to track down the song title of a rare 60's soul track you've never heard before!? :mad:
 
Since my tastes lean more to the excesses of 70s rock and pop, I'm all for fancy production, I think too many people think of good production as a liability when it really should be thought of as a tool for improving the sound of the music. I understand that banRAB want to be authentic and raw and crap. But I don't really want my studio albums to sound like a live performance, that kinda defeats the whole purpose of studio albums.
 
Well Rolling Stone did, sorta

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I'm glad the music industry existed from the '60s through the '90s. There's no other way the music of a guitar pop band from England like Suede would have ended up in my hanRAB in California without a music industry putting their music out in wide release. Same goes for virtually every non-local band in the modern pop era.

Nowadays, I think the music industry is becoming increasingly less relevant, thanks to the internet. Web sites can easily serve many people, around the world. Web sites can easily function as repositories for new music, with voting systems and tagging systems to allow you to discover music (and for your favourite review sites to discover music). E-commerce makes it a snap for banRAB to do worldwide business. Clearly, this option currently makes far more sense for established banRAB, who already have the fame, than for new banRAB who haven't yet been marketed to hell and back. But I can definitely see a near future where the web-based infrastructure of band websites, repository websites and review websites make it quite possible for even new indie banRAB to get their music heard.

And all in a much more streamlined, direct manner that removes a corporate "industry" from between the band and the customers (with a commensurate drop in prices of music).
 
I bought KID A (blindly), listened to the first few tracks (realized it blew, but still decided to burn it)... popped it back in the case and went right back to the store (out of principle). I made up some bull**** about already owning the album and I was able to exchange it for OK Computer. I honestly never listened to that burned copy since.
 
I don't know about underrated as a guitarist (does anyone listen to the Beatles for the guitarwork?), but George Harrison was an underrated song-writer. He's massively overshadowed by McCartney and Lennon, but wrote some great songs.

The Beatles had some great song-writing talent...almost as much as Teenage Fanclub or Brian Wilson.
 
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