people used to make records
as in a record of an event
the event of people playing music in a room
now everything is cross-marketing
its about sunglasses and shoes
-Ani DiFranco
Yes, I miss records, as in the LP, the stax of wax. I miss the shape, I miss the jacket, I miss the large format. But I also miss the "liveness" of it. The gentle, natural flow that most music once had. There is so much marketing focus these days. Yes, there is a lot of music that goes under the radar, and I seek it out. But there is a lot of goodness in the heavy marketed stuff, and I know it is worth it to scrape aside all that detritus and find the beauty of the Art itself. But that can be very annoying at times. So here's to the record, may its soul live on forever and a day.
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Originality of music these days seems inversely proportional to availability. As you noted in the earlier entry, friends give friends music. That's a big way of keeping up on interesting stuff. That and Pandora.
Will there be a decline in the Big Album the way that there is now the decline of the BlockBuster movie?
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