Re: [microsound] another satisfied customer

[neil jendon <n2eil@xxxxxxxxx>]

> audisensa@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > the recording industry is ALL about driving demand
through  spectacle and fetishization (desire)...the
CDs they sell are merely widgets to shift in order to
make money...in the throes of its current collapse
they are mining the past 25 years of music for
fragments of melody/chord changes and  repackaging it
to kids growing up listening to their parents "classic
rock"  records...this subtle formula of subliminal
"re-familiarization" or nostalgia is how they are
making most of their money today
> 

Hi, (long-time reader, first-time post)

Point to a date on the calendar when the recording
industry was not like this. This is nothing new. How
many blues songs are 1,4,5? How many songs were
written with the chord changes from "I've Got Rhythm"?
How many classical melodies have had words set to
them, either on Broadway or by Emerson Lake and
Palmer? The history of music told through the window
of plagarism would be a nearly complete history.

It's not fair to blame "the kids" for ruining rock and
roll. (I doubt there's a one of us who entered
adulthood without a few shameful LP's in the milk
crates; for me, it was Blue Oyster Cult and UFO.)
Every generation has ruined rock and roll. Rock and
roll itself started as a ruined version of the blues.

The recording industry has always been in the throes
of collapse. Running around and second-guessing the
tastes of the public is a risky way to make a buck.
Engineering said tastes is no mean feat, either. We
should all praise the fates that the recording
industry really isn't all that good in figuring
out/engineering what people like. (If they were,
there'd be no bargain bins or used record stores.)

oh well, back to work.

-Neil

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