Quote:
Originally Posted by MicShazam
I've been listening to 90's music and never most of the time, but recently I've been getting into some 70's singer/songwriters. There sure are a lot of excellent Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Carly Simons and Carole King albums packed closely together. I mean, Carole King alone released like 6 great records in a mere 5 year span between 1970 and 1974. You don't see many artists doing that anymore. Anyway, I'm still mostly about modern stuff, but damn... The sure were some years back in time which were packed tightly with albums that later became rather important genre milestones.
|
I think this is partly because of the decline in record company contracts keeping an artist to [x] albums per year, and mostly because of the increased amount of content on the internet. I think it's become a lot more difficult to market an album on a single alone, since everyone can easily access the whole record and decide that the band mostly makes filler, so artists are being more careful with their releases to make sure that they are releasing the most quality product they can offer.
Or maybe everyone just forgot how to write music without them dang computer algorithms.