Letter to Emily (1 Viewer)

[Anthony]

What's the best starting point for the Hogarth era - albumwise?

Seasons End is a gentle entry. Marbles is in at the deep end.

 

[GO]

Are the days of beautiful sounding recordings threatened do yiz reckon?

No..far from it.The opposite in fact.

As more and more music technology becomes more and more readily available,kidz will be starting out using it younger and younger and getting better and better at it.They'll come up with stuff we probably would never even have thought of..myriad ways to manipulate sound and form ..that we possibly wont like or maybe even understand..take Dubstep for example..complete arse..but thats our problem and our fault for getting old.Cycle of life innit.Same thing happened to Jazz when Elvis started in with all his quivering and gyratin.

Having said all that...I hear beautifully recorded beautiful sounding music regularly on the wireless.But beautiful in this instance dosent equate with any use.Most of its muck.But thats just my opinion.

Not enough storytelling in songs these days..its all just David Cassidy.But thats for another rant.

 

[pete]

http://interstate808.tumblr.com/post/25456847164/shooting-confused-fish-in-a-confused-barrel

 

[ann post]

Paypal a tenner to your favourite musicians. It's more than they'll get if you bought all their albums.

thats that then.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

http://interstate808.tumblr.com/post/25456847164/shooting-confused-fish-in-a-confused-barrel

I think he's being a bit hard on himself there. if he pays for what he can afford then he should be able to download the rest guilt free. Simple.

 

[billygannon]

I have not. It's a fair point.

And most people could probably not afford George Martin to produce either.

I was chancing my arm. Didn't think anyone would pull me on it.

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[mark]

My record for duplicates is
LP, Picture Disc, Cassette, CD, CD reissue with Bonus Disc.

Not proud.

Clutching At Straws by Marillion

Have two copies of that. LP and double CD.

Great album, stands up well.

I like it. I've no albums post-87 but do have the two CD singles boxes; the second 89-95 I suppose gives a flavour of the Hogarth era.

Yes and No. Their singles have never really represented them properly. Like many bands.

What's the best starting point for the Hogarth era - albumwise?

Seasons End is a gentle entry. Marbles is in at the deep end.

HA! This is the conversation @Anthony joined Thumped to have!

 

[ratmonkey]

I wish grooveshark gave artists money. I love grooveshark so much I actually pay for it, and so does Mrs. egg_. It's class being able make playlists and see what other people are listening to etc.

Groove shark?

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[Deadmanposting]

Dude from HuffPo - We've all done it

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-morrison/hey-dude-from-cracker-im_b_1610557.html

 

[Deadmanposting]

It has always been my understanding that this was the primary force in forming bands.

Unicron disliked this post

hahaha

I praise your honour, sir.

 

[whelanslive]

Dude from HuffPo - We've all done it

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-morrison/hey-dude-from-cracker-im_b_1610557.html

Both you and he are obfuscating the actual issue - it's not that people download but that many people never contribute anything back which is a particularly odious claim to make when someone works in the music industry and blathers on and on about how music is their life.

 

[ann post]

we all partied.


cant believe i said that.

 

[Anthony]

Typical HuffPo traffic grabbing article. Has almost nothing to do with the original pieces bar the intro paragraph.

 

[shower another shower]

theft is theft innit.

 

[Thayl]

I've moved loads of times and never lost or damaged CDs / records etc.

On the other side, if you moved house to another country it'd cost you an insane amount of money to ship thousands of records (especially *your* collection, which would probably sink a small boat), while it would cost you nothing to stick an external hard drive of wav/flac files (mp3s are shit, let's never speak of them again) in your carry on luggage. So there is the convenience there.

 

[ann post]

LOOK, WHY DOESNT EVERYONE JUST SIGN UP FOR THE ITUNES STORE SO WE CAN ALL BE ABSOLVED OF THIS GUILTY SHAME.

 

[Psycho Punk]

LOOK, WHY DOESNT EVERYONE JUST SIGN UP FOR THE ITUNES STORE SO WE CAN ALL BE ABSOLVED OF THIS GUILTY SHAME.

Some of us can't live without Catholic Guilt.

 

[chris d]

hard to know what to add to this discussion, but it must be a totally different experience to be growing up with broadband and being able to download anything you want in seconds.

i dont bother downloading stuff. i used to share mp3 dumps with a guy in work when we got free memory sticks, but it's pointless. i never listen to half that shit. im at an age now where i have a few bands i stick with and the vast majority of new music i get is at gigs. it's much easier to connect with bands i can go see play.

whether or not people downloading stuff is stopping anyone from 'making it' is debatable i'd say. the definition of that is open to interpretation anyway...which is a topic im sure ive read on here before many times.

p.s. i havent read the link or half the posts in this thread.

p.p.s dublin city fm had quincy jones featured on this mornings live drive and i did consider downloading some of that stuff....

 

[ann post]

GARYXKNIFEDX ;

i'd much rather a de-rep than a dislike, tbh.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

De-repping seems more personal. And anyway,I don't know how to.