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Originally Posted by Frownland
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.
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I'm sorry, that was a **** reply above. I'll try and say something more meaningful. There is no doubt the music industry has changed radically since the 70's. I'm thankful that so many artists still believe in the album format, even though market circumstances arguably make the album format financially obsolete. I personally absolutely love the album as an artistic statement and I imagine the same goes for all other users in here - the site being what it is.
I do feel that some 60's and 70's records perhaps have songs that are fairly faceless genre exercises that probably were recorded to fill out the rest of the album. I listened to an album by Golden Earring recently that had 6 tracks total. 2 were inventive and full of personality, 4 felt like cookie cutter butt rock template songs. At least I feel like modern albums tend to avoid that sort of blandness, assuming the album comes from an interesting artist, of course. More time between albums has its benefits, I guess.