Home taping is killing music (2 Viewers)

[Hector Grey]

Remember that mantra from the eighties, and it's incumbant avatar the cross bones beneath the tape? Home tapping is killing music. is it? was it? shall it?

these days it's no longer home taping that's killing music, it's home recording and self releasing. there's too much of it, and not enough self censorship. just because you can scrape together enough odds to release your "album" doens't mean you should. If you're currently in this situation, and you've named your own record label after your first pet or porno film or whatever, and your sister who's in college doing arts has designed the cover, and you've booked the sugar club for the launch, and you're looking for "a p.r. company that digs the music man", and you're really considering putting a lyric sheet in with the album, as long as the price isn't too prohibitive, because you really want people to read the lyrics to "oslo" which you wrote after your girlfriend of, oh lets say, a month (but what a month) left you (probably because of you mealy self obession) for the bar manager of whelans, and you know a guy who knows a guy who drew a picture for Mongrel once who said, sure you'll get a good review if the music is any use, and you fucking know it is, especially the middle eight in "abandoned" which you kinda based on stockhausens "sirius" (and jesus, will anyone even get the joke? my GOD) and sure wasn't glen hansard in the country the last time you played a gig, supporting the Ovenfans down the hub. man the crowd loved it, there were only ten of them, but they were so reverent (possibly asleep).

if this is you, don't fucking bother, please. record labels serve a purpose. and if your music was any fucking good...... wouldn't someone else want to release it? seriously. you're killing music.

 

[Yurn!]

Needless to say, you've had the last laugh...

 

[avernus]

hehehe

 

[Goff]

How they can blame Home Taping is beyond me.

Music was shit a long time before the widespread availability of cassette’s.

I blame flares.

 

[MDR]

I am hoping to write and record an album that lasts 365 days so that I can put it out as a radio station.

 

[MDR]

Remember that mantra from the eighties, and it's incumbant avatar the cross bones beneath the tape? Home tapping is killing music. is it? was it? shall it?

these days it's no longer home taping that's killing music, it's home recording and self releasing. there's too much of it, and not enough self censorship. just because you can scrape together enough odds to release your "album" doens't mean you should. If you're currently in this situation, and you've named your own record label after your first pet or porno film or whatever, and your sister who's in college doing arts has designed the cover, and you've booked the sugar club for the launch, and you're looking for "a p.r. company that digs the music man", and you're really considering putting a lyric sheet in with the album, as long as the price isn't too prohibitive, because you really want people to read the lyrics to "oslo" which you wrote after your girlfriend of, oh lets say, a month (but what a month) left you (probably because of you mealy self obession) for the bar manager of whelans, and you know a guy who knows a guy who drew a picture for Mongrel once who said, sure you'll get a good review if the music is any use, and you fucking know it is, especially the middle eight in "abandoned" which you kinda based on stockhausens "sirius" (and jesus, will anyone even get the joke? my GOD) and sure wasn't glen hansard in the country the last time you played a gig, supporting the Ovenfans down the hub. man the crowd loved it, there were only ten of them, but they were so reverent (possibly asleep).

if this is you, don't fucking bother, please. record labels serve a purpose. and if your music was any fucking good...... wouldn't someone else want to release it? seriously. you're killing music.

...and high speed dubbing just compounds the problem.

 

[Jagshemash]

I agree, lets all keep listening to what major record put out and keep our little mouths shut. We dont need to make music, there are lots of better people doing it.there is no point. lets just keep going to work day in day out, mass on sunday and maybe if were lucky we might get some custard now and then.

IDIOT!

 

[broken arm]

I agree, lets all keep listening to what major record put out and keep our little mouths shut. We dont need to make music, there are lots of better people doing it.there is no point. lets just keep going to work day in day out, mass on sunday and maybe if were lucky we might get some custard now and then.

IDIOT!

HEY!!! i like custard

 

[Hector Grey]

Oslo

By Derek Tapie

There you were,
All auburn hair,
And eyes that spiee my eyes on your eyes
(yeah)

here we are
at the checkout in the spar,
I’m buying milk, for tea
(yeah)

would you like tea?
Could you like me?
But it’s cold when you go,
Like oslo.

Here I am,
And you’re with me,
I feel alive and happy
(yeah)

but why are your hands,
on the guys from the other bands,
I’m eating all alone, again
(yeah)

and I feel like the plane,
has taken off without me
again,
and when you touch down on the ground,
I turn without a sound,
Not even “I told you so”
Or a postcard from oslo.

