Are the Glory Days of the Major Label over with???

Today artist can spend all morning recording songs, post them on the internet after lunch and have thousands of people listening to their work by afternoon. In alot of ways this is a good thing, but in alot of ways it produces alot of crap. And the question of how do you decipher the quality from the crap is just as relevent today as it has ever been. The major record labels want to tell the consumer what is quality and what is not. They want to do the taste testing for you. But can they be trusted? Not really, I mean no one can be trusted, except for you. Only you know what you will like and what you wont. So it is up to you to do your own homework and find what you like. A lot of people are too lazy to do this, but alot are not.

no way is there 68 other ed kranepools

But the others are nowhere near as eloquent.

This is beautiful, but I have a real soft spot for tautologies.

Are the glory holes of the major label over with???

Are the Glory Days of the Major Label ILX troll over with???

(Apparently not.)

troll^^

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Alot of people like this sort of thread, but alot do not.

The answer is blogs.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:haCwizOgTkcJ:blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dblog.viewcustom%26friendId%3D66316956%26blogId%3D426783246%26swapped%3Dtrue+Why+is+Steve+Albini+so+full+of+shit%3F%3F%3F&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/images/2008/05/07/glory_days_broadway.jpg

Alot of people like this sort of thread, but alot do not.
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Today artist can spend all morning recording songs, post them on the internet after lunch and have thousands of people listening to their work by afternoon.

I wonder if this ever actually happens

(and for any non-UKers, that's Paul Daniels, magician, not some kind of bizarre toupee wearing kung-fu snooker player)

who let PEW back in?

I wonder if this ever actually happens

http://www.myspace.com/memorytapes

Not really, I mean no one can be trusted, except for you.

I find this thought rather terrifying!

"no way is there 68 other ed kranepools"

lol xoxoxoxoxoxoox

are the glory days of random googlers over with???

hes no random googler, its obviously Paul Edward Wagemann who has somehow got past the mods again.

Today apes can spend all morning pooping in their hands, throwing that poop at the internet after lunch and have thousands of people smelling their poop by afternoon. In alot of ways this is a good thing, but in alot of ways it produces alot of crap. And the question of how do you decipher the quality from the crap is just as relevent today as it has ever been. The major feces labels want to tell the consumer what is quality and what is not. They want to do the taste testing for you. But can they be trusted? Not really, I mean no one can be trusted, except for you. Only you know what you will like and what you wont. So it is up to you to do your own homework and find what you like. A lot of people are too lazy to do this, but alot are not.

Being on a major label, you can make minimum wage if you sell over 1,000 CDs a month.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/

no way is there 68 other ed kranepools

― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume)

Today artist can spend all morning recording songs, post them on the internet after lunch and have thousands of people listening to their work by afternoon.

Unless you're Ryan Adams, it takes a lot longer to write, record, mix, and master a song. And unless you, or someone working on your behalf, has put in many hours of PR work, you'll be barely scraping into double digits of listeners.

The major label was being declared dead in the 50s, in the late 70s and in the early 90s. I am sure it'll get over this too.

The major label was being declared dead in the 50s,

Citation needed.

most artists don't wake up til the afternoon anyway iirc

"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it."

Yours truly,

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who will be the japanese 'research whaling' of the major label age??

Are the Glory Days of KY Jelly over with???

Eno otm

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Confederated Slaveholdings, Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's Inflammable Powder, U.S. Hay and an up-and-coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company.

And Sony Music Group!

Citation needed.

Most of the rock'n'roll innovators were on small indie labels, such as Chess, Sun etc.

Yes, but no-one was declaring the end of the majors.

Elvis jumped to a major, he was but the first.

Many stuck to their indie roots, and ended up in the 'notpaid' category.

So little has changed, really.

that is not a citation for the claim you made, Geir

xpost

Yeah, I don't think RCA exactly went broke signing Elvis.

everybody remain aware though that this is Geir's favorite kind of hijack: make a claim he knows isn't true, then stick to it while people get frustrated at his feigned inability to hear them

Eno so very OTM

Eno's surprisingly OTM for someone in his position

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Record labels put out one BILLION records in 1994. Their yearly totals nowadays are half of that. Adjusting for the worldwide population growth, the average Earthling is buying way less albums than they were 15 years ago. Also consider the rise of the Indie labels industry. Which has also taken a bite out of the Major labels pie.

no way is there 68 other ed kranepools

― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:10 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^Where is Morbs to get incensed at this?

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Delicious Major Labels Pie.
fun stat from the NYT: there were 38,000 audio cassettes sole last year.

that william holden could really act, I tells ya!

no way is there 68 other ed kranepools

― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:10 PM bookmarkflaglink

Pretty sure there is only one other Ed Kranepool (theEd Kranepool) and this guy just added his birth year (not sure what other significance that number would have.)

If there are, in fact, 69 Ed Kranepools, then it's time for an Ed KranePOLL.

really...not sure what other significance

where did Abbott go, Abbott ruled

left after the de@thdr0ne debacle, iirc

(and agreed)

Abbott doing very well indeed! Posted yesterday about turning 40 and enjoying it.

(Not here posted, but elsewhere.)

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