Misery Wednesday

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A couple of weeks ago we did a thread on what's exciting you about music at the moment.

Here's its inverse: what's annoying you about music at the moment, and why? I'm tempted to ban discussion of Kate Nash upfront - anyway I'm not really after specific acts, more the trends and ideas that make those acts' popularities a bad thing.

And - what do you think could be done about it (if anything)?

(Orgafun update: the missing Pop Open player has been located and a track is hopefully on its way)

Comments

Re: Some things I don't like...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well early impressions (like pot80's) suggest that this is an album album, i.e. there's a compositional logic behind the order, selection, etc. And that's usually how this particular band like to roll, so fine. But I agree it would be nice if a big name band did try and use the new distribution formats to experiment with its musical formatting too.

(My apologies for not considering Ash a big name band, Shine fans)

Re: Some things I don't like...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was listening to the new Kanye album and thinking about how I approach albums - in terms of pure consumption I actually think it's still a workable format! Graduation seemed a bit...bitty, in comparison to The College Dropout and Late Registration which are yr typical 20-track bloated hip-hop CDs, but the reason I prefer them is because I get to choose which songs I like best. I tend to listen to 3-6 songs in a go off any album, sometimes the obvious few standouts or sometimes songs of one type, but I don't think a smaller bunch of tracks would be a better offer - I don't trust any band or artist or record company to decide which tracks should be kicked off.