From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 19 2005 - 12:57:00 PDT
Please note, this is labled as [OT]
If you don't want to read an OT email, move along,
otherwise feel free to read my <rant> below!
I guess I'm showing my age when I say I grew up on AOR
radio stations. Back then (another age identifying
statement) you picked up a Boston or a Styx (age)
album (age) you sat in your room (age), put on your
headphones (age) and listened to the entire record
(age) front to back (Some were listened to so much,
the clicks and pops (age) became a part of the actual
song! Singing the song in the shower, one invariably
paused to emit the necessary needle (age) pops sounds
that became as much of the music as that which the
artist intended as music!
I think it's sad that today's artists (age) can get
away with producing an entire album and only create
maybe one or, if they're lucky, two hits!
I read somwehere that there is an algorythm that is
based on the top-40 songs of all time and that this
algorythm can mathematically listen to a song and
accuratly place where in the chart this song will
place...so some artists are reverse engineering this
algorythm such that they create songs that the
algorythm will place the highest! No talent or skill
needed, just plug in the necessary riffs and you have
a top 40 song! That's why all of today's (age) music
all sounds the same.
I grew up on the supergroups (age) of Journey, Styx,
Boston, Foreigner and Kansas (age). And I recently
discovered GOA and now can't get enough of Infected
Mushroom, Halucinogen, Boards of Canada and
Shpongle...I listen to this all day and have to say,
it's nice to get away from the top 40 formula of music
manufacturing (that's what it really is, today's music
(age) is nothing more than an assembly line for the
masses!)
Sorry for the rant.
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- "Goodwin, Greg P." <GoodwinG_at_aafes.com> wrote:
> Ah yes, but if you consider that a lot of CD's have
> one or two
> good songs, then how good is that $16 price tag
> then? :)
>
> Me, I just buy the CD in the bargain rack at the
> music store,
> listen to MP3's from MY CD's, and generally grow to
> like most of the
> album over time.
>
> Doc Clu
> @><-- >------------------------
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf
> Of Ed Kummel
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] we may see an apple phone
> afterall
>
> Actually, I think that the 99 cent per song price is
> way too high. When you consider that a standard CD
> has
> about 15 tracks, and runs between 16-22 bucks, that
> a
> range of about a buck to a litle over a buck per
> song...but for that price, you get physical medium,
> linernotes and most importantly, music quality far
> and
> above the 128kbps you get with these compressed
> formats (ok, Apple's format may not be the audio
> equivalent of 128kbps, but it's still 1/10th of the
> quality available on an actual CD)
> So, if you take the production costs out of the CD,
> and the physical benefits, a single song should be
> well under a buck...then divide that by 10 because
> of
> the lack of audio quality and you have a song that
> should sell for 10 cents...
> For 99 cents, you should get the song you paid for
> and
> as a bonus, a "hidden gem" (a song you wouldn't have
> purchased or didn't know it existed)
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
> --- Clayton Mitchell <claytonmitchell_at_mac.com>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > place. I think=20
> > what apple is doing by putting the customer first
> > and actually pricing=20
> > music to compete with the free file swapping is a
> > good thing, for the=20
> > customer, for the music industry, and for apple.
> I
> <snip>
>
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