I can’t read you no more,
It’s like you’re cover in a caul,
You gowl
(yeah)

 

[Goff]

I agree, lets all keep listening to what major record put out and keep our little mouths shut. We dont need to make music, there are lots of better people doing it.there is no point. lets just keep going to work day in day out, mass on sunday and maybe if were lucky we might get some custard now and then.

IDIOT!


The irony is lost on, er, “me”.

 

[Hector Grey]

I agree, lets all keep listening to what major record put out and keep our little mouths shut. We dont need to make music, there are lots of better people doing it.there is no point. lets just keep going to work day in day out, mass on sunday and maybe if were lucky we might get some custard now and then.

IDIOT!

fair point. i'll get my coat.

 

[MDR]

these days it's no longer home taping that's killing music, it's home recording and self releasing.

If by self-releasing you mean masturbation, then you're dead wrong my friend. DEAD wrong.

 

[Hector Grey]

If by self-releasing you mean masturbation, then you're dead wrong my friend. DEAD wrong.

clearly, this is not what i mean.
however, as for self release, would *you* require shinkwrap?

 

[billygannon]

Home fucking is killing the prostitute industry.

 

[avernus]

can I talk to the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
may I talk to the prettiest girl in Oslo
and is that you
I call you everyday once or twice
you don't say much
but you are very nice
and I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station

dressing up for the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
dressing up for the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
shoes and pants and shirts of every kind
nothing between you and calvin klein
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station

can I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
may I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
and is that you
we move together
and we dig the song
it's not how long you make it
but how you make it long
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
and I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine

waking up with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is it true
that i'm waking up with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh i think it's true
I get up early
bring you breakfast in bed
I kiss your shoulder and your sleepy head and
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
after nine

can I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
may I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
and is that you
we move together
and we dig the song
it's not how long you make it
but how you make it long
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
and I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine

 

[Bellatrix]

can I talk to the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
may I talk to the prettiest girl in Oslo
and is that you
I call you everyday once or twice
you don't say much
but you are very nice
and I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station

dressing up for the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
dressing up for the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
shoes and pants and shirts of every kind
nothing between you and calvin klein
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station

can I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
may I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
and is that you
we move together
and we dig the song
it's not how long you make it
but how you make it long
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
and I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine

waking up with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is it true
that i'm waking up with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh i think it's true
I get up early
bring you breakfast in bed
I kiss your shoulder and your sleepy head and
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
after nine

can I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
oh is that you
may I dance with the prettiest girl in Oslo
and is that you
we move together
and we dig the song
it's not how long you make it
but how you make it long
I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine
and I'm doing fine
won't you meet me by the station
after nine

Øystein Greni: lyricist extraordinaire.

 

[classic seanc]

Remember that mantra from the eighties, and it's incumbant avatar the cross bones beneath the tape? Home tapping is killing music. is it? was it? shall it?

these days it's no longer home taping that's killing music, it's home recording and self releasing. there's too much of it, and not enough self censorship. just because you can scrape together enough odds to release your "album" doens't mean you should. If you're currently in this situation, and you've named your own record label after your first pet or porno film or whatever, and your sister who's in college doing arts has designed the cover, and you've booked the sugar club for the launch, and you're looking for "a p.r. company that digs the music man", and you're really considering putting a lyric sheet in with the album, as long as the price isn't too prohibitive, because you really want people to read the lyrics to "oslo" which you wrote after your girlfriend of, oh lets say, a month (but what a month) left you (probably because of you mealy self obession) for the bar manager of whelans, and you know a guy who knows a guy who drew a picture for Mongrel once who said, sure you'll get a good review if the music is any use, and you fucking know it is, especially the middle eight in "abandoned" which you kinda based on stockhausens "sirius" (and jesus, will anyone even get the joke? my GOD) and sure wasn't glen hansard in the country the last time you played a gig, supporting the Ovenfans down the hub. man the crowd loved it, there were only ten of them, but they were so reverent (possibly asleep).

if this is you, don't fucking bother, please. record labels serve a purpose. and if your music was any fucking good...... wouldn't someone else want to release it? seriously. you're killing music.

What's brought all this on?

 

[snakybus]

Once again, Hector, you are right.

You are a visionary, like Willie Joe Padden.

Now, will you release my album, please?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

I was gonna weigh in on this one, at least semi-seriously.
But then, naaaaaah.

 

[Hector Grey]

Once again, Hector, you are right.

You are a visionary, like Willie Joe Padden.

Now, will you release my album, please?

no problem dude. i mean, i don't have to listen to it, do i?