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: EASY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I assume it was MIA's decision to put it ON the record, given that it had already been on Tim's one.

The Mutya/Groove Armada track was on both their records too - this is a new trend and I for one do not etc etc

Re: EASY

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Twista and Kanye both had 'Slow Jamz' on their respective albums!

I feel quite kindly towards 'Come Around' b/c I've never actually heard it in the context of Kala, just as one of the two tracks I kept from Shock Value.

Re: EASY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Adding injury to insults "Paper Planes" would be a pretty awesome way to finish an album!

Re: EASY

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Through the magic of itunes it can be thus!

Re: EASY

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Paradise (Not for Me) is on both the Mirwais & Madonna (Music) albums. It is my favourite on both.

A hip-hop old timer reports...

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

This practice goes back for years, at least as far as 'This Is The Shack' appearing on both Warren G's Regulate and The Dove Shack's This Is The Shack album, some twelve years ago. But I'm sure Martin, Mark S or Frank can trace it back to the dark ages...

Re: A hip-hop old timer reports...

[koganbot]

Or putting the same Rolling Stones song on two or three different (nonhits) Rolling Stones albums (which probably happened more in the U.S.). Actually, Aly & AJ did this with "Chemicals React" though the version on Insomniatic is a remix and sounds somewhat better, and it only had previously been on the "Deluxe" rerelease of Into The Rush.

Actually, that's a general complaint, New Deluxe Editions that come out six months after the original album with two new songs on it.

And in the mode of Aly & A.J.-related complaints, what about the fact that they released different versions of Insomniatic to different stores, and "Blush" wasn't on the version available for legal downloading.

I mean, it's almost as if the record companies want us not to feel guilty about unauthorized downloading.