http://servethesong.net/importance-album-format/ Songwriting Tips and Music Production Ideas Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://servethesong.net/importance-album-format/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Whatnot Sun, 17 May 2009 06:13:08 +0000 http://www.servethesong.net/?p=894#comment-203 LPs (and later CDs) benefitted record companies, by and large, far more than artists. Someone wiht a calculator -- between 1964 and today: how many great LPs were made? Precious few, IMO. I look forward to the new economy where causual listeners can buy a track or two by an artist, rather than an album that's 50-75% filler. That arragement benefits no one, certainly not old-school song writers (who went the way of the dodo after Dylan and the Beatles introduced the auteur theory to rock). LPs' chief benefit was providing a mobile platform for separating pot from seeds. Good riddance. LPs (and later CDs) benefitted record companies, by and large, far more than artists. Someone wiht a calculator — between 1964 and today: how many great LPs were made? Precious few, IMO. I look forward to the new economy where causual listeners can buy a track or two by an artist, rather than an album that’s 50-75% filler. That arragement benefits no one, certainly not old-school song writers (who went the way of the dodo after Dylan and the Beatles introduced the auteur theory to rock). LPs’ chief benefit was providing a mobile platform for separating pot from seeds. Good riddance.

]]> http://servethesong.net/importance-album-format/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Donnie Brasco Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:33:15 +0000 http://www.servethesong.net/?p=894#comment-202 True indeed! True indeed!

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