Comments on: ‘Product’ versus ‘music’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:07:01 +0000

Right on. I couldn’t have said it better myself. You speak for many.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:42:48 +0000

I can’t believe that I am the only one that agrees with you in the decline in quality of musicians. Before, you could buy an album and love every single track to it (exmple – David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust) How many albums today can you listen and enjoy every track? You are lucky if there is one, maybe two tracks that are enjoyable.

Also looking at the Billboard top charts from the 60’s and 70’s, you can see a wide variety of music. The charts today show that most listeners are sheep and follow the prepackaged no talent generic garbage.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:58:39 +0000

maybe its just that your hearing aint as good as it was,you must have been listening to quality artists such as “Mr Blobby” or even “Joe Dolci” sing “shutupa ya face”.Yes there are still poor if not even terrible music now “Crazy frog” comes to mind but there are also top class artists such as “Coldplay”
I do accept that the excitement of a new release by a favoured artist doesn’t have me running around like a headless chicken trying to find it.but like you i have gotten older and slower and yet i still found the time to go get the “Rolling Stones” latest effort.
But what do you expect when all the music industry cares about is how much money they can screw us out of

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:31:02 +0000

“That’s no longer part of the listening experience. The magic is gone.”

It was chased out by payola. At radio, press, and elsewhere.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:39:45 +0000

Go and check out the charts some time for 10,20,30 years ago. Yup 90% of everything has always been crap. But to say that there’s no good music being made now is just to say you’re not putting the same effort in to finding it that you did then.

And as for Vinyl vs CD vs MP3. Well, CD was a huge advance. And if you take care, MP3s can be almost the same. So close that you usually can’t hear the difference. But if what you’re judging is the low quality crippled downloads from the commercial sites or the low quality codec that ships with the commercial music players then you’re right. Those MP3s aren’t worth the bandwidth.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:51:39 +0000

The magic is gone because you became older and I am sure you do not have the same excitement about many other things the same way you had when you were a kid.

MP3 are not created for hi-fi equipment. They are for MP3 players or computers with cheap speakers. You have to know the difference. You do not wear sleepers outside on a snow day, right? Get some info before you complain about those things.
You want better quality buy a CD!

The artists were good in the past? No they do not. They are exactly the same today as they were in the past. It’s just many more of them now, so it’s harder to find something you like. And, of course, most of them are not good because they are never went to a music school, music college and never study composition on professional level. Even if some of them went to school most likely they are studied performance art and not the art of composition. As a result of it we get perfectly performed musical crap which most people mistaken for real art.

And yes, DRM sucks!

ViC Phoenix